My Valentine’s day presents to Corby have ranged from venison beef jerky to a weird ridiculously toxic old fabric cleaner that his dad used to have and is apparently awesome.  Clearly we are not traditional Valentine’s Day celebrators.  This is mainly because Corby’s birthday is on February 16th, and he likes his birthday a lot more than Valentine’s day, so this year I am just making Valentine’s Day cocktails- Raspberry Chocolate Kiss Cocktails to be exact (found them on www.delish.com- photo from Martha Stewart), and they hopefully they will be a huge hit!  The red color and chocolate garnish really does make them super Valentinesy and fun and delicious!  Happy Valentines Day!!

Raspberry Chocolate Kiss Cocktails

Ingredients:

1/4 cup vodka

2 tbsbs cranberry juice

3 chocolate cookies finely crushed

10 raspberries

ice cubes

Directions:

Fill a shallow dish with enough simple syrup to just cover the bottom. Place crushed cookies into another shallow dish. Invert a martini glass into simple syrup and then immediately into crushed cookies to coat the rim of the glass.
Place raspberries in a cocktail shaker; crush with a muddler. Add simple syrup and muddle again. Add vodka and cranberry juice; fill shaker with ice. Shake well until chilled. Strain into prepared martini glass. Serve immediately.