Chocolate Covered Candy Cane

I'm here!  

I have not forgotten all of you, I promise!  

I have been soooo busy this year it has been absolutely insane.  

I am just so glad that my year challenge was last year and not this one, because I honestly don't think I could have done it this year.  

My last post was 5 days ago (gasp), sheesh I REALLY wanted to give you guys more cocktails before Christmas this year.  

I do have an awesome amount from last year to go along with the few I made this year though.....I think that kind of makes up for it.

Merry Christmas to those of you who do celebrate this holiday.  

I think this year was the best Christmas morning (for the kids--present-wise) yet.  

Everyone was super happy with everything they got (which I totally know is not what the holiday is about, and we do teach our children that the holiday is more about getting together with family and spending quality time together.....but lets remember, they ARE still kids, lol).  

This year my husband and I are actually spending money on ourselves and he will be building us these outdoor furniture seats for our backyard.  Then we just need to pick out cushions, get a fire pit (gas not wood) and enjoy the cooler evenings......and perhaps some drinking games in the backyard for New Years....who knows ;)

I bought a box of mini candy canes a week or so ago and decided today to create some kind of cocktail with them in mind.  

I created a (husband named this one) Chocolate Covered Candy Cane and boy is it yummy!  

If you have these ingredients, you will have to try this one and report back to me and tell me what you think about it.

Here is a photo of the end result:

Here is a photo of the ingredients:

Here is the recipe for my Chocolate Covered Candy Cane:

• 1 1/2 ounces whipped vodka
• 1 1/2 ounces Godiva Chocolate Liqueur
• 3/4 peppermint schnapps
• chocolate syrup
• 1-2 crushed mini candy canes

Rim your martini glass by twirling the top in chocolate syrup and then in crushed candy canes.  Stick you glass in the freezer to help the candy canes set in the syrup better.  In a shaker, add ice and the remaining ingredients.  Shake and strain into your rimmed martini glass and enjoy!!

Here's to all of my family, friends, readers and anyone else who may stop by my blog today!  Merry Christmas, this cocktail is to you all!!

Cheers!!

The Cocktail Lady

S'moretini

Day 234

S'moretini

4 shots out of 5

One soccer game and one baseball game down, one soccer game and a SF Giants Playoff game to go.  

Four games in one day and only one of them that I can sit, drink beer, eat pizza and yell at the bad plays at.  

I'm sooo very excited that the playoffs are officially beginning to day!

I gave tonight's cocktail 4 shots out of 5.  

I have been wanting to make this cocktail for quite some time now since I first saw it on Pinterest.  

Problem is.......there are so many different versions of it I didn't know what to choose.  

I decided to X out the simple two ingredient versions and look at the rest.  

I found a couple that sounded pretty good, and with that I took some of their ingredients and added or substituted my own in as well.  

I think what I made is pretty darn good.  

Doesn't taste like I'm sitting at a campfire roasting marshmallows and making my own S'mores, but it tastes good enough!  

Here is a photo of the end result:

Here is a photo of the ingredients:

Here is my version of a S'moretini:

• 1 1/2 oz marshmallow vodka
• 3/4 oz white creme de cacao
• 1/4 oz Kahlua
• 1 1/2 oz Irish cream
• chocolate syrup (some for rimming the glass & some for the marshmallow)
• 1/2 sheet of a graham cracker (crushed into little crumbs)
• 1 big marshmallow

Glass:

Rim your martini glass with chocolate syrup.  Dip your chocolate rimmed glass into your graham cracker crumbs.

Marshmallow:

Put chocolate syrup on the bottom half of your marshmallow.  Dip the chocolate half in your graham cracker crumbs.  Stick a pick half way through the bottom on the marshmallow.

Cocktail:

In a shaker, add ice, marshmallow vodka, white creme de cacao, Kahlua and Irish Cream.  Shake it up well and strain your cocktail into your rimmed cocktail glass.  Lay your marshmallow on a stick across the top.

Here's to making your own creation.  Kinda makes me want to make a real S'more and eat it as well!

Cheers!!

The Cocktail Lady

Midori Spider's Kiss

Day 228

Midori Spider's Kiss

3.5 shots out of 5

Check out this fun layered Halloween cocktail!  It has Midori and vodka?  Yes please!!

My eyeballs are sweating!  

It's sooo hot out today......I think I may just melt.  

On a good note, the Giants, 49ers and A's all won!  

I'm so excited for post season with my Giants I can't stand it!  Yes tonight is another Halloween inspired cocktail on this very last day of September.

I gave tonight's cocktail 3.5 shots out of 5.  

When I found this recipe here I loved the photo of it so much that I thought I'd surely love this cocktail.  

Well......not so much.  

I mean it's a good cocktail, but there's too much lemon juice in it.  

I would have cut the lemon juice in half to give it a taste of lemon, instead of it being a lemon flavored cocktail.  

The chocolate web I actually made last night with one of the infant medicine syringes that they give you at your local drug store when you pick up your children's medicines (you know the plastic one where you suck up the medicine by pulling the back the top part up, and then squirt it in your kids mouths by pushing it back down), after I designed it I stuck it in the freezer and just took it out now to pour my cocktail into it.  

Doing it this way went over a LOT better then my failed attempt with Mint Chip or my husbands failed attempt with The Drunken Milkmaid.  

The funny thing is that now looking at my almost finished cocktail, the web touching the vodka and midori mix has melted into the cocktail, but the web part touching the grenadine is still standing strong.

Here is a photo of the end result:

Here is a photo of the ingredients:

Here is the recipe for a Midori Spider's Kiss:

• 1 oz Midori
• 1 oz vodka
• 1/2 oz lemon juice (next time I'd use 1/4 oz)
• 1/4 oz grenadine
• chocolate syrup

Design your martini glass with the chocolate syrup making a spiders web and stick it in the freezer.  I froze mine overnight, but according to the recipe it looks like you can stick it in there while you make your cocktail and then take it out.....I suggest at least 10-15 minutes though.  

In a shaker add ice, midori, vodka and lemon juice.  Shake and strain your mixture into your chilled chocolate spider web cocktail glass.  Pour your grenadine down the middle.

Here's to FINALLY figuring out how to make chocolate lines on a martini glass look half way decent!

Cheers!!

The Cocktail Lady

Raspberry Truffle

Day 159

Raspberry Truffle

3.5 shots out of 5

Monday.  

Yes I said it, the "M" word.  

It marks yet another week of cocktails.  

I know I've said it before, but when I sit back and think about it, I CAN NOT believe that I have found/received, made, tried and blogged about 159 cocktails!!  

Plus the fact that there are SOOOO MANY more out there for me to try.

I gave tonight's cocktail 3.5 shots out of 5.  

I received tonight's cocktail from Sandi.  

Sandi wanted to invent a cocktail that tasted like some of her favorite ice creams, so she invented the Raspberry Truffle.  

She gave me a few options on the vodka, so I went with the Raspberry Vodka.  

This is a yummy cocktail!  

I first strained it into a martini glass and it warmed up quickly and didn't taste as good as I knew it should.  

Then I poured that into the glass below with some ice, stirred it up and it tasted a lot better.  

This is a nice creamy cocktail that goes down smooth.  It's been husband and Stephanie (The Crockpot Lady) approved as well!

Here is a photo of the end result:

Here is a photo of the ingredients:

Here is the recipe for a Raspberry Truffle:

• 2 oz Irish cream
• 2 oz black raspberry liqueur
• 1 oz raspberry vodka
• 1/4 oz chocolate syrup

In a shaker add ice and all ingredients above.  Shake it up real well and strain it into a cocktail glass filled with ice.  This will strain slow due to the Irish cream and chocolate syrup, so be patient........or not like I was and shake the hell out of it while it's straining.

Thank You Sandi for a quite yummy cocktail!  That was a great way to start of another week of cocktails!

Cheers!!

The Cocktail Lady

Mint Chip

Day 97

Mint Chip

2.5 shots out of 5

"If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again".  -William Edward Hickson

I am going to have to give this cocktail a new formula and try it again.  I do have faith that I can make something that pleases my tastes a bit more.  I think the problem with this recipe that I found is that this Mint Chip tastes too overwhelmingly minty.

Imagine my disappointment.......Mint Chip ice cream is one of my 2 most absolute favorite flavors EVER!!  

I saw the recipe for this cocktail on a PDF emailed to me from Sandi (Thank You again).  

This PDF is from Pinnacle Vodka and has a lot of recipes on it (Sandi, the more I look at it, the more I'm realizing that the last third of the PDF is sort of a repeat of the previous cocktails, just down sized and renamed, haha).  

I sure do wish I liked this cocktail a LOT more then I do.

Side note, if you'd like me to email you the PDF,  shoot me an email and I'll send it on over.  Cocktailady@gmail.com

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

Not thrilled about it, I must say.  

The mint flavor takes over........in a way that it shouldn't in a cocktail.  

It kind of reminded me of a mouthful of mouth wash or something......yuck.  

It was worth a try though.  If you look at my photo......ok......so I didn't have chocolate syrup, so I made a wet swirly inside the glass and sprinkled chocolate powder on it (TOTALLY SHOULD HAVE LET IT HARDEN.......PROBABLY IN THE FREEZER FOR A WHILE FIRST) and did the same on the rim.  

My not so bright idea ended up making it mix into the cocktail when I poured it in, making the cocktail look a "little" darker then what it should look like.  

If you look at the green color near the whipped cream on top, you'll get a better idea of it's color.

Here is a photo of the end result:

Here is a photo of the ingredients:

Here is the recipe for Mint Chip:

• 2 shots whipped cream vodka
• 1 shot creme de cacao
• 1 shot creme de menthe
• chocolate syrup (or hardened powder)
• whipped cream

In a shaker add ice, vodka, creme de cacao and creme de menthe.  Shake it up real good.  In a martini glass, make your own special designs with the chocolate syrup (or powder) and strain your cocktail inside.  Top with a little bit of whipped cream.

Sandi, I'll definitely be trying more on that list!  Thank You again for sending it!!

Cheers!!

The Cocktail Lady

The Drunken Milkmaid

Day 70

The Drunken Milkmaid

4.5 shots out of 5

First off, I would like to say Happy 70th Day of Cocktails!  

Thank You to all of those who have been with me from Day 1 and also to those of you who have found me along the way!  

I am having a really fun time making and trying all of these cocktails, as I hope you are having fun reading about them and maybe even trying some of them along with me.  

I must say that so far the cocktail recipes that I have received from all of you have been really good ones!  

I haven't had a bad recipe from a reader yet!  I love trying the cocktails you all love to drink at home.

I gave tonight's cocktail 4.5 shots out of 5.  

I received this recipe from Kera, Thank You Kera!!  

The Drunken Milkmaid is a good cocktail that is perfectly mixed (in my opinion of course) by all of its ingredients.  If you notice, the glass has been "designed" a bit different tonight from when I designed the glass for Brown Lady.  

Reason being........my husband wanted to design tonight's glass.......but.........I think he used a "bit" too much chocolate?  

Anyways, it tastes very yummy with the amount he used and I know it would taste yummy with even less chocolate syrup.  

I must say....as I am typing this blog and looking at the chocolate that has now collected more toward the bottom of my glass....I just realized that I was supposed to put whipped cream on top of it!  

I even have it out on the counter.  

I'm sorry Kera, I wish I would have remembered about it.....instead of being too excited to drink it.

Here is a photo of the end result:

Here is a photo of the ingredients:

Here is the recipe for The Drunken Milkmaid:

• 1/2 shot kahlua
• 1/2 shot creme de cacao
• 1/2 shot butterscotch schnapps
• 1/2 shot amaretto
• 1/2 shot milk
• chocolate syrup
• whipped cream (which I totally forgot)

In a shaker add ice, kahlua, creme de cacao, butterscotch schnapps, amaretto and milk.  Shake it up really well so that all of the ingredients get blended well.  Strain it into a martini glass that has been "designed" with chocolate syrup.  Top with whipped cream (still mad that I forgot that) and enjoy!

A big Thank You to Kera for this lovely cocktail!  

I have to say that I was always skeptical about chocolate syrup in your cocktail until I tried the Brown Lady and The Drunken Milkmaid.  

Not anymore though!  It's a wonderful touch, I must say!

Cheers!!

The Cocktail Lady

Brown Lady

Day 65

Brown Lady

5 shots out of 5

It's a hot day here!  

The thermometer said 75 degrees when we were walking the kids home from school today, which is a very pleasant change from the rain and cold weather we've been having! 

Oh speaking of weather......if you remember when I was telling you about our lightning and how I needed to blog the PB&J Martini before our power possibly went out?  

Well not even 15 minutes after I had blogged it, lightning struck right outside the house and our power went out!  Phewph, glad I had made it!

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

I got this recipe from one of my readers, Jessica.  Thank You Jessica for your recipe for Brown Lady!  

I am really enjoying this blended cocktail, especially with it being so hot out here.  

As you can see from my photo, I can not  decorate a cocktail glass and make it look fancy if my life had depended on it!  

I even used one of those cake frosting tips to make the opening smaller........yea I totally failed.  

This is definitely a nice refreshing blended cocktail.  I can really taste the kahlua the most, which is nice.  

Here is a photo of the end result:

Here is a photo of the ingredients:

Here is the recipe for Brown Lady:

• 1 shot rum
• 1 shot kahlua
• 1 shot cream of coconut
• 1 scoop vanilla ice cream
• 1/2 cup ice
• chocolate syrup

In a blender add all of your ingredients.  Blend it up really good so that your ice disappears.  Try   to garnish your glass with chocolate syrup, put some on the bottom, try to twirl some up the side, however you do it is fine.  Then pour your cocktail into your decorated glass and enjoy!

Jessica, here's to you and your Brown Lady cocktail.  It was exactly what I needed on a hot Friday of a long week!  Thank You again!  

Cheers!!

The Cocktail Lady