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How to Make a Hot Mulled Drink

Maris Callahan — Thu, 17 Nov 2016 08:04:46 +0000

I decided tonight that Thanksgiving simply won’t be Thanksgiving without a signature cocktail. A mulled drink, to be exact. Do I sound like I’m going overboard? I usually go overboard. I can mix up a respectable martini every now and again, but haven’t really dabbled in the mulled drink arena. A mulled drink is a general term for a type of cocktail — kind of like the ingredients in a martini can vary based on where you are — but in general, mulled drinks are a combination of wine, juice, liquor and herbs heated until they become fragrant. Like with steeping tea, the longer you simmer your beverage the more flavorful it will be. I’m thinking about firing up one of my slow cookers and making some sort of mulled cider, wine or toddy, but the problem with these recipes is that they’re usually way too sweet to consume more than half a glass. Which, while very responsible for designated drivers, is not practical if you’re making a batch cocktail for six people. My point here is that I am letting the Internet tell me what to do with my toddy goals this year and I found a super helpful chart all about how […]

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Kahlua Peppermint Mocha Hot Chocolate

Maris Callahan — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 19:00:00 +0000

The first time I drank alcohol (you know…on my twenty-first birthday…) I drank Kahlua. I was with three of my girlfriends at a sleepover that was not so much different from the other sleepovers that we had in high school where we would eat junk food, watch movies and talk about the boys we liked. And sometimes, call said boys and hang up, in a fit of giggles, when they picked up the phone (I think that’s how we stalked our crushes, pre-Facebook). On this particular winter night, my friend Kristen had commandeered a tiny bottle of vodka and a small bottle of Kahlua (looking back it was probably not enough booze to even leave one of us even feeling tipsy…but boy, did we think we were badass). We mixed some amateur cocktails and probably stopped after a drink each because we were scared of our parents finding out (I told you…we were badass). Now that it’s getting colder – if you’re of legal drinking age – if it’s too chilly outside to imagine drinking anything on the rocks, whip up a batch of your favorite hot cocoa and spike it with Kahlúa Peppermint Mocha. It will not only warm you up, […]

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