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

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)

Dark Chocolate & Orange Biscuits

I genuinely wonder how these would fair with coffee - I don't drink it myself.  These would be amazing at the end of a meal with a glass of port.  This I know as there was a little excessive quality control testing on my part with these.  As always when dealing with chocolate get the best quality chocolate and cocoa you can.  Drinking Chococolate is not a suitable substitute in this recipe

Ingredients:
50g Plain Flour
25g Cocoa (I used Green & Blacks)
1 orange
50g Butter
25g Sugar
25g Dark Chocolate

Method:

1. Using a sharp paring knife peel a piece of orange rind from the top of the orange to the base being careful to take as little of the pith (the white part under the skin) with you. On a cutting board shred that into fine slivers.  Grate the remainder of the rind on the finest part of the grater again being careful to avoid the pith.
2. Cream butter and sugar and add orange zest and slivers.
3. Sieve Cocoa and Flour together to blend and remove lumps.  Add two thirds to the butter sugar mix in batches and mix well.
4. Chop Dark Chocolate quite fine (these biscuits will be rolled out quite thinly) add to the remaining flour before adding whole lot into the biscuit dough and mixing well
5. Form a large ball with the dough, wrap it in cling film and chill in the fridge for 30 mins
6. Preheat the oven to 190C
7. Roll out thinly and cut with a glass or cookie cutters.  Bake on a baking sheet in the oven for 10mins.
8. Allow to cool on the baking sheet for 5 mins before transferring them to a cooling rack.

Orange and Lavender Cookies

This is the place where I would have entered a recipe about Lavender and Orange biscuits but the following happened - I tasted them!  I had seen the combination in a recipe book in cake form and thought to myself wow that really is something pretty wonderful and applied the same logic in an appropriate ratio.  Nasty Nasty Nasty