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Creamy Caramel Martini
caramel ice cream topping, for rim of glass
1/4 cup iced vanilla vodka
2 tablespoons dekuyper butterscotch schnapps
1 dash cream soda
Chill martini glass. Drizzle caramel topping down the inside rim of glass and rechill. Fill a shaker full of ice, add vodka and Buttershots and shake till your hands become very very cold. Pour into martini glass and add a splash of cream soda.
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Chocolate Chili
1 pc red finger chili, sliced lengthwise in half, deseeded
6 jigger vodka, any quality white vodka will do
2 jigger cinnamon infused syrup
1/2 jigger white creme de cacao
2 jigger chocolate syrup, a good commercially available product
melted couverture for decoration or if you prefer a clean decoration or you may use the chocolate syrup for a “melting” decoration on the glass.
chocolate stick for decoration
4 pc small chilies for decoration
10-12 pc ice cubes
The Candy Cane. Photo by: littlemonkey
Prepare a simple syrup with the addition of cinnamon bark to it. Melt the couverture for the decoration, place it in a small bottle or piping bag and swirl it around the chilled martini glass. Set aside. Muddle the chili with a little of the cinnamon infused syrup. Add the ice cubes to the bar shaker and add all other ingredients with the exception of the chocolate stick to it. Cover the shaker with the muddle glass tightly and shake vigorously until all ingredients are well combined and well chilled. Remove the muddle glass, and strain the martini into the prepared glasses into the glass. Decorate with the chocolate stick and an additional chili and serve immediately.
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Crazy Cow
1 oz. Chocolate Vodka
1 oz. Coconut Rum
1 oz. Bailey’s Irish Cream
Shake all ingredients for 10 seconds, strain and serve in a chilled Cocktail Glass.
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Thai Martini
10 ounces of Hangar One Kaffir Lime vodka
4 ounces of chilled lemon grass tea
2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
1 small chunk of fresh ginger, peeled
4 sprigs of fresh lemon grass
4 thinly sliced, small pieces of fresh ginger
Pour all of the liquid ingredients into a shaker 3/4 full of cracked ice. Shake for one minute, then let stand for a full minute. Rub the piece of ginger around the inside of the bowls of four frozen martini glasses. Strain the martini into the glasses. Garnish each glass with a spring of lemon grass and one thin slice of ginger
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Delicious sewage water. Photo by: fizik
Concord Grape Martini
2 ounces gin
1 1/2 ounces unsweetened Concord grape juice
2 dashes orange bitters
3 whole grapes for garnish, preferably Concord (optional)
Pour gin, grape juice, and bitters into a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake until well chilled, then strain into a martini glass. Garnish with skewered grapes.
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Peanut Butter Martini
1 Blender full of good quality vanilla ice cream
1/3 cup creamy peanut butter
1 1/2 ounce Napoleon Brandy
1 1/2 ounce Vodka
1 1/2 ounce Bailey’s Irish Cream
1 1/2 ounce Godiva Liqueur
3 ounces Jack Daniels Whiskey
1 dash ground cinnamon
cocoa powder
chocolate syrup
Blend well all ingredients except cocoa powder and chocolate syrup. Remove large martini glasses from freezer. Coat insides with cocoa powder. Pour blended mixture into glass. Make a spiral with Hershey’s chocolate syrup. Draw a toothpick through chocolate to make a nice design. Sprinkle lightly with cinnamon. Serve immediately.
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Almond Joy Martini
1 oz. chocolate vodka
1 oz. Frangelica
1 oz. coconut rum
Combine all ingredients with ice in a cocktail shaker. Shake until well blended, then strain into a chilled martini glass.
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Blood Orange Martini
4 ounces vodka
1/2 ounce triple sec or flavored orange liqueur
2 ounces blood orange juice
2 blood orange slices
Blood Orange. Photo by: angeloangelo
In a martini shaker combine all ingredients except the orange slices with a generous amount of ice. Shake vigorously for a few seconds. Strain the libation from the ice into a martini glass. Garnish with the orange slices.
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Gingerbread Martini
3/4 cup water
3/4 cup sugar
3/4 (2-inch) piece fresh ginger, coarsely chopped
2 sticks of cinnamon
3 whole cloves
Simmer water, sugar, ginger, cloves and cinnamon stirring occasionally, until reduced to about 3/4 cup, about 15 minutes. Pour hot syrup through a fine sieve and chill. Let stand 20 minutes until using, so all sediment has settled to the bottom.
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Candy Cane Martini
1 1/2 Oz. Vodka
1 Tsp. Peppermint Schnapps
Mix all ingredients with ice in a shaker. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Option: Garnish with a small candy cane or create a candy cane “rimmer” with crushed candy canes.
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Oh how I want to be a martini girl! Stealing the candy-cane recipe for the holidays! Brilliant.
They all sound so tasty. My eye is on the chocolate chili one. I recently had an Earl Grey tea martini that was crazy good.
Jeremy-If you ever stumble on that recipe….that sound amazing.
Thanks for the reply Tom. I had it at a London hotel recently and it was literally the best drink I’ve ever had. No joke. I’ll see if I can get my hands on the recipe.
Oh, #2…anything chocolate and spicy is okay in my book.
Garbage, all of them. You should be ashamed calling these “Martinis”.
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The Mexicans do a tamarino chili lime martini: tequila, lime, chili powder, tamarind water. Crazy but probably as deliciously good as that Earl Grey martini sounds.
As for Clarkson, they might not be classic martinis – in fact, they’re not at all, I agree – but lighten up. It’s alcohol. It’s meant to sweeten moods like yours.
Where can I get the Tamarindo chili lime Martini recipe. Do you have it?
I was shocked to see the usage of the word Kaffir for your cocktail! I suggest you investigate on its meaning and rename your cocktails to something that will not be offensive to black South Africans. See below for the dictionary definition.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/kaffir
World English Dictionary
Kaffir or Kafir (ˈkæfə)
— n , pl -firs , -fir
1. taboo (in southern Africa) any Black African
2. offensive (among Muslims) a non-Muslim or infidel
usage In South Africa the use of this word is nowadays completely taboo, and is indeed actionable in the courts. It is also advisable not to use the word in any of the compounds to which it gave rise.
kaffir
1790, from Arabic qafir “unbeliever, infidel, impious wretch,” with a lit. sense of “one who does not admit the blessings of God,” from kafara “to cover up, conceal, deny.” Technically, “non-Muslim,” but in Ottoman times it came to be used almost exclusively for “Christian.” Early Eng. missionaries used it as an equivalent of “heathen” to refer to Bantus in South Africa (1792), from which use it came generally to mean “South African black” regardless of ethnicity, and to be a term of abuse since at least 1934.
Thanks for bringing this to our attention. I’ve changed the title, though in this case the word in question refers to an actual kind of lime and a specific brand of vodka.
http://www.hangarone.com/fruit4.html
I really don’t like to think of our readers seeing this and being shocked, upset or insulted, and so have changed the title for that reason. Please know it was not our intention to hurt or offend anyone. As for the reference to the vodka/lime, it will stay in the article as the context dictates the meaning.
Thanks again!
Kate