#Topped With A Float Of Chambord Liqueur

[laura-mcintosh]

Smoking Zombie ‘ Skyy Vodka, Seagram’S Gin, Bacardi Rum, Triple Sec And Sour Mix With Dry Ice For A Smoky Effect, Topped With A Float Of Chambord Liqueur

[softgrungeprophet]

johnny storm/human torch cocktail:

no measurements cause i don’t plan on making it and if you do you can figure it out yourself

hurricane glass, poco grande, or a tiki bowl if you really want

base of cachaça (mixer’s choice tbh but the paler color the better) or some kind of sugarcane white rum.... A mezcal might also be a good alternative choice for this... (for smokiness or deeper flavor) We want it to be as white or as clear as possible... so if you want to use an aged cachaça, go as pale as possible, or if you want to use a regular white rum instead... it’s up to personal taste/availability really but IDEALLY it should be cachaça and/or mezcal. You could try to combine the two, or combine rum with one of them, or just pick one... If it works, it works, if it doesn’t, my apologies. I have no guinea pigs on which to test this particular combo.

enough blue curaçao to make it blue and impart that laraha flavor. I’m not sure how strong the base is compared to this, or how much would be overpowering so, add enough to make it blue and to make sure it doesn’t taste like garbage. 👌 (off the top of my head i’m thinking like, 2 parts base, 1 part curacao.)

a bit of goldschlager or any clear cinnamon schnapps or spiced liqueur really...  I picked goldschlager because of the gold flakes and the clear color but you can use whatever u like depending on how sweet you want it, or even leave it out though I imagine the cinnamon goes with the citrus, goes with the base. ideally colorless regardless. Add as much as you think works, but probably not more than half as much as the curacao if that. Probably much less.

edible gold luster dust. Not too much, just enough to add a gold shimmer.

stir it all up. actually this might be a drink best chilled by shaking with ice and straining out so it’s clear before stirring in the luster dust.

light it on fire. (don’t actually do that)

hypothetically you would use a soaked and flaming sugar cube in an orange peel shell or boat. i won’t say to use lemon extract to soak the sugar cube because fire is dangerous but, that’s a thing. don’t do it though. and definitely don’t sprinkle cinnamon on it unless you are planning to burn your house down.

.....

this drink can flame on metaphorically in your heart.

if you’re making it without fire, which you most certainly should be, top it with a nice orange peel twist to make it look fancy

If you’re like me and don’t drink, the way I’d go for a virgin human torch (ha) would be a nice high quality ginger ale (aka not too sweet, with a little bit of kick) mixed with orange juice (optionally mulled in cinnamon and spices (and chilled)).... would not be blue unfortunately, though I guess you could use blue colored hawaiian punch (polar blast, i think) instead of orange juice, though it still might end up greenish depending on how dark your ginger ale is. getting very close to a virgin Blue Hawaiian here.... Some cinnamon simple syrup might still work here, I’d have to try it to really know, but it seems like it would probably be less good if you’re using tropical fruit punch lol especially if you use the other blue shade of hawaiian punch which i think is a berry fruit punch.... to be fair I don’t like berry fruit punches that much already but with cinnamon syrup and ginger ale it sounds extra nasty

you know what, for shits and giggles here’s spider-man, too:

use any clear glass or cup you have lying around, highball, martini, wine, children’s winnie the pooh cup with floating sparkles, whatever works

RED: lemon-lime soda of your choice mixed with cranberry juice cocktail

OR if you wanna be a little more Mature/less syrupy sweet, you can swap the sprite/7-up for club soda or swap the juice cocktail for pure cranberry juice or muddled cranberries and some squeezes of lemon and/or lime juice, maybe throw some slices in the glass too, why not, anything goes. If you fucking hate cranberries like me, you could also try some grenadine or chambord instead of cranberry juice... MOST of the flavor and sweetness is going to be from this portion so make sure you like the taste and levels of sweetness. Hell if you wanna use a totally different soda like orange soda or juice like fruit punch or raspberry cider, go nuts. This is a kitchen sink drink, like the kind you would make at 2 am in your apartment after a long day.

BLUE: some everclear or high proof vodka mixed with a bit of blue food coloring (yes i’m serious) poured over the back of a spoon to float on the top of the red base (everclear or vodka with food coloring SHOULD float on top of the sweeter and denser soda/juice base) You could probably use blue curacao again here tbh, or even better, UV blue vodka, which is raspberry flavored... I’m not enough of a chemist to know if that will float as well but I suspect it still should, cause it should still be less dense than sprite or juice. If you’re using chambord or a fruit liqueur for the red part instead of the cranberry/soda it should still be fine, cause UV blue is still... vodka... Curacao on the other hand miiiight not float as easily on top of something like chambord but it might still be workable? depending on the respective ABVs and stuff. i guess you could try to flip the colors and make the denser sweet base out of blue typhoon hawaiian punch and sprite or something and float the chambord on top. Whatever you desire.

simple syrup lemon juice + salt rim (is this gross? this might be weird)

toss in some ice cubes. maybe a straw if you want. do whatever.

and remember

with great power comes great responsibility

what i’m saying is use your brain, don’t get alcohol poisoning, and don’t drive.

this also doubles as a 4th of july drink

i’d drink a non alcoholic version of this--actually that’s a lie cause i don’t like cranberry but i do like orange sprite so 🤔 Virgin Spidey = tropical sprite... maybe some muddled raspberries or strawberries... OR grenadine... top with some blue typhoon hawaiian punch or a blue soda.  grenadine will probably sink to the bottom even if you use blue soda, since it’s a syrup and much denser, but you could also use the muddled fruit for a red layer tbh... yeah that works. doesn’t sound half bad either

i doubt anyone will make these but if you do god i wanna know if they’re awful/if they look pretty/take pictures

uhhh... i also have some other drinks not *based on* characters but just that they drank in a fic here: link to drinks

[thebackoftheshelf]

Death and Taxes

30ml bourbon (Maker’s Mark)

30ml Chambord

10ml lemon juice

2-3ml absinthe (Jade 1901)

Dash Peychaud’s bitters

Combine all ingredients except for absinthe in shaker. Shake over ice and strain into a chilled coupe glass. Float absinthe on top. Garnish with two raspberries and a lemon peel impaled on a cocktail skewer.

This is the first original creation to grace this blog. I was inspired by a quote I stumbled across; most commonly attributed to Benjamin Franklin: “In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” He wrote this in a letter to a French physicist, and I like the phrase so much I wanted to create a drink named after it.

I had several aims: to use something American, something French, and hopefully a whisk(e)y. The American comes from the Maker’s Mark, a high-corn bourbon. It’s a sweeter whiskey which played well. Bulleit Rye didn’t as much, according to my notes. The addition of Laphroaig was hastily reversed.

The French comes from the Chambord; a black raspberry liqueur which I adore; and the absinthe. Jade 1901 is incredible - though I haven’t tried many. I actually got this bottle by accident: I ordered a 200ml bottle for £20, and they charged me £30 and sent me a 700ml bottle. A full size bottle is worth £60 so there were no complaints on my end! 

Peychaud’s was a natural progression from here; famously used in the Sazerac and with strong ties to New Orleans which itself contained mixes of French and American culture it brings the anise a little more forward in the actual flavour. Lemon juice to cut back on the sweetness of the Chambord - though I found any more began to erase the raspberry flavour.

Balancing everything took some time and I may carry on tweaking this in future, primarily to try and bring the whiskey forward a touch more without losing too much raspberry but as it stands it’s one of my favourite drinks. It’s strong, the whiskey base is there but mainly serves as a platform for the dark raspberry taste of Chambord and the anise hit on the nose is wonderful. I hadn’t been able to garnish it the way I envisioned until now either, so I enjoyed this one even more.

Original recipe; © Benjamin Talbot (2017).

[barinacraft]

Black Gold Cocktails, Shooters and Drinks

Derrick I Say I Told You So

Mixologists struck oil with this drink name as you can tell from the gusher of Black Gold cocktails and shooters listed below. 10 recipes so far and counting.

Behind The Bar

Black Gold Cocktail #1:

¾ oz Captain Morgan spiced rum

¾ oz Jose Cuervo Gold tequila

1 splash Sierra Mist lemon-lime soda

2 dashes grenadine

Add the rum and tequila to an old-fashioned glass filled with ice. Top off with lemon-lime soda and a little grenadine. Garnish with a slice of lime and a cherry.

Note: Thistledown Racino in North Randall, OH near Cleveland unveiled this Black Gold drink recipe as the official cocktail of the Ohio Derby in 2010. Named after the only horse to win both the Kentucky and Ohio Derbies, this drink joins a long list of horse racing themed cocktails along with the Mint Julep, Black Eyed Susan, Belmont Breeze and many others.

Black Gold Cocktail #2:

4 oz black coffee

¼ oz orange liqueur

¼ oz almond liqueur

¼ oz Irish cream

¼ oz golden hazelnut liqueur

1 dash cinnamon schnapps

Add everything but the hot coffee and schnapps into an Irish Coffee glass. Then pour in the remaining ingredients, stir and top with whipped cream. Garnish with a cinnamon stick.

Black Gold Cocktail #3:

1 ½ oz Jameson Caskmates Irish whiskey

¾ oz Kahlúa coffee liqueur

1 dash Angostura bitters

Build in a rocks glass over ice and stir gently. Garnish with a flamed orange twist.

Black Gold Cocktail #4:

1 oz Michter’s rye whiskey

½ oz Bärenjäger honey liqueur

1 tsp Suze Saveur d’autrefois gentian liqueur

3 dashes Fee Brothers whiskey barrel aged bitters

1 Filthy Food black cherry garnish

Stir over ice, strain into a chilled coupe and add the garnish.

Note: Megan Bardoe won the 2014 Bärenjäger honey liqueur cocktail competition during their 5th Annual Bartender Competition in New York, NY that year with this recipe.

Black Gold Cocktail #5:

1 ½ oz Bacardi Carta Oro gold rum

⅔ oz Bénédictine herbal liqueur

⅔ oz fresh squozen lime juice

⅓ oz Kamm & Sons bittersweet botanical ginseng liqueur

1 tsp Sabatino Tartufi black truffle honey

Stir together, then shake with ice, strain and pour over a large ice ball. Garnish with a grapefruit peel twist.

Note: This Chinese BACARDÍ Legacy 2016 winning cocktail by Choni Song of The Nest in Shanghai was one of the eight grand finalists in the global competition held in San Francisco.

Black Gold / Oil Spill Shot:

¼ oz Jagermeister

¾ oz Goldschlager

Float Jagermeister over a reservoir of Goldschlager for a colorful bittersweet shooter.

Black Gold Shot #2:

¾ oz Goldschlager

¼ oz Romana Black sambuca

Combine or stripe the black anise flavored liqueur with cold gold flaked cinnamon schnapps in a shot glass.

Black Gold Shot #3:

½ oz Goldschlager

½ oz Chambord

Layer the gold flaked cinnamon schnapps over the top of the black raspberry liqueur by slowly pouring over the back of a barspoon.

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Black Gold Drink #1:

4 oz Karlsson's Gold vodka

1 black peppercorn

Fresh crack the black pepper over the top of this small batch potato vodka on the rocks. Maybe bake in a little cream too.

Black Gold Drink #2:

1 ½ oz CÎROC Amaretto

3 oz cola

Build the almond vodka and kola nut soft drink in a rocks glass over ice. Stir.

Up Through The Ground Came A Bubbling Cocktail

Drinks that is, Black Gold, Texas Tea.

Based on the words from the Beverly Hillbillies theme song, one or more of these recipes above would be perfect as an NFL football team cocktail for the former Houston Oilers, now the Houston Texans. All you have to do is choose.

Other drinks that start with ‘B.’

[paul-tudor-owen]

The Weighing of the Heart by Paul Tudor Owen – the cocktail

Nicole at the Bookworm Drinketh describes The Weighing of the Heart as having "beautiful prose" that "kept me wanting more".

She has also come up with an amazing cocktail inspired by the novel...

Okay, so this choice of cocktail may have been somewhat obscure. But, the entire premise of the book is highly wrapped in Egyptian mythology. The scarab being mentioned many times to “prevent your heart from testifying against you on that dreadful day of judgement”. I can only hope that this drink will do the same!

INGREDIENTS

1 ounce vodka

1/2 ounce melon liqueur, (like Midori)

1/2 ounce raspberry liqueur, (like Chambord)

1/2 ounce blue curacao

2 ounces sweet and sour mix

1 1/2 ounces cranberry juice

Ice

DIRECTIONS

Fill a double old-fashioned glass with ice. 

To the glass add the vodka, melon liqueur, raspberry liqueur, blue curaçao, and sweet & sour.

Pour the cranberry juice on top of the drink. You can let the juice float or stir it in for a creepy color change.

Bottoms up!

The Weighing of the Heart has been shortlisted for the People's Book Prize 2020. Vote for it here.

And buy it for only 99p on Kindle here.

[carolinescookingblog]

Sangria is a summer classic, but cava sangria is that bit more special. Light, refreshing and a wonderful mix of fruit and cava’s bubbles. Quick to make, it’s an easy cocktail perfect for any occasion from summer BBQs to holiday parties.

When I lived in Spain, I didn’t actually have sangria all that often. More typically, we drank wine (usually red) or beer, plus some cocktails in Madrid. Most special occasions, and sometimes just any old excuse to get together, meant cracking open some cava. Now and again, though, we would enjoy a pitcher of sangria. And one of the times I remember most was when we had cava sangria.

The town I lived in in Catalunya wasn’t that big and when I was there, it always seemed to play second fiddle to another town on the coast nearby. It didn’t have as many options for going out although we did find some good food, with favorites like patatas bravas, llescas (Catalan pizza bread) and others, but the venues weren’t exactly trendy. But that started to change (and has much more now, as I found when I returned a few years back). It was in one of the newer trendy places that I first had cava sangria and I was immediately taken with it.

I had already grown to love cava which I find massively under-appreciated outside of Spain. Champagne gets the glory but I find some cavas have a much rounder flavor that I personally prefer. But then I maybe shouldn’t promote it too much as it’s quite nice being a lot cheaper. Anyway, I was a bit worried this would ruin it for me. But the thing to remember about sangria is it’s really a different drink. Yes, it’s mainly wine – in this case sparkling – but it’s transformed with the fruity additions and little kick from a spirit of two.

How it’s made

With a regular sangria (and my white sangria), you are often best to leave it to chill and for the flavors to mingle a bit before serving. Cava sangria is different. At most you mix up the fruit, juice and spirits but you don’t want to add the cava until right before serving so you don’t lose the bubbles. Otherwise, though, it’s very similar. Mix some orange juice, a little lemon and an orange liqueur (grand marnier, triple sec etc). You can also add brandy but it’s up to you if you want it stronger or not. Add chopped fruit, mix it up then carefully add the cava and serve over ice.

Cava sangria has a lovely slight bubbliness, plenty of fruity flavors and is a lovely light drink. But don’t be fooled, there’s a bit of a lingering kick, too. It’s the perfect drink for a party, or even just a lazy summer afternoon when you feel like something different. Whatever the excuse, find one and give this easy drink a try.

Cava sangria

Fresh, fruity and perfect for summer entertaining.

1 cup orange juice (240ml)

1/2 lemon (juice)

1/4 cup triple sec/grand marnier or other orange liqueur (60ml)

1/4 cup brandy (60ml, optional)

2 peaches

1 orange

1 cup sliced strawberries (160g)

750 ml bottle cava

1 tbsp sugar (optional, or a little more to taste)

Mix together the orange juice, lemon juice, orange liqueur and brandy, if using, in a glass pitcher/jug. Slice the peaches, orange and strawberries and add them to the pitcher. Put in fridge to chill if not using immediately.

Carefully add the cava to the pitcher, trying to avoid it bubbling up too much, mix gently and add a little sugar to taste if you like (1-2tbsp at most). Add some ice and serve, with a little more ice in the glasses.

Try these other summer sippers:

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white sangria with whiskey, apple and peach

papaya lemonade

papaya lemonade

raspberry collins cocktail

See all the other easy summer drinks being shared for today’s Sunday Supper:

Classics with a Twist

Blackberry Gin Mule by A Kitchen Hoor’s Adventures

Boozy Rootbeer Float by My Life Cookbook

Classic Long Island Iced Tea by Grumpy’s Honeybunch

Frozen Banana Daiquiri by Restless Chipotle

Frozen Strawberry Daiquiri by A Day in the Life on the Farm

Pimm’s Cup by Sew You Think You Can Cook

Spiked Arnold Palmer Cocktails by Hardly A Goddess

St. Germain Gin and Tonic Cocktail by That Skinny Chick Can Bake

Make Mine a Mocktail

Dreamsicle Mocktail by The Freshman Cook

Watermelon Mint Mocktail by Bites of Wellness

Simply Different

Florida Cider Caipirinha by Gourmet Everyday

Raspberry Lemon Blush by Our Good Life

Screwmosa Cocktail by Food Lust People Love

Skip and Go Naked by Positively Stacey

Spiked Spa Water by Simple and Savory

Tasty and Tropical

Blackberry Mojitos by The Chef Next Door

Fresh Cherry Margaritas by The Crumby Cupcake

Frozen Peach Margaritas by Pies and Plots

Perfect Pina Colada by My Imperfect Kitchen

Pineapple Margaritas by Hezzi-D’s Books and Cooks

Prickly Pear Margarita by Palatable Pastime

Strawberry Sunset Lemon Drop by Soulfully Made

Very Vino

Boozy Watermelon Slushies by Cindy’s Recipes and Writings

Cantaloupe Wine Slushie by Family Around the Table

Cava Sangria by Caroline’s Cooking

Easy Red Wine Sangria with Spiced Peaches by Cricket’s Confections

Pink Lemonade Sangria by Baking Sense

Raspberry Lemonade Sparkler by My Blissful Mess

Sparkling Chambord Sangria by Books n’ Cooks

Watermelon Sangria by A Mind Full Mom

For even more inspiration check out these Simple Mixed Drinks for a Refreshing Summer by Sunday Supper Movement Join the #SundaySupper conversation on twitter on Sunday! We tweet throughout the day and share recipes from all over the world. Our weekly chat starts at 7:00 pm ET. Follow the #SundaySupper hashtag and remember to include it in your tweets to join in the chat. To get more great Sunday Supper Recipes, visit our website or check out our Pinterest board. Would you like to join the Sunday Supper Movement? It’s easy. You can sign up by clicking here: Sunday Supper Movement.

Cava sangria #SundaySupper Sangria is a summer classic, but cava sangria is that bit more special. Light, refreshing and a wonderful mix of fruit and cava's bubbles.