This Valentine’s Day, use up those leftover Christmas candy canes by hosting a peppermint and chocolate martini party using this recipe from the Candy Dish blog. Did you eat or distribute all your candy canes? Don’t worry – you can win some more. Candy Dish Blog and CandyBlog have teamed up to create the Candy Cane Contest. Sure it’s January, but we told you how you can use them up.
Here’s how you win: Tell us which four people you’d invite to your peppermint and chocolate martini party. Your guests could be present day friends, historic figures, celebrities – basically anyone you want. Just tell us who you’d pick and why and you might get your hands on some very tasty candy canes.
To enter: Leave your answers in the comments section of this entry. We will have four winners, who will be chosen shortly before Valentine’s Day and will receive a whole bunch of Pure Fun Organic Candy Canes. Update: Deadline to enter is 9 a.m. on Feb. 6th.
Chocolate Peppermint Martini
Ingredients
- 2 oz. vokda
- 1 oz. crème de cacao (light)
- 1 oz. peppermint schnapps
- Candy canes
Directions
- Combine vodka, crème de cacao and schnapps over ice in shaker
- Shake
Presentation
- Dip rim of martini glass in crème de cacao and touch several times to plate of crushed candy canes
- Pour cocktail into a martini glass
- Break the rounded end off one candy cane and insert the straight stick into the glass as a cocktail stirrer
Martini Glass by Carodean Road Designs.
11:55 am on January 27th, 2009
I’d invite my mom, my aunt, my sister, and my hubby, because they are all candy fiends!
2:59 pm on January 27th, 2009
I would invite my two daughters and my two sons in laws and could I please pretty please invite my husband? We ALL love chocolagte and martinis!
3:44 pm on January 27th, 2009
I’d invite physicist Gerard O’Neill (b.1927-d.1992), whom my husband idolized, Albert Einstein (b.1879-d.1955), so he could match wits with my daughter, Donny Osmond, because I love him so, and Hans Asperger (b.1906-d.1980), so I could thank him for giving my daughter’s quirky personality a name.
7:17 pm on January 27th, 2009
I’d invite my friend Gurleen, my sister, J.D. Salinger, and Yundi Li because it’d be an awesome mix of conversation, music, and delicious-ness.
9:20 pm on January 27th, 2009
I’d invite my three sisters and my mother. If they couldn’t come, I’d invite my three youngest nieces and my youngest nephew. Either way, it’d be one FUN party!!
10:14 pm on January 27th, 2009
i would invite lenny kravitz because he’s just so cool. and i’d invite barack obama because he seems so fascinating. what a great party guest. i would invite steven spielberg because i have sooo many questions about his movies, and I would invite tina fey because i think we could be friends. Lots of laughs and smart conversation. and plenty of candy!
10:21 pm on January 27th, 2009
I’d invite my wife, Lewis & Clark, and my dad.
8:14 am on January 28th, 2009
I’m not eligible to win (THIS is the downside to being a Candy Dish blogger) but I figured it would be OK to share my list. I’d invite Michelle and Barack Obama and my grandmother and grandfather who, though no longer with us, were crazy lifelong Democrats and who would be so so happy.
9:24 am on January 28th, 2009
I’d invite my Grandpa Wennlund, who died when I was 5. But I have heard quite a few stories and I’d like to share some cocktails with him. I would also invite my Aunt Cathy and my cousin Kristina so she could see her mom again. And my neighbor Marko who just past away last Wed. and his wife, my friend, Zorica. I know it sounds depressing, but these people were GREAT FUN and it would be a good mix of people and lots of laughs and the best gift in the world for me and my friends….and if the word got out that I invited those 3 people and they would be here…well, then pretty much my whole world would want to come…
4:30 pm on January 28th, 2009
After I read the recipe, I’m thinking the party guest list may only be my husband! Let the party begin!
9:25 pm on January 28th, 2009
I would invite Mother Teresa (I’ve always wanted to meet her and she probably wouldn’t drink any of the martinis), my mom who would love the chance to meet Mother Teresa and likes a good cocktail, my husband and my sister. Cheers!
9:37 pm on January 28th, 2009
I’d invite Kurt Vonnegut, Josef Pilates, my dad, and my grandpa.
11:39 pm on January 28th, 2009
Just four? I’d invite Michelle Obama, Rachel Maddow, Malcolm Gladwell and George Michael.
12:12 am on January 29th, 2009
Wait. Tracy, do you mean George Michael, who never wants to dance again on account guilty feet have got no rhythm and should have known better than to cheat a friend? That’s gutsy. That’s awesome! Great lineup!
Carrie, you have tapped into my soft spot with Kurt Vonnegut. He is probably my biggest literary and humanistic hero. It was like losing a grandparent or close friend when he passed. Of course, I am not sure he ever really existed. Vonnegut is like that – fleeting, yet permanent.
1:42 pm on January 29th, 2009
My guest list? Kenny Chesney, Kenny Chesney, Kenny Chesney, and Kenny Chesney. I hope my husband doesn’t mind
2:58 pm on January 29th, 2009
Susan – that’s not fair. I bet you aren’t even going to invite your husband! On the other hand, if that is okay with the rules, I might only invite Marisa Tomei. My lovely wife is likely to get jealous about that though. Maybe I better not…
11:46 pm on January 29th, 2009
I would invite my three favorite girlfriends and my daughter. The little one loves mint.
9:07 am on January 30th, 2009
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1:34 pm on January 30th, 2009
I would invite
1.Marilyn Monroe because I’ve always loved her.
2.Orlando Bloom because he is good looking
3.Gene Kelly because I want him to sing “Singing in the Rain” to me
4. My mom because she needs to get out more!
4:07 pm on January 30th, 2009
Sassy Lady Martini Party:
1. Dorothy Parker for her sharp quips
2. M.F.K. Fisher for her delightful, though sometimes haughty, ruminations
3. Laurie Colwin for her clear-eyed advice–with an edge
4. My grandma, who’s sassy enough to have a great time with everyone!
4:42 pm on January 30th, 2009
I’m not eligible but
*Professor Dumbledore
*JK Rowling
*David Bowie
*Neil Gaiman
5:42 pm on January 30th, 2009
General George Patton
Colonel John Boyd
Author Robert Heinlein
President George Washington
7:28 pm on January 30th, 2009
my friend mark because he has a very dry sense of humor, my friend rochelle because she makes everyone laugh, my mom because she thinks she hears what people are saying and comes out with some funny answers and george clooney because he is hot thanks for the giveaway
10:57 pm on January 31st, 2009
1. Abraham Lincoln
2. FDR
3. Ronald Reagan
4. John F Kennedy
Thanks for the giveaway!
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9:22 pm on February 1st, 2009
I would invite Ellen DeGeneres (for humor), Marie Antoinnette (sure she has some good stories), Rachael Ray (maybe she’ll bring some Yum-o food), and Johnny Depp (eye candy!).
Thanks for the giveaway!
12:19 pm on February 2nd, 2009
I would invite:
1. Andrew Zimmern. Then I would put extra delicious chocolate grubs in his chocotini.
2. Anthony Bourdain, because he is grumpy, and for the sheer joy of watching him interact with guest #3.
3. Gordon Ramsay, because having him and Mr. Bourdain in the same room would surely cause one of them to spontaneously combust.
4. Alton Brown. I figure me, him, and Andrew could enjoy the drinks and chocolate while Mr. Ramsay and Mr. Bourdain duke it out.
Then we could all bake a chocolate cake or something.
5:50 pm on February 2nd, 2009
May Canadians enter? I’d invite my brother and sister-in-law and my sister-in-law’s sister and her husband, because they’re a fun group of people.
3:08 pm on February 5th, 2009
I would invite Al Swearengen, Seth Bullock, Doc Cochran, and Mr. Wu from the HBO series Deadwood because I LOVED that show and miss it dearly.
12:23 pm on February 6th, 2009
So many choices! My first thought is political: I’d have to invite Barack Obama, Tim Russert, Abraham Lincoln, and Doris Kearns Goodwin so she could write a book about the experience. Oh, and with all these invitees, I’d *hope* that my hubby and extended family just so happened to “drop in” on the party to share cocktails with the lot of ‘em!
3:15 pm on February 6th, 2009
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