More than just Irish Coffee
As puddings go, you would be hard-pressed to top a good Bramble Crumble. If you don’t have the ingredients, or time, to make the full-blown dessert, why not just give the Bramble Cocktail a try. All the taste with very little of the washing up, result! There are plenty of Blackberry Cocktail recipes on the […]
Did you go blackberry picking as a kid? Well, try this Blackberry Lemon Smash and you’ll realise that the pastime is not just for the kids or the crumble! We’ve based this Hot Cocktail on a recipe from Yay! for Food which is full of recipes using seasonal ingredients and fresh flavours. Ingredients: 50ml White
Try this delicious, comforting, hot Grapefruit Daiquiri, the complete opposite to the normal frozen version. Daiquiri is a family of cocktails whose main ingredients are rum, citrus juice, and sugar or other sweetener. The daiquiri is one of the six basic drinks listed in David A. Embury’s classic The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks, which
Did you know that grapefruit juice is not just for breakfast? Try this delicious, warming, Grapefruit Paloma and you’ll be looking for grapefruit juice at all times of the day! The Paloma is normally a tequila-based cocktail. This drink is most commonly prepared by mixing tequila, lime juice, and a grapefruit-flavoured soda such as Fresca,
This Tuscan Pear Cocktail takes me back to when we were travelling through that part of Italy, remembering the beautiful scenery whilst sitting here in front of a roaring fire watching the snow falling outside. Youtube has some great videos showing you how to make fantastic versions of limoncello although even to buy, it is
Imagine you are in a Bond movie while you sip your delicious warm Peartini, hot frothed, not stirred! The earliest form of the “shaken, not stirred” motif appears in the first Bond novel, Casino Royale (1953). After meeting his CIA contact Felix Leiter for the first time, Bond orders a drink from a barman while at the casino. ‘A dry martini,’
You’ve all heard what we should do with the drunken sailor and now, with the Pear Spiced Sailor, you can really get into the spirit of the song and join in the fun! This is a light, refreshing Hot Cocktail with lots of flavours vying for your attention. Feel free to miss out some of
I remember Gypsy Tart being my hands-down favourite dessert on the school dinner menu and it was never on often enough. Now you can have the comforting taste of it at any time you like with just the press of a button. If you’re really feeling nostalgic try this recipe from the BBC Good Food
We’ve all enjoyed a Bloody Mary but this Carrot Cake gives a nice fruity twist to the vegetable-based cocktail and might even help you see in the dark, will it? The idea that it might is due to a myth begun by the Air Ministry in World War II. To prevent the Germans from finding
As puddings go, you would be hard pressed to top a good Apple & Rhubarb Crumble, topped with lashings of double cream. If you don’t have the ingredients, or time, to make the full blown dessert, why not just give this cocktail a try. All the taste with none of the washing up, result! Ingredients: