Poisoned Apple

Only 3 days until Halloween!  

How fun!  

I can hear the buzz around the school yard, everyone is getting so excited!  

I had planned on making a few more cocktails before Halloween this year, but to no surprise, I got sick a week ago and an still not feeling 100%.  

Blah!  

I have too many things going on this weekend to be sick, so it's time to have a shot of this here Poisoned Apple and get on with my weekend!

'Tis the season of black vodka!  

I love this stuff.  

I love that it's black, I think that's so cool.  

I decided to go with a layered shot today and  since green is one of the colors of Halloween, what better liqueur to use but sour apple pucker!

This time when I rimmed my shot glass I used simple syrup.

Although I have a huge "dislike" for sprinkles or anything like them......I DO think they look really cool rimmed on a cocktail glass or shot glass (don' tell my friends or family I said this...I'll never hear the end of it............ever).  

I saw these black and an orange shiny sprinkle jars at Target not too long ago and decided to get them for upcoming drinks.

Layering a cocktail can be tricky at times for sure......but sometimes it's REALLY easy.  

Some alcohol (such as the sour apple pucker) has enough sugar in it to make it more dense.  This is allow lighter alcohols to more or less float on top.  

With something like this shot you can just pour in the sour apple pucker and then slowly towards the side of the glass pour in the black vodka.  

Sure some might go below the pucker for a moment, but it will rise up and create that layer right after that.  

This combo of sour apple pucker and vodka is pretty darn good.  Layered shots sometimes scare me, especially when the hard alcohol is on the top of the shot.  

As long as you take it in one big sip (as you're supposed to take shots), you'll be fine!

If you notice the black sprinkles started to slide down the shot glass inside and created a brownish streak inside the shot.  I think that's kind of cool!  It reminds me of my Happy Birthday Tini I made a while back.  I loved the effect the all of the different colored sprinkles made on the inside of that glass.

Here is my recipe for a Poisoned Apple:

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Poisoned Apple

October-28-2016

Ingredients

• 1 ounce black vodka
• 1 ounce sour apple pucker

Instructions

Rim the top of a shot glass with simple syrup and then black sprinkles. Pour in the apple pucker first. Next on the back of a spoon, slowly pour the black vodka on top.

Here are the ingredients I used to create this cocktail:

Here's to one of my kids most favorite holidays being only 4 days away!!

Cheers!!

The Cocktail Lady

Blood Sample

There is only 6 more days until Halloween.  

Not sure how that happened, but apparently it did.  

My girls are set costume-wise...........and actually have been for a month or so now.  

Nothing bloody or gory.  They are actually going to be Mal from Disney's Descendants and Abbey Bominable from Monster High.  

Our oldest only dresses up on Halloween night when him and his friends scare trick or treaters in front of the house.  

It's actually kind of cool, because him and a good friend of his set up this Haunted Garage/Driveway/Front Yard deal.  It's got fog, body parts, black lights and more.  

The two of them, along with some other recruits dress up as all of the scary guys in different movies like Nightmare on Elm Street, Halloween, Texas Chain Saw Massacre (yes they have an actual chainsaw.....minus the chain), etc. and just walk around.......follow people.......scare the crap out of the older kids.....like I said, it's fun!  

Our youngest son (who's 12 and almost as tall as me, gasp) still has no clue of what to be, so we're working on that!

I have seen others do shooters with plastic syringes before and have always wanted to do it too.  I logged onto Amazon and ordered these plastic syringes to make my shots in.  

I didn't realize that they came with little caps to cover the end if needed.  I didn't need them because the shot stayed inside just fine.

I just bought a bottle of the POM pomegranate juice at the store.  I just love that they come in these smaller bottles because whenever I buy the bigger ones I always end up having to dump some because they don't get used.  

Yes, I am an expiration date queen, just ask my husband......folks.......friends........kids.........yea they all know.

I created an easy to make, especially in a large batch cocktail that looks like blood in a syringe and tastes delicious!

How fun are these to pass out at a Halloween party?  Bummer it's on a Monday this year.  You could make them all up ahead of time, stick them in the fridge and pass them out when needed.......which at our parties is all the time!

Why not try a Blood Sample?  You'll be glad you did!!

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Blood Sample

by October-25-2016

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 ounces vanilla vodka
• 2 1/2 ounces pomegranate juice

Instructions

In a shaker, add ice and both ingredients above. Shake and scoop out the ice in the strainer, or strain into a separate glass. Fill up the syringes and enjoy!

Here is a photo of the ingredients:

Here's to fun creative cocktails, especially for the holidays!

Tiramisu Martini

Tiramisu Martini

Tiramisu Martini is oh so delicious and the perfect cocktail to satisfy your sweet tooth!

Hey everyone!  

It's me.  

I am soooo excited to show you all this cocktail I just created!  

Soooo sooooo excited.  

Can you say chocolatey? (Side note, I'm not a huge chocolate fan...but this here cocktail, oh my!)  

Tiramisu is my husbands and my dessert.  Reason being is that when we went to Tahoe for a snowboarding trip all of those years ago, my husband proposed and for our engagement dessert they gave us a tiramisu.  

From then on, it has always held a very special place in my heart.

I know.........I know.........it's been a while since my last post.  A little bit over a month to be exact, but I will tell you it's been absolutely crazy around here.  

Anyone else have 4 kids in school ranging from a senior in high school (gasp.....I need to stop saying that out loud--maybe it won't be true) to a kindergartner?  

Between the 4 different times they are getting out of school to the four different levels of homework, throw in a couple different sports, trying to figure out college paths, second grade field trips.......you know what I'm going to stop right there or I might make myself another one of these SUPER DELICIOUS cocktails to drink.

It has definitely been a while since I have made a cocktail where I drizzle chocolate syrup inside of the glass.

I had forgotten how much fun it was to drink a cocktail like that!  I also rimmed the glass with chocolate syrup as well as cocoa powder.

Then it's just mixing the ingredients, shaking and straining.  Yup, it's THAT easy!

After that  you get to do the best part of making a cocktail, drink it!

Here is my recipe for a Tiramisu Martini:

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Tiramisu Martini

by September-29-2016

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 ounces vanilla vodka
• 1 1/2 ounces creme de cacao
• 1 1/2 ounces coffee liqueur
• 3/4 ounces Irish Cream Liqueur
• chocolate syrup
• cocoa powder

Instructions

Drizzle chocolate syrup around the inside of a martini glass. Stick the glass in the freezer to firm up the chocolate. In a shaker, add ice, vanilla vodka, crème de cacao, coffee liqueur and Irish Cream Liqueur. Shake well. Take martini glass out of freezer and rim with more chocolate syrup and them rim that with cocoa powder. Strain cocktail into the martini glass and enjoy.

Here is a photo of the ingredients

Here's to the last couple days of September, yup, there goes another month!  I am looking forward to October though.  I can't wait to start decorating the house for Halloween and creating Halloween and Fall type cocktails!

Cheers!

The Cocktail Lady

National Lemonade Day & Recipes

National Lemonade Day
Citrus Beerade
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It's been a crazy August so far!  

Has it been for you too.....or is it just us?  

Yesterday marked our oldest's Last First Day of High School (1 in school, 3 to go).  Yup.  That's right.  We have a senior.  He had his senior portraits taken last Saturday, which was a trip.  

I just can't believe that we are where we are.  

This year will mark a lot of lasts for him and us, which is kinda sad.  I already warned him that I will be doing a lot of on and off crying this year so he just needs to get used to it.  

I have a sneaking suspicion he already knew that though.

National Lemonade Day is this Saturday, August 20th!  

I tell you, I have learned about more "National something or another Day's" ever since I started this blog.  

Who knew there were SO MANY!  

I was sent a couple recipes and photos of cocktails that the Hard Rock Cafe will be serving nationwide on National Lemonade Day.  I was given permission to share them with you and wanted to make one of them to tell you about as well.  

Only problem was that I couldn't find the "exact" ingredients that each cocktail had.........so I improvised.  

Now I don't have the cute Hard Rock Cafe mason jars they use, but I do have my own!  

You can buy your own mason jars on amazon.....which I should have known, as they seem to sell everything!!

Aren't those pinwheel paper straws cute!  I just love the dollar section at Target, you never know what you'll find there!!

This is the closest I could come to Hard Rock Cafe's Shocking Shandy.  I call it Citrus Beerade.

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Citrus Beerade

by The Cocktail Lady  August-18-2016

Ingredients

• 9 ounces Shocktop Beer
• 2 ounces lemonade
• 1/2 ounce tangerine rum

Instructions

Fill a mason jar half way with ice. Pour in the lemonade and rum. Pour the beer over that and garnish with an orange slice.

Here are the two cocktails that Hard Rock Cafe will be serving nationwide this Saturday. 

Black Cherry Frozen Lemonade

Shocking Shandy

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Black Cherry Frozen Lemonade

August-18-2016

Ingredients

• 2 ounces black cherry puree
• 2 ounces lemonade
• 1 1/2 ounces Bacardi Cherry
• 1/2 ounce Chambord Liqueur
• 1/2 ounce fresh lime juice
• 1 lemon wedge for garnish
• 1 cherry for garnish

Instructions

Blend all ingredients together with ice. Garnish with a lemon wedge and cherry.

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Shocking Shandy

August-18-2016

Ingredients

• 2 ounces lemonade
• 1/2 ounce Bacardi Orange Rum
• 1 bottle of Shock Top Belgian Wheat Beer
• 1 orange wedge for garnish

Instructions

Fill mason jar with ice, lemonade and rum, and top with Shock Top Belgian Wheat Beer. Garnish with a speared orange wedge.

There you have it!  You can either head to your local Hard Rock Cafe on Saturday to try one of their two lemonade cocktails for National Lemonade Day, or you can make them and/or mine at home!

Whatever you choose to do, make sure you have fun doing it and enjoy the weekend!

Cheers!!

The Cocktail Lady

The ONLY wine club you want to join

The ONLY Wine Club

(you want to join)

**Some links in this post are affiliate links, meaning, at no additional cost to you, I will earn a commission if you follow the link and make a purchase.

Yes I get it......that's a bold statement, but it's so true!  


I love this wine club!!  


I know that there are a lot of wine clubs out there and I have never ever been a member of any of them until Winc.  

In my head, wine clubs limit you to (for the most part, not all of them I know) choosing from a variety of wines from one winery.  

As much as I may love a merlot from a certain winery........I don't always want to drink that one merlot.

That is why I never joined wine clubs.  


I didn't want to be limited.  


Here is a link to my post on the Winc wine club if you missed it.  I talked about their club and how unique and amazing it is.  Winc ** goes around the world, YES I said world, and chooses grapes from wineries (around the world, yes, crazy right) and turns them into juice before they ship them back to their Winc facilities in California.  


Some of these bottles of wine retail for over $40 a bottle, but because Winc bottles and labels each and every bottle themselves, they can cut out a lot of the extra costs and sell it to you at SUCH a discount!  I think that's soooooo cool!

I joined and ordered my first shipment in April 2016.  

I received my bottles, tasted them, went back onto their website and rated them myself. That way they learn my likes and dislikes even better so that they can recommend bottle to me.  JUST LIKE NETFLIX!  So neat.

You can skip a month.....or two or how every many.  I skipped 2 and then decided it was time to see what they had.  


CAN I JUST TELL YOU how excited I was to find a bottle of wine from Sicily, Italy (yup I'm part Sicilian), a bottle from South Africa and a bottle from Spain!!  

That's what I mean...around the world.  I am not limited to the wineries in Napa California.  

I had the choice of ordering 3 bottles of wine and paying $9.99 shipping......OR (I bet you can guess which option I took) ordering 4 bottles with FREE shipping and only paying $2 then I would have for the 3 bottles + shipping.

Yup I went with the 4 bottles!

One from Sicily

One from South Africa

One from Spain

One from Paso Robles, California

I am sooo excited about these bottles!  I wish, wish, wish that I could share them with you all!  

Unfortunately I can't do that, but I can direct you to their site where you can fill out a couple quick questions to help them get to know your wine palate.  Then you can sign up for their club and receive $20 Off Wine. Yes, Please!! **  No pressure to buy every month, just order when you want and enjoy!

Needless to say, I'm excited.  

I can't wait to try these wines from around the world as well as the ones from here in California.  

Check them out by either clicking the link above or the ad in the right had column of this page.  You'll be glad you did!  

A bottle of wine makes a fantastic gift for birthdays and YES even the holidays that will be here before we know it.  Why not give a bottle of wine from another country, think of how awesome you'll look doing that!  

Time to go open a bottle up.

Cheers!!

The Cocktail Lady