This month’s Crazy Ingredient Challenge reveal day falls on Easter so our host Dawn of Spatulas on Parade picked the ever popular Easter candy Peeps to be paired up with Lemons!
If you’re wondering where last month’s edition of CIC was, I posted instead my first #BundtBakers recipe on March 20th.
But back to April’s CIC post. The biggest challenge with this month was using an already finished product.
Leave it to the preggo to come up with a cocktail! (Please don’t call child services, but I did taste a sip so I could validate that the recipe works!) I present to you the perfect cocktail for your Easter Sunday – Marshmallow Peeps Lemon Drop Martini. This is definitely what adults want in their Easter basket. If we can’t hunt for eggs, then we might as well sip on something fun!
Marshmallow Peeps Lemon Drop Martini
Ingredients:
- 3 yellow peeps (any color will do, but a yellow lemon cocktail looks best)
- 3/4 C vodka
- 1/2 C sugar
- 1/2 C water
- 3/4 C lemon juice
- sprinkles (optional)
Steps:
- In a jar soak peeps in vodka for at least 4 days. Remove Peeps from vodka (strain if they’ve fallen apart).
- In a small saucepan dissolve sugar in water over medium-high heat. Allow to cool.
- Place sprinkles on a flat plate. Run a slice of lemon along the rim of the martini glass and gently twist the glass in the sprinkles.
- In a cocktail shaker with ice combine equal parts lemon juice, simple syrup, and Peeps vodka. Pour into martini glasses.
To see the other bloggers who participated in this month’s Crazy Ingredient Challenge click on the link below.
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Very cute photos! I’m not a drinker but I do love lemon and I’m sure this is good. Vodka used to be my drink of choice MANY years ago.
Thanks for participating each month.
Thanks for hosting!
Absolutely love the last photo!
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Super cute photos! And I bet there’s a way to make these non alcoholic too.
Maybe… I wonder if the peeps would impart their flavor into sparkling water! Sprite would probably be wayyyy too sweet.
Love your pictures.. I am another non-drinker but I am sure that there is someway to make it non-alcoholic.. I was even thinking of doing a lemon-lime drink for mine, but decided that a milkshake in a martini glass was the way to go.
Great use of the ingredients!
What a festive looking drink! Great use of the two ingredients. I’m totally making this.
It’s definitely a good use for those leftover peeps! Enjoy
What a strange yet interesting idea. This seems like the best way to use peeps, but it sounds like the hangover off these would be killer
Haha! We just don’t worry about that 😉