barefoot bluejean night

Channeling a combo of The Pioneer Woman and Young House Love…

A couple of you asked about the lovely drink in my last entry, and I was bragging about it non stop while in FL with Bill and his coworkers, so I figured I’d throw together a little step by step for anyone who’s interested.

First off, here are the ingredients I used:

Coffee Mate French Vanilla creamer (2 shots), store brand chocolate syrup, Nestle cocoa powder (1 Tbsp), Pinnacle Chocolate Whipped vodka (2 shots), Kahlua (1 shot)

Plus a shot glass, martini glass, and a spoon.  A shaker and ice is also the best way to mix everything, but I don’t have one.

The first step (and this was the whole reason I decided to make the drink in the first place, but it isn’t REALLY necessary…just makes it much more chocolatey) is to mix 1 tablespoon of cocoa powder with 2 shots of coffee creamer until it goes from looking like the first two pictures there to more like the last.

You could use plain coffee creamer instead of French Vanilla.  I just happened to have FV on hand because it’s all we drink and I lovelovelove FV creamer in my hot chocolate, so I figured this would work well.

Or you don’t even have to use cocoa powder.  Like I said before, just makes it more chocolatey.  If you forego the cocoa powder, just start with two shots of creamer.

Pour the creamer (with or without the cocoa powder) into your shaker.  My shaker was a makeshift one with two cups and ice, so I didn’t include any pictures.

Add the 2 shots of Chocolate Whipped vodka and 1 shot of Kahlua.

Shake.  Set aside for a minute.

Pour some of the cocoa powder onto a small plate.  Flip your martini glass over onto the plate to coat the edges.  But it’s not just enough to dip it, the cocoa doesn’t stick very well.  Personally, I lick the rim to help it (shush, it’s perfectly sanitary if I’m only serving myself).  I also tilt the glass and spin it while spooning cocoa onto the rim.  I like the cocoa nice and thick…all personal preference.

Line your martini glass with the chocolate drizzle (optional, just for decoration, really).  One might notice in the powder picture above I don’t have my drizzle and in the drizzle pics, I don’t have my powder. Doesn’t really matter which you do first, but typically I’d go powder first.  The only reason it’s not in the pic above is I forgot.

Pour your shaken martini from the shaker into the glass.  Top with cocoa powder (as much as you like, I happen to like A LOT).

And voila – then you have this.

OK, I’ll go back to not pretending to be The Pioneer Woman or Young House Love.  Let’s leave that to the professionals.  Ones with their own TV show on Food Network.  And YHL should totally have their own TV show on HGTV.

[Charlotte]