Category: Cocktails & Spirits

TIP: 12 Ways To Use Chocolate Liqueur

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The craze for chocolate Martinis a few years back led many people to buy a bottle of chocolate liqueur. If you still have most of it on the shelf, finish it up this holiday season. Beyond sipping as an after dinner drink or mixing into a cocktail, what else can you do with chocolate liqueur?…
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RECIPE: Currant Cocktail

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Currantlicious: currant juice, vodka and triple sec. Photo courtesy CurrantC.   We are huge fans of CurrantC black currant juice. It looks like grape juice, but don’t let that fool you: It’s a bit grape-like, but currant tastes distinctive, bold, pleasantly tart and sophisticated. It’s the kind of juice wine drinkers would choose if they…
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RECIPE: Kentucky Mule Cocktail

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We saw this Kentucky Mule at Del Frisco’s Steakhouse and thought: what a nice harvest color for Thanksgiving cocktail. Then we went back to research the drink. A Moscow Mule is a more familiar drink: vodka, ginger beer and lime, often served in a copper mug. The Kentucky Mule substitutes bourbon for the vodka and…
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TIP: Easy Coffee Dessert (Adults Only)

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Years ago, at our first visit to The French Laundry in Napa Valley, we ordered a dessert called Coffee and Donuts. What we got: coffee mousse served in a coffee cup, topped with real milk foam and served with a side of beignets, deep fried choux paste (think small fritters). It was a delicious and…
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RECIPE: Halloween Or Thanksgiving Cocktail

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The Bar at Clement in The Peninsula New York has whipped up this beautiful cocktail for Halloween or Thanksgiving. It’s called the “Drunken Pumpkin Pie”; but since there’s no pumpkin in the recipe, you may wish to give it another name. The flavor is creamy coffee with cinnamon accents—still spot on for the season. (Mixologists…
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