Chocolate cocktails

If you’re not sick of chocolate after this past Valentine’s Day, get ready for a deadly-good combination: chocolate cocktails. Because these are sweet cocktails, you can rim the martini glasses with coarse salt — sweet and salty is a great mix.

 

Chocolate-covered strawberry-tini

One of my favorite desserts in liquid form. Yum.

2 ounces strawberry vodka

1 1/2 ounces crème de cacao liqueur

Ice

Mix the vodka and liqueur. Shake with ice, serve cold.

 

Chocolate orange martini

A shout-out to our mascot with a sweet drink.

1 ounce vodka

1 1/2 ounces crème de cacao liqueur

1 ounce triple sec (orange liqueur)

Ice

Mix the vodka and liqueur, shake with ice and serve.

 

Irish hot chocolate

Makes me proud to be an Irish girl living in Syracuse.

1 cup prepared hot chocolate (a mix is just fine)

1 1/2 ounces Baileys Irish Cream liqueur

Make the hot chocolate as indicated on the package and pour in the Irish cream. Stir with a leftover candy cane from the holidays if you’d like a minty kick.

 

— Compiled by Sara Tracey, feature editor, smtracey@syr.edu

Published on February 15, 2011 at 12:00 pm