New from Kahlua comes Kahlua Coffee Cream. This limited edition foray into the coffee cream category simply combines Kahlua’s classic 100 percent Arabica coffee liqueur with fresh cream. The result is a rich and full of a creamy coffee flavor with just a slight hint of booziness.
At 17 proof it is tame enough to enjoy all night.
Straight up or over ice, Kahlua Coffee Cream makes a mighty fine after dinner drink. It goes great over vanilla ice cream too!
On the more serious side, it is mighty fine when mixed with vodka, I will refer to as the Black & White Russian. New York based Mixologist, Julio De Los Santos created a few cocktails to enjoy with Kahlua Coffee Cream.
Kahlua Cognaccino
1 part Kahlua Coffee Cream
1/2 part Amaretto
1 part Martell V.S. Cognac
Combine all ingredients into cocktail shaker. Shake and strain into
a flute dusted with nutmeg.
Kahlua Mexicano
1 part Kahlua Coffee Cream
1 part Kahlua Coffee Liqueur
1/2 part Sambuca
Combine all ingredients into cocktail shaker. Serve over ice in a
coffee mug.
Kahlua Coffee Cream will be available nationwide October through December for a suggested retail price of $17.99
Sure it still may be September, but Halloween is a mere six weeks away and we can’t wait. Halloween is 2nd to only New Years Eve as the biggest holiday for letting loose. It is number 1 in imagination. To celebrate, Make & Craft Magazines released a special Halloween issue and are holding their 2nd Annual DIY Halloween Contest. There are 5 contest categories in which to compete:
- Hack O’Lantern
- Costume
- Decorations, Haunted house, gadgets, and more
- Food
- Trick or Treat
Entering is as easy as posting a few photos on Flicker and you have until November 4, 2007 to post your project. Make and Craft will be featuring contest entries throughout the contest and in addition to fame, prizes will be awarded to to the winners.
It’s cold! So the folks at Tito’s Handmade Vodka figured they’d warm us up with this Texas treat. Created by mixologist, Russell Davis, this hot chocolate is a boozy mixture of Tito’s, Paula’s Texas Orange Liqueur, chocolate chips (yum), sugar and milk. It is all topped off with marshmallows, grated chocolate and and orange slice.
Texan Hot Chocolate
1 oz Tito’s Handmade Vodka
1/2 oz Paula’s Texas Orange Liqueur
1/3 cup Semi Sweet Chocolate Chips
1/2-1 teaspoon Sugar to taste
8 oz Whole Milk
Marshmallows
A Fresh Orange
Combine Paula’s Texas Orange, chocolate chips, sugar and milk in a pot and bring to a slow boil over low-medium heat as to not burn the Milk. Remove from heat and add Tito’s Handmade Vodka. Pour into favorite coffee/cocoa/tea mug and top with marshmallows. Garnish with an orange twist and shaved/grated chocolate
Jet Set Games wants to help you decide who’s picking up the bar tab. Its new app “Who’s Buying” is a multiplayer game that tests reflexes and sobriety to determine who will be paying for the night’s booze.
What challenges lie ahead?
The Wheel:
Reflexes floundering after a few too many? Sit back and let The Wheel decide your fate. Place your marks and watch as the monkey and his martini shaker decide Who’s Buying…and who still has his clams.
Multiball:
Up to four players can jump in this Polynesian-themed game of ping-pong. The first to let a flaming ball in their goal will find their totem in the woodchipper and their wallet empty.
Bounce Back:
Take control of a tiki and blow your coconut into your opponent’s goal in this Hawaiian-style air hockey game. Who’s Buying? Well, that would be the first person to swallow.
I’m not sure I need this app, since my rule of thumb is you’re paying.
The Domaine de Canton Apple Bob is a spicy play on the traditional Halloween game. Green apple puree gets a kick with Domaine de Canton Ginger Liqueur, tequila and Cointreau. The cocktail is perfect for the chilly nights surrounding Halloween and will make you happy you grew up past sticking in your head in a bucket of water in order to get an apple treat.
Domaine de Canton Apple Bob
1 oz. Domaine de Canton
1 oz. Reposado Tequila
1 oz. green apple puree
1/4 oz. Cointreau
1/2 oz. fresh lime juice
Rim a cocktail glass with cinnamon sugar. Shake all ingredients with ice and strain into the cocktail glass. Garnish with an apple slice.
Halloween means one thing, OK, maybe more that one thing, but one is certainly - Candy! And what is the most popular? Candy Corn.
Invented in the 1880s at the Wunderle Candy Company, candy corn os meant to mimic a whole kernel of corn. Today candy companies produce nearly 35 million pounds of the corn candy each year.
How big is candy corn? So big it needs it’s own day, so as not compete with Halloween. So Candy Corn Day is October 30!
So spot on, one sip of this cocktail might make you forget you aren’t actually eating candy corn…
Candy Corn
1 1/2 oz. Kettle Corn-infused Bombay Sapphire Gin*
1/2 oz. Moscato wine (sweet dessert wine)
3/4 oz. home-made citrus peel grenadine syrup**
Add all ingredients to a cocktail shaker with ice and shake very well. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass.
Garnish: 3 candy corns
*to make Kettle Corn-infused Bombay Sapphire: for every 750ml bottle of Bombay Sapphire, add in 1 cup kettle corn and allow to infused in an airtight container for approx. 24 hrs. Fine strain kettle corn and re-bottle. Store in fridge.
**to make grenadine syrup: for every 1 cup of POM wonderful pomegranate juice, dissolve 1 cup granulated sugar over stove top. Once dissolved, add in the skins of 1 orange and 1 lemon and simmer for 10 mins. Remove skins and chill syrup.