I started out this post (and this recipe making) with a tequila based cocktail called the Agave Kiss.  I thought that would be a fitting romantic themed cocktail for the upcoming romantic holiday.  So, it may well have been a nice idea, but it did not hit my pallet in the same manner.

So I scrapped it…and by scrapped, I mean it went down the drain.  And I came up with the next best thing on a snowy Saturday evening – A Chocolate Snowball!

Ingredients:

• 2 oz Vodka
• 1 oz Cream de Cocoa (clear color)
• 1 oz heavy whipping cream
• 1 Tbls cocoa
• 2 Tbls sugar

Preparation:

• Place ice cubes in your martini/cocktail glass to chill.  Combine cocoa and sugar on a plate and mix well.  This will be for lining the glass. 
• In a tall shaker over ice, combine vodka, cream de cocoa and whipping cream.  Shake for 15 seconds.
• Remove ice from cocktail glass, wet the rim and twist in the cocoa/sugar mixture until coated.  Strain Chocolate Snowball out of shaker into glass.  Sprinkle a pinch of cocoa/sugar on top.