Chocolate Cupcake Cocktail

If you love dessert drinks, you must try this chocolate cupcake cocktail. This rich and decadent super sweet cocktail is sure to please your sweet tooth.

What is a Chocolate Cupcake Cocktail?

A chocolate cake cocktail is a combination of whipped cream vodka, Godiva liqueur, heavy cream and amaretto. Take it over the top, you can add frosting and sprinkles to the rim.

The flavor of a chocolate cupcake cocktail is very similar to that of chocolate cupcake batter. It is sweet, chocolatey and creamy.

The creaminess of this cocktail comes in large part from the heavy cream. This ingredient adds a sweetness and creaminess as well as helping to smooth out some of the bite from the liquor.

Whipped cream vodka is a flavor infused vodka that has hints of vanilla and cream. It is a clear liquor that still has a strong bite of vodka as it goes down.

The chocolate flavor of this drink comes from the Godiva liqueur. This liquor has a rich and velvety chocolate flavor and clocks in at around 15% alcohol by volume.

Finally, the amaretto adds a sweet and slightly nutty flavor to the drink which when mixed with the chocolate and vanilla flavors from the other ingredients smooths out nicely.

Occasions to mix it up

With its sweet flavor and ease of making, this cocktail Is perfect for many occasions such as:

• birthday celebrations
• after dinner drinks
• dessert
• formal parties

Possible variations

Here are a few ways to make this drink a little differently:

• Add cake vodka. Cake vodka has a similar vanilla and cream flavor as whipped cream vodka but with a buttercream undertone added in. It is used in other cake flavored drinks such as the birthday cake martini.
• Increase the chocolate. You can never have enough chocolate, so you can add some chocolate syrup into the inside of the glass to up that chocolate flavor.
• Make it more festive. Add some whipped cream on top of the drink or substitute out vanilla frosting for chocolate frosting. You can even use chocolate sprinkles.

How to make this drink:

With only four ingredients, this cocktail is super easy to mix up and can be ready in around 5 minutes. Though it does look fancy with its frosting and sprinkles on the rim, it’s not difficult to make at all.

Equipment:

• Martini glasses
• jigger
• cocktail shaker
• Hawthorne strainer

Ingredients:

• 1 oz Whipped Cream Vodka
• 1 oz Amaretto
• 1 oz Godiva
• 1 oz Heavy Cream
• frosting and sprinkles on rim
• Ice

Instructions:

Step one

Start out by getting your martini glass chilled. Place it in the freezer while you gather up your whipped cream vodka, amaretto, heavy cream, Godiva liqueur, jigger, cocktail shaker, frosting, sprinkles, Hawthorne strainer and ice.

Step two

Grab some ice and use it to fill your cocktail shaker to the top.

Step three

Go ahead and take your chilled martini glass out of the freezer. Grab your frosting and a butter knife and carefully spread a layer of frosting around the rim of your martini glass.

Step four

Next, to get the sprinkles on the rim. Go ahead and pour some sprinkles onto a saucer. Then, please sure glass rim and frosting down into the sprinkles. Rock the glass carefully back and forth to get the sprinkles to stick to it.

Step Five

If desired, add some chocolate syrup to the inside of the glass. Tip the glass sideways and slowly squeeze syrup onto the sides of the glass while turning it.

Step Six

Grab your jigger and your whipped cream vodka. Use your jigger to measure 1 oz of whipped cream vodka and toss it into your cocktail shaker.

Step Seven

Grab your amaretto. Use your jigger to measure 1 oz of amaretto and toss it into your cocktail shaker with your whipped cream vodka.

Step Eight

Grab your Godiva liqueur. Use your jigger to measure 1 oz of Godiva liqueur and toss it into the shaker with your whipped cream vodka and amaretto.

Step Nine

Grab your heavy cream. Use your jigger to measure 1 oz of heavy cream and toss it into the shaker with your whipped cream vodka, amaretto and godiva liqueur.

Step Ten

Grab the shaker top and put it on the shaker. Shake your drink up. This usually takes about 15 – 20 seconds. The outside of the shaker should get cold to the touch.

Step Eleven

Replace the shaker top with the Hawthorne Strainer. Then, pour the drink into the glass from the shaker. Enjoy!

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