Bacardi Pina Colada Cake

If you like both Bacardi and cake, then this is the cake for you!

Ingredients:

1 package white cake mix
1 (4 ounce) package instant coconut cream pudding mix
1/3 cup dark rum
4 eggs
1/2 cup water
1/4 cup oil
Frosting
1 (8 ounce) can crushed pineapple, in juice
1 (4 ounce) package instant coconut cream pudding mix
1/3 cup dark rum
1 (9 ounce) container frozen whipped topping, thawed

Directions for Cake:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
2. Grease and flour 2 9-inch layer pans.
3. Blend cake mix (dry), pudding (dry), eggs, water, rum, and oil in large mixer bowl on low speed, constantly scraping bowl, until moistened, about 1/2 minute.
4. Beat on medium speed, scraping bowl frequently, 3 minutes.
5. Pour batter into prepared pans.
6. Bake 25 to 30 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center of cake comes out clean.
7. Cool 15 minutes.
8. Remove pans; cool completely.
9. Fill and frost layer cake.
10. Sprinkle with coconut.
11. Refrigerate cake (and any leftover cake).

Directions for the Frosting:

Combine crushed pineapple in juice, rum, and pudding; beat until well blended. Fold in whipped topping and spread on cake.

Apple Pie Shot

This is so delicious, it's almost impossible to describe... guess you'll just have to try one for yourself!

Ingredients:

1 fluid ounce vodka
1 fluid ounce apple cider
1 tablespoon whipped cream
1 pinch ground cinnamon

Directions:

In a 2 ounce shot glass, combine vodka and apple cider. Top with a dollop of whipped cream and a pinch of cinnamon.

Alabama Slammer

An Alabama Slammer is a cocktail made with amaretto, Southern Comfort, sloe gin, and orange juice. It is served in a Collins glass and is also known as a Southern Slammer.

Ingredients:
1/2 oz amaretto almond liqueur
1/2 oz Southern Comfort peach liqueur
1/2 oz sloe gin
1 splash orange juice
1 splash sweet and sour mix

Directions:
Pour above ingredients into a stainless steel shaker over ice and shake until completely cold. Strain into a glass and serve.

Virgin Piña Colada Smoothies

This is the perfect treat for everyone and tastes better than its alcohol-fused namesake!

Ingredients:

1 can (20 ounces) crushed pineapple in juice or very ripe pineapple pulsed in food processor
1 can (13.5 ounces) coconut milk,
3 peeled and frozen bananas

Directions:

Add all ingredients to a blender and blend on high until smooth. Divide between glasses and serve immediately! Use pineapple slice as a garnish!

S’moretini

Can you spell Y-U-M-M-Y? This is one of my absolute favorite drinks! If you give it a try, you'll find out why!

Ingredients:

32 oz. Vodka
16 oz. Chocolate Liqueur
1 sleeve graham crackers (or more if needed)
1 jar marshmallow creme (Marshmallow Fluff)
1 bag wooden skewers
1bag miniature marshmallows

Directions:

1. Pour vodka and chocolate liqueur into a 64 ounce pitcher and stir.

2. Refrigerate for several hours until very cold.

3. Crush graham crackers and place into a small bowl.

4. Rim 16 martini glasses with marshmallow creme.

5. Dip glasses into graham cracker crumbs and shake gently to remove excess.

6. Place marshmallows on skewers and toast over fire.

7. Pour 3 ounces of cold drink mixture into each prepared glass and garnish with toasted marshmallows.

Bailey’s Chocolate Pudding Shots

With a little Bailey's Irish Cream, milk, and pudding, you can have a delicious end to a wonderful evening!

Ingredients:

1 cup milk
1/2 cup Bailey’s Irish cream liqueur
1/2 cup vodka
1 (4 serving size) package instant chocolate pudding mix

Directions:

1. Whisk together the milk, Irish cream liqueur, vodka, and instant pudding mix in a bowl until combined.

2. Continue whisking for 2 minutes.
3. Spoon the pudding mixture into shot glasses or other small glasses.

4. Chill until set, about 30 minutes. The shots will have the consistency of mousse.

Life Is Good In The South

I went fishing one morning but after a short time I ran out of worms.

Then I saw a cottonmouth with a frog in his mouth. "Frogs are good bass bait," I said to myself.

Knowing the snake couldn't bite me with the frog in his mouth, I grabbed him right behind the head, took the frog, and put it in my bait bucket.

Now the dilemma was how to release the snake without getting bit. So, I grabbed my bottle of Jack Daniel's and poured a little whiskey in its mouth. His eyes rolled back and he went limp.
I released back him into the lake without
incident and carried on fishing using the frog.

A little later, I felt a nudge on my foot. There was that damn snake, with two more frogs.

Life is good in the South.

Washing Our Hair

Two nuns were shopping in a food store and happened to be passing the beer and liquor section.

One nun asks the other if she would like a beer.

The other nun answered that would be good, but that she would be queasy about purchasing it.

The first nun said that she would handle it and picked up a six pack and took it to the cashier.

The cashier had a surprised look and the first nun said, "This is for washing our hair."

The cashier without blinking an eye, reached under the counter and put a package of pretzel sticks in the bag with the beer saying, "Here, don't forget the curlers."

Do You Want To Go To Heaven?

Father Murphy walked into a pub in Donegal, and said to the first man he meets, "Do you want to go to heaven?"

The man said, "I do Father."

The priest said, "Then leave this pub right now!" and approached a second man. "Do you want to go to heaven?"

"Certainly, Father," was the man's reply.

"Then leave this den of Satan," said the priest, as he walked up to O'Toole. "Do you want to go to heaven?"

"No, I don't Father," O'Toole replied.

The priest looked him right in the eye, and said, "You mean to tell me that when you die you don't want to go to heaven?"

O'Toole smiled, "Oh, when I die, yes, Father. I thought you were getting a group together to go right now."

Name on a Gravestone

Three Irishmen, Paddy, Mike, and Sean, were stumbling home from the pub late one night and found themselves on the road which led past an old graveyard.

"Come have a look over here," says Paddy, "It's Michael O'Grady's grave, God bless his soul, he lived to the ripe old age of 87."

"That's nothing," says Mike, "here's one named Patrick O'Toole. It says here that he was 95 when he died."

Just then, Sean yells out, "But here's a fellow who died when he was 145 years old!"

"What was his name?" asks Paddy.

Sean lights a match to see what else is written on the stone marker, and exclaims, "Miles, from Dublin."

Drinking is a Sin

John was sitting outside his local bar one day, enjoying a quiet pint and generally feeling good about himself, when a nun suddenly appears at his table and starts decrying the evils of alcohol.

"You should be ashamed of yourself young man! Drinking is a Sin! Alcohol is the blood of the devil!"

Now John gets pretty annoyed about this, and goes on the offensive.

"How do you know this, Sister?"

"My Mother Superior told me so."

"But have you ever had a drink yourself? How can you be sure that what you are saying is right?"

"Don't be ridiculous! Of course, I have never taken alcohol myself!"

"Then let me buy you a drink - if you still believe afterwards that it is evil I will give up drink for life"

"How could I, a nun, sit outside this public house drinking?!"

"I'll get the bartender to put it in a teacup for you, then no one will ever know."

The nun reluctantly agrees, so John goes inside to the bar.

"Another pint for me, and a triple vodka on the rocks", then he lowers his voice and says to the bartender "and could you put the vodka in a teacup?"

"Oh, no! It's not that Nun again is it?"

Vodka Snow Cone

To begin, if you have a snow cone or shaved-ice machine you should use it, as the "snow cone" comes out best when using these but, if you don't, you can also use a food processor or blender with ice-crushing capabilities to crush your ice as fine as possible. Crushed ice from a freezer ice-maker can also do the trick.

Ingredients:

7 cups boiling water
1 cup granulated sugar
2 cups boiling water and 3 regular size tea bags (combine and let cool) *try it with decaf green tea
12 ounce can frozen lemonade
12 ounce can frozen orange juice
2-1/2 cups vodka
Food coloring of choice

Directions:

1.  Stir together boiling water with the sugar and let cool.

2.  Then mix all of the ingredients together.

3.  Freeze for 24 hours, stirring well every few hours so that the ice crystals will not freeze around the edge, making it as smooth.

4.  Scoop frozen mixture into a glass, adding enough 7-Up, Sprite, Ginger-Ale or other clear soft drink to make it thin enough to drink

5.  Use food coloring of choice and serve

Cuban Mojito

Like many great drinks, there are many different ways to make a mojito (pronounced mo-he-toe), but his recipe, by far, is my very favorite on a warm sunny day!

Ingredients:

1 teaspoon powdered sugar
2 ounces lime juice
4 mint leaves
1 sprig of mint
2 ounces white rum
2 ounces club soda

Directions:

1. Place mint leaves into a tall mojito/tom collins glass and squeeze the juice from a cut lime over it.
2. Add the powdered sugar and then gently smash the mint into the lime juice and sugar with the back of a fork or spoon if one isn't available. Add ice (I prefer crushed) and then add rum and stir.
3. Top off with the club soda.
4. Garnish with a mint sprig.

Irish Iced Coffee

This is my favorite treat on St. Patrick's Day, but it makes a delicious after dinner dessert drink, for every occasion!

Ingredients:

2 oz. strong cold-brew coffee
2 oz. stout (I prefer Guinness)
1½ oz. Irish whiskey
¾ oz. simple syrup
1/2 ounce heavy cream
Freshly grated cinnamon stick

1.  Mix coffee, stout, whiskey, and simple syrup in a tall glass.

2.  Add ice to fill.

3.  Gently pour in cream so it gradually sinks into coffee

4.  Sprinkle with cinnamon.

Rainbow Shots

This is one of my favorite shots, as they are very impressive; however, pulling off Rainbow Shots successfully, takes planning and a little bit of luck. But, with practice, anyone can become a pro at making them in no time!

Ingredients:

1/2 oz grenadine
6 oz pineapple juice or orange juice
1 oz coconut rum
3/4 oz blue curacao
Crushed ice

Directions:

1.  Pour your grenadine into the bottom of a large glass or cocktail shaker and add a layer of crushed ice.

2.  Layer the coconut rum on the back of a spoon.

3.  Place a strainer on top of the glass with all the layers. Quickly pour the blue curacao around the perimeter of the glass, and then, still using the strainer, pour the shots in succession. If you've done everything correctly, you should have a spectrum of rainbow shots, running from blue to red.

Lava Lamp

This is a drink created for the hippie at heart! They totally rock!

Ingredients:

1 3-ounce package red and blue colored instant gelatin mix
1 cup boiling water
1 cup vodka
1 750 ML bottle champagne

Directions:

1.  In a medium bowl, stir the gelatin mix and boiling water together, until completely dissolved.
2.  Stir in vodka.
3.  Pour the liquid into small paper or portion cups.
4.  Chill until set (about 2 hours).
5.  Pour champagne into glasses.
6.  Break up the gelatin with a fork, and pour into a glass of champagne. A little stir gives it some 'lava' action.
7.  Serve

Drunken Cookie Monster

This is not only one of the tastiest mixed drinks around, but also the cutest!

Ingredients:

1 oz cake vodka
1 oz vanilla vodka
1 oz white chocolate liqueur

2 cup vanilla ice cream
7 chocolate creme cookies, divided

Colored frosting

Chocolate chips

Directions:

Blend vodkas and liqueur (or syrup), ice cream and 5 of the chocolate creme cookies in a blender until smooth. Pour into two daiquiri glasses. Top with frosting until it reaches the top of the glass. Stick the last two cookies at an angle on the tops of the frosting to make mouths. Add chocolate chips for eyes. Serve.

Shark Attack

This is the ideal drink on this hot Labor Day weekend, plus it's so incredible easy to make!

Ingredients:
2 cups ice cubes
1/4 cup lemon slices
1/4 cup pineapple chunks
1/4 cup tequila
1/4 cup Triple Sec
1/2 cup orange juice
1/4 cup pineapple juice
1/4 cup rum
Splash grenadine
1/4 cup maraschino cherries, plus more for garnish

Directions:

In a pitcher, add all the ingredients and stir to combine. Garnish with maraschino cherries, if using. Pour into rocks glasses, garnish with maraschino cherries and serve

Black Forest Martini

If you love Black Forest cake, then you will definitely love this! This cocktail takes chocolate and cherry richness to a whole new level!

Ingredients:

1 1/4 oz cherry vodka
3/4 oz chocolate liqueur
1/4 oz black cherry liqueur
2 splashes cream
Whipped cream

Directions:

1. Combine all ingredients in a shaker cup with ice.
2. Strain into a cocktail glass.
3. Top with a dollop of whipped cream and a cherry.

The Scooby Snack

This is one of my favorite drinks! It's absolutely divine!

Ingredients:

1 oz. Melon Liqueur
1 oz. Coconut Rum
1/2 oz. Pineapple Juice
1 1/2 oz. Whipped Cream

Directions:

Pour all ingredient into a stainless steel shaker over ice. Shake until well mixed and sufficiently chilled. Strain into a shot glass.