The DECONSTRUCED GIN MARTINI

With Gin Day I decided to do something a little different. I decontructed a classic gin martini. Why? Because EVERYONE and their mother thinks they have the PERFECT recipe for a martini and every single one of them is different.

That's because we all experience taste in a unique manner, which explains all those different recipes for a very simple cocktail.  With only two ingredients, the Martini is the simplest of drinks. How easy is it to mess up gin and vermouth? Well, actually, pretty easy because for each person the ratio of the ingredients is a very personal experience.

Which is why I've deconstructed the Martini. Now you can serve up a TRUE PERFECT MARTINI every time by simply allowing your guests to adjust the cocktail to their preference as they sip. Problem solved, issue "non", disaster averted, fun had.

RECIPE:
Gin
Vermouth

Yes, posting the recipe was a joke. Leave vodka out of it.

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Updated 11-2016

JELLY FILLED DONUT MARTINI Cocktail Recipe

That's right. I did it. I created a Donut Cocktail. And not just any donut either, this is jelly filled. Otherwise known in my Czech family as bismarks, they are called berliners in Germany, paczki in Poland, sufganiyots in Israel and bomboloni in Italy, whatever you call them they are puffs of fluffy fried dough jam packed (pun alert) with flavor.

And I packed that flavor in a cocktail.

The

JELLY FILLED

DONUT

MARTINI

Ingredients

1-1/2 Oz. Cake Vodka
1 Oz. Raspberry Vodka
1 Tablespoon Raspberry Jelly
3 Drops Lemon Bitters

Garnish
Donut Glaze with Sprinkles Rim
Donut Hole

Directions
Mix 2 tablespoons of powdered sugar with a drop of vanilla extract and a teaspoon (+/-) of milk for the glaze then dip the rim of your glass in it. Then dipmin some rainbow sprinkles and chill the glass in the freezer.
Shake the ingredients with ice in a cocktail shaker.
Strain into your glass and garnish with your favorite donut hole.

Yes, if you don't like raspberry you can fill your donut cocktail with strawberry vodka and strawberry jam, lemon vodka and lemon curd, and so on. Heck, you can go with chocolate vodka and chocolate syrup. Just don't leave out the cake vodka or you won't get the baked donut flavor.

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National Donut Day is June 8th.

Updated 6-2021

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Happy National Chocolate Ice Cream Day - Enjoy my Chocolate Malt Martini

July 7th is

NATIONAL CHOCOLATE ICE CREAM DAY

One of my favorite ways to enjoy chocolate ice cream is in a chocolate malt!  No plain old vanilla ice cream with just chocolate syrup for me, I want chocolate ice cream in my malt!  And booze!

To that end I created my Chocolate Malt Martini - inspired by one of my favorite ice cream treats!

Get the
CHOCOLATE MALT MARTINI RECIPE HERE

Updated March 2016

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Celebrate National Apple Sauce Cake Day with an Apple Sauce Cake Martini

June 6th is

NATIONAL APPLE SAUCE CAKE DAY

Oh, yes. I did!

THE APPLE SAUCE CAKE MARTINI

Who else would put apple sauce in a cocktail??

Right?

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Updated 8-2016

COGNAC COCKTAILS for NATIONAL COGNAC DAY

When I drink cognac it is generally in a snifter, held lovingly in my hands to warm the spirit and sipped slowly over a period of time while reading a good book or just relaxing and letting the day wash away.  That's when I pull out my hidden bottle of $500 Cognac and pour in some "me day" adjustment. I hoard this like a miser hoards gold.

I do however enjoy it's addition to a cocktail now and then but, let's be honest here, I'm not adding in a cognac that literally costs more than a pair of mid range Manolo or Jimmy Choo shoes. I generally stick to a lesser priced cognac for the purpose of cocktails, usually Remy Martin. (I like expensive shoes and I like expensive cognac and my budget doesn't allow me unlimited supplies of each, sadly.) But Remy is a very respectable cognac, mixed in or sipped.

You, depending on your income tax bracket, may use whichever price of cognac you prefer. Just remember that a cocktail is only as good as all it's ingredients.

COGNAC COCKTAILS
   
ATOMIC COCKTAIL

BRANDY ALEXANDER
CREPES SUZETTE COCKTAIL
END OF THE WORLD MARTINI
IRISH STINGER
SIDECAR
TANGELO BOURBON TANGO
VIEUX CARRE

National Cognac Day is June 4th.

Updated 7-2017

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IT'S NATIONAL EGG DAY - Have an Egg Cocktail!

Updated Dec. 2015

Happy National Egg Day!

Do more than cook with eggs - cocktail with eggs!

After decades of being ignored and treated like a salmonella villain, eggs are making a comeback to the cocktail scene these days and a big hooray for that!  Eggs can add a wonderful texture, a delightful foam and a silken quality on the tongue that nothing else can quite capture.  Yes, there are powdered eggs and pasteurized egg products but they were never quite as good as the "real McCoy", a fresh egg.

Eggs contain a protein called ovalbumin which breaks down when beaten or shaken (this is where you get all those lovely meringues from in desserts). In cocktails most eggs are paired with a sour element which will stop those proteins from binding together, making a better (smaller) foam for the cocktail.

Now, try some of these fabulously delicious
EGG COCKTAILS


HAVE AN EGGS-ELLENT DAY!

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The ROCKY ROAD MARTINI, a Chocolate Liqueur, Marshmallow Vodka and Amaretto Cocktail

Rocky Road ice cream (known also as Heavenly Hash - especially in Britain and Canada) was created by William Dreyer in 1929. Inspired by a chocolate, marshmallow and nut candy bar, Mr. Dreyer sat down and took his wife's sewing scissors to some marshmallows, added some walnuts and tossed them into chocolate ice cream. At some later point almonds were substituted for the walnuts. It wasn't until after the Wall Street Crash of the same year that Mr. Dreyer named the ice cream "rocky road".

Here I've taken those same classic flavors of chocolate, marshmallow and almonds and turned a depression inspired treat into a twenty-first century cocktail for a truly interesting dessert drink.

The
ROCKY ROAD
MARTINI

INGREDIENTS
1 Oz. Dark Chocolate Liqueur
1 Oz. Marshmallow Vodka
1/4 Oz. Amaretto
1 Oz. Chocolate Milk
Dash of Sea Salt

Garnish:  Crushed Almond Rim, Mini Marshmallows

DIRECTIONS
Dip your glass rim in some of the chocolate liqueur then into the crushed nuts.
Chill glass in the freezer.
Add the ingredients to an ice filled cocktail shaker and shake until well chilled.
Strain into your chilled glass then garnish with mini marshmallows.

June 2nd is National Rocky Road Day.

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Updated 6-2021

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