 Terry & Terry's Favorite Martinis
    
THE GIMLET
2 ounces vodka or gin
1 ounce Rose’s Lime Juice
Chill the cocktail glass in the freezer.
Fill a cocktail shaker about ½ full of ice. Add liquor and lime juice and allow to sit for a minute or so. Shake while you count to sixty. Run a lime wedge around the rim of the chilled glass allowing a few drops to run down the inside. Pour contents of the shaker into glass. Enjoy!!
CHOCOLATE TURTLE MARTINI
Ingredients:
1 oz Dove Chocolate Martini Mix
Dark Coco powder
Caramel sauce, in a squeeze bottle with a very small tip
2 ounces vanilla vodka (recommended: Stoli Vanilla)
2 ounces white creme de cacao
2 ounces Praline New Orleans Style Pecan Liqueur
Crushed ice
Roasted pecan halves, for garnish
Roughly chopped chocolate squares, for garnish
Directions:
Take a large martini glass and very carefully coat the rim in caramel sauce from the squeeze bottle, being careful not to let it drip too far down the sides. Then, dip the entire rim of the glass into the sweetened cocoa powder, being sure to coat all of the caramel. The desired effect is a chocolate dusted caramel rim. For the drink, shake the vodka, creme de cacao and praline liqueur in a martini shaker with ice to chill. Fill the martini glass nearly full with crushed or shaved ice, being careful not to touch the rim. Strain the drink into the martini glass.
Garnish atop the floating ice with a roasted pecan half and a small piece of chopped chocolate.
WEDDING CAKE MARTINI
The Loft – Granbury, Texas
1 ounce vanilla vodka
1 ounce Frangelico
1 ounce pineapple juice
1/2 ounce orange liqueur (Grand Marnier, Cointreau, Triple Sec etc.)
Shake with crushed ice. Pour in glass and float a little cream or half and half on the top.
WASHINGTON APPLE MARTINI
(RC’S Private Club, Granbury, Texas)
1/2 ounce Crown Royal
1/2 ounce Apple Pucker
1 ounce cranberry juice
Add all liquid ingredients to cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake well and strain into martini glass.
CANDY CANE COCKTAIL
1 shot vanilla rum
1 shot white chocolate liqueur (recommended: Godiva)
1 shot peppermint schnapps
Candy cane, garnish
Add all liquid ingredients to cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake well and strain into martini glass. Garnish with candy cane.
Courtesy Sandra Lee - Show: Food Network Specials
Episode: All-Star Holiday Spirit
ALMOND JOY MARTINI
1 oz Absolut Vodka
3/4 oz White Crème de Cacao
1/2 oz Coconut Rum
1/2 oz Amaretto
Combine in a cocktail shaker filled with ice; shake and strain into a chilled martini glass
ALMOND JOY MARTINI - 2
3 oz. coconut rum
1 oz. Frangelico
1 oz. chocolate martini mix
Combine in a cocktail shaker filled with ice; shake and strain into a chilled martini glass
LEMON DROP MARTINI
1 1/2 oz Absolute Citron vodka
1/2 oz Triple Sec (I use Cointreau)
dash of Vermouth
2 tsp sugar or 2 pkgs. Splenda
freshly squeezed juice of 1 lemon
Mix all ingredients in a cocktail shaker half filled with ice cubes. Shake well. Pour strained liquor into a sugar-rimmed martini glass and garnish with a twisted peel of lemon.
NOTE: To create a sugar-rimmed glass, take a lemon wedge and rub the drinking surface of the glass so it is barely moist. Dip the edge of the glass into sugar.
Mary Wilsey
OPRAH’S POMEGRANATE MARTINI
1 1/2 cups pomegranate juice
2 oz. Absolute Citron vodka OR white tequila
1 oz. Cointreau liquor
Cup of ice
Optional: Splash of sparkling water
Optional: Squeeze of lemon
Shake ingredients in a shaker and put in chilled martini glasses. Put pomegranate fruit into glass as garnish.
BLACKBERRY MOJITO
1/4 cup blackberries
3 mint leaves
1 – 2 teaspoon raw sugar
1 tablespoon lime juice
3 ounces white rum
Cracked ice
Directions:
In a shaker crush together blackberries, mint leaves, sugar and lime juice with a mortar or the back of a spoon until the mixture becomes slightly mushy. Add rum and ice, shake and serve, garnish with a lime slice.
BLACKBERRY MOJITO 2
1 -1/2 oz Bacardi Superior rum
1 oz simple syrup
3 or 4 fresh blackberries
3 fresh mint leaves
3 lime wedges
soda
In a shaker, muddle mint, blackberries and limes. Add simple syrup and rum. Shake and pour into highball glass. Top with soda. Garnish with sugar cane and fresh mint sprig.
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