My Own Santorum... Cocktail, That Is.

By Michael Bryan

Saturdays are cocktail day around the Bryan household. Friends come over and I play bartender. Sometimes I go for the classics, but today I was inspired.

He died for your cocktail

A bar owner in New York has gotten some great press by inventing his own version of the Santorum Cocktail. I couldn't help try my hand at creating my own version of a Santorum Cocktail for my friends.

Here's what I came up with:

• 1 oz any white liquor (I used white rum, which plays well with the sweet ingredients)
• 1 oz Benedictine (a nod to Santorum's Catholicism)
• 1/2 oz chocolate liqueur (I used Godiva, but any will do. Just make sure it is brown, to give the drink an appropriate color)
• 1 1/2 oz half and half, or cream (I prefered half and half, cause it sounds like a sexual service you can order from a prostitute, though cream sounds appropriately dirty, too...)
• 1/2 an egg white (gives an appropriately thick and sticky texture and a good bit of froth)

Grate some chocolate and rim your glass with it using a little lemon juice or liqueur to mosten the rim. Shake all the ingredients over ice in a boston shaker and strain into the rimmed glass. Sprinkle the top of the drink with a little of the extra grated chocolate. Garnish with something appropriately ghoulish. I choose a plain vanilla crucified Jesus stuck to a cocktail straw, but aborted fetuses, or mini dildoes, or whatever you might have to hand would be equally appropriate.

Enjoy!