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This recipe yields 12 drink servings.
Difficulty: Easy

Time Required: 10 minutes

Here's How:
1. Gather Valentini martini ingredients: Currant-flavored vodka, champagne, raspberry schnapps, lime juice.

2. Currant-flavored vodka brands that you can use in a Valentini martini include Absolut Kurant Vodka, Kremly Black Currant, Cristall Black Currant, Georgieskaya Black Currant Vodka, and Danzka Currant Vodka.

3. Into a martini shaker filled with chipped ice, combine 2 1/4 cups of currant-flavored vodka...

4. Add 1 1/4 cups of champagne...

5. It's okay to use an inexpensive champagne in a Valentini martini such as Freixenet. If you like things on the sweet side, substitute an Asti sparkling wine.

6. Pour in 3/4 of a cup of raspberry schnapps...

7. DeKuyper, Hiram Walker, Tambourine Mountain, Teichenne, and Phillips all produce raspberry schnapps.

8. Add 1/4 of a cup of freshly squeezed limes.

9. Shake vigorously.

10. Strain ingredients.

11. Pour Valentini into martini glasses.

12. Garnish Valentini with a lime sliver or edible rose petal.

13. Toast one another, and take a sip of the drink.

14. Kiss.

15. Repeat steps 13 and 14.

Tips:
Know your limit, and don't exceed it.
Don't drink and drive.

[AmberC]

I'll have to remember this after I'm done nursing!