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!

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

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

Happy Birthday Tini (HBT)

Day 243

Happy Birthday Tini (HBT)

5 shots out of 5

**UPDATE~~ We are celebrating a birthday tomorrow......which made me think of this fun cocktail.  Therefore, I wanted to re-share it with you all just in case you had a special birthday to celebrate as well........or just wanted a fun cocktail to drink!  xoxo, Jen**

No it's not anyone's birthday today.  

We're not celebrating.  I have simply been wanting to make this cocktail for quite some time now.  

I saw a photo of a version of this cocktail on Pinterest a while ago and found it again today.

I followed it to the blog it came from, which led me to the blog they got it from, which led me to the blog they got it from.

The three versions of this cocktail were very similar, but I felt the need to tweek it a little bit and change it's name and decided to make my own "slightly different version".

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

I am not, NOT I say a sprinkles fan at all.  

I do understand that there are a LOT of you out there who do enjoy sprinkles and to make this cocktail look festive I needed to add sprinkles.  There you go, a sprinkley rimmed cocktail.  

Tonight's cocktail tastes QUITE yummy, it reminds me of of birthday cake before it's baked.

This would be a fun cocktail to make for a birthday party.  I would do the rimming of the glass way ahead of time.......cause it's a little time consuming and tricky.

Here is a photo of the end result:

Here is a photo of the ingredients:

Here is the recipe for a Happy Birthday Tini:

• 1 1/2 oz cake vodka
• 1 1/2 oz white creme de cacao
• 1 oz amaretto
• 1 oz whipping cream
• 1/2 oz Godiva White Chocolate Liqueur
• sprinkles

Wet the rim of your martini glass with either water or whipping cream, I used the whipping cream.  On a plate with a good pile of sprinkles, turn the rim of your martini glass through the pile of sprinkles pressing them onto the wet part of the rim of your glass.  Set aside.

In a shaker, add ice and all of the ingredients above excluding the sprinkles.  Shake up your mixture well.  Strain it into the middle of your cocktail glass, trying not to pour it on the sprinkle rim.  To get the lines of color effect, sprinkle some sprinkles along the side and as they drop through, they'll leave a streak!

Here's to your next birthday party being a little bit more festive!

Cheers!!

The Cocktail Lady

X-Rated Love Bug

X-Rated Love Bug

Here we are!  Somehow it is February 11th and this year is (and honestly has been) already in full swing.  Which means I need to bring you a fun Valentine's Day shooter to try before the weekend starts.

This Friday......Friday The 13th, our oldest daughter turns 6 (still in disbelief).  She was born on a Friday The 13th as well, so for us it's a very lucky day.


This year for her birthday we have invited (gasp) her entire kindergarten class over for her party.  We rented a jumpy so that the kids can get all of their energy out, then we will eat some pizza, make some bookmarks, eat cupcakes and have fun.  

This year their "goodie bags" are actually a Step 1 book since they're all in kindergarten and learning to read.  I bought these books off of amazon for them all to take home, it's called May I Please Have A Cookie.  So they can make their own bookmarks here and have them to take home to mark their pages when they read.  I did this one other year for her birthday (the books not the bookmarks), I thought it was a nice change from the cheap plastic toys at the party store.


Since it's been a while since I've posted let me tell you why it's been so long.  


Our oldest (now 16) hurt himself in a school basketball game 2 weeks ago.  At first the doctor thought it was a high ankle sprain and he might need surgery (yikes!!), after x-rays and an MRI we found out it wasn't a high ankle sprain (Thank You!), but he had a LOT of fluid in his ankle which was causing a lot of pain and swelling.  


It took about a week and a half for us to see his ankle bone again.  So........needless to say, he's been on crutches ever since and FINALLY gets to try walking, in his ginormous boot along with the help of his crutches on Monday.......Hip Hip Hooray!!  


Onto tonight's cocktail!  I wanted to make a pink cocktail to celebrate Valentine's Day, so I created the X-Rated Love Bug.  This cocktail combines X-Rated and Godiva White Chocolate Liqueur and it is good!!  It's quick and easy to make and quick and easy to shoot!

Here is a photo of the end result:

Here is a photo of the ingredients:

Here is my recipe for an X-Rated Love Bug:

• 1 1/2 ounces X-Rated Liqueur
• 1 1/2 ounces Godiva White Chocolate Liqueur

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

I hope you all have a great Valentine's Day whether you are celebrating or not!

The Cocktail Lady


This recipe is linked to these great sites:

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White Chocolate Covered Cherry

White Chocolate Covered Cherry

We have two and a half weeks until Valentine's Day.  Which gives me one less day until my oldest daughter turns 5.  


Wait.......5?!?!  


That means........oh my.......that means kindergarten is right around the corner, yikes!  It's something that I know in the back of my head, but every time I say it out loud it still kinda shocks me.  


One girls going to start school in the fall and the other is on a 3 day potty training (Bootcamp I like to call it) extravaganza.  

I found this 3 day method where they swear it works, so I thought I'd give it a try.  

We are on Day 2 today and I have to say, so far so good!

A friend of mine has started her own blog for her company Partee Of Four.  You can find some of her work here in a review I did.  She asked me to write a Valentine Day Cocktail Round Up for her blog, which I told her I would love to do.  


That got me thinking......maybe I should create a Valentine shooter to go in that post.  

Today's cocktail is a White Chocolate Covered Cherry.  


We had a mini brunch over the weekend that I had hosted to help introduce Pinnacles new flavor, Cinnabon.  

About an hour into the brunch I pulled out all of my Pinnacle flavored vodka bottles.  

One of my guest really enjoyed the Cherry flavored vodka, which got me to thinking......if I was to cover a cherry in white chocolate, that would be yummy and Valentiney!

Here is a photo of the end result:

Here is a photo of the end result:

Here is my recipe for a White Chocolate Covered Cherry:

• 1/2 ounce cherry vodka
• 3/4 ounce Godiva white chocolate liqueur
• 1/4 ounce grenadine

In a shaker, add ice and all three ingredients above.  Shake and strain into a shot glass.

Here's to Pinnacle and all of their amazing flavors.

Cheers!

The Cocktail Lady

Ghostini

Ghostini is the perfect ghostly white Halloween cocktail that you can serve your friends that is both delicious and frightening.

Happy last Saturday before Halloween!!  

Today our oldest had a baseball tournament (big surprise, right?) about an hour from our house.  His games were at 9 & 4 and the older team needed a couple more players, so him and one of his friends (another team mate of his) filled in for their 2 games as well.  Yep, you did the math right, four games in one day......oh boy.  

I took the three younger kids to our cities Halloween festival and parade today and it was surprisingly REALLY hot there....yup and it's October.  

We have seemed to have had our summers later in the year for the past few years here.  

I remember it being really warm for trick or treating last year.

It's been a long, hot day so I thought I would find and make a Halloween-y cocktail to enjoy.  

I had actually found tonight's cocktail a while ago and had been looking forward to making it.  Pillsbury's site is where I found this cocktail.  

For me, there's toooo much hazelnut liqueur in this cocktail.  

Definitely too much.  

If that liqueur was toned down a bit (or more) then this cocktail might have some good potential.  If you are someone who loves hazelnut liqueur, then you may want to give this cocktail a try.

Now onto a serious matter..........order pizza or go out to dinner?

Here is a photo of the end result:

Here is a photo of the ingredients:

Here is the recipe for a Ghostini:

• 1 1/2 ounces vanilla vodka
• 1 1/2 ounces whipping cream
• 3/4 ounce hazelnut liqueur
• 3/4 ounce white chocolate liqueur

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

Here's to it being Saturday!  Enjoy the rest of your weekend!

Cheers!!

The Cocktail Lady

White Chocolate Raspberry Kiss

Day 363

White Chocolate Raspberry Kiss

4 shots out of 5

White Chocolate Raspberry Kiss is a perfect Valentine's Day blend of white chocolate and raspberry flavors to have your taste buds going wild!  It's a perfect twist to the common milk chocolate cocktails that are served on Valentine's Day.


Speaking of Valentine's Day, the day before always marks our oldest daughters birthday.  Tomorrow she turns 4.  


Thursday is Valentine's Day and Friday is the very last day (Day 366 thanks to Leap Year) of my year long challenge.  


I knew I would make it, as I am NOT a quitter..........but I just didn't realize how quickly this year would go by.  I am kind of in shock that I am mere days away from the end.  I will not be tossing away this blog by any means, but with the extra time on my hands (total joke.......I have 4 kids) I do want to add extra things to my blog and maybe even change things around a little.

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


With Valentines Day vastly approaching, I decided to create a Valentine's cocktail.  I call it, White Chocolate Raspberry Kiss (before you ask, YES I could have made it longer, haha).  


This cocktail is a bit strong and every 3 sips gives you a little bit of a vodka bite, but I like it.  I hope you like it too if you do decide to try it.  I hope you are all enjoying your Tuesday evening.......with a cocktail of course!

Here is a photo of the end result:

Here is a photo of the end result:

Here is my recipe for a White Chocolate Raspberry Kiss:

• 1 oz vanilla vodka
• 1 oz Godiva white chocolate liqueur
• 1 oz Chambord
• 1/2 oz white cream de cacao
• white chocolate shavings

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

Here's to the 3 more days that remain of my year long challenge.  I'm proud of myself for sticking to it and blogging every single day for a year.  I'm proud of you for sticking with me too!!

Cheers!!

The Cocktail Lady