Espresso Martini Cocktail Fancies Food

ESPRESSO MARTINI COCKTAIL FANCIES

Steps:

• Heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Butter a 30 x 20cm tin and line with baking parchment. Put the cake ingredients in a bowl except for the liqueur. Whisk until smooth using an electric whisk, then transfer to the tin, smooth out and bake for 30-35mins until a skewer inserted in the centre comes out clean. Leave to cool completely.
• Meanwhile, for the filling, whisk the butter, icing sugar and milk together until smooth, then transfer to a piping bag.
• When the cake is cold, slice off the top so it's flat, turn over, trim and cut into neat, approx. 4cm squares (four squares across and seven down). You should have 28. Dip each one briefly in the liqueur and sit dipped-side up. Put a tiny dot of chocolate spread on top of each cake, then pipe a raspberry-sized ball of the buttercream filling on top of each one.
• For the icing, mix the espresso powder with 1 tsp water to dissolve, then mix with the fondant icing sugar and enough water to make it a condensed milk consistency. Put the cakes on wire racks set over trays to catch the drips, then coat each one in the icing. The best way to do this is to hold each one over the bowl of icing on a slotted spoon then generously drizzle over the icing with a tablespoon. Remove from the slotted spoon with a cutlery knife and sit on the rack to dry. Decorate with a drizzle of melted chocolate and a chocolate- covered coffee bean. Serve in cake cases, if you like. Will keep for two days in an airtight container. Why not also try our piña colada and strawberry daiquiri fancies?

ESPRESSO MARTINI

Steps:

• Add vodka, coffee liqueur, espresso and simple syrup to a shaker filled with ice and shake until well-chilled.
• Strain into a chilled cocktail glass.
• Garnish with 3 coffee beans.

ESPRESSO MARTINI COCKTAIL

Steps:

• Combine espresso, vodka, coffee liqueur, creme de cacao, and ice in a cocktail shaker. Cover and shake until chilled. Strain into a chilled martini glass.

BEST ESPRESSO MARTINI

Steps:

• Fill a cocktail shaker 2/3 full with ice.
• Add ingredients and shake well until very cold.
• Strain into a martini glass.
• In a plastic bottle with a narrow tip (candy melts bottle from a craft store or a picnic ketchup bottle from the dollar store), add some heavy cream.
• Starting from the center of the drink, start a spiral and cirle to the outside of the glass.
• Then take a stirrer or a toothpick and starting in the center of the drink, drag the stirrer to the edge of the glass.
• Return to center of the drink, and repeat procedure in"pie segments" to make a"web" with the heavy cream (or make any design that you'd like).
• Wow, after my second espresso martini tonight, that was rough describing-lol.
• Of course, the heavy cream is optional but it does make it look so pretty.
• Just be careful how many of these you consume because, like a spider lures it's prey-- you get the picture.