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Cocktails Gone Spherical

Now that “handcrafted” cocktails have become about as commonplace as craft beer, bartenders and bloggers are looking for new ways to impress. You might think molecular mixology is gimmicky, but you gotta admit that these 8 cocktail spheres look pretty amazing.

 1. Old Fashioned In the Rocks

At Grant Achatz’ Aviary in Chicago the old fashioned comes neat — very neat. Drinkers get to smash the sphere open and watch the drink explode out.

2. Spherical Pickleback

Just about every bar in Brooklyn now serves a pickleback (a shot of whiskey backed by a shot of pickle juice). Only Do or Dine—home of the foie gras donut—serves a molecular pickleback, whereby the back — the spherical ball of pickle juice — explodes inside your mouth.

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Cocktail O’Clock: Easter Sunday Breakfast

Ya’ll already know we like to drink our Easter eggs, so here’s one more option for you: a creamy, yolk-y, vodka-y concoction you can nurse while the kiddies are looking for the Easter eggs (hide them well — you’ll want a second round).

Selma Cocktail

2 parts Kanon Organic Vodka
1 part heavy cream
3/4 part amaretto
cardamom pod
egg yolk

Lightly crush cardamom in shaker, add liquid ingredients, dry shake (without ice), then shake with ice, strain into rocks glass.

More Easter Ideas:
Peep-Stuffed Jello Shots
Nutella Pastry Pockets
Peep Krispie Treats

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Cocktail O’Clock: Hell Bent for Leather

Before you say anything, yes we do believe that the Monday morning after St. Patrick’s Day is the perfect time to talk about drinking. Whiskey.

Whether you are looking for some hair of the dog or you just haven’t stopped yet, Hell Bent Leather is a great Jameson cocktail that Michael Neff of Ward 3 in NYC recently cooked up for us.

Ingredients:
– Redbreast 12 y.o. whiskey
– Makers Mark whiskey
– Muddled cardamom seed
– Lemon and orange zest
– Sugar cube
– Burnt orange twist

Directions: Mix whiskey, whiskey and cardamom seed together, pour over ice. Add lemon and orange zest. Hold the sugar cube and orange twist just above your drink; light with a match, then drop.

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Mix It Up: 31 New Cocktail Recipes

Classic cocktails can be fun, but at Endless Simmer we can never resist the urge to mix things up a bit. That means we can’t pass up an alcoholic drink with something new thrown in the mix. Be it ice cream, avocado, or even snow…if you can eat it, we’ll turn it into a drink.

Here are the 31 craziest new cocktails we’ve found/sipped/invented recently

1. Avocado Margarita

The two best things Mexico ever gave the world, now combined in one amazing drink.

Recipe: Avocado Margarita

2. The New Moscow Mule

Traditionally a ginger beer cocktail, now made with ginger…and beer.

Recipe: The New Moscow Mule

3. Bourbon Butterscotch Latte

Eat this, Starbucks.

Recipe: Bourbon Butterscotch Latte

4. Italian Sipper

The foodiest drink yet? Tequila, strawberries, balsamic and basil.

Recipe: Italian Sipper

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Cocktail O’Clock: A Margarita for Winter

We’re always looking for new ways to use strawberries, and blending them up and mixing them with tequila is most definitely appropriate — even if it’s not summer. This new cocktail recipe, which is sort of like a strawberry margarita, only heated up for winter, comes courtesy of Sable Kitchen and Bar in Chicago.

Winter Whisper
1 oz Siete Leguas Tequila Reposado
1 oz Luxardo Amaro
1/2 oz fresh lemon juice
1/2 oz dried strawberry syrup (recipe follows)
2 dashes strawberry-allspice bitters

Preheat Irish coffee glass or mug with hot water. Heat all ingredients over a double boiler, do not heat directly.  Dump out hot water from irish coffee glass, add ingredients, top with 3 oz very hot water.  Garnish with a tiny pinch of freshly ground allspice.

*Dried Strawberry syrup
2 cups freeze-dried strawberries
2 cups sugar

Blend dried strawberries and sugar in high-speed blender until well combined. Add 2 cups hot water, stir to combine. Strain and chill.

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Photo credit: Andrea Donadio

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How to Enjoy (and Survive) a Cocktail Class

My talent is eating and drinking. Not cooking. Not baking. And absolutely not cocktail mixing. If you know me even a little, you know my idea of a good cocktail is vodka that costs more than $15 a bottle and cranberry juice, mixed in various ratios depending on what time it is and where I’m headed.

So I was pretty excited when The Wine School of Philadelphia invited me in for a Pre-Prohibition Cocktail Class last month led by Jason Wilson. I was a little afraid though. What do I know about cocktails?

Nothing.  I knew nothing.

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