Creamy Nutty Paddy

Creamy Nutty Paddy

Today's goal was to create a green cocktail.  

Many think of creme de mint when they think of a green drink.  

For that sole reason I pulled out my sour apple pucker.  

Then I decided to just get a little crazy/creative and mix it up with the new heavy cream my husband bought and a couple other items in the bar.

There you have it, Creamy Nutty Paddy.  

I can honestly say that I think I can taste every...single...ingredient in this cocktail.  

It's weird, but good all at the same time.  If you want to taste a cocktail you have never tasted before, give this one a try.  Why not?!

On another note, we just found out that our son has been moved up to the varsity baseball team this year!  

He's a sophomore and couldn't be happier......well, actually he'd be happier if he didn't still have to wear his giant boot when walking and could actually get on the field and play ball.  
Come Monday, we have our next appt. with his doctor to see what the next step is.  We have our fingers crossed that he doesn't have to wear that boot anymore and can begin using his foot again.

For those of you who did not know, I am now an Independent Consultant for Jamberry Nails (http://jenpenas.jamberrynails.net/).  

I am in LOVE with the product and am constantly wearing the nail wraps.  If you would like a sample or to host a party on Facebook contact me!  You'll be glad you did!  

Our new Spring/Summer catalog will be coming out on March 1st, after that I think I'm going to do a giveaway for a FREE sheet of nail wraps.  Stay tuned!!

Here is a photo of the end result:

Here is a photo of the ingredients:

Here is the recipe for my Creamy Nutty Paddy:

• 1 ounce caramel vodka
• 1 ounce midori
• 1 sour apple pucker
• 1/2 ounce amaretto
• 1/2 ounce heavy whipping cream

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

Here's to another green cocktail.......hey, at least it's green! 

Cheers!!

The Cocktail Lady

Spiked Caramel Egg

Have you ever tried a caramel egg?  How about if you spike it?  Sound better?  It sure does to me!

Last day of March........wait.......What?!?!  

And there goes a fourth of the year.  

Should I start planning our New Years party already?  

Sheesh.  

These weeks are fly-ing by I tell you.  

This leaves me with 21 days until we host our annual Easter Dinner.  These 21 days are going to be here before I know it......better start preparing now.

This week our "high schooler" (still in shock that his freshman year will be over come the end of May) has Spring Break.  

Then in a few weeks our 4th grader will have his.  

It was nice when they were on the same schedule....oh well.  

Our high school Spring break is consisting of 3 (wait 2 now that today's got postponed due to rain) baseball games and a bunch of practices.  

This Saturday I will FINALLY be seeing the movie Divergent!  I am suuuuper excited because I read the books a while back and LOVED them.  

OK, wait, I haven't read the third book yet as it came out more recently.  Anyway, dinner and a movie with some of my friends is gonna be great.

I have had this Cadbury Caramel Egg on my counter for a while now and finally had time today to create a cocktail for it.  

This marks my second cocktail for Easter/Springtime this year, I still plan on making more, so stay tuned!

On a different note.......I OPENED AN ETSY SHOP!  

Sorry, didn't mean to yell, but I'm just soooo excited!!  

Being The Cocktail Lady, what better item is there for me to sell but cocktail/wine/beer charms?  I am also selling some photos I have taken.  

As of right now I have my wine/cocktail charms that I have made up there in my shop, but am in the process of making beer charms as well.  Those will be up soon.  

What was that?  

Oh, you are curious about my skills?  

Well wait no longer, here is my Etsy shop!!  I hope you like what you see!  I am having a fun time creating these and have more ideas on the way.  

Here is a photo of the end results:

Here is a photo of the ingredients:

Here is my recipe for a Spiked Caramel Egg:

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Spiked Caramel Egg

by The Cocktail Lady March-31-2014

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 ounces caramel vodka
• 1 ounce Godiva chocolate liqueur
• 1 ounce white creme de cacao
• 1/2 ounce milk
• 1/2 ounce Irish cream
• caramel sauce

Instructions

I swirled caramel sauce in my martini glass and quickly stuck in the in freezer to make it (more or less) stay in place.

In a shaker, add ice and all of the ingredients above, except your caramel sauce. Shake and strain it into your chilled, caramel swirled martini glass and enjoy!!

Details

Prep time: 5 mins Cook time: 1 mins Total time: 6 mins Yield: 1 cocktail

Happy last day of March!  Hope it's warm where you are.

Cheers!!

The Cocktail Lady

Creamy Caramel Martini

Creamy Caramel Martini

4 shots out of 5

Did you know that April 5th is National Caramel Day?  There's yet another reason to enjoy this Creamy Caramel Martini!

Like we need a reason?  Right?

I may just be one of the happiest people I know today!  

First off it's Friday (that speaks for itself).  

Second, I went to the doctor today to find out if the 4 week long soar throat I've had is strep or not.......turns out it's not and all I have is an irritated airway!  

Great news!  

I think for those two reasons alone, I deserve a cocktail.....and so do you!

I gave tonight's OK, totally this afternoon's cocktail 4 shots out of 5.  

The 3:1 ratio of vodka to schnapps kind of scared me, but I went through with it anyways.  

I have this bottle of Kissed Caramel Vodka and I need to try different cocktails with it so I went to the Smirnoff site and found today's here.  

Glad I did too.  

I think the caramel at the bottom of this glass adds to it's carameleyness (yes another "Totally Jen made up word"), but doesn't over power it.  

I think this would be a cocktail that I would drink one.......two at the most of (but would probably regret asking for the 2nd half way through).  

If you enjoy caramel, I think you'll enjoy this cocktail!

Here is a photo of the end result:

Here is a photo of the ingredients:

Here is the recipe for a Creamy Caramel Martini:

• 1 1/2 oz kissed caramel vodka
• 1/2 oz butterscotch schnapps
• caramel

In a martini glass, squeeze your liquid caramel into the bottom of your glass (as much as you'd like).  In a shaker, add ice and your vodka and butterscotch schnapps.  Shake and strain your cocktail into your martini glass.

Here's to a nice warm Friday!  The sun is out and I have a cocktail in my hand, what could be better?

Cheers!!

The Cocktail Lady