Recipe Swap: Beverages

by request!

cocktail, eggnog, cider, punch, hot cocoa, etc. recipes ... TIA!

Message edited 10/23/2008 7:48:17 PM.

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I'll help start this one! Haven't tried any of them yet but they look good!

White Hot Chocolate
Prep Time: 10 min
Serves: 2 to 4 servings

Ingredients:
1 cup white chocolate chips
1 cup heavy cream
4 cups half-and-half
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Vanilla whipped topping, for garnish
Mint leaf, for garnish

Directions:
In a medium saucepan over medium heat, combine white chocolate chips and heavy cream. Stir continuously until white chocolate chips have completely melted. Stir in the half-and-half, and vanilla extract. Stir occasionally until heated through. Pour into mugs and top with a dollop of vanilla whipped topping and garnish with mint leaf.

Message edited 10/23/2008 7:53:16 PM.

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Hot Chocolate Toffee

Prep Time: 5 min
Cook Time: 6 min
Serves: 4 mugs cocoa

Ingredients:
4 cups whole milk
1/2 cup water
1/2 cup sugar
6 ounces bittersweet chocolate, chopped
2 ounces butterscotch chips, available on baking aisle
1 canister prepared whipped cream, from dairy aisle
1 toffee bar, chopped (recommended: Heath Bar)

Directions:
In a medium heavy bottomed sauce pot, heat milk, water and sugar to a boil, then remove from heat and whisk in chocolate and butterscotch chips until they melt into the milk. Pour into small mugs or cups and top with whipped cream and crushed Heath bar toffee pieces.

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Peppermint Hot Chocolate

Prep Time: 3 min
Serves: 1 serving

Ingredients:
2 cups warmed milk
1 serving cocoa mix
1 tablespoon crushed peppermint stick
2 ounces peppermint schnapps, optional
1 peppermint stick

Directions:
Combine milk, cocoa mix, crushed peppermint stick and schnapps, if desired, in a large mug and stir well. Garnish with a peppermint stick.

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Holiday Hot Chocolate
Cook time: 7 mins
Makes 9 cups

Ingredients:
4 cups whole milk
4 cups half-and-half
1 pound white chocolate, chopped
2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
Seeds scraped from 2 vanilla beans
1/4 to 1/3 cup orange flavored liqueur (recommended: Grand Marnier)

Directions
In a saucepan on medium heat, heat the milk and half-and-half to just below the simmering point. Remove the pan from the heat and add the white chocolate. When the chocolate is melted, add the vanilla, vanilla bean seeds, and 1/4 to 1/3 cup orange liqueur, according to taste, and whisk vigorously. Reheat very gently and serve.

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Hot Cranberry Cider
Cook time: 10 mins
Makes: 3 1/2 quarts, 18 servings

Ingredients:
1/4 cup packed brown sugar
3 cinnamon sticks, plus additional to use as stirrers
1 tablespoon whole cloves
6 cups cranberry juice
8 cups apple juice
Light rum, brandy, or bourbon, optional

Directions:
Put the sugar, cinnamon sticks, and cloves in the basket of a coffee percolator. Put the juices in the bottom of the percolator. Let the mixture perk as if making coffee. Serve with cinnamon stick stirrers, if desired, and with a little rum, brandy, or bourbon as well.

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Hot Chocolate
Cook time: 3 mins
Makes: 1 serving

Ingredients:
1 cup lowfat milk
1 cinnamon stick
2 teaspoons unsweetened cocoa powder
2 teaspoons sugar
2 teaspoons water
1/4 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
Dark chocolate, as a garnish

Directions:
Heat the milk and the cinnamon stick until just simmering. In a mug, combine the cocoa powder, sugar and water and stir to make a paste. Remove the cinnamon stick from the milk. Pour the milk into the mug and stir to mix well. Add the vanilla extract and stir. Grate a little dark chocolate on top for garnish.

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If anyone is interested in a great eggnog recipe here it is

12 large egg yolks
1 1/2 cups superfine sugar
4 cups milk
6 cups well chilled heavy cream
2 cups Bourbon or to taste
1 cup dark rum or to taste
12 large egg whites at room temperature
a pinch of cream of tartar
nutmeg to taste

In a large bowl with an electric mixer beat the yolks until they are pale, beat in the sugar, a little at time, and beat the mixture until it is thick and pale. Beat in the milk and 4 cups of the cream and stir in the bourbon and rum. the eggnog may be prepared to this point and kept covered and chilled overnight.
Just before serving, in a bowl beat the egg whites with a pinch of salt until they are frothy, add the cream of tartar, and beat until they hold soft peaks. In a punch bowl fold the whites into the mixture. In another bowl beat the remaining 2 cups of cream until it holds soft peaks and fold into the eggnog. Sprinkle with nutmeg, drink, pass out.

Happy Holidays!!

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Saw this on "Cooking for Real" on Foodnetwork:


8 tea bags
2 plums
1 orange
1 lemon
water
1/2 cut sugar

Fill with cold water a 2 qt pitcher. Cut the plums in half (remove pit) and throw in the pitcher. Cut orange in half and squeeze into pitcher then throw in. Add the 8 tea bags (cut the paper off the stings if you'd like). Give a good stir and let sit for a few hours (best is over night) stirring once in a while. Next day remove the orange and 8 tea bags. Cut lemon in half and squeeze half the lemon in the pitcher and slice the other half for decoration and throw in the pitcher. Add half cut sugar and serve.

Soo refreshing and no brewing b/c it brews overnight.

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White Wine Strawberry Sangria

2 750ml bottles of white zinfindel
1 can frozen Fuzzy Navel concentrate
2 cans of Sprite or other lemon-lime soda
1 box of frozen strawberries in syrup

In a large pitcher combine wine and fuzzy navel mix. Defrost the strawberries in the microwave according to box. Add to the pitcher (with the syrup). Mix well.

Chill in fridge until you're ready to serve. Just before serving, add the Sprite and mix well.

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Cosmopolitans

1 cup vodka
1/2 cup triple sec
1/2 cup cranberry juice
1/4 cup freshly squeezed lime juice

Pour all ingredients into a cocktail shaker with ice. Shake well and pour through a strainer into four martini glasses.

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Im going to a Halloween party tonight, and this is what I'll be drinking:

Its called a Woo Woo:

1 part Cranberry Juice
1/3 part vodka
1/3 part Peach shnapps

(I used 1 bottle cranberry juice, 1/3 bottle vodka and 1/3 bottle peach shnapps, and a lot of ice in a big ole punch bowl)

enough of these and you'll be yelling woo wooooooo!

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Pink Lady...yummmmmm


1/3 Stoli Raszberry Vodka
1/3 cranberry juice,

shake with ice and pour into a chilled martini glass, top with 1/3 Rose champagne.

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