Friday, April 6, 2012

Mars & Baileys Ice-Cream Sauce

Warm gooey sauce for grown ups who like ice-cream

A couple of mars bars
Baileys

Method
  1. Chop up your mars bars nice and small  so that it melts really quick (patience isnt always a strong suit of mine)
  2. Add Baileys a little at a time and mix well. I havent specified how much Baileys (after all who am I to judge) but you want a thick pouring consistency

Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Oreo Cocktail (Cookies and Cream Cocktail)

I have a few of the cutest babysham glasses from the 60's (a bit like a martini glass) and this gave me a chance to use them.  In terms of decorating for this cocktail you can dip the rim in water as you would for salting a rim but instead of dipping it in salt you can use oreo crumbs instead.  The other thing that you can do is to just stick a whole oreo in the cocktail for dipping purposes.

Oreos
Galliano/Baileys
Cream

Method
  1. In a blender put a glassful of ice, a shot of cream a shot of alcohol
  2. Blend baby blend
  3. Add an Oreo
  4. Blend baby Blend
  5. Pour in prepared glass
  6. If you want to make it a bit more swish consider adding some chocolate vodka

Milk and Cookies Cocktail Party

Milk and Cookies was the theme for my birthday this year.  But it was a little less innocent than the name suggests.  Normally I would use 1 part alcohol to 4 or 5 parts base but due to the amount of ice I upped the alcohol content to taste.

Drinks
Obviously there was milk but I popped some ice-cubes in the blender and started mixing
  • Galliano - Vanilla Liqueur
  • Kahlua - Coffe Liqueur (alt. Tia Maria)
  • Baileys - Irish Cream Liqueur (alt. Any Irish Cream Liquer)
  • Mickey Finns Butterscotch Liqueur
  • Homemade Chocolate Vodka
This is what I knew going in:
Kahlua + Milk = Brown Cow
Gad's homemade speciality - Brown Goo = Vodka + Kahlua + Vanilla Ice Cream + Coke
Kahlua + Baileys 'head' = Baby Guinness

This is what I learned:
Galliano + Milk = Tastes like a vanilla milkshake only lighter
Kahlua + Galliano = Vanilla Frappuchino
Kahlua + Chocolate Vodka = Mocha Frappuchino
Oreo Cocktail

The rest can be mixed with Milk or Cream or each other, ad. nauseum 

Cookies
Homemade and Shop Bought just cause I have this weird fondness for oreos.
(I also like Bourbon Creams but I didnt have them)