Peeps Mania: Pink Bunny Peeps Easter Candy Cocktail Recipe

By Zoe Rogers

Here's a spin on cocktail hour—shake up this “Easter Candy Cocktail” —using DIY infused vodka made from marshmallow Peeps!

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"Pink Bunny PEEPS® Easter Candy Cocktail” or “PEEPtini” By Zoe Rogers

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What is the number 1 selling non-chocolate Easter candy for over 20 years?

Peeps!

But they aren’t just for Easter anymore.

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 such as David Ottogalli’s creations. Fans can display their creativity through contests, like those by the company who makes Peeps®. There’s also The Washington Post’s 6th Annual Peeps Diorama Contest. In The Washington Post’s “Royal Watch” Cara Kelly reported “…a flood of Peepa Middletons, royal Peep Couples, Kate Middlepeeps and Peep princes flooded the entry field.”

Now, Peeps mania meets the flavored vodka trend—with this “Pink Bunny Peeps Easter Candy Cocktail” or “Peeptini” recipe I created for you—made from just 2 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 which has a dainty vanilla-marshmallow flavor and a pink bunny garnish, which when seated on the pink-sugar-coated rim of the Martini glass looks like it’s a bunny peep-ing out of a bunny hole! 

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—or Peeps on sale after Easter.

Pink Bunny Peeps Easter Candy Cocktail or Peeptini

Make This For Somebunny Special!

1½ ounces Pink Bunny Peeps-infused vodka (Recipe follows)

Hot Pink Sugar Crystals (available at Supermarket), to decorate Martini glass rim

¾ ounce dry vermouth

1 Pink Bunny PEEPS, to garnish Easter Cocktail

To decorate the Martini glass rim: Firmly holding the stem of a Martini glass, gently and carefully (it is glass!) dip the top ¼-inch-rim of glass into a bowl with the 1½ 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 hot pink sugar, and gently and carefully rotate the glass until the rim is evenly covered in sugar.

To prepare the Easter Cocktail:  Add the infused vodka from the bowl, vermouth, and 3 ice cubes to a shaker and shake. Strain into the sugar-rimmed Martini glass.

To garnish the Martini glass:

Garnish with a Pink Bunny Peeps—using a scissors, cut the Peeps halfway up the side of its base (so when slipped onto the rim of the glass the bunny faces you from across the glass)—place the Peeps on the glass rim so it sticks to the glass and it looks like the photo here for a touch of whimsy, and serve.

Vodka Infusion for Peeps Easter Candy Cocktail or Peeptini

Makes ¾ cup (6 ounces) Pink Bunny Peeps marshmallow candy-infused vodka

4 Pink Bunny PEEPS® marshmallow candy

¾ cup (6 ounces) top-shelf vodka

Place the 4 Pink Bunny Peeps into a clean (preferably new) 12-ounce, wide-mouthed, glass jar with airtight screw top, such as a jam-or Mason jar, pour in the vodka over the Peeps, and tightly screw on the jar top.

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.

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 to make cocktails like the one pictured here.

Clean the jar and screw top well, and pour the infused vodka back into it, store in the freezer up to 2 months.

By Zoe Rogers, a leading Culinary and Home Entertaining Expert, Author of 9 Cookbooks, and Founder of GalPalGreet.com—Where Food and Friendship Meet! Zoe Rogers is an Award-Winning Author of Food and Beverage Articles and Writes about the Connections Between Food, Drink, Love, and Friendship.  Zoe Rogers is on Twitter @ZoeInspiresYou 

NOTE: PEEPS® sales statistics: Source JustBorn.com and IRI Total U.S. FDMx.