Now that we’re through Christmas and the stockings and desserts, there’s New Year’s to consider.
It’s not a very candy holiday, but you can make it that way if you want. I found two great lists of candy cocktails:
Chocktails - 10 recipes for chocolate cocktails including Raspberry Truffle and what I think sounds good, Italian Licorice. (Link found via Chocolate Obsession - thanks!)
And the Candy Addict has a roundup of 15 recipes as well for all sorts of candy oriented cocktails including a Tootsie Roll and Peanut Butter Cup. The SweetTart sounds pretty good to me, although I’ve never been particularly fond of sweet drinks (I pretty much drink water, unsweetened tea and milk though I will indulge in hot chocolate from time to time).
This leads me to a recipe The Man and I formulated this summer for a Lemon Martini:
1 part fresh lemon juice
1 part limoncello
1 part lemon vodka
Shake with ice, serve in a chilled martini glass, rub the rim with lemon rind or if you want a festive look, try yellow sugar or cocktail sugars. You might also want to drop a lemon drop in there or if you can find one of those lemon stripe candy sticks, that’d be pretty cool as a stirrer. The drink is VERY zesty, as it has a lot of lemon in it. We make our own lemon vodka by simply taking a lemon and using a peeler to get just the best yellow zest off of it, placing the strips in a jar and covering with good vodka. Stick in the fridge until insanely yellow and the zest strips star to curl. If it’s too lemony (is that possible?) dilute with plain vodka.
Of course always be safe - it’s easy to over-imbibe when the drinks are sweet and tasty. I want everyone around for the New Year!
SUPERB
YUMMY 
TASTY 
WORTH IT 
TEMPTING 
PLEASANT 
BENIGN 
UNAPPEALING 
APPALLING 
INEDIBLE 
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Comment by
Bridget on 12/27/05 at 11:51 am #
Commenting is not available in this channel entry.Boy, do those sound good! I’ll have to try your lemon drop recipe. They’re my mom’s favorite.
(My hairdresser was telling me about his neighbor’s homemade lemoncello recipe last week—apparently the secret ingredient is 96% alcohol, scored in Tijuana!)
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