Place ice to the brim of your martini glass and top off with ice cold water. Let glass chill while you make the martini.
Pour vodka and olive juice in a martini shaker. Drop in about 10 ice cubes and put the top on the shaker.
Shake the martini shaker hard and quickly for about 10-15 seconds.
Pour the ice water out of the martini glass and pour the vodka martini into the glass. Drop the toothpick with olives into the martini and serve.
Pour Irish cream liqueur, vanilla-flavored vodka, cinnamon schnapps, and butterscotch schnapps into a cocktail shaker; add ice. Cover shaker, shake, and strain drink into a martini glass.
Place the olive and a dash of dry vermouth into a chilled martini glass and swirl the vermouth in the glass to coat.
Place the ice cubes and vodka in cocktail shaker and shake vigorously. Strain into the glass, add the olive and serve.
Place ice into the martini shaker. About 3/4's full.
Add first 3 liquid ingredients to martini shaker using a one ounce jigger.
Put the lid on the shaker, grab a hand towel and grab the shaker and shake like crazy for at least 30 seconds.
Using the strainer pour into your martini glasses and add one drop of Grenadine if you wish.
Garnish as you wish with an orange slice, lemon slice or olives or whatever you prefer. I like lemon.
Have fun and drink safe!
Combine vodka, apricot nectar, and simple syrup in a cocktail shaker with ice. Shake and strain into a martini glass. Float the dried apricots in the drink and serve.
Combine vodka and dry vermouth in a cocktail mixing glass. Fill with ice and stir until chilled. Strain into a chilled martini glass.
Garnish with three olives on a toothpick.
Put all ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice.
Shake to chill and combine.
Strain and serve in a chilled martini glass, garnished with a slice of lime.
Fill cocktail shaker with ice.
Add the Framboise and the vodka.
Shake and stir.
Pour into 4 glasses and garnish with fresh raspberries.
Fill a cocktail shaker with ice; add pomegranate vodka, peach schnapps, and orange juice. Cover and shake vigorously for 5 seconds. Strain into a chilled martini glass.
Simple syrup: In a small saucepan, combine 1 cup sugar with 1 cup water and bring to a boil. Simmer until the sugar is dissolved about 3 minutes. Store in a closed container in refrigerator.
Rim of Glass: Line the rim of a martini glass with honey and dip into graham cracker crumbs, coating the rim with crumbs.
Martini: Combine vanilla vodka, fresh key lime juice, simple syrup, half and half and ice in a martini shaker. Shake well until very cold. Strain into martini glass. Garnish with cinnamon stick and lime wedge.
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Combine creme de cacao, vodka, and vanilla-flavored vodka in a cocktail shaker. Secure lid on shaker and shake vigorously.
Spread sugar onto a flat plate wider than your martini glasses. Run the orange wedge along the lip of each martini glass to assure it's moistened all the way around; dip martini glasses in sugar to coat.
Divide remaining ice between the martini glasses. Strain the cocktail into the glasses.
Place all in a shaker filled with ice. Shake super well, till your hand are almost frozen. :).
Pour into a chilled martini glass with or without chocolate drizzled in the glass.
Fill cocktail shaker with ice.
Add 3 Shots Absolut Pear Vodka.
Add 3 Shots Triple Sec.
Add 3 Shots Freshly Squeezed Lime Juice.
Shake.
Pour into two martini glass garnished with a thin pear slice cut with an upward cut so it sits beautifully on the martini glass edge.
Directions for Ginger Syrup:
Simmer water, sugar, ginger, cloves and cinnamon stirring occasionally, until reduced to about 3/4 cup, about 15 minutes.
Pour hot syrup through a fine sieve and chill.
Let stand 20 minutes until using, so all sediment has settled to the bottom.
Servings: Approximately 3/4 cup.
Directions for Martini:
Fill a cocktail shaker with ice.
Add the vodka and gingerbread syrup.
Cover and shake vigorously until combined and chilled, about 30 seconds.
Strain into a chilled cocktail glass.
I prefer Absolute Vodka (actually I prefer Grey Goose or Level, but I can afford Absolute). 1 1/2 ounces equals 1 jigger.
Combine all ingredients in shaker.
Strain and serve in chilled martini glass (easy way to chill a martini glass is to let it sit a couple of minutes with ice water in it).
You will not get closer to a peppermint patty flavor than this.
Enjoy.
In a small saucepan, combine the water and sugar and bring to a boil. Simmer over low heat, stirring, until the sugar dissolves. Let cool, then stir in the vodka, lemon juice and rose water.
Fill a cocktail shaker with ice cubes. Add one-fourth of the martini mixture and shake.
Strain into 2 martini glasses, garnish with rose petals and serve.
Repeat to make the remaining martinis.
Combine rum, vodka, pineapple juice, grenadine in a shaker full of ice.
Shake firmly until frothy.
Pour in a martini glass and garnish with pineapple chunk and maraschino cherry.