Holiday Cocktail Week - Day 3

Good Morning, lovely fan base!


I hope you got a chance to try out some of our Unexpected Yuletide Treats yesterday. I sure added a few "to-drink" items to my holiday list! In the spirit of being absolutely exhausted with all these holiday goings-on, today's theme is Things To Do With Bailey's. (Bailey's reminds me of coffee...) 

Minty Mistletoe

-2 oz. Baileys Original Irish Cream

-.25 oz. Rumple Minze

Directions

Add Baileys Original Irish Cream and Rumple Minze.

Shake with ice and strain into martini glass.

Cherry Café

-1.5 oz. Baileys Coffee Irish Cream

-1 oz. Captain Morgan Original Spiced

-1 dash(es) maraschino cherry juice

-1 tablespoon(s) cinnamon

-1 tablespoon(s) sugar

Directions

Rim martini glass with cinnamon and sugar.

Then drizzle cherry juice in the glass to layer.

Shake Baileys and Captain Morgan with ice, strain, enjoy.

Frozen Russian

-1 oz. Baileys Original Irish Cream

-.25 oz. Smirnoff No. 21 Vodka

-.25 oz. Godiva Chocolate Liqueur

-2 scoop(s) vanilla ice cream

Directions

Add Baileys Original Irish Cream, Smirnoff No.21 Vodka, and Godiva Original Liqueur.

Add vanilla ice cream, blend, and serve in hurricane glass.

Hot Coco Bay

-1 oz. Baileys Original Irish Cream

-1 oz. Captain Morgan Parrot Bay Coconut

-1 oz. hot chocolate

Directions

Add Baileys Original Irish Cream and Captain Morgan Parrot Bay Coconut Rum, and hot chocolate.

Shake and pour into glass.

Corrected Coffee

-2 oz. Baileys Coffee Irish Cream

-0.5 oz. Romana Sambuca

Directions

Build in a snifter and garnish with 3 coffee beans.

Holiday Cocktail Week - Day 2

Good morning, lovelies.

I sure hope you enjoyed yesterday's Traditional Cocktails. Maybe you've even had a chance to try one...? If so, let us know what you thought in the comments! The theme for today's libations is Unexpected Yuletide Treats.

Angel’s Delight

-1 oz cream

-3/4 oz triple sec

-3/4 oz gin

-2-3 dashes grenadine

Directions:

Pour the ingredients into a shaker with ice cubes.

Shake well.

Strain into a chilled cocktail glass.

Dreaming of Zen

-1 oz Zen Green Tea Liqueur

-1/2 oz Midori Melon Liqueur

-3 oz mango juice

-white pepper

-2 oz cream

-mint leaves for garnish

-grated nutmeg for garnish

Directions:

Pour the ingredients into cocktail shaker filled with ice.

Shake well.

Strain into a Champagne flute.

Garnish with a mint leaves and a dash of nutmeg.

Grinch

-2 oz Midori

-1/2 oz lemon juice

-1 tsp simple syrup

-maraschino cherry for garnish

Directions:

Pour the ingredients into a cocktail shaker with ice.

Shake well.

Strain into a chilled cocktail glass.

The Holiday Hopper

-1 oz Midori melon liqueur

-1/2 oz green creme de menthe

-1/2 oz white creme de cacao

-2 oz half and half

-mint leaves for garnish

-raspberry for garnish

Directions:

Pour the ingredients into cocktail shaker filled with ice.

Shake well.

Strain into a cocktail glass.

Garnish with a mint leaves and a raspberry.

La Vie en Rouge

-1 1/2 oz. Grand Marnier

-1 1/2 oz. cranberry juice

-1/2 oz. fresh lemon juice

-1/2 oz. simple syrup

-Fresh rosemary needles

Directions:

In a tall mixing glass, muddle 10-12 rosemary needles lightly with simple syrup.

Add remaining ingredients then add ice and shake vigorously.

Strain over fresh ice into a rocks glass with ice.

Garnish with a rosemary sprig.

Don't forget to visit us at drunkathome.com over the holidays! You'll probably be half-drunk and fully-bored, so you might as well.

Skittles - Good; Vodka - Great; Skittles + Vodka? YES PLEASE.

OMGosh! A thing! A thing I have to tell you about!!

SKITTLES VODKA.

That's right,

Magic.

I think it's just that simple...Add skittles to vodka and viola! Drunken rainbow. Here's the recipe:

1. You need a minimum of 180 individual skittles of each color. Of course, you can always add more to make the vodka more flavorful, but 2 450g bags ought to do the trick.

2. While it might be tempting to use a crappy, cheap vodka to try this out on, the result is vodka that ends up tasting like cold medicine. A better vodka is going to taste better, no matter what you do to it. A 750ml bottle should get you where you're going. You'll need 5 bottles, one for each color.

3. Take the label off the bottles so you can observe the dissolving process. You can even slap your own labels on once you're done!

4. Sort your skittles into different bowls by color.

5. Pour about 1/8 of the bottle of vodka into a reserve container. You'll need to do this for each bottle.

6. Add your skittles to each bottle by color.

7. Once the skittles have been added, top off each bottle that that reserve you set aside earlier. There will be a bit left over so make yourself a drink.

8. Shake each of the bottles a bit to get the dissolving process going.

9. You would think it would take a while for the skittles to dissolve, but they're usually done in about 24-48 hours.

10. Now that the skittles are pretty much dissolved, you need to filter out the white left-over stuff (the filler in the candy, which is NOT tasty, for the record.). The best way is to put some paper towels into a strainer and pour the vodka in bit by bit, obviously with something under the filter to catch it. Like a nice big plastic bowl or something. This takes a minute and the stuff left over is pretty gross, but it's totally worth it.

11. Pour the filtered liquor back into the bottle and enjoy! Word on the street is that green tastes the best, being the most like the original skittle and red tastes the worst, a bit like cough-syrup.

I CAN'T WAIT TO TRY THIS!!!!

And if it does this to my hair, I'm gonna be psyched:

Loads of New Drink Recipes!

I just added tons of new drink recipes to the blog for your drinky enjoyment!

There will certainly be more to come as we are always thinking of more we forgot and finding new and delicious concoctions.

And always remember:

It matters not if the glass is half-empty or half-full;
either way, there's more room for alcohol!!!