Happy Happy Valentine’s Day y’all!!! This cocktail is too freaking good not to share again.  Not only is it absolutely delicious, but how darn pretty is it?!  If you’re looking for some last minute ideas for a delicious and unique drink to serve to your significant other, then this is definitely the one for you! Have a wonderful day!!!!

Happy Happy Cocktail Thursday y’all!!!  Ok so I don’t know if you guys have realized yet, but next Tuesday is Valentine’s Day! Can you guys believe it? I can’t, the year is already flying by, but it’s totally worth it because Valentine’s Day is all about red, pink, hearts, themes,  love and fun. 

Luckily, today’s cocktail is aaaalll of those things, with a bonus of it being freaking delicious.  This Kiss Me Quick Cocktail (OMG so cute right?) is a bit more work than most cocktails I post here, but I just couldn’t pass up making this lovely and beautiful raspberry sauce to go in it. 

This delicious libation also includes pineapple juice (which IMO makes everything better) and Cake Vodka (also not too shabby haha).  If you want to make this extra Valentine’s-ey then I highly recommend throwing in some cute heart sprinkles like I did for your Valentine.  I think this is such a fun and fruity cocktail and I hope you get to make this too.  Thank you so much for stopping by and I hope you have a wonderful day!!! 

for the raspberry sauce… sugar and water…

then the raspberries…

after simmering for a while…

nice and strained (the fruit left over)…

back into your saucepan (minus the fruit leftovers) and cook for a bit longer…

raspberry sauce done…

now for the cocktail, raspberry sauce into your glasses…

then the pineapple juice and cake vodka…

and enjoy!!!

Kiss Me Quick Cocktail

2017-02-08 16:02:15

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Delicious and fruity cocktail to enjoy with your Valentine, filled with a fresh raspberry syrup.

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KISS ME QUICK COCKTAIL

1. 8 Ounces of Fresh Raspberry Sauce, Divided.
2. 4 Ounces of Vanilla Cake Vodka, Divided.
3. 8 Ounces of Pineapple Juice, Divided.

RASPBERRY SAUCE

1. 1 Cup of Granulated Sugar.
2. 2 Cups of Water.
3. 12 Ounces of Fresh Raspberries.

FOR THE KISS ME QUICK COCKTAIL

1. Place 4 ounces of the raspberry sauce in each glass, then 2 ounces of the vodka in each glass, then 4 ounces of the pineapple juice in each glass, mix them up and enjoy!

FOR THE RASPBERRY SAUCE

1. In a medium saucepan, place the water and granulated sugar in it and on medium-high heat mix together until the sugar dissolves.
2. Now add the raspberries and bring to a boil, then lower the heat and let simmer for 25 minutes.
3. Remove your saucepan from the heat and strain the raspberry/sugar mixture over a bowl, throw away the fruit from the strainer then place the syrup back into your saucepan.
4. Simmer the raspberry sauce for 15 more minutes, then strain again, let cool and place into your drink.

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Happy Happy Cocktail Friday everybody!!! Today I bring you guys the last Super Bowl week post and I figured I would leave you guys with a cocktail recipe.

Well, technically it’s not a full on cocktail, it’s a shot recipe, but who cares, these are delicious. I have a feeling that maybe some of y’all would really like to serve something other than just beer this Sunday…I know, I know, that’s basically sacrilege, but I know I never drink beer and there’s something about dessert shots that just look so fun, amiright?

So I’m giving y’all a heads up, these Milk & Cookie Shots are ssstrrooonng, and yes I am aware that’s the whole point of shots, but thought I would give y’all fair warning. Don’t get me wrong, these are really, really tasty, I mean, how could they not be with all of the delicious liqueurs in it?

but seriously, these could possibly knock you on your tookus, so just be careful haha. I hope y’all have a fantastic day, and happy Super Bowl weekend!!! Go Falcons!…I mean, go Rams!

THE RECIPE:

6 Ounces of Bailey’s Irish Cream.
2 Ounces of Cream De Cacao.
2 Ounces of Godiva Chocolate Liqueur.
2 Ounces of Kahlua.
6-8 Ounces of Heavy Cream or Milk.

Mix all of the ingredients together, pour into your shot glasses and enjoy!!!

If you want a cookie rim, smash 4-5 Oreo Cookies or Chocolate Chip cookies in a plastic bag until they are pretty fine. Put either honey or corn syrup around the rims of your shot glasses and dip into the cookie pieces.

Happy Happy Monday y’all and Happy Super Bowl week! Yeah, it’s totally Super Bowl week here because in case any of you didn’t know, the Super Bowl is being hosted in my hometown & current residence of Atlanta, Georgia woot woot!

If only my beloved Falcons hadn’t had such a garbage season, it would be so incredible to have them playing in the game, but oh well. Also, I realize I have not made a post in over a month, but for reals y’all, I caught some plague chest cold/sinus infection awfulness that literally took me down for over 3 weeks.

It has seriously been over a decade since I’ve had a germ that just wouldn’t go away like that, I even completely lost my voice for a week, and for someone who talks a lot…it was like a prison sentence. Luckily, I’m back to feeling normal–except for that whole flabbiness that crept up since I was too sick to workout–and I’m here today to bring y’all an awesome cocktail to serve this Sunday.

This cocktail has 2 ingredients and is thrown together in a snap. Honestly, Fireball is a new liquor for me, and y’all I’m all about that Fireball life now. If you haven’t had it before it’s like liquid Hot Tamales, which may sound weird, but it’s an amazing addition to your cocktail. Anyways, thanks so much for stopping by and have a wonderful day!!!

THE RECIPE (Makes 1 Cocktail):

1-2 Ounces of Fireball.
8-10 Ounces of 7-Up Soda (or Sprite or Ginger Ale if you prefer).

Mix Ingredients together, serve with ice and enjoy!!!

Happy Happy Monday!!! The countdown is on y’all, it’s T-minus 4 days until Thanksgiving and let’s be real, I have a feeling a lot of us do the majority of cooking the Wednesday before the big day, so we’ve just a got a few days to get ready. 

Again, I’m here to (hopefully) relieve some of your cooking stress and offer up a super duper easy and quick drink, that will be perfect to keep around all day for your family and guests to enjoy.  I absolutely love apple cider and I love homemade apple cider even more, but like a lot of things made from scratch, that’s a whole lot of work for a simple, albeit wonderful Fall drink. 

I like to think that I took the best of both worlds and made a truly wonderful apple cider.  Yes, the base of this drink is a store bought apple cider, but I threw in a few things to give it more of a homemade taste, and I think this drink turned out incredible.  The smell that will be emanating from your kitchen is just down right heavenly, I promise. 

This drink was thrown together in about 5 minutes, and I let it hang out in the crockpot for a couple of hours to really get the flavors from the cinnamon and cloves to meld in and wow, this is some of the best apple cider I’ve ever had.  May I suggest to the adults of legal drinking age, possibly throwing in some Brandy?  I didn’t try it, but I may do just that on Thanksgiving, because I have a feeling it will be equally as delicious, and fun.  Thanks so much for stopping by y’all, and I hope you all have an absolutely wonderful day.  Please, none of you stress yourself out too much with the cooking

Oh look, the one step, all of the ingredients in a crockpot…

Cook for a bit and enjoy!!!

Easy Crockpot Apple Cider

2018-11-17 18:29:43

The best of homemade and store bought come together in this super easy to make crockpot apple cider.

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Ingredients

1. 1 Gallon of Apple Cider (which, about 2 cups worth wouldn't fit in my crockpot).
2. 1 Cup of Orange Juice.
3. 4-5 Cinnamon Sticks.
4. 2 Teaspoons of Cloves, Whole.
5. 1 Dash of Nutmeg.

Instructions

1. Place all ingredients into your crockpot, cook on high with lid on for at least an hour.
2. Place on the low setting to serve.

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Happy Happy Tuesday y’all!!! It’s still pumpkin season and as far as I’m concerned it will continue to be until the end of December…haha who am I kidding, I seriously want all the pumpkin things year round, well almost all the things. 

As I have mentioned on numerous occasions, the only thing that I’m not a fan of pumpkin-wise are pumpkin spice lattes, just, no thank you.  Knowing my disdain for PSL’s you would think that would include all pumpkin drinks, well, not in this case y’all.  I have always thought that the White Russian is super tasty, and I thought it would be fun to put a Fall spin on it by adding some pumpkin. 

I don’t know what it is, but I think pumpkin tastes awesome with white chocolate, but mix it with regular chocolate, ewww, hence my desire to put pumpkin in this cocktail.  This cocktail turned out sooo awesome you guys.  It is the perfect mixture of rich and creamy, with the perfect hint of Fall flavors, and let’s not forget that nice adult kick of the libations.  This was a really easy cocktail to throw together and would be perfect for any of your Halloween get togethers, or just something nice to share with your basic b’s   I hope everyone is having a wonderful day so far and thank you so much for stopping by.

The Pumpkin Russian

2018-10-16 10:36:52

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The traditional White Russian given a fun Fall Pumpkin twist.

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Ingredients

1. 2 Ounces of Vodka.
2. 1 Ounce of Kahlua.
3. 1/2-1 Ounce of Pumpkin Spice Creamer.
4. 4-6 Ounces of Milk or Heavy Cream.
5. Ice Cubes.
6. Dash of Cinnamon (Optional).

Instructions

1. Fill your glass with ice.
2. Add your vodka, kahlua, pumpkin spice creamer and fill the rest of the glass with milk or heavy ceam.
3. Gently stir together, add a dash of cinnamon and enjoy!!!

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Happy Wednesday y’all!!! So, per usual I’m going to keep things real with y’all and admit that this cocktail was originally supposed to be posted for The Fourth of July, weeelll, I actually moved on The Fourth and I just plum forgot about it, oops. 

Sooo, we can’t let a great recipe, especially a cocktail recipe, go to waste, now can we? As you can see from the photos, the general red, white and blue screams Fourth of July, but hey, Labor Day is an American holiday so it totally works too. 

At the very least you guys, this cocktail contains all of 3 ingredients, so it’s not like there’s a lot of work involved, which obviously is the last thing you should be doing on Labor Day. 

I’m keeping this blog post nice and short today like me, so enjoy some photos of the drink you definitely need in your life this coming long weekend.  Thanks so much for stopping by and I hope you have a fantastic day!

The recipe card for my blog post has decided not to work, so here are the ingredients and instructions:

2 Ounces of Vodka.
4 Ounces of Cranberry Juice.
4-8 Ounces of Ginger Ale.
Lime, for Garnish if you want.

Place your Vodka and cranberry juice in your glass, stir together.

Fill the rest of the glass with Ginger Ale and enjoy!

Feel free to add more vodka for a stronger cocktail.

Happy Happy Friday y’all!  and an even happier cocktail Friday!  I feel like it has been forever since I’ve done a brand new cocktail on a Friday, so I’m super excited to share today’s recipe with you guys.  As y’all know, my cocktail of choice when I decide to partake in some celebratory libations is always a gin and tonic.

It’s my favorite because it’s not too sweet at all, it’s light and refreshing and bonus I don’t feel like hot garbage the next day after drinking one or two.  Now, if I do decide that a really knock out flavor cocktail is in order, it better be good y’all.  By good, I usually mean something very calorie heavy and tastes like dessert haha, I can’t help myself, I will totally admit it.  Well, last cheat day I had been having a hankering for something with a little more oomph in the flavor, so I started digging around in my ample liquor collection–seriously, I really don’t drink that much, just part of being a food blogger haha.

I found the gigantic bottle of banana rum I bought for one particular recipe a while back and I just knew it needed to be used.  Well, after tinkering around with some flavors and mixes, this delectable Banana Split Martini came about.  Y’all this thing is beyond smooth, which obviously I give credit to the added heavy cream, and most definitely delicious.  This is truly liquid dessert mmmm.  I hope y’all get a chance to have this cocktail soon, and thank you all sooo much for stopping by, have an absolutely wonderful weekend!  

Banana Split Martini

2018-04-26 11:39:42

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Delicious cocktail that tastes like a delicious banana split.

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Ingredients

1. 3/4 Ounce of Banana Rum.
2. 3/4 Ounce of Creme de Cacao.
3. 1 1/2 Ounces of Vodka or Vanilla Vodka.
4. 1/2-1 Cup of Heavy Cream or Milk.
5. Cherry For Garnish (Optional).

Instructions

1. In a martini glass, place your rum, creme de cacao, and vodka.
2. Fill the rest of the glass with heavy cream or milk, mix together and enjoy!!!

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Happy Happy Tuesday y’all, I hope everyone had a wonderful Easter weekend too.  My Dad’s birthday fell on Easter this year, so there was even more cake and chocolate than usual, I most definitely enjoyed my cheat day haha.  Sooo, is it completely inappropriate to post a cocktail recipe this early in the week? Well, if it is, sorry, and if it isn’t then, you’re welcome. 

I will justify this cocktail post by the fact that I know there are a lot of folks on Spring Break right now…honestly there could be no other reason that I got to the office in less than a year an hour the last 2 days.  Anyways, I’m keeping this post short and boozy sweet today.  This cocktail has pretty much what the title says and/or implies.  We’ve got Whisky, Gin and Ginger Ale.  The first one I made, I put waaay too much whisky in it, and let me just say, it cleared my sinuses right up, the second one, just enough.  This is a very simple cocktail, not too sweet, not too bitter, just a really nice lazy day cocktail, I highly recommend one.  I hope you’re all having a wonderful day and thank you so much for stopping by!

Yummy!!!

Whisky Gin Fizz

2018-04-03 13:28:08

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Easy, simple cocktail that can be made in a matter of minutes.

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Ingredients

1. 1.5 Ounces of Whisky.
2. 2 Ounces of Gin.
3. 1 Lime, Juiced.
4. 1 (12 Ounce) Can of Ginger Ale.

Instructions

1. Cut your lime in half and squeeze both halves into your glass.
2. Add your Whisky & Gin, then fill the remainder of the glass with Ginger Ale, stir and enjoy!!!

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Happy Cocktail Friday y’all!!! This drink is hands down one of my absolute favorites ever and hello! how cute is it?  Anyways, I definitely thought that this drink was worth a re-post! Happy Easter everyone, and have a wonderful & safe weekend!!!

This time of year is so great y’all, my fingers and toes are finally thawed out from winter, flowers and trees are blooming, and candy comes in my favorite color…pink. 

I know logically that chocolate doesn’t taste any better when coming from a pink wrapper, but because all of the chocolate bunnies, eggs, and all of the Peeps in bright colors are so cute, it makes it seem like they taste better don’t judge me. 

I had totally planned on making adorable cupcakes in beautiful pastels  with bunnies or something on them for Easter, and being completely honest, I just didn’t feel like it   I feel like I have run all week and all weekend for weeks and I’m just plum wore out y’all.    Buuuut, I did have enough energy because it didn’t require much to make these super beautiful and delicious drinks.  The idea came from the fact that gin and tonics are always my go-to drink, they’re light and crisp and don’t give me a hangover headache, but I wanted to make them beautifully pink too for Easter, hence the pink lemonade.

Oh my goodness y’all, these turned out absolutely perfect, sweet, but with a tart kick (thank you pink lemonade)…you cannot taste the alcohol at all in these either,  which could be a good or bad thing   Also, forgive me for using martini glasses for a non martini, but I just love how they look, so whatevs haha, these are easy, delicious and super pretty, a wonderful addition to your brunch…Happy Easter Y’all!

Start with your gin…

Now your tonic water…

Then the pink lemonade, mix, mix, mix…

if you want to make them extra pretty, you can do this…

Enjoy!!

The Pink Bunny

2015-04-02 07:25:19

A fun and delicious take on a gin and tonic.

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Ingredients

1. 1 Can (12 Ounces) of Frozen Pink Lemonade (I used Minute Maid).
2. 6 Ounces of Gin.
3. 12 Ounces of Tonic Water.
4. Decorating Sugar in Pink (Optional).

Instructions

1. In a pitcher, pour your gin, tonic water and your frozen pink lemonade.
2. Mix all ingredients together and serve.

Notes

1. For the sugar rim on my glasses, I just rubbed water around the edges of the glasses and gently pressed the top of the glasses into the sugar until sufficiently covered.
2. This recipe made almost exactly 3 full martini glasses worth, if you would like more, this recipe can easily be doubled.

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