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Contents

Introduction

GLASSWARE

TOOLS AND EQUIPMENT

SPIRITS

CANDY RIMS AND GARNISHES

CANDY LIQUOR INFUSIONS

Sweet Candy Cocktails

BUBBLEGUM MOJITO

CANDY APPLE COCKTAIL

BLACK LICORICE MOJITO

COTTON CANDY-TINI

CANDY FISHBOWL

CHOCOLATE ORANGE LOLLIPOP

VIOLET OLD-FASHIONED

CIRCUS PEANUT MARGARITA

PIMM’S CANDY CUP

BERRY GOODIE GUMDROP

Chocolate Candy Cocktails

SALTED CHOCOLATE MARGARITA

PEPPERMINT PATT-INI

PEANUT BUTTER CUP

CHOCOLATE-COVERED CHERRY

LIQUID CANDY BAR

MINTY FRESH HOT CHOCOLATE

COCONUT JOY MARTINI

DIRT-Y MARTINI

S’MORE-TINI

Sour Candy Cocktails

WHISKEY SOUR GUMMY BEAR

CARAMEL APPLE FIZZ

SOUR CHERRY MARGARITA

SOUR LEMON DROP MOJITO

JELLY BELL-INI

SOUR GRAPE SIDECAR

BLUE DIAMOND FIZZ

GUAVA GIN RICKEY

Frozen Candy Cocktails

ADULT ROOT BEER FLOAT

BREATH MINT JULEP

50/50 PIXY

TOFFEE BAR BEER FLOAT

MEXICAN WATERMELON LOLLIPOP MARGARITA

BOOZY MALT BALL SHAKE

RED HOT KISS MARGARITA

Candy Shots

NEAPOLITAN COCONUT SUNDAE SHOT

SOUR LEMON DROP SHOT

POP SHOT

MONEY SHOT

PINK BUBBLEGUM SHOT

CANDY RAINBOW SHOTS

WHITE CHOCOLATE RUSSIAN SHOT

CHERRY BUBBLEGUM LOLLIPOP SHOT

Holiday Candy Cocktails

CONVERSATION HEART-TINI

POT OF GOLDSCHLÄGER

HONEY BUNNY

CHOCOLATE EASTER EGGNOG

CANDY CORN MARTINI

BLACK LICORICE WIDOW

CHRISTMAS CANDY CANE MARTINI

RED HOT CHRISTMAS SANGRIA

How to Throw a Candy Cocktail Party

Formulas for Metric Conversions

Acknowledgments

Photo Credits

Index

CANDY COCKTAILS

Introduction

Greetings! We are the splendidly blonde and often outrageous mixology sisters, Flannery and Katherine Good. Welcome to our colorful candy-coated cocktail world!

When we started our cocktail blog, Fashionably Bombed, we were looking for a way to express our creativity. At the time, most cocktail blogs were serious and most cocktail recipes were boring. We thought to ourselves, Wait! Aren’t cocktails supposed to be FUN? So we decided to take it upon ourselves to inject the cocktail world with crazy, colorful concoctions embellished with glitter and candy! We started with two of our favorites, mojitos and margaritas, and from there just let our imaginations run wild. Because we are both major sugar junkies who still dream about lollipops and gumdrops at night, it’s not surprising that candy soon made its way into our drinks. And once we started making candy cocktails, we couldn’t stop!

Our first creation was a boozy peanut butter cup milkshake for Halloween. This particular drink needed a little tweaking, but we couldn’t get the candy cocktail idea out of our heads. Like most kids, we were obsessed with candy, and apparently we never outgrew that phase!

This cocktail book is overflowing with girly, sweet drinks all made from, or made to taste like, your favorite candy! In fact, we’ve filled the book with so many fun and tasty cocktails that we had a hard time staying sober while writing it!

You’ll start by learning how to make your own candy-infused liquor. This is not only an important step in the drink-making process, but it’s also crazy-fun. From bubblegum-infused rum to make our Bubblegum Mojito to Altoids-infused bourbon to make our Breath Mint Julep, the liquor and candy combination possibilities are endless.

We’ve included a sweet candy cocktails chapter where we show you how to make drinks out of yummy things like cotton candy, Red Hots–infused vodka, Nerds, Good & Plenty–infused rum, and Swedish Fish!

We also show you how to make chocolate candy cocktails. These all taste like your favorite chocolate candies, including chocolate covered cherries, Snickers, and Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups. We even invented a chocolate margarita, which, if we do say so ourselves, is super tasty! There’s a chapter dedicated to sour candy cocktails, which are our FAVORITES! Here we use things like sour gummy bears, Jelly Belly jelly beans, cherry Jolly Rancher–infused vodka, and Lemonhead candies.

And no cocktail book would be complete without a chapter on shots, but these aren’t just any shots—they’re candy shots! Gumballs, Pop Rocks, and Skittles shots are all included. The frozen candy cocktails chapter is bursting with milkshakes, daiquiris, and margaritas, all of which are cold, tasty, candy-filled treats! You’ll also find our holiday candy cocktails chapter to be fun and festive, with drinks like our Honey Bunny, where you rip off the head of a hollow chocolate Easter bunny and fill its body with a yummy honey-based cocktail.

And last, but not least, is our chapter on how to throw a fabulous candy cocktail party. Once you know how to make the cocktails, we’ll show you how to make super-cute garnishes, decorations, and more! So whether you’re a chocoholic, a lover of licorice, or a diehard fan of Sour Patch Kids, there’s a whole world of boozy candy-coated fun waiting for you in this book!