Forget the eggs this Easter, get hopped up on chocolate cocktails instead.
Easter is about chocolate, chocolate and more chocolate. So why not liven things up a bit and add some alcohol into the mix? For adult chocolate lovers keen to get their cocoa fix, here are some chocolate cocktail recipes that should do the trick.
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1. Baileys chocolate Martini
Ingredients
Two shots Bailey’s Irish cream
One quarter shot vodka
One half shot chocolate liqueur
Sprinkle of cocoa powder
Instructions
Mix Bailey’s, vodka and liqueur in a martini shaker with several ice cubes.
Shake and strain into a chilled martini glass.
Garnish with cocoa
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2.) Easy After Eight Cocktail
Ingredients
1 shot of peppermint schnapps
3 shots chocolate milk
ice cubes or crushed ice
Instructions
Mix the peppermint schnapps and chocolate milk in a cocktail shaker with several ice cubes or crushed ice.
Shake and strain into a chilled tall glass
Garnish with cocoa if desired
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3.) White chocolatini
Ingredients
1 shot of vanilla vodka
1 shot white chocolate liqueur
2 shots of cream
White chocolate shavings for garnish
Instructions
Pour the vodka, liquer and cream into a cocktail shaker filled with ice.
Shake well and strain into a chilled Martini glass.
Garnish with white chocolate shavings.
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4.) Bounty Cocktail
Ingredients
1 shot Malibu or coconut rum
1 tbs golden syrup/honey
3 shots of chocolate milk
Instructions
Pour the malibu, golden syrup/honey and chocolate milk into a cocktail shaker
Shake well and pour into a Martini glass
5. Creme Egg Mojito (Recipe from LNL)
Ingredients
25ml Bacardi Superior
25ml Mozart chocolate liqueur
Sprig of mint
25ml sugar syrup
Dash of lime juice
Dash of soda
2 creme eggs
Instructions
Just bruise the mint sprig and put in the bottom of the glass with the rum and chocolate liqueur.
Then add the sugar syrup and lime juice to the mix, add some crushed ice and smashed up chocolate egg and give it all a stir.
Top with a little more crushed ice, dash of soda on top and serve with an oozey half of egg!”
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