Cooking Lesson #1178: Easter Bunny Shot Cocktail

…from the Perspectives’ Happy Hour Bar

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How you doin’? It’s coming up to Easter Sunday, and you still have time to go to the store and pick up a chocolate bunny. It’s difficult to make this drink properly any other time of year other than Easter season, when chocolate bunnies are available in every grocery store. But if you have an unseasonal craving for the drink, it is acceptable to pour it into a regular glass. Just be sure to have some grated chocolate to dust the top.
 
When we first bought our hollow chocolate spinner at Choclatique I started playing with hollow bunnies… fruit salad, candy bar salad (a blog into the future) and whatever else I could use the little critters for. I soon discovered it was a bunny body filled with hot chocolate—that was a disaster! Okay, here’s the truth of the matter, some cocktails are sophisticated, combining rare spirits, bitters and liqueurs all served in elegant glasses. My Easter Bunny Shot is not!
 
Instead, the Easter Bunny Shot is a fun “grown up” take on the childhood pastime of nibbling the ears off a chocolate Easter bunny. Essentially boozy strawberry milk using real strawberries, the drink also includes vanilla vodka, Irish cream and heavy cream, all served in a chocolate Easter bunny—without the  ears. It is the ideal drink to be sipped while the younger generation hunts for Easter eggs. Or, better yet, mix a round of them for friends to accompany an adult boozy Easter egg hunt. A little advice, stick to only one of these shots considering the sugar in it, especially if you choose to eat the whole rabbit when you are finished with the drink. And doing that is definitely the right move.

NOTE: these little bunnies are so tempting, be sure to keep them from the kiddos, or it won't be their sugar rush you'll be dealing with!
 
This Easter cocktail starts with fresh muddled strawberries (they are already in season—red, sweet and delicious) they add some tartness and juiciness to the mix of vanilla vodka, Irish cream and heavy cream.
 
Okay, if you don’t make it to the store before Easter, go to your local drug store and get the chocolate bunnies half price on the bargain table and save them until next year—only kidding. Make your kids’ chocolate milk really special after Easter.
 
Prep Time: 5-10 minutes
Yield: 1 cocktail
 
Ingredients 
1 6-inch+ hollow chocolate bunny
2 fresh ripe strawberries
1-1/2 ounces vanilla vodka
1/2 ounce Baileys Irish cream
1/2 ounce heavy cream
1/4 ounce simple syrup (1 part granulated sugar / 1 part water)
Garnish: 1 teaspoon chocolate shavings
 
Directions

1. Read the recipe all the way through before starting. Measure all ingredients and have at your side.
2. In a mixing tin, muddle the strawberries.
3. Add the vanilla vodka, Irish cream, heavy cream, simple syrup and ice, and shake it like you mean it until well-chilled.
4. Strain the cocktail into the chocolate bunny sans ears.
5. Garnish with shavings from the amputated bunny ears.
6. Eat the rest of the chocolate bunny ears at your leisure.
7. Bottoms up!

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ChefSecret:  Muddling is the act of smashing the strawberries against the mixing tin to release both the flavor and the color of fresh berries.
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Quip of the Day:  Q. What do you call an Easter Bunny that can’t remember anything?  A. A hare-brain.
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