Tequila Suave

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Tequila Suave CocktailIngredients:

  • 50ml tequila
  • 15ml lemon juice
  • 5ml white creme de cacao
  • 5ml grenadine
  • dash of bitters

Instructions:

Shake all ingredients with ice and strain into a cocktail glass. You’re supposed to garnish it with a maraschino cherry & slice of orange, but I don’t really like maraschino cherries and didn’t have any oranges so used lemon instead.

The taste is very … interesting. The tequila dominates and combines well with the lemon, but you can still taste the chocolatey flavour of the creme de cacao and the herby/spicy bitters. The grenadine may have added a bit of sweetness but mostly seems to add colour. I sipped this very slowly over more than an hour and found that it seemed to taste better after time. I think I’ll have to try it again though, it was an interesting set of flavours.

Mudslide

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Mudslide cocktailIngredients:

  • 2 parts Kahlua
  • 2 parts Baileys
  • 1 part creme de cacao
  • 2 parts Chocolate Syrup
  • 4 parts cream

Instructions:

Shake ingredients with ice and then strain into a martini glass that has a little chocolate syrup drizzled around the inside of the glass.

Stephen used to make these, but I’m not sure exactly what recipe he used.  I think I got the ingredients right, but I don’t know about the proportions.   However, it was absolutely delicious! 

Hokey Pokey

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Hokey Pokey cocktailIngredients:

  • 1 part Baileys
  • 1 part white creme de cacao
  • 2 parts butterscotch schnapps
  • 2 parts cream

Instructions:

Shake ingredients together with ice and strain into a martini glass.

I basically just guessed at the proportions.   It tasted pretty damn good, and fairly similar to the one from Starks.   It’s actually a bit more golden in colour than this picture suggest – it really does look more hokey pokey coloured.