Tia Maria

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Mudslide

Here’s another version of a coffee and cream-filled glass of sublime luxury known as a Mudslide. It’s usually a cold cocktail so we’ve tweaked it a bit to suit a Hot Cocktail recipe, enjoy. I’ve specified 60ml for each of the liqueurs and the vodka, the only reason being that our milk frother is marked […]

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Calypso Coffee

The origins of Calypso Coffee and it’s variants are hotly debated, 19th century Vienna, Germany, Denmark and France all make a claim to cream topped coffee liqueurs. Wikipedia has a very good article on the history of Irish Coffee. Several places claim to have developed the modern recipe in the 1950s. One version is attributed

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Hot White Russian

Our Hot White Russian is a delicious version of the classic White Russian cocktail which itself is based on the very well known Black Russian. This Hot Cocktail can be drunk at any time of the day, it can serve as a delightfully boozy afternoon pick-me-up, or bring any meal to a close, acting as

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Avalanche

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

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Brandy Alexander

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

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