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Chocolate martini with raspberry shortbread

Prepare
less than 30 mins
Cook
10 to 30 mins
Serve
Serves 3–4

A boozy treat, this is a great way to use up excess chocolate eggs at Easter but definitely one for grown-ups only!

By Matt Tebbutt

From Saturday Kitchen

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Ingredients

For the raspberry shortbread

For the chocolate martini

  • 150g/5½oz dark, white or milk chocolate eggs, broken into small pieces
  • 230ml/8fl oz double cream
  • 50ml/2fl oz vodka
  • 100ml/3½fl oz Irish cream or other cream-based alcohol
  • 2 ice cubes
  • freeze-dried raspberry powder, to decorate

Method

  1. To make the shortbread, preheat the oven to 160C/140C Fan/Gas 3 and line a baking tray with baking paper.

  2. Cream the butter and sugar together in a bowl. Add the flour and mix to combine. Add the vanilla extract and bring the mixture together with your hands. Roll out or pat the mixture flat using your hands until it is a 1cm/½in thick dough. Place on the baking tray and cook for 15 minutes.

  3. Mix together the caster sugar and raspberry powder for sprinkling in a small bowl. Remove the shortbread from the oven and sprinkle with the sugar and raspberry mixture whilst still warm.

  4. To make the chocolate martini, place the chocolate and cream in a saucepan over a low heat and cook, stirring constantly, until the chocolate has completely melted. Leave to cool slightly.

  5. Shake the chocolate mixture with the vodka, Irish cream and ice cubes in a cocktail shaker. Strain into a martini glass and decorate with the raspberry powder. Serve the cocktails with the biscuits on the side.