"Hot Tamales" Spiked Hot Chocolate Recipe

Hola Amigos! It's a beautiful 15 F today!!!! Oh yes! Beautiful compared to yesterday's bone shattering -16 (feeling like -35 F)! I haven't been out of my little house since Sunday when I went to the store and stock up like I was going to hibernate for months. I don't drive in the snow, so I knew what was coming for me! Truth be told, although I'm a homebody, I like to have the "choice" of getting in my car and drive to the store to get that extra ingredient missing of  a recipe, take a quick trip to my favorite coffee shop or just go browse the latest and greatest at the local dollar store.

I'm serving time in an Ice Cell and turning into a Hot Mess (aka Cabin Fever-itis), but since the only thing worse would be running out of chocolate, I'm celebrating my lock up with this Spiked Hot Tamale Hot Chocolate, and believe me...it is a celebration on a mug for sure!

Nothing fancy here, just a few ingredients with a lot of flavor and kick! Hard to feel when it's so cold,  the extra juice bottles and gallons of milk I got on Sunday, kept in the garage, are frozen!!!! Yikes!

This time I didn't have any whipped cream, or cute marshmallows, or sweet sprinkles, just Peppermint Hershey kisses, melting in the hot chocolate and some extra sweetness thanks to Marshmallow Fluff.

This tastes just like the candy, sweet, spicy and hot! only with a little something extra for grown ups.

Thank You for visiting the blog today! It's always a pleasure to enjoy your company and your comments on each post! We will be looking forward to the weekend when finally this cold front will be gone for good...I hope! Remember my friends, everything tastes better with a Pinch of Love!

Besitos,

Lizy

"Hot Tamales" Spiked Hot Chocolate
Ingredients:
1 Tablet "La Abuelita"
4 Cups Whole Milk
Pinch of Salt 
1 Cup Peppermint Hershey Kisses
4 ounces Tequila
2 ounces Hot Damn Cinnamon Schnapps 
Marshmallow Creme and Powder Cinnamon to top it
Directions:
In a saucepan, bring milk to simmer and add your chocolate tablet, stir until it melts. Add s the pinch of slat and whisk. Add Hershey Kisses to the mix and keep stirring until they melt as well and everything is well combined.
Add Tequila and Cinnamon Schnapps and whisk one more time before dividing the mix into 4 mugs.
Top your hot chocolate with some Marshmallow Creme, sprinkle some powdered cinnamon and a few extra Hershey Kisses. Cheers and Enjoy...bottoms up!

Total Prepare Time: 10 Minutes

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13 Most Wanted Recipes of 2013

Hola Amigos!!!! Wishing you all a happy, healthy and peaceful last day of 2013! What a year it has been! So many happy memories, tasty recipes from fellow bloggers, fun crafts but above all, priceless new friendships made all over the globe!
It was a lot of fun at the blog too!  with a fairly good amount of cooking and calories gained here and there, lol...looking forward to do it all over again, God willing, this new year almost knocking at our door! Here are some of the most popular of 2013

Very Berry Kool Aid Cheesecake

Black Forest Bars

Marbled Deviled Eggs

Jell-O Poke Cake

Death By Chocolate Cake and Chocolate Cream Cheese Frosting

Cherry Cola Smoothie

Easy Ravioli Lasagna

Sharknado Cupcakes

Maple and Toffee Autumn Muddy Buddies

Spiked Monster Halloween Cocktail

Wild Turkey Thanksgiving Cocktail

Holiday Chocolate Flan

My Favorite Recipe for 2013

S'mores Pizza

Thank You friends for a year full of fantastic moments I will always share deep in my heart for the rest of my life! Even though lately I haven't been around much, I always carry your sweet thoughts and comments with me to get me through everyday unexpected challenges! 

Hope your New Year is full of Happiness, Love, Family Union and Health! From my family to yours HAPPY 2014!!!! and keep in mind this new year that everything tastes better with a Pinch of Love!

Besitos,

Lizy

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Berry Passionate Lemonade Smoothie Recipe

Hola Amigos! It's been a little while since I made a smoothie and even though holiday flavors like cinnamon and peppermint should be on my mind while the snow falls outside, I can't help but thinking that in other parts of the world it's sunny, toasty hot and summer is on it's way! I guess you can take a girl out of the Tropics but you can't take the Tropics out of the girl!

This is a super easy and refreshing smoothie. Something different if you want to try new sweet flavors and add a bit of "zing to your swing" this season.

The color is absolutely beautiful, reminds me of Caribbean's pink sand and the flavor delicious! It's also low in calories so you can still look amazing and in great shape for Christmas while enjoying a cool looking beverage!

Top it of with some fresh whipped cream, a few sugary sprinkles and strawberries for a festive look!

Make it even healthier by adding some wheat germ or flax seeds! See those little specks floating around? Wheat Germ! yumm!

Before I close this short but sweet post I want to thank all the sweet comments and emails I've gotten from you my friends since around Thanksgiving and been unable to answer. Due to health problems I haven't been able to get to my computer or blog at all! I hope and pray things get better as the weeks go by and come back and have fun with all of you!. In the meantime, please hang in there with this your blog. I will try to pop a few times a week to say hi to all and drop a little recipe or two.

Keep the shopping going my sweeties and enjoying the holiday cheer always keeping in mind that everything tastes better with a Pinch of Love!

Besitos,

Lizy

Berry Passionate Lemonade Smoothie

Ingredients:

1 (6 oz) Chobani Passion Fruit Yogurt, frozen

3/4 Cup Lemonade, chilled

1/2 Strawberries, frozen

1 tsp Wheat Germ (optional)

Fresh Whip Cream and Strawberries for garnishing (optional)

Directions:

Add all ingredients in a blender and blend until smooth. Top with Whip Cream and Strawberries for a pretty presentation if you want. Enjoy!

Prep Time 3 minutes                                                                       Serves 2 (4-6oz) Cups

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Wild Turkey Thanksgiving Cocktail Recipe

Hola Amigos! We all know Thanksgiving is that time of the year when we officially give thanks for all the blessings we have received all year long. We're thankful for our health, we are thankful for our friends and family and for the happy joyous times we have shared all these months! But let's face it, it could be stressful too, all the cooking, the cleaning, the tidying up, people staying over messing with your stuff, the eternal house decor critic, your in laws not quite happy with your stuffing, the nosy aunt trying to teach you how to raise your kids...and too many to mention without getting palpitations right? So on Thanksgiving we are Thankful for some "High Octane Encouragemnte!!! lol

This is my Thanksgiving cocktail (or should I say one of many I would be indulging that day). Very simple indeed, one less complicated thing to have that day!

If you love Tequila Sunrise, you're going to enjoy this one too!. It's a use what you have handy kind of drink, so no special trip to the store to prepare this one, unless you want to escape the madness for a few.
I know you are seeing 4 little shot glasses instead of the 3 listed here, keep reading, I can explain!

I hope you enjoy this little cocktail ad that you get to enjoy a few, I promise...after the 3rd one you won't even care about your cousin implying your turkey is dry. Remember my friends, everything tastes better with a Pinch of Love! (and on Thanksgiving, a drink in hand).

Besitos,

Lizy

Wild Turkey Cocktail 

Ingredients:

3 oz Sunny Delight

2 oz Pineapple Rum (or any other clear rum)

1 oz Grenadine
1 oz whiskey (optional)

Ice Cubes

Directions:

Using a highball glass, add some ice cubes.In a separate mixing glass, pour the Sunny D and mix it with rum. Add to the Highball glass and slowly pour the Grenadine on the edge of the glass.This is what will give the drink the pretty effect. Now...I said I had some explaining to do..If Aunt Ursula is really getting on your nerves, add 1 oz of whiskey (hence the Wild Turkey name of this cocktail)  before you add the Grenadine, it will give it an additional layer of color and a new taste note! . Drink up and enjoy!

Prep time 3 minutes                                                                                             Serves 1

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Spiked Black Mamba Halloween Cocktail Recipe

Hola Amigos! Some people don't get scared with skulls, bones, witches, zombies or scary stories told at midnight with only the flickering glow of a candle. The stuff that gives them nightmares and keeps them up at night are all around us any given day. I'm talking spiders, bugs of all kinds and snakes!

This post is dedicated to all those with Ophidiophobia or abnormal fear of snakes and it came about because for the last couple of days I've been obsessed with creating a black cocktail for Halloween. How the two relate? just keep reading...if you dare...lol

Black Mambas are Africa's deadliest snakes, if bitten, without the proper antivenom the consequences are mostly lethal.

They are also the longest African snakes, up to 14 feet, yikes! Although having the reputation of being aggressive and hostile, it is actually shy and rather avoid confrontation. But with an increasing population and threats to their natural habitat, they find themselves in human territory and attacks happen. These are preceded by the snake's head and body raising, hissing and then fast and repeated bites injecting large amount of venom each time.

They are also the fastest in the world! developing speeds up to 12.5 miles per hour, imagine that thing chasing you..wow!
Finally contrary to popular believe, they get their name not from the color of their skin, which is usually olive brown or gray, but from the color inside their mouths, a blueish black, which they display when threatened.

My cocktail here is all that..well I'm not sure about being lethal, but it has a bite for sure! It's served in a long fluted glass, to show the beautiful plays of color in the body of our Mamba. It's prepared in no time and at the very top of the flute you can see the "black mouth" ready to strike it's sweet fangs on you!

As for the taste, well it has a bite as I said before, after all there is alcohol in it, it tastes like a dark chocolate spiked almond joy candy bar.

Thank you so much for coming to visit me today! I hope I didn't scare you too much with my snake tale! Sweet dreams and don't let the bed bugs (or reptiles) bite, buahahahaha!

Besitos,

Lizy

Spiked Black Mamba Halloween Cocktail

Ingredients

3/4  Cup Coconut Cream

1 oz Malibu
1/2 tsps Vanilla extract
1/2 tsps Almond extract

Ice

1/2 cup Chocolate Ice Cream Softened 

1 Cup Strong Coffee Cold

1 oz Creme de Cacao (Kahlua is fine if you don't have Creme de Cacao

Corn syrup

Silver Sugar

Shredded Coconut

Black Food Coloring

Champagne Flutes

Directions:

I started by preparing my flutes adding a little bit of corn syrup, moving it around the bottom of the flute and then sprinkling the inside with silver color sugar. Put aside.

Add to a shaker coconut cream and Malibu, extracts  and ice. Shake well.Using a strainer, pour the mix on the prepared flutes. 

Using a clean shaker add soften chocolate ice cream, coffee, Creme de Cacao and a few drops of black food coloring. Shake well and pour the mix on the flutes containing the cream.

Top the cocktail with some black coconut flakes and enjoy.

Prep time 4 minutes                                                                          Serves 2

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Spiked Monster Halloween Cocktail Recipe

Hola Amigos! This one is for mom and dad only. Once in a blue moon (no pun intended) I like to enjoy a cocktail while watching tv or just checking out other blogs. I like mine sweet, what a surprise, right? ..so this one fits the bill!

My little monster friend here is basically a White Russian with ice cream instead of cream. You could totally make the original version and then just call it a" ghost" if you wanted to, I just couldn't pass the opportunity of using this amazing Blue Moon ice cream I found at the store the other day and since is Halloween, why not!
Also at the store I found a new Cool Whip Topping Frosting! I really like it! it is thick, holds well just like frosting and you  just keep it in your refrigerator. I think is perfect for these kind of drinks.

It's sweeter than the traditional but don't be fooled by the sweetness, it's still spiked so be careful, lol!

"Too Friendly" Ghost

Spiked Monster

I think these guys  have a mild case of  hangover, look at those eyes, lol!!

It is Friday tomorrow so go ahead and  get what you need to make this delicious cocktail and enjoy! Have a happy pre-weekend and remember my friends everything tastes better with a Pinch of Love!

Besitos,

Lizy

Spiked Monster Halloween Cocktail Recipe

Ingredients

1 oz Vodka 

1 oz Kahlua
1 oz French Vanilla Coffee Creamer (to clean any residue of the dark Kahlua)

1/2 Cup Blue Moon Ice Cream (for the original or Ghost use vanilla bean ice cream or plain cream)

Whip Cream Frosting , Oreo Cookie and  Edible sugar eyes for decor

Directions:

Put everything on a blender (if using ice cream) and blend everything together until smooth. Top with whip cream frosting and sugar eyes. 
If using just plain cream put all in a shaker and shake your little heart out until everything is mixed. 

Prep time 3 minutes               Serves 1 (3/4 Cup)Cocktail

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