Cocktail Carnival -- A Grown-up's Candy Cane



We all remember stocking stuffers when we were kids. In the old days, no one put an iPod in there. You mostly got candy and fruit and nuts. If you were lucky, there was a Hot Wheels car or two in there. If you were unlucky, there was one green- or red-wrapped Hershey's Kiss for every three peppermint candy canes. (We blamed the Ruskies ... damn communists.)

Candy canes ... The bane of Christmas sweets. It was like getting butterscotch disks at Halloween. Noooooo!!!!!

Well, tonight that memory goes away. Changes. Tonight, we have a candy cane that even the Scroogiest BaT reader will enjoy: The Christmas-tini.

Ingredients

3 oz. premium vodka
1/2 oz. dry vermouth
1 tsp. peppermint schnapps

Instructions

Shake ingredients with cracked ice. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with a candy cane.

To Dedushka Moroz, za zdorovia!