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Terry Brennan

Chocolate Mint Chill

1 1/2 ounces Three Olives Chocolate Vodka
1 ounce Baileys Irish Cream Mint Liqueur
Thick dark chocolate sauce

Fill a cocktail shaker with ice. Measure in the vodka and liqueur. Cap and shake cocktail vigorously. Swirl chocolate sauce inside a large martini glass. Strain drink into prepared glass and serve immediately.

eric moore

French 75 

Juice of 1/2 lemon
1 teaspoon superfine sugar
1 1/2 ounces London dry gin
4 to 5 ounces brut Champagne
Combine lemon juice and sugar in a 12-ounce highball glass and stir until sugar is dissolved. Add gin and fill glass with cracked ice. Top off with Champagne and stir once or twice.

 

Terry Brennan

Mango Mai Tai

3/4 ounce Parrot Bay mango rum
3/4 ounce Myers’s dark rum
3/4 ounce fresh lime juice
1 ounce pineapple juice
1/2 ounce orgeat syrup
Garnish: orange wedge
Fill a cocktail shaker with ice. Add rums, lime juice, pineapple juice, and orgeat syrup. Shake and pour into an Old-Fashioned glass, topping with more ice if needed.

Terry Brennan

Green Eye Daiquiri

2 sprigs fresh thyme
1 1/2 teaspoons sugar
1/8 ounce green Chartreuse
2 ounces Appleton light rum
3/4 ounce fresh lime juice
Garnish: fresh thyme sprig
Place thyme in a cocktail shaker and crush with a muddler. Fill shaker with ice and measure in sugar, Chartreuse, rum, and lime juice. Shake vigorously, then strain into a cocktail glass. Garnish with thyme sprig.

 

Vanille Royale Gingerbread Martini Cocktail

2 parts Vanille Royale Liqueur
3 dashes cinnamon
Pinch nutmeg

Shake with ice and strain into a chilled martini glass. Finish with a sprinkling of cinnamon on top.

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