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SAMOA COOKIE BOOZY SHAKE COCKTAIL


It's Girl Scout Cookie time and the whole country is eagerly awaiting their neighborhood Girl Scouts to be out and about selling those much loved boxes of cookie temptations. I confess to an addiction to the Samoa Cookie, that combination of caramel, chocolate and coconut is my downfall. I will buy - and bogart - several boxes whenever given the opportunity.

Sadly, I live out in the country and no bands of roving uniformed cookie dealers are roaming my hood looking to score a sale; about the only thing that roams out here are coyotes, javalina and the occasional mountain lion. If I want my Samoa Cookie fix, I have to get lucky and find an enterprising Girl Scout outside my local grocery store or feed my habit another way.

So far this year, no Girl Scouts or Samoa Cookies have crossed my path. Disappointed but not deterred, I have come up with an alternative way to get my Samoa high and it involves booze, chocolate ice cream and fake Samoas, aka Keebler's Coconut Dreams. On my honor, I will do my best to enjoy this boozy chocolate, coconut and caramel blizzard-y style shake. Take that you missing neighborhood Girl Scouts.


BOOZY SAMOA
COCKTAIL SHAKE

INGREDIENTS
1-1/2 Oz Smirnoff Salted Caramel Vodka
1 Oz Malibu Coconut Rum
1 Oz Milk
2 Scoops Chocolate Ice Cream
1/4 C. Crushed Samoa Style Cookies

Garnish: Rim glass with caramel syrup then dip in MORE crushed Samoa style cookies. Top with whipped cream and add more crushed cookies on top. Yes, you can also drizzle on extra chocolate and caramel syrup!

Tools: Blender

Glass: Pint or Large Mug

DIRECTIONS
Blend the ingredients until smooth and creamy, top with whipped cream, garnish, add straw and serve.

How's that for a Girl Scout Cookie hack?

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MOVIE INSPIRED COCKTAILS



I'm a huge movie fan, cinemaphile and film buff. Popcorn in hand, I dig into my vintage movie library almost daily, a week rarely goes by without a trip to the movie theater for the latest flicks and I have Netflix and Amazon Prime plugged into all my devices.

I also catch nearly every movie awards show that's televised from The Oscars and The Golden Globes to The People's Choice Awards. Mix that cinematic passion up with my love of cocktails and you had to know this was coming.

MOVIE INSPIRED
COCKTAIL TRIBUTES
    
AN APERITIF TO REMEMBER
ANGOSTURA AND OLD LACE
BLACK PANTHER COCKTAIL
The CASABRANCA
The CLOCKWORK ORANGE CRUSTA
The COCKTAIL PURPLE
DRACULA'S BLOOD & SAND
DRIVING MISS DAIQUIRI
The GODFATHER
GONE WITH THE GIN
JACKASS, THE MARTINI
MAKE MY DAY SHOOTER
NEVERLAND COOLER
PAN GALACTIC GARGLE BLASTER
PINK CADILLAC MARGARITA
REVENGE OF THE MUMMYTINI
The Thelma & Louise OVER THE CLIFF BLACKBERRY MARGARITA
James Bond's VESPER Cocktail
Back To The Future WAKE UP JUICE

And we can't leave out my favorite SciFi Cocktails: 
STAR TREK COCKTAILS 1
STAR TREK COCKTAILS 2
STAR WARS COCKTAILS

I would be remiss if I didn't include a couple of cocktails inspired by my favorite movie munchies:

The GOOD & PLENTY MARTINI
HOT BUTTERED POPCORN SHOOTER

Bookmark this page if you're a cocktails and movies fan, I'm always adding more.


And here's a few cocktail quotes FROM the movies:

I am not gonna die sober!
Leonardo DiCaprio as Jordan Belfort, The Wolf of Wall Street

I'm very drunk and I intend on getting still drunker before this evening is over.
Clark Gable as Rhett Butler, Gone with the Wind

Never cry over spilt milk. It could've been whiskey.
James Garner as Bret Maverick, Maverick

There comes a time in every woman’s life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne.
Bette Davis as Kit Marlowe, Old Acquaintance

A wedding? I love weddings! Drinks all around!
Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean:  -The Curse of the Black Pearl

I don't think I've ever drunk champagne before breakfast before. With breakfast on several occasions, but never before, before.
George Peppard as Paul Varjak, Breakfast at Tiffanys

There's a special rung in hell reserved for people who waste good scotch.
Michael Fassbender as Lt. Archie Hicox), Inglourious Basterds

Beer is for breakfast, 'drink or be gone.
Bryan Brown as Doug Coughlin, Cocktail

Her husband was too drunk to know he was too drunk to drive.
Paul Bettany as Charles, A Beautiful Mind

I have respect for beer. I have respect for beer!
Russell Crowe as John Nash, A Beautiful Mind

Don't be such a square. Everybody who's anybody drinks.
Lea Thompson as Lorraine Baines, Back to the Future

SEE YOU AT THE MOVIES! 

Updated 2-2018
PLEASE DRINK RESPONSIBLY