Frozen Hot Chocolate Martini

Some folks ask where I come up with drink ideas….I have to say I take a flavor I love and I try to figure out how to duplicate it in a cocktail.  I had the luxury of trying a famous Serendipity Frozen Hot Chocolate on a trip to NYC.  I am a chocolate lover and a bigger Hot Chocolate lover; distinctly different tastes – but both delicious.    Serendipity has their own secret recipe for the hot chocolate and I did not want to have to purchase the “make your own” packets in order to enjoy it at home.  My wheels were spinning and I believe that I came up with a method to duplicate the flavor of YOUR favorite hot chocolate in the form of a very delicious and very potent cocktail.

The key component is the hot chocolate.  In order to pull this drink off perfectly, you will need to start by making a big batch of hot chocolate.  Pour that pre-mixed hot chocolate into ice cube trays and let them freeze.  **Note: I tried to freeze the hot chocolate in bigger than ice cube blocks – which seemed like a good idea – until I tried to blend a huge chunk of frozen hot chocolate and burned out my friend’s professional grade blender ** DO make ice cubes instead.

Once you make a bunch of ice cubes, you can store them in freezer bags or an ice bucket in the freezer and pull them out for each batch.  My blender makes about 5 glasses, so this recipe will be PER blender of 5 cocktails.

Frozen Hot Chocolate Martini

• Frozen Hot Chocolate Ice Cubes
• 5 oz Crème De Cacao (dark or light)
• 5 oz Vanilla Vodka
• 5 oz Godiva MILK CHOCOLATE liqueur
• Shaved Chocolate

 Fill the blender with the frozen Hot Chocolate ice cubes, add the liquors, and blend until smooth – should not be icy.

 Pour the hot chocolate martini into martini glasses and then top with good shaved chocolate.  I use a vegetable peeler to shave the chocolate and I blend really great dark chocolate with a “candybar” quality chocolate”.

These go down very smooth and very fast – I PROMISE that if you serve these to your guests you will be the hit of the neighborhood for years to come.  Make lots of extra ice cubes because your guests WILL definitely come back for seconds and thirds. 

Enjoy!