More than just Irish Coffee
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 […]
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 the weather starts to cool off in the evenings and you start to crave hot desserts after dinner, what could be more warming than a lovely Sticky Toffee Pudding Cocktail. While we were touring Europe in our motorhome we visited Sanlucar in the south of Spain, located on one of the corners of the
If you love mint chocolate, then this Drunk Grasshopper is just the cocktail you have been looking for! This cocktail got its name because of the rich green colour (due to the creme de menthe), and it is sweet, rich, and perfectly minty. It was invented over 100 years ago in New Orleans in Tujague’s Restaurant,
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
There are a few recipes for Prince Pum King on the internet, you might want to have a look at this one at Nashville Noise to see how much work you could be doing and you’ll come to realise how much hard work I have been putting into these recipes to make them simple and
Traditionally when making Eggnog you would separate the yolks from the whites, whip up the yolk with all of the other ingredients and store it in the fridge for a week before folding in the egg whites which have been whipped to stiff peaks. Seems like a lot of kerfuffle to me and takes away
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
If you don’t fancy traditional Eggnog this Christmas, why not give our Yuletide Gin Flip a go to get the party started. This recipe is a little bit more involved than usual but we think the end result is well worth the effort. Ingredients: 30ml gin 20ml triple sec (or other orange liqueur) 20ml Irish
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