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

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

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

Jellyfish (shooter)

Is this week over yet?  

Is it Friday yet?  

Wait........I'm not ready for the weekend yet, so it can't be here already....I just REALLY need this week to be over already.  Needless to say these past 3 days have been....crazy.

Last Friday our oldest took his test at the DMV to get his permit.  

Passed!!  

Yesterday he had his first official "behind the wheel" instruction.  Now that his first 2 hours are done, he can now drive with a licensed driver 35 or older!  

So today....he and I took our first drive.  

He "very willingly" drove me to Target, he did great!  We are slowly working towards those 50 hours of driving he and I (or my husband, my folks, his aunts/uncles) have to complete, yeay!!

I wanted to make a fun shooter today so I searched online.  

I found the same recipe for a Jellyfish shooter over and over again, so I thought I'd give it a try.  

It's a fun shooter to make and a nice quick one to drink.  I have made one similar in the past, Brain Hemorrhage, which was really good.  

This one was easier to get down because there wasn't as much of the "hanging baileys" in the middle as there was in the Brain Hemorrhage.  All in all it was a pretty yummy shooter.

Here is a photo of the end result:

Here is a photo of the ingredients:

Here is the recipe for a Jellyfish:

• 1/2 ounce white creme de cacao
• 1/2 ounce amaretto
• 1/2 ounce Irish Cream liqueur
• 4 drops grenadine

In a shot glass, pour in the first two ingredients.  Next layer the Irish Cream on top of them.  With a straw drip 4 drops of grenadine in the middle.

Here's to another fun shooter!

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