Welcome to the Sunday Shooter edition of Common Man Cocktails. I’m your host Derrick Schommer and today we’re going to make the chocolate cake recipe. This was used with so many recipes from Nick. A couple of times he mentioned, you guys have to try the chocolate cake. He even put it on multiple different websites just to make sure I saw it. And he was really excited, and I’m really excited because this sounds really cool. I haven’t had it, Jennifer’s had it. She says it taste just like chocolate cake so I’m here to claim, does it or it doesn’t not?
Alright, so we’re going to use this some a half of ounce of Frangelico, a half an ounce of vanilla vodka. You probably can’t see it because it's been in my freezer. It’s so cold but it’s three olives, vanilla vodka you can use anything that’s available vodka. I don’t see what the difference would be.
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Now, last ingredient in here is going to be, I don’t use the word super secret in a while but this is where it all comes down. This is a lemon. I said lemon with sugar coating. Since the lemons, when you cut them, they’re moist anyway. Just dip it in the sugar and you’ve got a sugar coated lemon and that’s the key ingredient really in this.
So what we’ll do now is we’re just going to take a half an ounce of the Frangelico, we’ll pour it into our shot glass, half an ounce of the vanilla vodka and pour it in our shot glass. There’s no need to layer this time, I’ll get back to layering eventually but we really want to get this done and so what you have is—it's extremely sticky. Wow! That’s crazy sticky from the sugar, is a gold-looking shot and that’s all you really need to do. The alternative is and this was part of the original recipe I saw, was you use a lowball glass, put a little lemon around the edges, deep it into sugar so get a sugar coating and lick it before you take a sip and then you’ll bite a lemon that does certainly have sugar. This is a little easier, I think because it's just a shot glass.
So what we’re going to do is I’m going to get my lemon ready here. This is extremely sticky but all for the show. So what I’m going to do is I’m going to down this, bite this and tell you what I think. Let me just smell it. Besides the alcohol, it already smells like a chocolate cake or the frosting, maybe chocolate frosting, I don’t know. That was awesome. You’re right. Right when you put your tongue on it, that’s amazing.
This is a great party trick. If you get some friends together, buy this ahead of time just some vanilla and some Frangelico and lime this up. Cut up some lemon and dip it in ahead of time, makes some shots and have everybody do them and it is going to be a ball.
People are going to be laughing. They’re going to be telling their friends and those friends will be coming to me and said, “You need to do to have a cake.” It tastes just like chocolate cake even the after taste, it just like chocolate cake then when you bite the lemon with the sugar on it, it tastes almost your brain just registers that inside of a chocolate cake. Like you’ve just bit, not foam, the stuffing, the bread, the cakeness, the internal cakeness. I don’t know what to tell you but that’s really cool. Great party and party gag if you will. I need bar trick if you want to impress friends.
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These guys, if you’re looking for something to do with your Frangelico, this is going to be something I’m going to do again next time I have a party. I’m just going to line this up and I’m even going to tell that’s the best thing, don’t tell them what it's called. Just make it, taste it, and see who gets it first. I guess that’s pretty much it.
I’m your host Derrick Schommer. We’re teaching you to drink chocolate cake.
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