Chocolate Covered Marshmallow

Originally posted in November of 2013.  Reposted for National Toasted Marshmallow Day.

Who doesn't love a chocolate covered marshmallow?  This cocktail is light and tastes delicious!

We made it!  

Oh I honestly wasn't sure if we would, but it is finally Friday!  

Apparently the terrible 2's do not end exactly when the 2-year old turns three.....  


Never the less, it is Friday and today the Make A Wish Foundation has turned San Francisco into Gotham City for a 5-year old boy who has leukemia.  

Today he is going around town saving a woman from the cable car tracks, saving Lou Seal (our SF Giants mascot), fighting The Riddler and The Penguin!  

How fun!  

Things like this warm my heart.

After my last two cocktails which were flops, I decided to have a go at it on my own.  
I thought chocolate would be a good start.....oh maybe a chocolate rimmed martini glass? (haven't done a rimmed cocktail glass in a while).  I looked through my vodkas and noticed that I haven't used the marshmallow one in a while either, so there you have it.  

I decided to create a Chocolate Covered Marshmallow.

This cocktail is pretty good.  

It is light and easy to drink......good thing?  

Bad thing?  

Ah, who cares, it's Friday!  


I am really enjoying my cocktail though.  

Tomorrow our newly turned three year old will be celebrating her birthday with family, which is almost too much for her to handle in the excitement category.  


Then on Monday our girls will be getting (as long as the shipping doesn't take longer then that) their very own bunk bed, more excitement alert!  

I sure hope that I can last until then!

Here is a photo of the end result:

Here is a photo of the ingredients:

Here is my recipe for a Chocolate Covered Marshmallow:

• 1 1/2 ounces marshmallow vodka
• 1 1/2 ounces chocolate liqueur
• 1/2 ounce cream
• 1/2 ounce milk
• chocolate shavings

Rim a martini glass with chocolate shavings.  In a shaker, add ice, marshmallow vodka, chocolate liqueur, cream and milk.  Shake and strain into chocolate shaving rimmed martini glass.  Sprinkle more chocolate shavings on top.

I hope you all have a wonderful weekend!  Try a new cocktail!

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

Chocolate Bunny Martini

Chocolate Bunny Martini

5 shots out of 5

The countdown continues, we have 2 days left until Easter.  

Today is Friday (thankfully), and the kids are now "officially" on spring break!  

It will definitely be nice having them home all week.  It will also be nice being able to NOT set our alarms......well, all of us except for my husband that is.

I gave tonight's cocktail 5 shots out of 5.  

Um, YUM!!  

I found this cocktail at the same place I found last night's cocktail, at As Socialiving (removed link as website is no longer there 3/21/2017) .  

This cocktail, to me, tastes like an "adult" chocolate milk.  

I know that they actually sell something called Adult Chocolate Milk (or something like that) at the stores (haven't tried it yet) and I would imagine......or I guess I would desperately hope, that it would taste like this!  

This cocktail is not too chocolately (which I like), but it is chocolately enough for you to know what you're drinking.  

I think I may make myself another one of these real soon!

If you don't have the ingredients.......you'll want to get them.......like now.......or next time you're at the store.

Here is the delicious recipe for a Chocolate Bunny Martini.

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Chocolate Bunny Martini

INGREDIENTS:

• 1 1/2 ounces chocolate liqueur
• 1 1/2 ounces dark creme de cacao
• 1/2 ounce vodka
• chocolate shavings

INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Rim your martini glass with your chocolate shavings. In a shaker, add ice and your chocolate liqueur, dark creme de cacao and vodka. Shake and strain into your rimmed martini glass and enjoy!

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I am feeling a bit more prepared for Easter dinner now.......especially after I had tonight's cocktail!

Cheers!!

The Cocktail Lady

Chocolate Chunk

Day 334

Chocolate Chunk

2.5 shots out of 5

Monday, the start of yet another week.  

I was at our local CVS today while my youngest son was at Tae Kwon Do and I found a bottle of Pinnacle Cookie Dough vodka.  

I decided to buy it and as I was grabbing it, I found an Irish Cream Liqueur for half of the price of Baileys.  

I figured it was worth a shot.  

Once the Baileys is gone, I'll be trying the new brand (fingers crossed).

I gave tonight's cocktail 2.5 shots out of 5.  

First things first.

I'm not a cookie dough lover, even when that flavor of ice cream was "oh so" popular.  

I mean, sure it tasted OK, but by no means did I HAVE TO have it.  

Tonight's cocktail was OK.  

I think there should have been more chocolate liqueur in this shooter.  

The taste of this vodka is different and needs to be not an equal contributor to this cocktail.  

I would assume that those of you who really do enjoy the cookie dough flavor would enjoy this shooter more then I did.  

I found tonight's recipe on a PDF made by Pinnacle.

Here is a photo of the end result:

Here is a photo of the ingredients:

Here is the recipe for a Chocolate Chunk:

• 1 oz cookie dough vodka
• 1 oz chocolate liqueur

In a shaker, add ice and the two ingredients above.  Shake and strain your cocktail into a shot glass.

Here's to my first cocktail with cookie dough vodka.

Cheers!!

The Cocktail Lady