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 […]
Mulled Rosé is a variation on the Mulled Wine theme but with some subtle taste variations. This is far easier to drink than normal Mulled Wine recipes due to the lighter flavourings from the wine but don’t make the mistake of overdoing it, this is still pretty powerful stuff. Ingredients: 50ml Cherry Brandy or Grand Marnier
Hot Chocolate Gin has been inspired by the Hotel Chocolat website where they mention their range of Cocoa Gin Liqueurs. This got me looking at cocoa, what is it? What is cacao? Is it different or just two spellings of the same word? On closer inspection, it looks like Hotel Chocolat are confused on this
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,’
Sex on the beach is a classic cocktail and on a hot sunny day is a fantastic cooling drink so we’ve bought it up to date and given it our little hot tweak. According to the International Bartenders Association, the official recipe contains vodka, peach schnapps, orange and cranberry juice however you can also find
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
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:
Let’s go back in time to the groovy ’70s for a retro dessert based cocktail called Hot Pineapple Upside Down Cocktail. I’m sure you all remember the dessert cake of the same name so why not try making it at home with all those flavours to take you dancing down memory lane. Ingredients: 25ml White rum
Just imagine, the taste of a Hot Cherry Bakewell tart, in a glass, puts a whole new look on Afternoon Tea. As we all know, Mr Kipling bakes exceedingly good cakes but he wasn’t thinking about a Hot Cocktail. Here we have taken the very essence of one of his cakes and transformed it into