More than just Irish Coffee
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,’ […]
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:
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
Jen’s Creamy Sighs is fairly similar to the ABC Hot Cocktail listed elsewhere in that it has Ameretto and Baileys but the orange from the Grand Marnier and the coffee takes the taste off into another direction. This would be the perfect drink for an afternoon break, sitting in the sun and enjoying the company
I was looking around the internet, trying to find a whisky-based cocktail that I could turn into a Hot Cocktail and found “The Avalanche”. The only problem was that there were ten different recipes, including some with vodka or gin. I’ve had to work very hard to adapt and tweak the recipes and just accept
The ABC Hot Cocktail is a rare treat, don’t try too many of these! Wetherspoons is a pub renowned for its cheap food and drinks, until, that is, you go there with Lucy’s mate Karen. The pair of them have discovered ABC, a Cocktail that’s double shots of Ameretto, Baileys and Cognac, all mixed up
We can’t be drinking spirits all night long… think of the little children! We’ve been experimenting with Hot Chocolate Recipes and our two top taste testers have been testing, evaluating, marking and adjusting our ideas so here are Emma and Darcy’s Top Ten Hot Chocolate recipes. Naturally, we’re going super simple here. Ingredients: 1tsp of
Brandy Alexander, a heady mix of brandy and cream AND chocolate. What is there not to love about this taste sensation. A Brandy Alexander is a brandy-based dessert cocktail, consisting of cognac, crème de cacao, and cream, that became popular during the early 20th century. It is a variation of an earlier, gin-based cocktail called simply an Alexander. The cocktail known as