3 Hollow Chocolate Bunny Filled Cocktail Recipes For Easter

Don't you just love those adorable hollow chocolate bunnies that come out around Easter?  That was the one thing I ALWAYS looked forward to when Easter was approaching.

Now that you're an adult, you ever wish there was a little more to those bunnies?  Like alcohol?  

Believe it or not we only have 3 days left until Easter.

Anyone else think it's kind of funny that Easter and April Fools Day are the same day this year?

HAVE YOU SEEN THE MEMES??

You know like the ones where they remove the little chocolate eggs from the foil and wrap grapes in the foil instead?

OH, what about the one where they make "cake pops" out of brussel sprouts?  OMG!

We are hosting Easter this year and I am DYING to do something like that!  I know me........I totally won't do it, but the idea of wanting to cracks me up!

What's on the menu for Easter?

We're serving ham, mashed potatoes, creamed corn & brussel sprouts (hee hee).  We also have family bringing fresh sourdough bread, cauliflower and for dessert FLAN!!  

My Mother-in-law makes the BEST flan ever and I'm soooo excited that she's going to be making and bringing it on Sunday!!

Back to these little guys.

Did you know that they come in white chocolate and oreo cookies and cream?  WHAT?!?!  How fantastic is that!

I must admit, when I had to cut off their ears, I felt sad for them.......but then remembered that I'll be putting alcohol in them and then that feeling went away.

OFF WITH YOUR EARS!!

I've got to say, the line up of alcohol I had set out to make these three different recipes looked quite delicious....and quite a bit like I've got a problem, haha.  I was thinking, what if someone walked into my backyard while I had all of these bottles lined up....in the morning.

I got over it and mixed, shaked and poured my cocktails into these little guys.  

Although I do always wonder........what exactly they're looking at!

Here's a tip: Make sure your bunnies DON'T have any holes before pouring liquid into them.

First off was my chocolate bunny  I call this one:

Spicy Chocolate Banana Bunny

Author: The Cocktail Lady

Spicey Chocolate Banana Bunny

ingredients:

• 1 ounce chocolate whipped vodka
• 1/4 ounce Rum Chata
• 3/4 ounce banana liqueur
• 1/4 ounce Godiva chocolate liqueur

instructions:

1. In a shaker, add ice and all of the ingredients.
2. Shake and strain into a chocolate hollow bunny.

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My next bunny I used was the white chocolate bunny.  I call this one:

Buttered Bunny

Author: The Cocktail Lady

Buttered Bunny

ingredients:

• 1/2 ounce Rum Chata
• 1/2 ounce vanilla vodka
• 1/2 ounce banana liqueur
• 1/2 ounce butterscotch schnapps

instructions:

1. In a shaker, add ice and all of the ingredients.
2. Shake and strain into a white chocolate hollow bunny.

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The last one I used was the Oreo cookies and cream bunny.  I call this one:

Muddy Bunny

Author: The Cocktail Lady

Muddy Bunny

ingredients:

• 1/2 ounce whipped cream vodka
• 1/2 ounce Kahlua
• 1/2 ounce Baileys
• 1/2 ounce whipping cream

instructions:

1. In a shaker, add ice and all of the ingredients.
2. Shake and strain into an Oreo cookies and cream hollow bunny.

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There they are!  3 Hollow Chocolate Bunny Filled Cocktail Recipes For Easter!

I will admit these little guys hold a lot more liquid inside of them then I would have thought!  Which in my book is a win-win!

One more thing.  Did you notice?  Did you notice that the chocolate bunny that I ended up with was not the same one I started with?

Yea it was a hot day and I turned around to fill him up and....

Good thing I bought extras!!

I hope you have a wonderful Easter filled with family, friends and of course COCKTAILS!!

Tropical Hawaiian Kiss

Tropical Hawaiian Kiss

Last Friday I had one of my amazing friends call and say, "Hey, I know it's pizza Friday at your place, so can we pick up a pizza and come over?".  

Great minds because I was literally online adding toppings to our pizzas we were going to order.  

See, at our house Friday used to mean "Pizza Friday", then it turned into "Pizza and Beer Friday".  

Last Friday was "Pizza, Beer & Cocktails Friday"...........which I think is kinda cool.  

Needless to say I needed some good 'ole fashioned drinking and laughing therapy that night.  I decided that I was going to grab some stuff from my bar and just create something completely new.  

Did it.  

It was a winner..........like so much that we each had 3.  

Don't judge me.......it was a long week!

I am a HUGE fan of banana liqueur.  

Like HUGE!  

I love the way it smells, I love how it adds such an amazing flavor to my cocktails, I just love everything about it.  

Now my friend had never had it before........I KNOW RIGHT?  

Simply crazy talk!  
I mean she's a friend of The Cocktail Lady and she's never had banana liqueur?  

I must be slipping!

Needless so say, she's in love with it........almost as much as I am!  Like I said, she's an amazing friend!

This cocktail was SO delicious!  

Like I said above, we had 3.........each.  

As we sat there drinking our cocktails we went through a handful of names to call this cocktail.  In the end, the 3 words that kept on popping up were the three I chose.  

Here is my recipe for a Tropical Hawaiian Kiss:

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Tropical Hawaiian Kiss

June-9-2016

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 ounces coconut rum
• 3 ounces pineapple juice
• 1 1/2 ounces cranberry juice
• 1 ounce banana liqueur
• 1/2 ounce grenadine

Instructions

Fill up a cocktail glass half way with ice. In a shaker, add ice and all of the ingredients above. Shake and strain the cocktail into your glass and enjoy!!

yield: Makes A GallonAuthor: The Cocktail Ladyprint recipe

Tropical Hawaiian Kiss

INGREDIENTS:

• 3 1/4 cups coconut rum
• 6 1/2 cups pineapple juice
• 3 1/2 cups cranberry juice
• 2.166 (just under 2 1/2 cups) cups banana liqueur
• 1 cup gredadine

INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Fill gallon sized container with all of the ingredients above.
2. Stir up ingredients very well (unless you can seal the container and shake them up).
3. Pour over ice and enjoy!

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Here is a photo of the ingredients:

Here's to good friends and cocktails!  Some friends are good because of the cocktails, others are good no matter what!

Cheers!

The Cocktail Lady

Tropical Easter

Tropical Easter

Happy Friday!!  

I started off the day with my mad dash to drop off one of my girls, drive up the hill (in the snow......uphill both ways.....for dramatic effect), park and walk our youngest girl to school.  

Put her in her spot, gave the teacher a Hi-Five and took off back down the hill to pick up our oldest daughters glasses and my phone and hurry back over to her school to get her glasses to her and meet my folks in the MUR (Multi Use Room) for her 1st grade performance of Stone Soup.  

OH MY GOODNESS, it was the cutest thing ever!!  

The entire 1st grade class was part of the Stone Soup play!  

There was singing, and talking and announcing and acting.....I was extremely impressed! Some of the kids sang solo, and they were REALLY good!!  What a fun way to start the day!

Knowing Easter is on Sunday (but honestly not sure how we got here so quickly) I knew I needed to make a fun cocktail for you all.......you know......to give you options and all.  

I have been thinking of my banana liqueur for a while now.....and decided that I needed to make a fun cocktail with it.  

I present Tropical Easter, b/c I think Easter should be tropical sometimes.  It's delicious.......I mean it has banana liqueur in it!

I hope all of you that do celebrate Easter have a wonderful time!  

We are hosting here (which we do every year) and having my family and my husbands family over.  We always look forward to it!!  For those of you not celebrating, have a fantastic weekend!!

Here is a photo of the end result:

Here is a cocktail of the ingredients:

Here is my recipe for Tropical Easter:

• 2 ounces coconut rum
• 2 ounces banana liqueur
• 2 ounces pineapple juice

In a shaker, add ice and all of the ingredients above.  Shake well and strain so that you get a good froth on the top of your cocktail.

Here's to the weekend!  May you have amazing weather and delicious cocktails!

Cheers!!

The Cocktail Lady



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Cinnamon Chocolate Banana

Cinnamon Chocolate Banana

Happy New Year!  

It's officially 2016 and honestly that year seemed like a loooong long ways away........but apparently it's here and I am "supposedly" another year older.....which would make me 23?  

No?  

32?  

NO?  

Oh wow......any-who, Happy New Year!  

Over the winter break our oldest (who will somehow be 17 in a matter of 9 days) had his wisdom teeth removed, all 4.  

Between all of our Christmas celebrations, our son's wisdom teeth being removed an New Years Eve, it's been an action packed, non-stop vacation.

I was looking through my bar and in the back I saw a bottle I used to have quite a good relationship with.  I pulled that bottle forward and decided to use it in tonight's cocktail.  

That bottle is none less then my banana liqueur!  Welcome back BL!!

The flavor I taste most in tonight's cocktail is the Rum Chata, specifically the cinnamon flavor in it.  

The first sip of this cocktail was CINNAMON-EY, yowza a bit intense, the following sips were a LOT better.  

The banana is hidden a bit in this cocktail but still there.  

Next time I make this cocktail I think I will dial down the Rum Chata and up the banana liqueur a bit.  Otherwise, it's a good cocktail!  If you are a Rum Chata fan, you will enjoy this one!

Here is a photo of the end result:

Here is a photo of the ingredients:

Here is my recipe for a Cinnamon Chocolate Banana:

• 2 ounces chocolate whipped vodka
• 1 ounce Rum Chata
• 1 ounce banana liqueur
• 1/2 ounce Godiva chocolate liqueur

In a shaker, add ice and all of the ingredients above.  Shake and strain into a cocktail glass and garnish with whipped cream, sliced banana and crumbled graham crackers.

Here's to another year of opportunities!  Do you make New Years Resolutions?  I'd love to hear about them!

Cheers!

The Cocktail Lady

Banana Slip

I need to say that I can NOT believe how long it's been since my last post.  

These past 2 weeks have been absolutely insane.......I'm surprised I haven't have more cocktails.  

We celebrated my birthday with some friends on Saturday, which was a total blast!  Had a few margaritas, a few shots of Fireball (by itself......no mixing needed) and a couple beers.  

Yea.......it was a good night!

I haven't done a layered shooter in a while, so a I thought I'd do one.  I found a few online that look "interesting" so be ready!  

I also was told of a Fireball cocktail a reader of mine makes at her house (which I'm totally going to try), as well as another shooter Fireball posted on Facebook not too long ago.  

Needless to say, I've got some cocktails on the way.

This shooter is OK.  

It doesn't scream "I'm the best shooter in the world".......yet it's not the worst.  

The equal amounts of both liqueurs seem to sort of cancel each other out, so this shooter doesn't taste like either one too much......just a blend of both.  

It was worth trying, since I love creme de banana, but I won't be trying it again.

Here is a photo of the end result:

Here is a photo of the ingredients:

Here is the recipe for a Banana Slip:

• 3/4 ounce creme de banana
• 3/4 ounce Irish Cream

In a shot glass, pour in your creme de banana.  Next over the back of a spoon, layer the Irish Cream on top.

Here's to getting back to making cocktails after a couple of crazy weeks!!

Cheers!!

The Cocktail Lady



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Buttered Monkey

Here we are, Day 4 and I have to say that I have been enjoying my challenge of "5 Days of Rum Chata"!  

Today is another beautiful day here, boy are we lucky to have such nice weather right now.  

The only bad thing is that we have "more or less" had such nice weather all year that we are in a drought and our lakes and rivers aren't what we all hope they would be in the summer.  


It is what it is, we'll enjoy it either way.

Today I decided to try one of Rum Chata's cocktail recipes instead of a shooter.  I had seen some with banana liqueur and some with butterscotch schnaps.  


Then I found this one which had both!  (That made me happy).  


This cocktail is really good.  

It's creamy, yet spicy, yet butterschotch-ey and a little banana-ey which makes this combination delicious!  Another winner from the good people at Rum Chata!  


If this sounds good to you I highly recommend you try it!

Like right now......try it!

Here is a photo of the end result:

Here is a photo of the ingredients:

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Buttered Monkey

INGREDIENTS:

• 2 ounces Rum Chata
• 1 ounce vanilla vodka
• 1 ounce banana liqueur
• 1 ounce butterscotch schnapps

INSTRUCTIONS:

1. In a shaker, add ice and all of the ingredients above. Shake and strain into a cocktail glass.

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Hope you are all enjoying my 4 days so far.  Stay tuned for tomorrow when I finish up my week!

Cheers!!

The Cocktail Lady