Articles Tagged: vanilla
Bourbon Ice Cream topped with Poached Peaches and Hazelnut Crunch
Maker’s Mark Ice Cream
Makes 1 1/2 pints
Ingredients:
2 cups whole milk
1 vanilla bean split lengthwise and scraped
4 large yolks
½ cup sugar
1 pinch salt
¼ cup Maker’s Mark®
Instructions:
1. Combine the milk, salt, scraped vanilla bean and seeds in a medium saucepan and bring to a boil. Remove from the heat, cover with plastic wrap, and infuse 10 minutes.
2. While the milk is being infused, whisk together the … Read more
DIY Apple-Vanilla Bourbon
It’s Fall, dammit! Time to get cozy with some autumnal booze.
The great thing about this simple apple-vanilla bourbon is that it’s so flexible: You can drink it alone, in a Manhattan or in a new creation of your own. (To learn how to design your own recipes, check out our book: DIY Cocktails.)
Granny Smith apples give a bright, pie-like flavor to the infusion. You can use any kind of apple, but sweeter apples … Read more
Pumpkin Spice Mexican Coffee
Ingredients:
1/4 cup Sauza Blue Silver Tequila
1/2 cup cream
2 tablespoons pumpkin spice syrup
2 tablespoons sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
1 1/2 cups freshly brewed hot coffee
Whipped cream
Directions:
In a saucepan, combine cream with pumpkin syrup, sugar, vanilla and spice. Brew your coffee and divide it between two mugs. To each mug add half of the Sauza Blue Tequila and the cream mixture … Read more
Dublin Delight
Courtesy Grey Goose Vodka.… Read more
Hula Dancer’s Delight
Courtesy of Skyy Vodka.… Read more
Chocolate Chile Bohemia Ice Cream
Ingredients
1 large pasilla negro chile, stemmed, seeded, deveined
1 1/3 cups half-and-half
2 ounces Mexican chocolate, chopped into small pieces
3 ounces semi-sweet chocolate, chopped into ¼-inch pieces
4 egg yolks
½ cup sugar
1 1/3 cups heavy (whipping) cream
1 ½ teaspoons pure vanilla, preferably Mexican
¼ cup Bohemia beer
Instructions
In a small skillet heated over medium, toast the chile, pressing it flat against the skillet with a metal spatula until it … Read more
Italian Toddy
Oh my, it is cold everywhere. So cold that some have declared Global Warming over! Of course, we know it is cold because it is winter here in the Northern Hemisphere. So what does this have to do with cocktails? Nothing, except this little number will warm you up. Made with Tuaca, a 70-proof brandy-based Italian liqueur with flavors of vanilla and orange.… Read more
Holiday Cocktails from Chivas Regal
Courtesy of Chivas Regal.
December Cocktail
Ingredients:
1 ¼ oz Chivas Regal 12 yo
Dash cinnamon syrup
2 oz apple juice
Instructions:
Build all the ingredients in an old-fashioned glass and add ice cubes. (Cinnamon syrup can be made by mixing equal parts of powder sugar and warm water. Heat with a stick of cinnamon and let rest until cold, when the cinnamon will have infused fully). Garnish with a pinch of Cinnamon powder, flamed.… Read more
Pumpkin Caipirinha
It’s almost Halloween, so bring out the pumpkin cocktails! This one uses cachaca–a spirit similar to rum made from cane sugar. Photo and recipe courtesy of Leblon Cachaça.… Read more