How to Make A Snowtini

Here in Richmond, we just got pummeled with 12+ inches of snow. What's a girl to do?  Make snowtinis of course!

I looked up lots of snow martini recipes on Pinterest and didn't see anything that floated my boat (or my sled, as the case may be).  Time for Team Holmes to start pulling things out and create our own!

Here's some of what we were working with:


A lot of "White drink" recipes use 1/2 and 1/2 but I really find that to be too rich for me.  I just don't care for it.  Call me crazy, but what I like to use instead is...vanilla ice cream.  My hubs made me a drink years ago with vanilla ice cream and I really didn't think I'd like it.  You know how you go out to a restaurant and get a drink like that and then end up feeling like you are drinking an expensive milkshake?  Not cool.  However, my husband managed to make an ice cream drink with a serious kick.  So vanilla ice cream has won my heart as an unlikely mixer.

We made a couple different versions (all for me to report to you guys, of course!).  They were all delicious!  So...you'll just have to try for yourself and see.

White Chocolate Snowtini
1 oz Whipped Vodka
1/2 oz Creme de Cacoa
1/2 oz Godiva White Liqueur
3 scoops vanilla ice cream

Butterscotch Snowtini
1 oz Butterscotch Schnapps
1 oz Godiva regular liqueur
3 scoops vanilla ice cream
(this one was strong but delish!)

White Out Snowtini
1 oz Vanilla Vodka
1/2 oz Godiva regular liqueur
1 oz 1/2 & 1/2
3 scoops vanilla ice cream
   (See how he secretly slipped some 1/2 and 1/2 in on me!)

You can make these in a blender, or simply whisk until ice cream is soft.  If I had more than a 2 tini limit, I could have tried more for ya'll.  As you see, the possibilities are endless.

Now, a word about rim trim, which I think makes a martini.  I am a serious rim trim junkie and while hubs comes up with the drinks, I'm in charge of decorating the glass.  Of course.  Because he certainly could care less.

You can make rim trim out of all kinds of things.  For my snowtinis, I used some sugar sprinkles, which I always have a ton of.  These particular kind are super pretty.

For the first drink shown, I used the gold sprinkles.  For the drink below, I used the silver and mixed in some regular blue sprinkles as well.

My friend used coconut to trim her glass and it really is gorgeous!

Rim trim won't always stick to your glass so take a very small amount of honey on your finger and run it along the rim of your glass.  Then, put whatever you want to use for rim trim in a bowl that the glass will fit in.  Set the glass in the bowl upside down and spin around.  Then your glass is ready to be filled!

For those of us who are going to be surrounded by the white stuff for awhile, if you can't beat 'em, join 'em!

Let It Snow!
K