How to Make a Flavored Martini

The martini is a traditional cocktail that originated around the year 1900. The classic martini is made simply with gin and vermouth and garnished with a green olive or a lemon twist. Change came when people started substituting vodka for gin. The "dirty" martini added a bit of the olive juice to the mix.The last few years have brought us a wave of flavored drinks served in martini-style glasses. Some purists still insist that these new drinks shouldn't be called martinis, but it has become common usage. If you like it, drink it and call it whatever you want. Start by trying these recipes.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Martini glasses
• Cocktail shaker and strainer
• Assorted flavored liqueurs
• Assorted flavored vodkas
• Various garnishes, depending upon the flavor of the drink

How to Make a Flavored Martini

1. Combine the ingredients for any flavored martini in a cocktail shaker half filled with ice, either cubed or crushed. Shake to mix and chill the ingredients, strain into a martini glass and serve.

2. Swirl lines of chocolate syrup into a martini glass and chill until ready to use. Combine 1 shot chocolate vodka, 2 shots white chocolate liqueur, 1/2 shot creme de cacao, 2 shots whole milk or half and half. Shake with ice, strain into the chocolate garnished glass, and you have a Chocolate Martini.

3. Mix 1 part vodka, 1 part sour apple schnapps, 1 part apple juice. Pour all ingredients into a shaker. Shake well and strain into a martini glass. Enjoy your Apple Martini!

4. Combine 3 oz. vanilla vodka, 1/2 oz. apricot brandy, 4 dashes bitters and 4 dashes lemon juice. Pour all into your iced shaker, shake until chilled and well mixed, then strain into a chilled martini glass. You're now drinking a Mama's Martini.

5. Combine 2 oz. sour apple schnapps, 1 oz. gin, 1 oz. coconut rum, 1 oz. vodka and 1 splash orange juice. Shake well and strain into a martini glass. This makes a Martini Clementine, so-named because the taste is reminiscent of the Clementine tangerine.

6. Mix 3 oz. vodka, 1 oz. dry vermouth and 4 dashes orange bitters. Shake well, strain into a chilled cocktail glass and serve. This is a Martini Navratilova.

7. Mix 2 tbsp. crushed graham crackers and 1 tbsp. powdered sugar on a flat plate. Coat the rim of a chilled martini glass with lime and dip rim in the graham cracker mixture. Set glass aside to chill.Mix 1 1/2 oz. key lime liqueur, 1 1/2 oz. vanilla vodka, 2/3 oz. of freshly squeezed lime juice and 1 1/2 oz. half and half. Shake vigorously and pour into the prepared Mmartini glasses. Enjoy your Key Lime Pie Martini.

Tips & Warnings

• Pick flavors you like and play around. Create your own combinations.
• These are very yummy drinks, but they're still quite alcoholic. Use common sense.

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[sweetleo]

on 8/26/2008 this sounds like the QUEEN of martini's