Champagne Martini's

In preparation for 2010 everyone is planning their exciting New Year's Eve Plans.

Ringing in a new year deserves some bubbly, and ringing in a new Decade, deserves something more than just bubbly....

Here are some martini recipes that include champange.

Enjoy!


Bubbly Martini

1 part chilled Vodka (try flavoured if you wish)

1 part chilled Champagne.

Pour vodka into chilled martini glass, top with Champagne. Garnish with a frozen strawberry, raspberry or fruit of your choice.

That is the most simplest martini to make. Experiment with different flavoured vodka. Feel free to add other splashes of flavour with fruit juice.


Sex & The City Flirtini

3 parts Vodka

1 part Raspberry Liqueur

4 parts Champange

1 spalsh Pineapple Juice

Mix with ice in a shaker. Serve in chilled glass. Garnish with pineapple wedge and cherry.

Caribou Martini

4 parts chilled Coffee Vodka

1 part chilled Champagne

Pour both into chilled martini glass. Garnish with lemon twist and coffee bean.

Dixie Stinger

6 parts Bourbon

1 part Peach Schnapps

1 part Champagne

1 splash Southern Comfort

Mix all but Champagne with ice in shaker. Serve in chilled martini glass. Top with Champagne. Garnish with peach slice.

Flirtini

1 part Rasberry Vodka

1 part Orange Liqueur

1 splash Lime Juice

1 splash Pineapple Juice

1 part Champagne (Brut)

1 splash Cranberry Juice

Muddle a few raspberries in the bottom of the chilled martini glass. Mix all but champagne with ice in shaker. serve in chilled martini glass. top with champagne. garnish with mint sprig.

Here are some more that have a Bellini taste....

Cape Cod Bellini

4 parts Champagne (Spumante)

1 part Vodka

1 part Chambord

Pour Champagne in chilled martini glass. Mix other ingredients with ice in shaker. Strain into Champagne. Garnish with Raspberry.

Bellini Martini

2 parts Vodka

1 part Peach Schnapps

1 part Champagne

Mix all but Champagne with ice in shaker. Serve in chilled martini glass. Top with Champagne and garnish with Raspberry.

Happy New Year to All... May 2010 Bring you all the joys and happiness you deserve.

Alcoholics Don't be scared

I do mix MEAN mocktini's also.

I used to work at a teen-dance and we made awesome mocktails to enjoy.

Here are a few delicious ones to try:

Pina Mocka-Coladatini

- 3 parts pineapple juice
- 2 parts cream of coconut

PMS

- 1 part cranberry juice
- 1 part orange juice
- 1 part soda (7up or Sprite equiv.)

I had the "PMS" drink when I was pregnant as a "treat" to myself. Often i would use lime juice also.

Another way I "invent" drinks is 7up or Spite, some juice (pick a flavour any flavour, more exotic the better) then a flavoured vodka.... but more on that later... this is the VIRGIN VERSIONS....

Pearls and Lace

- 1 part rootbeer
- 1 part orange soda
- 1 part cola
- 1 part lemon-lime soda
- 1 splash of lemonade

It sounds crazy but it is sooo tastey!

Bottle Cap Shooter

I first had this a few years ago and it instantly made me think of those bottle cap candies you had as a kid.

Sure enough it is called a bottle cap and it is sweet but delicious.

I make it as a cocktail instead of a shooter it is so tastey.

The bottle cap shooter is a "drop and shoot" drink. A shot glass filled with sugar-rich liqueurs is dropped into a larger glass with a carbonated drink. The sudden influx of sugar excites the soda, making it foam up and shoot up the glass. The key is to drink it as soon as it foams up, enjoying the sensation of the fizzy explosion in your mouth.


What you need:

Beer Glass

Shooter Glass

7up/Sprite or similar

Lime Juice /Sweet&Sour Mix or similar

Rootbeer Schnapps

Raspberry Sour Puss/Pucker or similar (Some substitute Amaretto)

Step One

Put soda and lime juice (1:1 ratio) into beer glass. Fill high enough that the shooter glass will submerge.

Step Two

Put half Rootbeer Schnapps and Half Raspberry Pucker into shooter. (1/2 oz each or if you are using a 2 oz shot glass 1 oz of each)

Step Three

Drop the Shooter into the Beer glass and drink. It will foam up, the more soda the more fizz. I often just make it all in one glass as a cocktail because I love the flavour and don't care about the fizz.

Play with the amount of soda versus lime and the size of the glasses until you find a ratio that works for you. I like mine slightly sour so I add a bit more lime juice/sweet & sour mix.

MMMmmm... now tell me that doesn't remind you of being a kid?