KEY LIME PIE MARTINI

This Key Lime Pie Martini is my own original recipe for one of the most popular designer martinis. I love Key Lime Pie and this is like having a piece served up in a martini glass with the added kick of a little alcohol.
THE KEY LIME PIE MARTINI RECIPE

I originally did this recipe with real key limes, squeezing great bunches of the special little limes. Wonderful taste but way too much work! So I experimented and discovered that using frozen limeade (do not add water!) worked almost as well with a lot less work!

Go ahead and buy a couple of real key limes to use as your garnish if you insist. If you decide to use the key limes instead of limeade you must add more sugar! If you don't have or like rum use vanilla vodka.

To get really creative crush up some baked pie shells, mix it with sugar to rim your glass instead of just the sugar. This drink can also be made without the cream for a refreshing Lime Martini.
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Updated 8-2016

BOSTON CREAM PIE MARTINI - Pie Martinis

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It's  a great dessert cocktail and there's some interesting historical tidbits over there too so do click through!

 P.S. Boston Cream Pie Day is October 23rd!

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PIE MARTINIS - Banana Cream Pie Martini

THE BANANA CREAM PIE MARTINI

This Banana Martini tastes just like a liquid banana pie - it's creamy and brimming with banana flavor. It's a perfect dessert martini and a lot easier than baking an actual banana cream pie.

Have some fun - create a Banana Themed Martini Party. Just grab some yellow cocktail napkins and plates, do up some of my Banana Bacon Rumaki and Banana Chicken Fritters from The Diva of Tiny Foods and your party will be truly bananas!

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Updated 8-2016

SUGAR COOKIE MARTINI Cocktail Recipe

This Sugar Cookie Martini is a creamy cocktail with the same simple concept as a classic sugar cookie with a crunchy rim that comes from real crushed sugar cookies.

The
SUGAR COOKIEMARTINI
INGREDIENTS:
2 Oz. White Chocolate Liqueur
1 Oz. Irish Cream Liqueur
1/2 Oz. Butterscotch Schnapps
1/2 Oz. Half & Half
Dash of Vanilla Bitters

Garnish: Crushed Sugar Cookie Rim

Tools: Cocktail Shaker

Glass: Old Fashioned

DIRECTIONS:
Dip glass in some of the butterscotch liqueur then dip in crushed sugar cookie crumbs and chill in freezer.
Combine all the ingredients in a cocktail shaker and shake until chilled.
Pour into the chilled glass and serve.

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HISTORY OF THE SUGAR COOKIE

Today's version of the sugar cookie most likely is descended from a cookie like pastry from Europe in the Middle Ages called a Jumble (or jumbals, crybabies, plunkets and gemmels).  Jumbles were made from flour, eggs, nuts and sugar with a little flavoring like vanilla, or anise and were shaped into knots or rings. These were dense, somewhat dry and compact treats that traveled well as they could last for up to a year.

A very common sweet throughout Europe since the Middle Ages, they probably came over to America with the earliest pilgrims. Around the mid 1700s settlers in the German Protestant area of Nazareth in Pennsylvania created a recipe called the Nazareth Sugar Cookie which incorporated eggs and leavening agents and were rolled out and cut into shapes. This is probably the closet relative to what we think of as sugar cookies today.

National Sugar Cookie Day is July 9th.
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VANILLA WAFER COOKIE MARTINI - Cookie Martinis

THE VANILLA WAFER COOKIE MARTINI

I'm sure we all remember vanilla wafers from childhood - those crisp little brown cookies with a big vanilla taste. Even as a kid you could eat them in one bite. My biggest memory of them was having them in banana pudding and banana cream pie. In my house we called them "nilla" wafers which just happens to be the trademark name of Nabisco's brand.

Vanilla wafers are a big part of pop culture having been around since forever - or at least since my forever, lol - I can't remember a time we didn't have a box of them in our cupboard. I'm not a big lover of store bought cookies but vanilla wafers are in the top three I will eat, along with Oreos and Animal Crackers and I still enjoy them with a simple glass of milk.

The Vanilla Wafer Martini is as simple as those ageless golden cookies - just equal parts of Amaretto and vanilla vodka with a rim of real crushed vanilla wafers to give you that cookie crunch. I sometimes garnish it with a full Vanilla Bean Pod but I recently discovered Pepperidge Farm Vanilla Pirouette Cookies on Amazon and those are a fully edible garnish alternative that not only taste good but work as a straw!

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Updated 5-2016

OATMEAL COOKIE MARTINI

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PEANUT BUTTER COOKIE MARTINI

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