Who's ready for Easter Sunday happy hour?
By Zoe Rogers — Written on Apr 19, 2019
What is the number one selling non-chocolate Easter candy for over 20 years? Peeps®!
The obsession with these cute and cheerful, brightly-colored, puffy marshmallow bunnies, chicks, and other shapes is far-reaching. They are an edible pop-culture icon. Peeps® are the subject of poems, songs, computer games, award-winning films, fan sites, crafts, paintings, and sculptures.
And now, you can stop all the hassle of looking for good Easter recipes, because we've got the only Easter cocktail you need. Peeps® mania meets the flavored vodka trend with this Pink Bunny Peeps® Easter Candy Cocktail, or the Peeptini recipe I created for you. And it's made from just two main ingredients.
In this recipe, I share with you how to infuse vodka with Pink Bunny Easter Peeps® treats for a spirited and playful hot pink-colored Easter cocktail that has a dainty vanilla-marshmallow flavor and a pink bunny garnish, seated on the sugar-coated rim of the martini glass.
If you are serving it before or during Easter, call it a Pink Bunny Peeps® Easter Candy Cocktail, or The Pink Bunny for short. Or, serve it after Easter as a Peeptini — a fun and tasty way to use any leftover Pink Bunny Easter Peeps® from your Easter basket.
1. Pink Bunny Peeps® Easter Candy Cocktail or Peeptini
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 ounces Pink Bunny Peeps®-infused vodka
- Colored sugar crystals to decorate Martini glass rim
- 3/4 ounce dry vermouth
- 1 Pink Bunny Peeps® to garnish
Directions
1. To decorate the martini glass rim, gently and carefully (it is glass!) dip the top 1/4-inch-rim of glass into a bowl with the 1 1/2 ounces of infused vodka you are using, gently shaking off any excess. Set aside the bowl of vodka. Then gently dip the Martini glass rim into a plate covered with the sugar, and gently and carefully rotate the glass until the rim is evenly covered.
2. Add the infused vodka from the bowl, vermouth, and 3 ice cubes to a shaker and shake. Strain into the sugar-rimmed martini glass.
3. Garnish your cocktail with a Pink Bunny Peeps®. Using scissors, cut the Peeps® halfway up its base (so when slipped onto the rim of the glass the bunny faces you). Then serve! Makes one Peeptini.
2. Pink Bunny Peeps® Vodka Infusion Recipe
Ingredients
- 4 Pink Bunny Peeps® marshmallow candy
- 3/4 cup (6 ounces) top-shelf vodka
Directions
1. Place the 4 Pink Bunny Peeps® into a clean (preferably new) 12-ounce, wide-mouthed, glass jar with an airtight screw top, such as a jam or mason jar, pour in the vodka over the Peeps®, and tightly screw on the jar top.
2. Refrigerate the mixture for 1 day, shaking the jar vigorously 4 to 6 times during the 24-hour-long-period, and return it to the refrigerator. You will notice that after the 1 day, the Peeps® will not be completely dissolved, just partially. That is the goal for this recipe.
3. Strain the mixture through a fine-meshed sieve into a bowl, and discard the contents of the sieve. The infused vodka left behind in the bowl is now ready to serve and make cocktails.
4. Clean the jar and screw top well, and pour the infused vodka back into it, store in the freezer up to 2 months. Makes 3/4 cup (6 ounces) Pink Bunny Peeps® marshmallow candy-infused vodka.
Zoe Rogers is a leading culinary and home entertaining expert with a Professional Culinary and Baking Degree, AND author of nine cookbooks. sHE'S is an award-winning author of food and beverage articles, and she writes about the connections between food, drink, love, and friendship.