Cow Face
Cow Face is punchy coffee sipped through a sweet icy cream layer. This century’s response to Irish coffee has arrived.
This is our first creamy cocktail recipe and it’s been a huge hit from the first test.
It works equally well with cow’s milk cream or coconut cream, so choose your preference.
Recipients: Lovers of a cappuccino, a white Russian or Kahlua and milk
Type: Frozen and layered
Read MoreHuggy Bear
This hardly qualifies as a recipe. It’s more like another way to drink stout. However, as the anecdote testifies, we can get still it wrong.
You get the calming effect of a deep draught of black beer followed by a musky, awakening smell of coffee in the back of your nose.
Stout can fill you up. Oddly, I can drink a few of these, in a row.
Huggy Bear envelopes you like thick, cosy, fur then shoves you onto the dance floor to embarrass your kids.
Recipients: Guests with mature palates
Type: Made in glass
Read MoreFoxy Brown
This is an odd combo. I can’t think of any other drink or food that combines orange and coffee. However, it just works, in a mature way. I will admit, I didn’t come up with it. This is my sister, Adele’s idea and we tried it.
At first, this tastes like none of the ingredients. Though, a calming earthiness overcomes. Then, you detect smoky coffee and musky orange oil, carried along by yeasty bubbles.
Recipients: Bubbly drinkers who need to catch a breath, rest and reflect. Maybe they need a reward for a job well done or making it to the end of a working week. We drink Foxy Brown quite a bit. Hehe!
Type: Made in the glass
Read MoreLa Cucaracha
La Cucaracha is a spectacle. It is best served at special occasions with familiar faces. As with most cocktail shots, it looks exciting. Contrary to the reputation of shots, it is smoother than expected.
Confession: Not my recipe. Our Spanish friend, Jose Antonio Laguens Martin showed us how to make these too many years ago to tell. And we’ve never looked back. Viva España!
Recipients: Party people in a controlled environment
Type: Shot
Read MorePRINT & SEND
