Chocolate Covered Cranberry

Did I have you at chocolate?  I'm going to sweeten the deal and say cranberry too!  This Chocolate Covered Cranberry is the PERFECT cocktail to help you celebrate Valentine's Day.......or any day really!

A new year is upon us!  

I for one am very excited about it.  

Last year wasn't the best for me or my family with the loss of my mom.

I do believe in fresh starts though!

I was funny because of course the holidays were hard, but something clicked in me on New Years Eve and I was actually excited for the celebration and what it brought.  A BRAND NEW YEAR!

Something inside of me has been turned back on and I've already started cleaning, tried new recipes (I got an Instapot a year and 2 months ago, and FINALLY opened the box and used it), and just started enjoying life more!

Feels pretty darn good too!

Today I want to give you a recipe I created.  

It's pink, which reminds me of Valentine's Day.  

Not that we're big Valentine's Day celebrators over here, but sometimes a pink cocktail is just called for.

This cocktail is an easy one to make and it packs a good amount of flavor too.  You can really taste the chocolate and cranberry flavors inside.  Yum!!

You can't go wrong with chocolate whipped vodka.

Cranberry juice just seals the deal on the yum scale!

Here is my recipe, which I know you'll enjoy especially if you enjoy cranberry juice in your cocktails.

Author: The Cocktail Lady

Chocolate Covered Cranberry

ingredients:

• 1 1/2 ounces chocolate whipped vodka
• 2 ounces cranberry juice
• 1 ounce creme de cacao (light)
• 1/2 ounce heavy whipping cream
• 1/4 ounce grenadine

instructions:

1. In a shaker, add ice and all of the ingredients above.
2. Shake and strain into a tall cocktail glass.
3. Shake what ever is left in the shaker real well and strain onto the top of the cocktail to give it a frothier top.

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Here's to a New Year and a new fresh start!  I hope this year is the best ever for you all!

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

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

Creamy Nutty Paddy

Creamy Nutty Paddy

Today's goal was to create a green cocktail.  

Many think of creme de mint when they think of a green drink.  

For that sole reason I pulled out my sour apple pucker.  

Then I decided to just get a little crazy/creative and mix it up with the new heavy cream my husband bought and a couple other items in the bar.

There you have it, Creamy Nutty Paddy.  

I can honestly say that I think I can taste every...single...ingredient in this cocktail.  

It's weird, but good all at the same time.  If you want to taste a cocktail you have never tasted before, give this one a try.  Why not?!

On another note, we just found out that our son has been moved up to the varsity baseball team this year!  

He's a sophomore and couldn't be happier......well, actually he'd be happier if he didn't still have to wear his giant boot when walking and could actually get on the field and play ball.  
Come Monday, we have our next appt. with his doctor to see what the next step is.  We have our fingers crossed that he doesn't have to wear that boot anymore and can begin using his foot again.

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Here is a photo of the end result:

Here is a photo of the ingredients:

Here is the recipe for my Creamy Nutty Paddy:

• 1 ounce caramel vodka
• 1 ounce midori
• 1 sour apple pucker
• 1/2 ounce amaretto
• 1/2 ounce heavy whipping cream

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

Here's to another green cocktail.......hey, at least it's green! 

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

Irish Coffee

Day 345

Irish Coffee

2.5 shots out of 5

I can't believe we made it......sometimes it seems like the shortest weeks can be the longest.  

I am super glad that this week is over and that we are onto the weekend.  


Since it has been such a long week and I feel like I lost this weeks energy yesterday, I decided to find and make a coffee (hot coffee) cocktail this evening.

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


First off, I was supposed to "float" the cream on top of this cocktail.  

Yea......didn't work.  

Reason being is that I needed my cocktail to be higher up in the glass so that I could get my spoon down to the top of it while I layered the cream.  


Oh well, a quick stir fixes everything, I guess.  


I can definitely taste this cocktails potential and if I liked whiskey a bit more, this cocktail would be better.  

What I really taste is this cocktail is the whiskey.....don't get me wrong I can totally taste the coffee and cream as well, but the whiskey gives me too much of a bite which turns me off to this cocktail a bit.

Here is a photo of the end result:

Here is a photo of the ingredients:

Here is the recipe for an Irish Coffee:

• 2 1/2 oz hot coffee
• 1 1/2 oz Irish Whiskey
• 1 tsp brown sugar
• 1 oz whipping cream

In a glass coffee mug pour in all of your items except for the whipping cream.  Stir them up well. Float your whipping cream on top.

Here's to a long week being over and a fun weekend on the horizon!

Cheers!!

The Cocktail Lady

Amaretto Colada

Day 160

Amaretto Colada

4 shots out of 5

Did you know that April 19th is National Amaretto Day??  What better way to celebrate then with an Amaretto Colada??

It's hot.  


It's Tuesday.  


The little one had a set of immunizations yesterday........and she's cranky.  

So is mom.  

That must mean it's time for tonight's cocktail!  No, it definitely means that!!

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

I have had this one pinned on my Pinterest board for quite some time now.  

Tonight was the night to make it!  My pin led me here.  


I blended up this cocktail and had everything except for the whipping cream so I substituted it with the closest thing I had, milk.  

I can absolutely taste the amaretto the most in this cocktail (hence the name).  


It's a little overpowering in some sips......then in other sips it gets a little better and I taste more of the cream of coconut.  Regardless, this is a pretty enjoyable cocktail.

Here is a photo of the end result:

Here is a photo of the ingredients:

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Amaretto Colada

INGREDIENTS:

• 1 ounce amaretto
• 1 1/2 ounces light rum
• 3 ounces pineapple juice
• 1 ounce cream of coconut
• 1 tsp whipping cream (I used milk)

INSTRUCTIONS:

1. In a blender add 1 cup of ice, and all ingredients above. Blend it up until all of the ice is gone. Pour it into a hurricane glass. You can top it off with whipped cream and a cherry like I did, or not.

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I absolutely do enjoy blended cocktail on warm nights.....or sort of warm nights.......even cold ones will do!

Cheers!!

The Cocktail Lady

Banana Cream Pie

Day 101

Banana Cream Pie

5 shots out of 5

Thank You Pinnacle Vodka for your recipe!!  

Sandi, I found a good one on the PDF!!  

Oh Creme de Banana, how I love the.  

What a perfect way to celebrate a Saturday evening during Memorial Day Weekend!!

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

THIS is a very very good cocktail!  

The ingredients are mixed very well together and create something that does taste like a Banana Cream Pie.  

Did I mention that this cocktail is yummy and will be gone quick quickly?  

Oh I didn't?  

Well it will!  

I am enjoying this cocktail tremendously.  

I hope you are all enjoying your holiday weekend for those of you in the U.S., and for those of you who are not, I hope you are enjoying your weekend with a yummy cocktail.......or two!

Here is a photo of the end result:

Here is a photo of the ingredients:

Here is the recipe for a Banana Cream Pie:

• 2 shots whipped cream vodka
• 1 shot Banana Liqueur
• 1 half and half (or half milk and half cream like I did)

In a shaker, add ice, vodka, banana liqueur and half and half.  Shake it up real good.  Strain it into a martini glass and enjoy!!

Here's to (once again) banana flavored cocktails.  They are always on the top of my list!

Cheers!!

The Cocktail Lady