Payday Shot

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This Payday Shot is a sweet, 3 ingredient shot recipe that is meant to taste like a Payday Chocolate Bar. It’s served in a shot glass with a caramel and peanut rim for an extra decadent shot.

A Payday chocolate bar is made with peanuts, caramel and chocolate. This shot tastes like you are drinking a liquid version of a Payday chocolate bar.

For some more shot recipes that are modelled after chocolate and other desserts, try this Salted Nut Roll Shot, this Snickers Shot, this Wedding Cake Shooter, or this Carrot Cake Shot.

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• Why You’ll Love This Recipe
• Ingredients & Substitutions
• How To Make A Payday Shot
• Expert Tips
• Recipe FAQs
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Why You’ll Love This Recipe

• Tastes like a Payday Bar — If you like Payday chocolate bars, you will love this shot recipe that is packed with peanut & caramel flavor!
• 3 Ingredients — This is a really simple shot recipe to make. Just shake the three ingredients together in a cocktail shaker and strain into some shot glasses.
• Holiday Shot Recipe — Any decadent dessert shooter recipe is perfect for Thanksgiving or Christmas, and this one is no exception.

Ingredients & Substitutions

• Peanut Butter Whiskey: You’ll need some type of peanut butter whiskey, such as Screwball Whiskey. However, you can use regular whiskey with a dash of peanut butter syrup as a substitute.
• Baileys: Baileys Irish Cream makes this shot extra creamy. Use Caramel Baileys for an extra boost of caramel flavor. As a substitute, you can use RumChata instead.
• Butterscotch Schnapps: Use whatever type of butterscotch schnapps you have available. You can use caramel vodka as a substitute.
• Caramel: Caramel sauce is used for lining the rim of the shooter glass. Use a thick caramel syrup that will stay in place. Caramel simple syrup is too thin and will run down the side of the glass.
• Peanuts: A few peanuts are used to make the peanut caramel shot glass rim. You can use plain peanuts, salted peanuts or sugar coated ones, whichever you prefer.

How To Make A Payday Shot

Step 1: Dip the rim of your shot glass in the caramel syrup, then roll it in the crushed peanuts.

Step 2: Add the Baileys, butterscotch schnapps and peanut butter whiskey to a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake well for 20 seconds and strain into your prepared shot glass.

Expert Tips

• Let the shot glasses set upside down. If you find the caramel sauce is dripping down the side of the glass, let the shot glasses set upside down on a plate or paper towel in the fridge for 10 minutes before serving the shot.
• Double the recipe for shooters. This recipe is meant for shot glasses (1 ½ ounces). If you want to make these shooters, double the quantity so they fill a shooter glass (3 ounces).
• Add some extra garnish. The caramel peanut rim is already plenty garnish for this shot recipe, but if you want to make it even more extravagant, try adding a dollop of whipped cream with an extra drizzle of caramel or chocolate sauce.

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