Christmas Wish

I was sent a bottle of Smirnoff Vodka Holiday Ornament Bottle to sample.  I was not paid for my opinion.  All views and opinions are my own.

It's been a while since I've used pomegranate juice in a cocktail.

Un-Excusable!!

Time to break that cycle and give you a fun pomegranate cocktail!

Smirnoff sent me this cute little ornament bottle of vodka!  What a fun festive shape!

OK, so I had recently bought some pomegranate juice at the store knowing that I needed to make some sort of holiday cocktail with it.

What have I not mixed with pomegranate juice before?

Godiva white chocolate liqueur of course!

I thought this would be a fun yet different mixture to try.

So in went the vodka from the cute little ornament bottle.

Next was the pomegranate juice.

Lastly I added the white chocolate liqueur.

It's that simple!

It creates a creamy looking cocktail that's fun to drink!

Christmas Wish

ingredients:

• 1 1/2 ounces vodka
• 3 ounces pomegranate juice
• 1/2 ounce Godiva White Chocolate Liqueur

instructions:

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

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Simple right?  

Don't forget that cute Smirnoff bottle!  It would be a fun thing to bring to a holiday party, or to serve from at yours!

I hope you all are having a great week so far!  I know the countdown to winter break IS ON in our house!

Peppermint Cranberry Moscow Mule

I was sent a bottle of Smirnoff Peppermint Twist Vodka to sample.  I was not paid for my opinion.  All views and opinions are my own.

'Tis the season for peppermint flavored sweets and cocktails!

I was sent this bottle of peppermint vodka to try along with a couple recipes.

The first thing I noticed was a slight aroma of peppermint.

Was I going crazy?  Was the candy cane looking bottle making me think I was smelling peppermint?

Nope, it's actually a Scratch & Sniff bottle!  Well that's fun!

The cocktail I decided to try from the list I was given is a Peppermint Cranberry Moscow Mule.  

Why?

Cause I was suuuuper curious how peppermint, cranberry and ginger would go together.

I braved it and added the vodka.

Then the cranberry juice.

Shook it up.

Strained it into my cup and added the ginger beer.

The end result?

Surprisingly good! 

I tasted each of the ingredients, but none of them overpowered the other.

The peppermint flavor (which I was most worried about) was nice, not over done.  It gave a nice hint of peppermint.

I am looking forward to creating some more holiday cocktails with this flavored vodka!

Peppermint Cranberry Moscow Mule

ingredients:

• 1 1/2 ounces Smirnoff Peppermint Vodka
• 2 ounces cranberry juice
• 6 ounces ginger beer

instructions:

1. In a shaker with ice add vodka and cranberry juice.
2. Shake.
3. Strain into copper mug filled with ice.
4. Pour in ginger beer.
5. Stir.

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I hope you get a chance to try a new holiday cocktail this year!

White Chocolate Peppermint Martini

Day 309

White Chocolate Peppermint Martini

4 shots out of 5

**When I hear white chocolate and peppermint, I think winter which reminds me of Christmas.  Here is another delicious holiday cocktail I made a few years ago!**

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It's Thursday night, today I got my hair cut, dyed and also got a pedicure.  

Tonight I'm going to the movies with a couple friends.  

WOW, what a "Me" day!  

Our weekend plans of walking through a neighboring cities neighborhood to check out some amazing lights on Friday and then going to see the Zoo Lights on Saturday just got cancelled due to the rain that will be coming in this weekend......boo.

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

I found this recipe......which I unfortunately could not follow at cookingwithsugar.  

Sugar used marshmallow sundae topping......I thought my marshmallow cream I had "might" work.....yea, NO it didn't.  

Oh well, life goes on.  

The only thing I'd change about this cocktail is the amount of peppermint schnapps.  

For me, it's just a little bit too pepperminty, so I might cut it back to 1/2 an ounce instead.  

Otherwise, this is a very holiday-ey cocktail that I'm sure many will love.

Here is a photo of the end result:

Here is a photo of the ingredients:

Here is the recipe for a White Chocolate Peppermint Martini:

• 1 1/2 oz vanilla vodka
• 3/4 oz peppermint schnapps
• 1 1/2 oz Godiva white chocolate liqueur
• candy canes, or candy cane sugar for rimming

In a shaker, add ice and all of the ingredients above (except the last item which is for rimming). Shake and strain you cocktail into a candy cane or candy cane sugar rimmed martini glass.

Here's to my second cocktail that I get to use my BevMo candy cane sugar with!

Cheers!!

The Cocktail Lady

Silent Night

Day 284

Silent Night

5 shots out of 5

**This cocktail right here was one of my most favoritest Christmas cocktails that I have made......plus it's blue, how could you go wrong with a blue cocktail?**

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I'll tell you something, it won't be a silent night if you're making a batch of these for friends!  

One of my best friends found this cocktail and pinned it on Pinterest for me to see, the link led me here to Grin and Bake It.  

It sounded delicious and once again, I had to wait for Thanksgiving to be over to make it.  

Oh and our soccer season is officially over and we now can start having family time during the weekends!  

Just in time for the holidays!!

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

This is a very good cocktail.  

I think it would be just as good even better if it was blended!  

Yum.......perhaps I'll go try that right now?  

OK, finish this blog post and then go try it, got it.  

I already knew that Malibu and pineapple went well together, add the creme de cacao and blue curacao.....amazing, plus a sugar rimmed glass.....genius!  

This will be another holiday (or any day really) crowd pleaser!

Here is a photo of the end result:

Here is a photo of the ingredients:

Here is the recipe for a Silent Night:

                   (makes 2)

• 2 oz coconut rum
• 2 oz pineapple juice
• 1 oz blue curacao
• 1 oz white creme de cacao
• 1/4 oz whipping cream
• sugar (super fine or regular)

Rim your martini glass with the sugar listed above.  In a shaker, add ice and the rest of the ingredients above.  Shake and strain your cocktail into your rimmed martini glass and enjoy!!

Thanks Natty for fining tonight's cocktail, and YES I will make you one when you come up next time.

Cheers!!

The Cocktail Lady

Snow White Chocolate Martini

Day 292

Snow White Chocolate Martini

3.5 shots out of 5

Another week is underway.  

Only a day shy of 3 weeks left of school for the kids and then it's winter break.  

I know these 3ish weeks are going to fly by, which will bring me 3 weeks closer to the end of my Year Of Cocktails.  

WOW......

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

I found tonight's cocktail at Crowning Celebrations.  

The only thing I didn't have was the dark chocolate shavings, so I used white chocolate shavings instead.  

This cocktail was pretty good.  

I think there's a bit too much vodka in this cocktail....for my liking anyways.  I would like to be able to taste the creme de cacao and Godiva liqueur a bit more instead.  

Saying that, I totally just finished this martini in a few minutes flat......but will be grabbing for a beer in the fridge as soon as I finish typing tonight's blog.

Here is a photo of the end result:

Here is a photo of the ingredients:

Here is the recipe for a Snow White Chocolate Martini:

• 2 oz vanilla vodka
• 1/2 oz white creme de cacao
• 1 oz Godiva white chocolate liqueur
• dark or white chocolate shavings for rimming

Rim your martini glass with your chocolate shavings.  In a shaker, add ice and all of the ingredients above except for your chocolate shavings.  Shake and strain your cocktail into your rimmed martini glass.

Whether you read tonight's cocktail as a Snow White.....Chocolate Martini (I read it this way....we have 4 kids, what can I say) or a Snow.....White Chocolate Martini, I hope you enjoyed it more then I did.

Cheers!!

The Cocktail Lady

Two Turtle Doves

Day 288

Two Turtle Doves

3.5 shots out of 5

Happy Thursday!  

My husband just informed me that he was not aware that today was Thursday already.  Isn't that just the greatest feeling?  Thinking it's Tuesday........Wednesday at the latest and finding out that in fact it's not just Thursday, but Thursday night!  

Score!  

Since it is Thursday night, that brings us just about another week closer to Christmas......oh boy.

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

Right from the Christmas carol itself comes tonight's cocktail, Two Turtle Doves.....OK, so I really found tonight's cocktail at cocktailtimes.  

This cocktail is pretty good.  

Not a whole lot of wonderful flavor.......I'm assuming that is because of all of the half and half that is in this cocktail.  

I think I would change the vodka to vanilla vodka instead of using regular vodka if I make this one again.  All in all, it's not a bad cocktail....just not a very memorable one either.  

I must say that the grated white chocolate on the rim on this martini glass does add a very nice touch!  

I found this package of it at my local grocery store, and when I opened it up (thinking it was a big old hunk of chocolate I'd have to break up myself), I was VERY pleasantly surprised to see rectangles of white chocolate all separated in little plastic cup things (kind of looked like an ice cube tray).

Here is a photo of the end result:

Here is a photo of the ingredients:

Here is the recipe for Two Turtle Doves:

• 1 1/2 oz vodka
• 1 oz coconut cream
• 1 oz half and half (or half milk and half cream like I used)
• 1/2 oz white creme de cacao
• grated white chocolate

Rim your martini glass with grated white chocolate.  In a shaker, add ice and all of the ingredients above, except for the grated white chocolate that you used to rim your martini glass.  Shake and strain your cocktail into your rimmed martini glass.

Here's to yummy white chocolate rimmed cocktails!

Cheers!!

The Cocktail Lady

Christmas Cocktail Round-Up

Christmas Cocktail Round-Up

Somehow Christmas Eve is tomorrow!!  

No......no wait, technically it's TODAY!!!!  

Are you ready?  

Are you?  

I finished wrapping my last few gifts tonight and then headed over to drop some off at my folks house so that we won't forget them tonight in our mad dash to get me, my husband our four kids and my two dishes of mashed potatoes out the door!  

Tonight will be the very last night our Elf Of The Shelf (his name is Buddy and yes it's totally after Will Ferrell in the movie Elf) will hide or do something silly for the year and then he'll be off until next December.

Given that today is Christmas Eve and tomorrow is Christmas, I wanted to give you a bunch of cocktail options to WOW your family and friends with!  

I have broken them down into categories to make it easier (I initially had a HUGE collage of a bunch of cocktails and it was a bit much).  

With out any more waiting and wondering, here are some great cocktails to enjoy this holiday!

Eggnog Cocktails

1. Egg Balls

2. Eggnog & Coffee

3. Mele Kalikimaka Martini

4. White Christmas

5. Eggnog Martini

Chocolate & Peppermint

1. White Chocolate Peppermint Martini

2. Mini Chocolate Candy Cane

3. Polar Freeze

4. Chocolate Covered Candy Cane

5. Holiday Mint Cocoa

Blue & Coconut Rum

1. Silent Night

2. Coco Snowball

Different Vodkas

1. Tropical Christmas Cosmo

2. Reindeer Tracks

3. Shot Of Grinch

4. Two Turtle Doves

5. Gingerbread Coffee Cake Cocktail

6. Turtle Dove

7. Candy Cane Martini

8. Snow White Chocolate Martini

Bailey's Cocktails

1. Christmas Cookie

2. Gingerbread Cookie

Odds & Ends

1. Santa's Kiss

2. Peppermint Patty

3. Brandy-Kissed Snowflake

4. The Dirty Grinch

There you have it.  These are some of the BEST Christmas cocktails around!  Remember if you are looking for a certain ingredient or want to find a cocktail by a certain holiday, be sure to look in my "categories" section on the right hand side of my blog!

I wish you all Happy Holidays!!

Cheers!!

The Cocktail Lady