Pixy Stix Martini

[joshdill]

My friends and I frequent a diner here in South/Central New Jersey called Mastoris'. They have a pretty nice drink menu, but one in particular has become a favorite of ours: the Pixy Stix Martini. I've inquired a few times for the exact recipe, but haven't had much luck in convincing them. I've searched the internet, but though I've found many drinks called "pixy stick" or "blue pixy stick" none of them are even close.

The drink in question is served in a martini glass and has a VERY light purple tint. It's translucent, not cloudy and has a light grape flavor mixed with some other berry taste I can't quite identify.

I've experimented on my own and the closest I've come so far is this:

2 oz. Three Olives Grape Vodka
1/2 oz. Blue Curacao
1/2 oz. Grenadine
Splash of Club Soda

The flavor is close, but too grape. The color is a bit too dark. I've tried the drink with straight vodka and grape pucker, but the resulting flavor is way off. My drink is closer, but it looks wrong and if I reduce the amount of Blue Curacao and Grenadine I put in the mix, the flavor is lost completely.

Help! Has anyone had this martini before or one like it? Does anyone with more bar experience than myself have any suggestions for alternate recipes that could work? Thanks in advance!

- Josh

[dm]

I've seen a couple of similar recipes, they used the DeKuyper Island Blue Pucker schnapps and sweet and sour mix. You might want to play with those. The diner could have used grape vodka but the chances are really slim, I can tell you from running the site, it's not nearly as popular as schnapps infact it's one of the least used vodka flavors in general.

[Unregistered]

I have the recipe. You use equal parts of Blue Island Pucker, Grape Pucker, and Vodka. You also add a splash of Sweet and Sour mix. Then you shake and top off with a good amount of 7-up. Wet the rim of a martini glass and dip in Pixy Stix Sugar. I like mine served cold.

That's it.

pixie girl

[mixologist21379]

the pixie stick martini recipe i use is great and very delicious and is a fun favorite at all my gatherings. Use grape vodka, three olives or skyy works well. a dash of triple sec a splash of sweet n sour and your choice of flavor for the pixie stick. mix in a shaker. rim the glass with another choice of the pixie stick flavor. i like red and blue together but orange and red or orange and green are good as well. it may not be the one that you get but its pretty good and maybe my recipe will help u get closer to yours.

[Skarima09]

I am intrigued by the dirty tomato water sake martini on grezzos drinks menu

anyone have any ideas about how to concoct one? how much tomato water to how much sake??

[mrsbigdog]

I happened across this thread while searching for something else but the idea of a Pixie Stix intrigued me. After experimenting for awhile I finally developed a Jello Shot version of the Pixie Stix. I hope some of you will give it a try and let me know what you think. The recipe is here (http://jelloshots365.blogspot.com/2010/06/pixie-stix-jello-shot-recipe-if-you.html).

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[damienfilth]

I've seen a couple of similar recipes, they used the DeKuyper Island Blue Pucker schnapps and sweet and sour mix. You might want to play with those. The diner could have used grape vodka but the chances are really slim, I can tell you from running the site, it's not nearly as popular as schnapps infact it's one of the least used vodka flavors in general.


grape vodka and grape puckers is the least used flavor. at one bar i had a bottle of grape pucker just sitting there for a year. i got told it was there 6 months more before i entered the bar. i tried making drinks or shots up but it has a strong flavor. so its hard to balance it. i did basic grape flavored drinks and martinis but never really got popular.......