Easter Cocktails – Chocolate Caramel Easter Egg

Ingredients 1 1/2 oz Baileys Caramel 1 1/2 oz crème de cacao 1/2 oz butterscotch schnapps Mini creme egg Preparation Combine all the ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice. Shake well then strain into a chilled martini glass. Drop a chocolate mini creme egg into...

Easter Cocktails – Blue Cottontail

Ingredients 1 1/2 ounces vodka 1/2 ounce triple sec 1/4 ounce blue Curaçao Flamed orange peel (for garnish) Preparation Combine the ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice. Shake well and strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Flame an orange peel over the glass and...

Easter Cocktails – White Rabbit

Ingredients 1/2 oz Amaretto 1/2 oz Baileys 1 oz white rum 1/2 oz Kahlua 1 oz Half & Half Preparation Combine all ingredients in a cocktail shaker. Shake then strain over ice cubes in an old fashioned glass. Join the Madtini party...

Easter Cocktails – Easter Bunny Cocktail

2 oz vodka 1 1/2 oz brown creme de cacao 1 tspn of cherry brandy 1 tspn of chocolate syrup Preparation Combine the vodka and creme de cacao in a cocktail shaker with ice. Shake well then strain into a chilled martini glass. Carefully a teaspoon of chocolate syrup and...

Easter Cocktails – Pink Bonnet

Ingredients 1 1/2 oz gin 1/2 oz simple syrup 3/4 oz fresh lemon juice 2 dashes crème de framboise White of 1 small egg Preparation Combine the ingredients in a shaker with no ice. Shake well to emulsify egg whites. Add ice and shake again. Strain into a chilled...

8 Maple Syrup Cocktails That Will Tap Your Taste Buds

Winter is finally on the run and spring is well… springing. That means that the sap is running in the sugar maple woods of the Northeast and it’s time to think about heading to the sugar shack for a fresh supply of maple syrup for our pancakes, waffles and...

An Hawaiian Martini – Happy Birthday Grace

I don’t think it’s any coincidence that our friend Grace was born on April Fool’s Day. But putting the Lei’d jokes aside (for a moment), she is lucky enough to be on her way to warm Hawaii for a week of sun, fun, tall drinks, cool waves and hot...

Releasing the Kraken with a Perfect Storm

This week we couldn’t help but notice the the ad for Kraken Black Spiced Rum on the back cover of LCBO’s Trend Report magazine. The distinctive bottle, colour and label artwork really caught our eye, so when we saw it on the shelf tonight at the LCBO I...

A Toast and Saketini for the People of Japan

Tonight the Madtini crew is out on the town for a good cause. Two weeks ago we watched in horror along with the rest of the world as an offshore earthquake produced the powerful tsunami that devastated the villages, towns and cities of Japan’s northeast coast....

The Chilly Maple Manhattan – a Toast to Surviving Winter

Seems like its been a tough winter on the streets of Manhattan. Every time we’d turn on the news it seemed like everyone was digging themselves out from another foot of snow. Let’s raise our glasses to surviving winter and forgetting about gloves, coats...