Saturday, April 26, 2008

West's Mango Bramble Recipe

Watermelon Daiquiri Recipe #21954
This would be lovely on a summer day, but we enjoyed it inside, on a windy March night. You could also make this refreshing drink with strawberries.
15 min | 10 min prep | SERVES 2
1 lime, juiced
2 cups watermelon, cubed
1 tablespoon icing sugar
100 ml white rum
  1. Start a few hours before you'd like the drinks, by freezing the cubed watermelon.
  2. When you're ready to mix the drinks, squeeze the lime juice into a blender.
  3. Add the frozen watermelon cubes, icing sugar and rum.
  4. Blend until smooth and frothy.
  5. Pour into two glasses and serve.
 
 
Cookies 'n' Cream Dessert Cocktail Recipe #300543
cocktail
15 min | 15 min prep | SERVES 6
12 Oreo cookies (about 130g)
375 ml pouring cream
125 ml Frangelico
125 ml Kahlua
125 ml baileys original irish cream
3 tablespoons honey
2 cups ice cubes
375 ml pouring cream, extra
  1. Place the biscuits in a bowl. Use the end of a rolling pin to gently pound until coarsely crushed.
  2. Use an electric beater to whisk the cream in a large bowl until firm peaks form.
  3. Place the Frangelico, Kahlua, Baileys, honey, ice cubes, extra cream and half the biscuit in the jug of a blender, and blend until the ice is crushed and the mixture is well combined.
  4. Divide the mixture among serving glasses. Top with a dollop of cream and sprinkle with the remaining biscuit to serve.
 
 
Adult Chocolate Milk Recipe #300355
Thanks to the Bevvie Tag Gang, I'm having a ton of fun experimenting! This one tastes kind of like an adult chocolate milk with a splash of coffee and a little kick from the vodka! Enjoy!
2 min | 2 min prep | SERVES 1
2 ounces bailey's irish cream
2 ounces Kahlua
2 ounces godiva milk chocolate liqueur
2 ounces milk
1 ounce Absolut vodka
ice
ice cream (optional)
  1. Stir all together in a pyrex glass measuring cup, or what ever you have. (Use shot glasses to measure, though.).
  2. Fill glass with ice.
  3. Pour mixture over ice.
  4. For extra fun, hang a small scoop of chocolate or coffee ice cream on the rim of the glass!
  5. Enjoy! :).
 
 
Raspberry Sparkler Recipe #300195
Cooking Light. April 2003. You can use sparkling water in place of the champagne for a non-alcoholic version.
10 min | 10 min prep | SERVES 6
3 cups cranberry-raspberry juice, chilled
1 tablespoon fresh lime juice
1 (1 liter) bottle Brut champagne, chilled
6 thin lime slices
  1. Combine cran-raspberry juice and lime juice in a pitcher; stir well.
  2. Pour 1/2 cup juice mixture into each of 6 champagne glasses; top with chilled champagne.
  3. Garnish with lime slices. Serve immediately.
 
 
West's Mango Bramble Recipe #300059
A lovely & refreshing vodka cocktail from West's Restaurant i& Bar in Vancouver, BC Canada. This recipe was shared in Taste Magazine
5 min | 5 min prep | SERVES 1
1 ounce mango liqueur
1 ounce vodka
1/4 ounce fresh lemon juice
splash soda water
crushed ice
1 kiwi, peeled and sliced into 1/4 inch wheels for garnish
  1. Pour mango liqueur into the bottom of an Old Fashioned glass.
  2. Carefully fill the glass with crushed ice.
  3. In a cocktail shaker filled with ice, add the vodka and lemon juice, shaking until very cold.
  4. Strain the vodka and lemon over the crushed ice and top with a splash of soda.
  5. Garnish with a wheel of kiwi.
  6. Cheers!
 
 
 
Vanilla's in the Mist Recipe #299915
In a stroke of pure brilliance, my husband named this drink when he saw me adding a couple drops of vanilla to my Sierra Mist. I vowed to develop a cocktail because the name is just too perfect!
1 min | 1 min prep | SERVES 1 , 1 drink
1 1/2-2 ounces vanilla vodka (depending on taste 1-1 1/2 jigger)
lemon-lime flavored soda (Sierra Mist or Sierra Mist Free)
ice
  1. Fill high ball glass halfway with ice.
  2. Pour in vanilla vodka.
  3. Top off with Sierra Mist or Sierra Mist Free.
  4. Note: For a none alcoholic version, use 1 tsp vanilla extract instead of the vodka; it's just as good! I also intend to try this by rimming the glass with vanilla sugar. Yum!
 
 
Strawberry Shortcake Cocktail Recipe #299873
This is a drink from Ricardo that I have not try yet. But I'll try it this summer with fresh strawberries. I had to share with you. I can't wait to see your photos. Cause the one in the issue of Ricardo looks very tempting. The drink is for 4 persons. But with the converter, you can scale it down to 1-2-3 persons or the number you want.
15 min | 15 min prep | SERVES 4
3/4 cup heavy cream
1 lemon, zest of
1 tablespoon honey
1 1/2 cups fresh strawberries
1 1/2 cups frozen strawberries
1 1/2 cups apple juice, cold
1/2 cup dark rum
1/3 cup sugar
2 tablespoons lemon juice
1/2 cup graham cracker crumbs
1 lemon wedge
fresh strawberries, sliced, to garnish
  1. You need : 4 daiquiri glasses, put in the freezer (or martini glasses).
  2. In a bowl, whisk heavy cream, lemon zest and honey until firm peaks. Set aside in the fridge.
  3. In a blender, puree fresh and frozen strawberries, apple juice, rum, sugar and lemon juice.
  4. Put the graham crumbs in a plate.
  5. Remove the glasses from the freezer. With the wedge of lemon, moisten the edges of each glass, them dip in the graham crumbs.
  6. Distribute the cocktail in each glasses. Garnish with whipped cream. Garnish with slices of strawberries.
 

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