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

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.

Created using The Recipes Generator

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.

Created using The Recipes Generator

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.

Created using The Recipes Generator

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!!

Chocolate Whipped Cherry

Chocolate Whipped Cherry

Just like that January is just about over and what do I have to show for it?  

Two cocktails.......that's it......two measly cocktails.  

What all has happened in the past 3 (gasp, that's too long) weeks since I have last given you an amazing cocktail?  

A LOT!  

There have been many, many, many morning appointments where I was able to be the chauffeur, followed by errands to be run and lunches to be eaten........all of that before I pick up my two girls and the two boys come home.  

Let's throw in a 100th birthday party?  

OK!  

Yes, my grandma turned 100 years old on Tuesday and we threw her a party on Saturday.  

What a fun, fun time that was!!

The love of my life, my amazing Grandma and me

With January coming to an end, that means Valentines Day is right around the corner......which also means our oldest daughters birthday is on it's way too.  

Time to start planning for both of those.  

With about 2 1/2 weeks to go until V-Day, I thought I'd create a fun Valentiney cocktail.  

Mission accomplished!  I was thinking chocolate and cherries and created this DELICIOUS cocktail for you all to try!  Super yummy in my book!!

Here is a photo of the end result:

Notice the heart isn't real drippy

Notice as time went on, my heart started to drip and my glass wasn't as chilled

Here is a photo of the ingredients:

Here is the recipe for a Chocolate Whipped Cherry:

• 1 ounce chocolate whipped vodka
• 1 ounce cherry vodka
• 1 1/2 ounces Godiva Chocolate Liqueur
• 1/2 ounce cherry juice (from the jar of maraschino cherries)

If you wanted to get a little creative, take chocolate syrup and create a design in a martini glass (mine was a heart and you can see the longer it took me to take the photos, the more it started to drip to the bottom, lol).  Stick your glass in the freezer to allow the chocolate to harden enough so that it won't run as soon as you pour the cocktail in (10ish minutes).

In a shaker, add ice and all of the ingredients above.  Shake and strain into your chilled martini glass.

For me time didn't slow down as the new year started.  It used to....a few years ago, but not anymore.  Here's to January coming to an end and February eager to get started!

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

Chocolate Raspberry Cinnamon Cake

To say it's been hot is an understatement.  

Last weekend we were able to take an extended weekend stay with one of my BFF's at her place in Fresno.  

HOLY HOT WEEKEND!!  

I think the hottest it got was somewhere around 110 degrees.  Yea that's too hot for me.....and of course the day we left it was about 20 degrees cooler......figures!

We were able to go to a water park with some pretty darn cool water slides while we were up there which was one of the bestest ideas ever!!  

The kids were all sooo good and the water just helped everyone not be grouchy (myself included!!)  

We were able to watch the Fresno Grizzles play (SF Giants AAA team) which was a great time and I now want a Grizzlies Hat.  Once we got home we got to check two items off of our Summer Time Bucket List, yeay us!!

Today I looked in my bar and noticed that I really haven't used my raspberry vodka in quite some time.  I pulled it out and a couple other bottles caught my eye, so I decided to get creative.  

I created a pretty good cocktail which I topped with Cool Whip, which.....let's be honest, makes everything better!!  

Here is a photo of the end result:

Here is a photo of the ingredients:

Here is my recipe for a Chocolate Raspberry Cinnamon Cake:

• 2 ounces raspberry vodka
• 2 ounces Vanilla Cinnamon Irish Cream
• 3 ounces Godiva Chocolate Liqueur

In a shaker, add ice and all of the ingredients above.  Shake and strain into a cocktail glass.  Top with Cool Whip.

Here's to fun weekends with friends both new and old!

Cheers!!

The Cocktail Lady


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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