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


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Friday's Five

Valentine Round Up

Valentine's Day is only 5 days away.  

This is going to be a busy week....and it is not because of Valentine's Day.  

This week one of our sons will be going on a school trip for a couple nights, we have a birthday girl turning 5 on Thursday and then a party to throw this weekend.  

I think I will be an emotional mess between missing my son and come to grips with the fact that our daughter is turning 5 and will be starting kindergarten (does anyone else try to spell kindergarten with a "d"?  or is it just me?) in the fall (already registered her....that was crazy).  

Oh did I mention that we have a spring sports parent meeting one night this week as well as our oldest's last basketball game?  

No?  

Well there it is......a lot going on this week.

I figured that although I have a cocktail that I found that sounds delicious and I want to make it and share it with you guys........I don't know if I will have time this week.  

Therefore, I want to give you my Valentine Round Up so that you can choose which cocktail/s you will be enjoying on Valentine's Day.  

Even better, I think you should try a few different ones leading up to Friday so that you know exactly which one/s you want to consume on Friday!

Here is my breakdown of the Valentine cocktails I have made so far:

1. Cupid's Cup

2. Cranberry-Amaretto Kiss

3. Passion Cocktail

4. French Kiss

5. Raspberry Truffle

6. Cupid's Kiss

7. Valentine Kiss

8. White Chocolate Covered Cherry

9. Passionate Bubbles

10. Cupid's Day Off

11. White Chocolate Raspberry Kiss

There you have it.  All 11 cocktails that I have made so far on my blog.  I hope you try some and enjoy them!  I would love to hear what you thought if you did try one.

Here is to another cocktail round up!

Cheers!

The Cocktail Lady

Cupid's Day Off

Cupid's Day Off

Happy Happy Friday!  Another week done and now it is time to enjoy the weekend.  


It has been a crazy, stressful, successful week......why you ask?.......because we did a 3-Day Potty Training Bootcamp this week, which was SUPER successful and I HIGHLY recommend it if your child is ready.  


Your child must be ready.........trust me, with our second child I pushed and pushed the potty training thing with him.  

He wasn't ready.  

I was and he wasn't.  

That was a VERY stressful experience and I vowed to just wait until they are ready and when they are it happens and it happens pretty quickly.  


Here is a link to the 3-Day Potty Training Bootcamp if anyone is interested.

Onto what you are actually here for, cocktails!  


Today I created a delicious cocktail for Valentine's Day.  


All of these ingredients work wonderfully together and create one of those cocktails that could be dangerous......yup, totally dangerous.  

I have a feeling I will be making these in the very near future....like later on today perhaps?  (P.S. I rate this cocktail 5 shots out of 5.....for some reason my rating system is not working)

Here is a photo of the end result:

Here is a photo of the ingredients:

Here is my recipe for a Cupid's Day Off:

• 1 1/2 ounces whipped vodka
• 1/2 ounce Cointreau
• 2 ounces cranberry cocktail juice
• 1/2 ounce lime juice

In a shaker, ad ice and all of the ingredients above.  Shake and strain into a martini glass, sit back and enjoy this one....not too fast....or fast, just make sure you have extra ingredients so that you can make another one too.

Here is to a VERY successful week and a weekend to celebrate it!

Cheers!!

The Cocktail Lady

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

Valentine Kiss

This Valentine's Kiss is the perfect Valentine's Day cocktail.  It combines 3 simple ingredients for an extra delicious taste!

It's January and today's weather was quite warm.  

We were out in the backyard blowing bubbles for a while this afternoon and I almost wanted to go back in and change out of my jeans into shorts.  

I love love love the sun and the warm weather......the only thing bad about days like today is the unfortunate fact that we are in a drought right now.  

On a better note, this weekend will be fun.  


We will be celebrating my Grandma's 98th birthday, our oldest's 15th "Friend Party" Birthday as well as hosting a small Brunch at our house, thanks to Pinnacle Vodka!  

They have a new flavor which is Cinnabon and it is not yet available up here in California where we live (it's only made it to Southern CA so far), so I am excited to be receiving a bottle and trying it out this weekend.

I had found another Valentine cocktail online, made it, and tried it........yuck!  It had a horrible after taste of cough syrup, bleck.  I dumped it and just created my own yummy cocktail.  


This cocktail has three simple ingredients, it's red, it goes down easy.....very easy and it's almost gone.  What more could you ask for?

My Valentine Kiss is a perfect cocktail to make for a Valentine gathering.  


It's easy to make and if you are having a larger crowd over you could always make it in pitcher form, no problem.  

If your Valentine gathering includes yourself, or another person, these can be made by the one's and two's as well.

Here is a photo of the end result:

Here is a photo of the ingredients:

Here is my recipe for a Valentine Kiss:

• 1 1/2 ounces coconut rum
• 1 1/2 ounces cranberry cocktail juice
• 1/2 ounce peach schnapps

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

Here's to a fun filled weekend and a new cocktail for you all to try out during it!

Cheers!!

The Cocktail Lady

Passion Cocktail

Passion Cocktail

Did you watch the NFC game last night?  


Oh, so many different things I could go on and on about.....but I won't.  I'll spare you.  All I can say is, Good Season Niners!  There is always next year.

Last night we celebrated our oldests son's 15th birthday.  We had a family celebration and what a good time we all had.  

We are so very lucky that our families get along and not only that, they really enjoy spending time together.  It makes every family gathering even better.  

Our third oldest's birthday is coming up, which means she is turning 5......which means (gasp) I will have three children in school come August!  


WOW, where does the time go?  


This year we will be having a Disney's Frozen birthday party.  I am thinking of getting these wall decals to stick up on the walls.  

I did that with princess ones probably 2 years ago, and LOVED how they came right off the walls when the party was over.  We were able to stick them all back up on the walls in the girls room after the party and they're still there today.  

Love Them!!

With Valentine's Day around the corner, I have set off on a search for Valentine cocktails.  

I pinned last years cocktails here on my Pinterest board and plan to add more upcoming cocktails I make for this year.

Today's cocktail is called Passion Cocktail.  


I found a recipe online and tweeked it a little bit to ensure that I would like it better.  


First and foremost, I taste the tequila.  


If you enjoy tequila cocktails, you will definitely enjoy this one.  

I am not a huge fan of the taste of tequila, but I will admit that the taste of it in this cocktail isn't half bad.  It doesn't make me cringe at all, but it lets me know it's there.  I think this cocktail is pretty good.

Here is a photo of the end result:

Here is a photo of the ingredients:

Here is my recipe for a Passion Cocktail:

• 1 ounce silver tequila
• 1 1/2 ounces cranberry cocktail juice
• 1/2 ounce lime juice
• 1 ounce Grand Marnier

In a shaker, add ice, tequila, cranberry cocktail juice and lime juice.  Shake and strain into a martini glass.  Top off with the Grand Marnier and enjoy!

Here's to my first Valentine cocktail of the season!

Cheers!!

The Cocktail Lady

Cupid's Cup

Day 365

Cupid's Cup

3.5 shots out of 5

Happy Valentine's Day to all of my wonderful readers!!  


I do love that you all come to my blog to see what I have been drinking each and every night!  


Tonight marks a regular year of a cocktail every night, but wait......remember I said that I started this blog last year which in fact was a Leap Year?  


That's right, one more night after tonight and then my year long challenge will be complete.

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


I found this recipe on facebook today.  Hpnotiq had posted it and I thought I'd give their Harmonie another try.  


This cocktail is OK.  If you don't know, I don't like Hpnotiq Harmonie as much as I like the regular Hpnotiq (the blue one).  


Actually I really like the regular one.......a lot.  


The Harmonie......not so much.  Anyways, this cocktail is OK, I wouldn't order it at a bar and I wouldn't have more then one of them at home.  At least it's a pretty color.

Here is a photo of the end result:

Here is a photo of the ingredients:

Here is the recipe for a Cupid's Cup:

• 2 oz Hpnotiq Harmonie
• 1 oz vodka
• 1/2 oz Cointreau
• 1/2 oz lime juice

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

Happy Valentine's Day to you all.  I really do appreciate you all coming to my blog and reading my daily cocktails.  Here's to you!

Cheers!!

The Cocktail Lady

Passionate Bubbles

Day 364

Passionate Bubbles

5 shots out of 5

Today is the kids last day of school for the week.  


We now get 5 days off for President's weekend.  5 days!!  


I'm not completely sure that we even got a day off when we were in school and if we did it was only Monday.  


Last year my kids got Friday and Monday off and this year Thursday through Monday off. Budget cuts is what I am assuming the extra long holiday is all about, either way it'll be nice to have them all home for a few days.

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


With tomorrow being Valentines Day I figured why not create another simple but delicious Valentine cocktail.  


I have to say, Passion Fruit puree goes AH-MAZE-ING-LY with champagne!  Yumm!  I am really enjoying my little creation here.  This cocktail is definitely worth a try, or two......shoot three tries is good too.

Here is a photo of the end result:

Here is a photo of the ingredients:

Here is my recipe for Passionate Bubbles: 

• 2 1/2 oz champagne
• 2 1/2 oz passion fruit puree

In a champagne flute, pour in both ingredients.  Stir up your mixture to get the puree to blend in completely with the champagne and enjoy!!

Here is to the two remaining days left of my year challenge.

Cheers!!

The Cocktail Lady