We all love Apple Pie but they are time consuming to make. Not to worry, we think we have found the perfect solution! Ingredients: 500ml Vodka 4 Granny Smith apples sliced 3 Cinnamon sticks 250ml Water 80g White sugar Slow Method: Core and slice the apples and add to a 1l Kilner Jar. Add the remaining ingredients. Put […]
This rich and creamy White Chocolate Liqueur is just the thing for when the kid turns into the ‘Milky Bar Grown-Up’! Ingredients: 500ml Vodka 225g White chocolate, choose good quality chocolate with a high cocoa butter content (not palm oil) 240ml Whipping cream 240ml Whole milk or alternative milk 4Tbsp Vanilla extract 6Tbsp Granulated sugar
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Amaretto is a delicious liqueur with a strong almond flavour, however, the real stuff isn’t made with almonds at all. Check out this recipe at SeriousEats if you want to try and achieve the best results but we give you here a much simpler method that you can make in minutes. It will improve with
Sweets are a useful way of adding flavour and sweetness in one go. Look in your local shop for a bag of sweets such as Rhubarb & custard, strawberries & cream, pear drops, Werthers Old Original, Fox’s glacier mints, Fox’s liquorice and aniseed (tastes like sambuca), sherbert lemons, etc. We found that pear drops dissolved
In order to make your own homemade spiced rum, you obviously need to start with a bottle of rum! Nothing expensive here, cheapest supermarket rum will be good enough as you will be changing the flavour with strong spices. We recommend dark rum as some flavourings are already there. Pour a shot glass worth of
There are many recipes for Irish Cream, this is a particularly simple method and is easily customisable. For this recipe we used a Hotel Chocolat sachet of 85% dark hot chocolate which gives small ‘chips’ of chocolate that are small enough to float in the drink and large enough to give an extraordinary texture. Ingredients:
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This is one of the easiest liqueurs that it is possible to make. Ingredients: 700ml Rum Box of After Eight Mints (or similar) Slow Method: Add the chocolates into a 1l Kilner Jar. Add in the Rum. Put the jar into your dishwasher for one cycle. You may need to shake the jar once the
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There are dozens of summer cocktails needing Peach Liqueur and it is so easy to make at home. The peaches will need slicing and the stones need to be removed before use. Ingredients: 700ml Vodka 500g Peaches 250g Granulated sugar 1tsp lemon zest (optional) 1tsp orange zest (optional) Slow Method: Add the sliced peaches and
Making a homemade version of Kahlua or Tia Maria is surprisingly easy. For a simple coffee liqueur recipe, all you need is a base liquor, instant coffee, a vanilla bean, sugar, and water. It’s a fun project and you’ll find that it’s less expensive than the store-bought coffee liqueurs. Ingredients: 700ml Rum 8 tsp coffee
Raspberries can be found nowadays at any time of the year but the absolute best are those which are picked in season and grown in the UK. Keep an eye open for reduced counter bargains. If need be, you can always freeze the raspberries until you can use them. Raspberries will go with any other
