Football Playoffs Need Refreshments

Diet Nuclear Ice Tea

I wanted to make something fun for the football games that are for today and tomorrow. I wanted to cook fun finger food but I ended up cheating today and getting Calamari that was already predone along with dips and chips. I feel just awful because there is no imagination or inspiration. . .with the exception to the Nuclear Ice Tea. . .giggle, I used Diet Sprite so that is what makes it a Diet drink. I highly doubt with all the alcohol used to create this scientific concoction, that a little Diet Sprite is really going to dent the calorie count but if I just jog a little extra tomorrow morning. . .

Ingredients:

1/2 oz. vodka
1/2 oz gin
1/2 oz rum
1/2 oz triple sec
1 oz melon liqueur
sweet and sour mix
diet sprite. . .***hence the DIET Nuclear Ice Tea***...=D

Directions:
Pour all ingredients (except sour mix and soda) into an ice-filled collins glass. Almost fill with sour mix and top with diet Sprite. Serve.

Hello, 2008!

A little cookie for the new year...the dots remind me of champagne bubbles or confetti. I was going for a bright fuchsia here and I have to say that they look prettier in person, but I like the cookies from 2007 much better. Oh well...you never know until you try.

To make them:

1. Outline the cookie in white using a #3 tip.
2. Thin fuchsia, yellow and blue icing to syrupy consistency and cover with a damp dishtowel. Let sit, stir gently with a rubber spatula to pop air bubbles. (Fuchsia: Spectrum Fuchsia with AmeriColor Electric Pink; Yellow: AmeriColor Egg Yellow; Blue: Spectrum Sky Blue)
3. Pour thinned icing into squeeze bottles.
4. Fill 6-8 cookies at a time in fuchsia. Spread into corners with a toothpick.
5. Drop blue and yellow dots on top of wet icing.
6. Let dry at least 1 hour.
7. Using a #2 tip, pipe "2008."