Given my obsession with pumpkin flavored booze (aka Pinnacle Pumpkin Pie vodka), I am kind of embarrassed to say I had never tried Fulton’s Harvest Pumpkin Pie liqueur. Until a few weeks ago, when my life changed forever…
Ok, so maybe it wasn’t that dramatic but this stuff is DAMN TASTY! Definitely good enough to drink on its own, right out of the bottle a shot glass. Which I did. But then you know me, I had to mix it with some other stuff too.
The inspiration for this drink was a recipe I saw (where else?) on Pinterest – White Chocolate Pumpkin Snickerdoodles from Sally’s Baking Addiction. All of Sally’s recipes are completely drool-worthy, you should definitely check out her blog! Back to the drink though…
I had the pumpkin pie liqueur, I had the lovely cinnamon infused Rumchata AND I had white chocolate liqueur. Those cookies were just begging to be turned into a cocktail.
Ingredients
2 oz Fulton’s Harvest Pumpkin Pie liqueur
1 oz white chocolate liqueur (I used Drillaud’s Creme de Cacao Blanc)
.5 oz Rumchata
3 oz milk (I used almond milk and it was delicious! I wouldn’t use half & half though – it would be way too heavy combined with the super creamy pumpkin pie liqueur.)
ice
Directions
Combine all ingredients in a cocktail shaker. Shake until chilled, pour and serve!
This drink was every bit as delicious as I hoped it would be, and it is so easy to make. The Pumpkin Snickerdoodle Cocktail is definitely a drink to add to your rotation of fall cocktails. I’m not the only one with a “rotation” of cocktails, right? Just agree with me. : )
Hope everyone is enjoying their weekend and an extra special thanks to Krissie and Barbara for so generously giving me a bottle of Fulton’s Harvest Pumpkin Pie! You guys are awesome! Cheers!
Hi everyone! Sorry for being MIA for the most part this summer – I started grad school and it’s kicking my ass very time consuming. However, after a long day of slogging through lease accounting homework I decided I needed a cocktail. I whipped up something new and had to drop in to share it. So this post is going to be short and sweet, just like the ingredient list for my Fizzy Candy Lemonade!
Fizzy Candy Lemonade
Ingredients:
Sparkling Lemonade
Sprite
Pinnacle County Fair Cotton Vodka
Grenadine
Ice
Directions:
Pour as big a shot of the vodka as you want into a glass. Fill the glass almost the rest of the way with half sparkling lemonade and half Sprite. Give it a stir, add some ice and then pour in a splash of grenadine.
That’s it! Totally simple – no measuring required. And look, it’s ombré! Is ombré still in, or am I too late? I have been out of the loop the past few months… Oh well, it’s pretty, pink, summery, and tastes awesome. What are you waiting for? It’s Saturday night – drink up!
I think I may have found my go-to summer cocktail! It is super easy to make and even easier to consume.
A few weeks ago I was feeling rather fancy so I picked up a bottle of blood orange soda at the grocery store. Never had it before, but any kind of orange soda can’t be bad. It’s a swankier version of good old Orange Crush. So of course, when you mix it with some Moscato and a splash of Pinnacle Whipped you get a Classed Up Creamsicle.
Classed Up Creamsicle
Ingredients
Moscato (I used Flip Flop Left Coast Moscato)
Blood Orange Soda (got mine at Wegmans)
Pinnacle Whipped Vodka
Directions
Pour a splash of Pinnacle Whipped into a champagne flute. Fill the glass half way with Moscato, and top off with the blood orange soda. Try not to make everyone jealous with how fabulous you look while sipping this down.
This would make a great brunch cocktail, an al fresco lunch cocktail, a lounging on the patio cocktail, after dinner cocktail… I think you get the hint. Make it. Drink it. Enjoy!
No, it’s not some kind of adult playground game. It’s a cocktail! I stumbled upon this gem while poking around on my favorite recipe site – Allrecipes.com.
If you Google “Hop Skip and Go Naked recipe” you will most likely find a bunch of recipes that involve a combination of beer, vodka and lemonade (ew?). You might also find a cookie recipe or two. Cookies are good, but this drink is better!
Hawaiian Punch Fruit Juicy Red (Photo credit: Like_the_Grand_Canyon)
It is SO good that it’s quite easy to knock back a few, kind of forgetting the vodka part, until suddenly… you’re drunk! Thus, I have renamed this drink Hawaiian Punch Drunk. It’s a much more suitable moniker, and removes any connections to that hillbilly beer/lemonade concoction. Whatever you call it though, you should definitely try it – especially if you live in my neck of the woods where it’s going to be 80 degrees tomorrow!
Yesterday my mom and I went to the Philadelphia International Flower Show. The theme this year is Hawaii – Islands of Aloha. Saw tons of cool stuff; the show runs all week and I would definitely recommend going if you are in the area! Here are a few pictures…
Unfortunately, I have never been to Hawaii. I was, however, lucky enough to take a trip to Costa Rica. My parents go every year and are planning on retiring there. In September they were going to be spending two weeks in Costa Rica and invited my boyfriend and me to fly down and join them for the second week of their trip. I had only ever flown twice in my life, and both times I had panic attacks. I was petrified at the thought of getting on another plane but I would have been a complete moron to turn down a mostly free trip to Costa Rica (we just had to pay for our plane tickets) so of course we accepted the invitation.
I spent the months leading up to the trip worrying. What if I had a complete freak out in the air and they had to scramble fighter jets to escort the plane for emergency landing in Mexico? What if I made it there and then got attacked by malaria carrying mosquitoes? What if I was too scared to get on the plane for the return flight home and had to spend the rest of my life panhandling at the San Jose International Airport?! AHHHHHH! Instead of just being excited about getting about the fact that my boyfriend of seven years and I were getting to go on our first REAL VACATION together (an overnight stay at the shore just doesn’t count…), my brain was plagued with dozens of horrifying scenarios. As I waited at Newark International in the early AM to board our flight I was quite sure that I was going to die.
Well, I obviously didn’t die. In fact, about fifteen minutes after takeoff I realized that I was perfectly fine and that I wasn’t going to cause any international incidents. We had a layover in Houston (they have a Bass Pro Shops store IN THE AIRPORT there – really?) and then flew in to Costa Rica. My parents came and collected us from the airport and we began our adventure!
We got to see crocs…
…monkeys…
…one sloth (but only from behind!)…
…and glorious sunsets!
Plus we got to stay at the most beautiful resort…
…where my mom spent the afternoons drinking a most heavenly concoction made with this stuff –
This, my friends, is Cacique! It is a hard liquor (kind of like vodka, I suppose) called Guaro made from sugar cane and manufactured only in Costa Rica. Check out the second half of this clip from the show Three Sheets and watch Zane Lamprey do shots of Cacique, also called “The Gringo Killer” by locals!
I will agree – consumed by itself this stuff does taste like turpentine (or at least, I can imagine that it tastes like turpentine since I have never actually attempted to drink paint thinner…) BUT – when you blend it with cream of coconut and ice, and add a splash of grenadine you have tropical heaven in a glass!! It’s amazing how good it is! Lucky for me we brought home a few bottles from the duty-free shop at the airport. Unlucky for you (unless you are reading this blog in Costa Rica) I don’t know of anywhere you can buy Cacique, at least not in the NJ/PA area.
Since I have now teased you with something most likely unattainable, I will give you a recipe for the next best thing – the Bikini Martini! I found this recipe here, on Allrecipes.com.
Ingredients
1 fluid ounce coconut rum
3/4 fluid ounce vodka
1 fluid ounce pineapple juice
1 dash grenadine syrup
Directions
Combine rum, vodka and pineapple juice in a drink shaker. Shake firmly until frothy. Pour in a martini glass, add a touch of grenadine in the middle. Garnish with an orange wheel.
Pretty simple to make, and it will definitely give you a taste of the tropics!!
Shake Bake and Party 