Sara Snacker Cookie Company, an artisan baker with nostalgic-themed cookies, makes its own, far more elegant and delicious, lemonade cookie.

A round of lemony shortbread—made with real lemonade—is topped with a tart lemon icing. The sweet-and-tart effect is delightful.

Attractive white bags of 12 cookies are $8.00. Here’s a store locator; the company will sell them to you online in three-bag quantities.

The cookies are all natural, certified kosher by Star-D, and yummy. Would Dad like a bag for Father’s Day?
 
 
Find more of our favorite cookies and cookie recipes in our Gourmet Cookies section.

How many types of cookies are there? Check out our delicious Cookie Glossary.

Don’t let your liqueurs sit on the shelf when you can turn them into warm-weather refreshers. Simply add club soda (soda water) to create a spritzer, or adult soda.

Coffee lovers can start with a Kahlúa soda. Kahlúa liqueur blends Arabica coffee with rum for a very adult way of enjoying your java…or a sophisticated glass of coffee soda.

RECIPE: KAHLÚA SPARKLER

Ingredients Per Drink

 
Preparation

1. Fill a tall glass with ice. Add the ingredients in order.

2. Stir lightly (so as not to break the bubbles). Garnish with the lime wedge.

KAHLÚA & COKE

If you enjoy a Rum & Coke, try a Kahlúa & Coke—it’s rum, coffee and coke.

Add 2 parts of Kahlúa to an ice-filled highball glass and top with 3 parts cola. Stir lightly and enjoy!
HOW ABOUT ORANGE SODA?

Do the same with Grand Marnier or other orange liqueur (Combier, Gran Gala and triple sec, for example).

Take an inventory of the other liqueurs you have and plan an adult soda party. You can ask friends to bring a bottle from their collection and put together a sampling of apple soda (apple schnapps), cherry soda (kirsch), lemon soda (Limoncello), peach soda (peach schnapps) raspberry soda (framboise)—the whole soda fountain!

Adult Limeade is the only pour-and-serve Margarita that uses 100% Blue Agave Reposado Tequila. It’s a better Tequila, noteworthy for both the 100% blue agave (instead of a mix of blue agave and a less expensive agave variety) and reposado Tequila, aged 6 months to a year (instead of the unaged silver, or blanco, tequila—the different types of Tequila).

Lime juice and agave nectar are added to the Tequila to create a 40-proof drink. No refrigeration is required.

The company advises to just open the bottle and pour over ice. You can do that, but you really need a squeeze of fresh lime. The limitation with bottled Margarita mixes, no matter how fine the ingredients, is that the vibrancy of fresh lime juice is missing.

No problem: We always have a fresh lime at hand. We’ve been enjoying Adult Limeade in shot glasses with a salted rim. We squeeze in the fresh lime before adding the Adult Limeade.

Adult Limeade retails for $19.99 (750ml) and $23.99 (1 liter). There’s a store locator on the website.

Consider it as a gift for Father’s Day and college graduates. Bottoms up!

Originally made with milk or cream that was sweetened with sugar, then lightly curdled with wine, the roots of today’s syllabub date back to the Tudor Dynasty, which ruled England from 1485 until 1603. It was popular through the 19th century. Before it became a dessert, syllabub was a refreshing drink made of milk and cider. In fact, according to Wikipedia, the cows were milked directly into an ale pot, which created a frothy foam.

Modern British recipes make syllabub with whipped cream, sweetened with sherry or white wine and sugar. Lemon, orange and raspberry are popular syllabub flavors.

You can make a healthier version with fat-free Greek yogurt, which is closer than whipped cream to the original dessert’s curdled milk.

*The Greek word beelzeboub was derived from the original Hebrew, ba’al-z’bub, “lord of the flies.” The term syllabub is first found in print around 1530–1540, derived from the earlier words, sollybubbe and sillabub. Alas, the origin of these words is not known.

FAGE Total Greek yogurt retained chef Rocco Dispirito to create FAGE A Day for May: culinary inspiration that replaces cream with better-for-you yogurt. You can see the entire month of recipes here.

Start with this syllabub recipe. You can Syllabub should be served well chilled and can be decorated with finely chopped nuts and served with small, crisp tuille biscuits.

RECIPE: APPLE & YOGURT SYLLABUB CRUMBLE

Makes 4 servings. Prep time 5 minutes; cook time 15 minutes.

Ingredients

 
Variations

 
Preparation

1. In a medium-sized pan, cook the apples, sugar, honey and cider until it resembles applesauce (a thick purée). Allow to cool.

2. Crush or blend the biscuits until they look like bread crumbs.

3. In a large bowl, mix together the yogurt and half the cold apples.

4a. If using alcohol, first divide the cookie crumbs into the bottoms of each of four small wine glasses. Drizzle one tablespoon of sherry or other alcohol over the crumbs. Then proceed to 4b.

4b. Whether or not you started with the cookie crumbs and sherry, spoon half the remaining apples into the glasses. Fill half-full with the yogurt mix; add another layer of apples, followed by the remaining yogurt.

5. Chill for 1 hour or longer. Top the glasses of with the cookie crumbs prior to serving. If you used cookie crumbs for the bottom layer and don’t want to add more, you can garnish with a berry or mint sprig.

Personalize a six-pack: a great gift idea. Photo courtesy Pinhole Press.

Pinhole Press, which specializes in gift items customized with your photos (calendars, journals, magnets and the like), has a beer label option that’s sure to make an occasion more festive.

You simply upload your photo and text and get 15 labels in return ($11.99). Add the cost of a six-pack, and you’ve created a memorable yet affordable gift.

Order yours at PinholePress.com.

Prefer Wine To Beer?

Custom wine bottle labels are available in a broad selection of designs, including some for baby showers, weddings and other celebratory occasions (9 labels, $9.99).

Cheers!