Have Your Cake & Drink It Too: The Birthday Cake Martini

This recipe is for Joanna: It's her birthday and while birthday cake is all fine and good, why not chase it down with a Birthday Cake Martini? You can never have enough cake!

Birthday Cake Martini

Ingredients

• 2 fluid ounces vanilla vodka
• 1 fluid ounce cranberry juice
• 1 fluid ounce cake vodka 
• 1/2 fluid ounce amaretto (almond flavored liqueur)
• 1/2 fluid ounce white creme de cacao

Combine all ingredients in an ice shaker, half-filled with ice cubes. Shake well. Place cherry in bottom of glass. Strain into chilled martini glass. If you want to be really festive, wet the rim of the glass and coat with colored sprinkles (prior to straining alcohol into glass - of course!)

Famous Failures - Quitters Never Win

Best-selling author Laura Freed - I'll never give up on that dream.  I have weak moments when people make me doubt myself...and most people do not understand the way the publishing business functions, or understand that the major publishing houses are disintegrating and best-selling authors are leaving them in favor of  'doing it themselves.'  But then I look at my mostly better half, who mostly does not care what anyone thinks about him, and I'm reminded not to let the naysayers rain on my parade - and neither should you!

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