Key Lime Martini: Paradise In A Glass

Nothing feels more like the beach and vacation than a delicious piece of Key Lime Pie. Unfortunately, we can’t always be at the beach. Fortunately, you can bring a bit of that getaway feeling back with this amazing Key Lime Martini.

What is a Key Lime Martini?

A Key Lime martini is like dessert in a glass. It combines several distinctly tropical flavors, like coconut, pineapple, and key limes and mixes them into a delicious cocktail topped off with an irresistible graham cracker crumb rim. It has similar ingredients to that of an almond joy martini.

If you love key lime pie, try the key lime pie shot also.

This is a dessert martini, through and through. However, many other dessert drinks, like the Chocolate Martini, Chocolate Peppermint Martini, eggnog martini or the decadent Chocolate Strawberry Martini (can you tell we like chocolate?), are pretty rich and heavy and are more suitable for the holidays and colder times of the year. The Key Lime Martini is a good reminder of warmer days in the Winter but it is at its best as a Summer sipper.

How to make this drink:

This is a pretty simple martini to make. The most difficult part is getting enough graham cracker on the rim of the glass.

Equipment:

Martini glass (this is the set we use personally)

Jigger (we use the jigger and shaker from this set)

Cocktail Mixer

Glass rimmer

Hawthorne Strainer

Ingredients

Drink

2 oz Malibu coconut rum

½ oz Vanilla Vodka

1 oz Simple Syrup or ½ oz Pineapple juice

1 oz Heavy cream

¼ oz whipped cream vodka (float)

¾ oz Key lime juice or 1 key lime squeezed to taste

1 lime or key lime wedge garnish and to wet glass rim for graham crackers

Rim

¼ cup Graham Crackers 3-5 crackers depending on size

Step One

Step Two

Step Three

Fill a cocktail shaker ¾ of the way full of ice

Step Four

Add in the Malibu, Vanilla vodka, pineapple juice, heavy cream, key lime juice

Step Five

Place the lid on your cocktail shaker and shake until the outside starts to form ice crystals

Step Six

Take out your chilled martini glass

Step Seven

Get the rim of your glass wet with a bar sponge and simple syrup from your glass rimmer or a lime wedge

Step Eight

Dip the into the graham cracker crumbs; rolling the rim around until you have a thick coat

Step Nine

Remove the lid from the shaker and pour your drink into the martini glass using a Hawthorne strainer

Step Ten

Float whipped cream vodka on top of your cocktail

Step Eleven

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