Welcome to Common Man Cocktails. I’m your host Derek Schommer. Today, we’re going to do the Bailey’s Mint Chocolate Martini. This is going to have a martini glass and what I’ve done is, I have swirled some chocolate. My first thing is put in the freezer, left it there for a little while. So it will get iced and chilly. Put the chocolate in there which help freeze it to the edges, which is kind of nice. That way you don’t have it all running and all messy and stuff. I’m going to use some Mint Bailey’s Chocolate. This stuff is awesome. It’s been like a pepper and Girl Scout cookie but without peppermint it’s just regular mint. Is that after eights, it’s an after eight mint, regular mint?
Andy’s candies, anything like that. If you’re a fan of that, you’re going to be a fan of this.
We’re going to use a little vanilla Vodka. I am using Three Olives Vanilla Vodka. We’re going to garnish it with mint. We’re going to shake these two ingredients up. We’re going to stick them in this little glass here and since they’re not clear, this isn’t a clear ingredient. The shaking is not going to cause any problems. We’re going to garnish it with fresh mint. You could use a chocolate stick or, in my case, chocolate strips rolled along the edges should be fine. And that gives you your Mint Chocolate Chip Martini from Bailey’s.
So let’s do that, ice this up. Now, what we’re going to do is two ounces of the Bailey’s mint chocolate, which is a nice healthy dose of awesome. Look at that. It’s one of the best ingredients ever. Butterscotch, schnapps right out there, peach schnapps right out there. But Bailey is so good. I like to have it with coffee on the weekends. And one half ounce of the vanilla. This kind of gives it that little extra chocolate new ones that people, I think are use to having in like a milk chocolate. Nobody ever says, “Oh that mint chocolate tastes like vanilla.” But there’s that flavor, that lovely flavor. We’ll shake that up. Shake it up.
And we found a couple of different varieties of recipes. I think it was the garnished bar. I think this is their named on Twitter or is it thebar.com. That’s really this recipe here that had a recipe that used white chocolate, Godiva White Chocolate, which also sounds something like a liqueur. So we’ll just pour that right in here on top of our chocolate, which is now frozen to the bottom. Oh, perfect. Nice after-dinner beverage plus this really styles it up a little bit, little mint sprigs moving around. There you go. That is the Bailey’s Mint Chocolate Martini. Oh, look at that chocolate right there.
Some of the chocolate does run off and makes a nice swirling pattern inside the Bailey’s, which looks really nice. Kind of looks like you almost put chocolate in there but oh so gently. Which with chocolate syrup is not easy to do, it just sinks and there is a big muddy mess. It definitely has the Bailey’s structure to it like that coffee, chocolatey, not too much chocolate. This doesn’t, of course has a little extra in there to really force the issue. And the mint is so solid, it’ not like a peppermint or like a strong mint like a mint liqueur or anything like that. A Crème de Menthe is not that strong and super sweet. It’s more of Bailey’s with that extra little hint, a little added flavor but in a subtle way. So it doesn’t over power and ruin the whole concept of what Bailey is really is.
So there you go. That gives you a Bailey’s Mint Chocolate Chip Martini. I am your host, Derek Schommer and we’re teaching you how to drink.
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