Easter-Tini Chocolate Hot Cross Bun Cocktail
An Original Recipe by Lorraine Elliott
Preparation time: 5 minutes
Cooking time: 0 minutes
Makes 1 cocktail
- 45ml/1.5flozs Baileys Chocolate
- 20ml/0.7floz vodka
- 60g/2oz ice cream (chocolate or vanilla works well)
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- Ice Cubes
- 60ml.1flozs milk, very cold
- 90g/3ozs pure or thickened cream, very cold
- 1/2 teaspoon hot chocolate powder
Step 1 - First make the cold foam. Add the milk and cream into a frother and cold froth until thick (around 2 minutes). It should be very thick and able to hold its shape.
Step 2 - While the foam is being made, place the Baileys Irish Cream, vodka, ice cream, cinnamon and nutmeg into a cocktail shaker. Add half a dozen ice cubes and shake well so that the ice cream dissolves. Strain ice cubes and pour into a martini glass. Pour the cold foam over the drink.
Step 3 - Place two chopsticks in a hatch pattern over the cold foam and sieve hot chocolate powder on top. Remove chopsticks carefully and serve.
If you're looking for other Chocolate Cocktail Recipes (hey it's a long weekend!) then I absolutely love this Chocolate Espresso Martini (my favourite espresso martini). This Ferrero Rocher Martini recipe is like a dessert. If you're keeping it non alcoholic try this Mexican Hot Chocolate or I share Four Hot Chocolate Recipes too.
Ever since I made this recipe I've been making it a couple of nights every week and whenever I offer some to Mr NQN he jumps at it. So much so that it's becoming my current signature drink. I was thinking back to people having a drinks that they're known for. We were at an Elliott family picnic. Everyone in the Elliott family has a role and brings the same dish. I always bring dessert and some sort of savoury but the preponderance is dessert because I always have 2-3 cakes in the freezer that I save up for such an occasion. Mr NQN's sister Amaya and husband Laporello always bring this vegan pasta salad while Araluen always brings a tomato, cucumber and bocconcini salad. Mr NQN's mother Tuulikki always brings hummus and Lebanese bread and Mr NQN's brother Manu always brings fruit. And someone else sometimes bring hummus so that we never encounter a hummus shortage.
And today I learnt that everyone has their own coffee order too. Manu introduced us to his new girlfriend Manuela. The two met while canyoning. She's originally from Czechoslovakia and used to be a barista and she and Manu kindly offered to get everyone's coffee. They soon regretted it as a flurry of slightly complicated coffee orders spilled forth. Mine is a decaf iced skim latte, Araluen's was a weak soy iced decaf coffee. And Manu's coffee is a skim flat white while Manuela's is a flat white almond and Tuuikki (Mr NQN's mum) has a soy latte. And the simplest of all is Mr NQN who just wants a flat white!
So tell me Dear Reader, what is your coffee order and is it complicated? Do you have a drink that you're known for?
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