Is it Care-AH-mel or Car-mel?!

Is it Care-AH-mel or Car-mel?!

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Salted Caramel Chocolate Martini

Salted Caramel Chocolate Martini

Ingredients:

Directions:

Serves: 2

1. Prepare martini glasses by dipping rim in caramel sauce and sprinkling sea salt on rims. Use salt judiciously and never use table salt!
2. Fill glasses with ice. Fill a cocktail shaker with ice and add chocolate liqueur, caramel vodka and half and half.
3. Shake vigorously until container is super cold to the touch; 20-30 shakes.
4. Strain martini mixture into prepared glasses and garnish with *milk chocolate curls.

*To make chocolate curls: Warm a chocolate bar in the microwave on medium power for 5 second increments until a vegetable peeler run across a long edge results in curls. Use a spoon to garnish; don't try to pick them up with your fingers or they may collapse.

Baileys Salted Caramel Martini

Baileys Salted Caramel Martini

Ingredients:

Directions:

Serves: 2

1. A little at a time, spoon or pour the caramel sauce around the edges of two small coupe glasses, slowly so it drips and drizzles (1-2tsp per glass).
2. Add gold leaf (use a small dry paint brush).
3. Add the Baileys salted caramel and the rest of the caramel sauce to a cocktail shaker, mix with a spoon until smooth.
4. Add the vodka, cream and lots of ice, shake well to dissolve the caramel sauce, strain into the glasses.
5. Top with the chocolate.

The Snowblower

The Snowblower

Ingredients:

Directions:

In a footed Irish coffee cup, combine hot coffee and sugar; stir to dissolve sugar.
Add Irish whiskey, Hazelnut Liqueur and heavy cream; stir. 
Top with whipped cream, a drizzle of caramel sauce and grated dark chocolate shavings.