Drunk by Chocolate
The perfect chocolate martini should taste as much like a cocktail as it does like a milkshake. It’s easy to sway too much in either direction and wind up with either a drink that’s too sweet to finish, or something that lacks any distinguishing flavor at all. The recipe below is thankfully pretty easy to get right and the end result should impress both purists and chocolate lovers alike.
Foggy’s Chocolate Martini
Ingredients:
1.5 oz vanilla vodka
1.5 oz creme de cacao
.5 oz Godiva white chocolate liqueur
Hershey’s chocolate syrup, sugar for rim, and maraschino cherry for garnish
Instructions:
Wet the rim of a chilled martini glass with ice or a thin layer of chocolate syrup and coat lightly with granulated sugar. Drizzle a very thin stream of chocolate syrup around the inside of the glass (I let the first bead hit the bottom of the glass and then turn it without moving the syrup bottle so that it creates a swirl pattern like a candy cane). Shake liquid ingredients over ice and strain into glass to mix with the syrup. Slice a cherry to garnish the rim or drop it into the glass and it will sink to the bottom. I occasionally top this with whipped cream for that “sundae” feel, but the drink will be more visually appealing without it since the cream will quickly melt even with a cold drink.
Cheers,
Foggy
