The following recipe and excerpt for “Just The Tips” Strawberry Martinis are from “All I Think About Is Food” by Mamrie Hart. It’s available for purchase on Amazon.
If there were two things child-me thought were the epitome of adult and sexy, besides the occasional Frederick’s of Hollywood mailer I would catch a glimpse of in our mailbox…they would be chocolate-covered strawberries (sometimes in tuxedoes!) and French manicures. I vividly remember going to a nail salon and seeing a poster of a woman with a French manicure dipping a strawberry into white chocolate. Now, that’s class! I thought. I couldn’t wait to be grown up, rocking French tips, buying fancy berries, and wearing what I now know is cheap lingerie.
I was a weird kid. And it was the ’80s.
Now that I’m older, I can’t wear acrylics because I know I would never stop flourishing my hands. I once rocked some press-ons at my friend’s wedding and couldn’t stop voguing and touching things like I was a hand model on QVC. But I can drink! So we are making a chocolate-covered strawberry martini that looks like the manicure of my dreams.
“Just The Tips” Strawberry Martini
Ingredients
Vanilla Bean Vodka (makes enough for 8 drinks)
Strawberry Puree
Martini
Instructions
- For the vanilla bean vodka, OF COURSE you can just buy vanilla vodka and lie that you infused it. However, if you have the forethought to make it, it takes all of 2 minutes of prep and you can tell a difference. Like the difference between a high-end perfume and a cheap body spray. Simply slit the vanilla beans down the middle lengthwise and put them with the vodka in an airtight glass container. Store it somewhere dark for at least a week, giving it a little shake every couple of days.
- For the puree, be sure to cut the stems off the strawberries before tossing them, the sugar, and lemon juice in a high-power blender and go to town on it till it’s smooth. You can always add a splash of water if necessary. Then strain the blend through a sieve to get the seeds out of the way. Voila! Strawberry puree. This can be done ahead of time as it will hold in the fridge for 4 to 5 days.
- For the martini rim, temper the white chocolate chips either in a double broiler or the microwave and dip the rim of your glassware in it. Put them in the fridge to both harden and chill the glass as you…
- Add your measurements of vanilla bean vodka, creme de cacao, white chocolate liqueur, and puree in a shaker full of ice. Shake, shake, shake, and then pour into your gorgeous white chocolate-rimmed glass.
