Easter booze pairing

AP:

Easter candy is dandy. But Easter candy paired with booze? Now that's something to put a spring in your step. So we asked wine and spirits connoisseurs to come up with something the adults can sip on while the youngsters hunt for sugary splendour in the grass.

Wine and chocolate can be a tricky pairing.

Cadbury Creme Eggs

Chocolate creme eggs come on strong with their thick milk chocolate shell and rich, gooey filling. So you want to look for a wine with some heft.

Daniel Cubicciotti, brand ambassador for port producers The Fladgate Partnership, suggests a slightly chilled glass of Taylor Fladgate 10-year-old Tawny Porto to stand up to the richness of the candy with its rich, fruity flavours and notes of caramel. This fortified wine also would be a good match for another Easter classic, Jordan Almonds.

Hollow Chocolate Eggs

Niccole Trzaska of The Liberty bar in New York City has come up with a Sriracha spiced cocktail, the hippity-hot, that she says is "oddly delicious" with those ubiquitous foil-wrapped hollow chocolate eggs (a bunny would work here, too).

In a shaker, she mixes 1 1/2 ounces vodka, 1/4 ounce vanilla liqueur, 1/4 ounce lime juice, 1/4 ounce cranberry juice, a drizzle of Sriracha and a dash of simple syrup. Then she shakes and strains into a glass and garnishes with a lime wheel.