Discover Your Winter Cocktail & Enter For Your Chance to #Win a $20 Crate & Barrel Gift Card and Hendrick’s Gin Umbrella {Giveaway}

In celebration of the winter season, Robb Report presents the Discover Your Winter Cocktail Blog App. Everyone has their favorite cocktail, but have you wondered what winter cocktail fits you best?  Take the Discover Your Winter Cocktail quiz and you can find out by answering a few simple questions!

• Discover Your Winter Cocktail. Answer a few questions to see what winter cocktail suits you best!
• Little Known Liquor Facts! This fun guide will give you little known facts about liquor you may not have known!
• Give a Winter Twist to Four Classic Cocktails! Everyone has their favorite drink and most of the time they are the tried and true classics. Now you can spice up your classic cocktail with a fun holiday twist! Great to share with friends or become the hit of your holiday party

In the meantime, why don't your try one of these delicious seasonal cocktails!

Chocolate Snowball
 
Ingredients:
2 oz coconut rum
2 oz  Irish cream
1 oz hazelnut liqueur
3 1/2 oz melted chocolate
3 1/2 oz cream
1 dash chocolate syrup

Preparation: Place the chocolate syrup around the glass then place the other ingredients into a cocktail shaker with ice and shake. Strain into glass.

Spring Fever
 
Ingredients
3/4 oz lemon juice
3/4 oz mango syrup
1 1/2 oz pineapple juice
2 oz blood orange juice

Preparation: Shake well over ice cubes in a shaker, and strain into a collins glass half-filled with crushed ice.

Winter Breeze
 
Ingredients
1 oz creme de cacao
1 oz vanilla schnapps
1 oz Irish cream
milk

Preparation: Pour liquors into a beer mug, and fill with milk. Stir, and serve.
 

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Coconut Thumbprint Cookies With Salted Caramel - My New Favorite!

The flavor combination of a shortbread rolled in toasted coconut, topped with salted caramel make for the BEST tasting cookies I've had in a LOOOOONG time. They are easy to make, somewhat time consuming, but well worth the effort. These have now become my new FAVE! Try 'em, you will LOVE 'em. 

Coconut Thumbprint Cookies with Salted Caramel

source: Martha Stewart Living

• 3 sticks unsalted butter, at room temperature
• 1 cup sugar
• 1.5 t vanilla extract
• 3.5 c all-purpose flour
• Table salt
• 2 large eggs, lightly beaten
• 12 oz. sweetened flaked coconut
• 44 small soft caramel candies (12 oz.), such as Kraft brand
• 6 T heavy cream
• Large, flaky sea salt, such as Maldon

Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.  Set a mixer to medium speed and beat together the sugar and butter until pale and fluffy, then beat in the vanilla.

With the mixer on low, gradually add the flour, a half teaspoon of table salt and beat to combine.  Press the dough together in plastic wrap, then roll into 1 1/4 inch balls. 

Dip each ball into beaten egg and then roll it in the coconut.  Place the balls on parchment lined baking sheets (I used a Silpat), and then press and indentation into each with your thumb.  Bake for 10 minutes and then remove the sheets from the oven and re-press the indentations.  Bake the cookies until golden, about 9 to 10 minutes more.  Let cool on wire racks and repeat with any remaining dough.

Place the caramels and heavy cream into a small saucepan over low heat.  Cook, stirring constantly, until caramels are completely melted, about 6 minutes.  Spoon the melted caramel into the indentation of each cookie.  Sprinkle each cookie with sea salt.  If the caramel hardens up on you, just reheat it for a bit while stirring.  [Store in an airtight container for up to two days.]

That's it. Eat. Enjoy. 

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2012 Valentine's Day Gift Guide: Flirty Aprons {Review & Giveaway}

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With Valentine's Day just around the corner, it's time to start thinking of ways to show that special someone you care. Does your sweetie love to cook... and spend lots of time in the kitchen? Then you will want to get her something super unique and super adorable from Flirty Aprons!

About Flirty Aprons

Flirty Aprons was founded by two married couples: Joseph and Heather Hansen, and Spencer and Jamie Taylor. Their partnership, along with their strong passion for business, has allowed them to create a successful company as well as an enjoyable working environment.

Flirty Aprons vision is to create products that truly help women feel important and noticed, products that give new life to mundane activities, and bring color and style to the home. 

Since opening its first mall location in March of 2008, Flirty Aprons has experienced rapid growth. Its products have proved to be extremely popular gift items, and customers continue to find satisfaction in using them. Flirty Aprons plans to continues to expand while providing the most desired aprons on the market.

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I really enjoy cooking, but I never really considered wearing an apron until now. The aprons of the past have not really been all that appealing to my fashion taste. With Flirty Aprons,  I absolutely fell in love with so many of the fun prints and their overall style. Not only are their aprons amazingly cute, but they appear to be quite durable. The material is reinforced with a double layer, so you need not worry about splashes and spills soaking through onto your clothes. Flirty Aprons offers a wide selection of styles and patterns. My favorite is the women's original apron in Scarlet Blossom. In addition to carrying women's aprons, they also offer a nice selection of men and children's aprons as well as fashionable rubber cleaning gloves.


Admittedly, I am now obsessed with aprons... which pattern shall I choose next....? Please, please help me decide!!

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(winner may choose ONE from the following patterns: Sassy Black, Scarlet Blossom, Pink Chocolate, Blue Chocolate, Chic Pink, or Frosted Cupcake)

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