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First drink, the drink that I’d like to show you now is called a Brandy Alexander. Brandy Alexander is a drink from way back in the 20’s and the 30’s and it’s cream based drink. Usually these drinks are served as dessert drinks, they’re very rich and very creamy and they have a very unique flavor. Now because we’re using cream as the base of our cocktail, you want to be sure to shake it. So the first thing we’re going to do is we’re going to take our stainless steel mixing cup and we’re going to put ice in about half way. Then what we’re going to add is 2 ounces of our cream, this is going to be the base of our drink and there we have it, and then we start to use cream or a half and half, whatever half and half we have available.
And now the recipe calls for a half ounce of Creamy Coco, now there’s two types of Creamy Coco, they both taste exactly the same, one is dark creamy coco which is actually a very dark chocolate flavor and then now what they have is a clear creamy coco which is light color almost like water. They both taste exactly the same, just one is colored and one is not colored and what creamy coco has is very sweet, slightly, slightly chocolate flavor to it so it’s not a real heavy flavor of chocolate, it’s slightly chocolate though its not very sweet, and very “syrupy”. And creamy coco is used a lot as a base liqueur in your cream drinks so we got our cream in there, and now we’re going to put one half ounce of our clear creamy coco. You can use dark creamy coco if you have it. It makes the drink work a little better, but it ends up being the same tasty drink. Then what we’re going to use is a half ounce of our brandy, put it right there, half ounce of our brandy, put our glass cup in there, give it a little twist, palms on both ends of it, shake the drink vigorously about 7 or 8 slice. Just let it so, if you want to get that cream that brandy, that sweet creamy coco all mixed up thoroughly.
Snap it, use your Hawthorne strainer, and we’re going to strain our Brandy Alexander, leave about half inch from the lip of the glass so when you serve it, it doesn’t spill all over your table or all over your bar. And there we have it, Brandy Alexander. Now another way that you can make this drink, you can make it with ice cream instead of cream, now for a few who are doing that, you would need one of those electric blenders that would mix up the ice cream a little better. Makes a little richer flavor but tastes the same thing, so it’s kind of brandy, slightly chocolate, creamy flavor to it. Brandy Alexander.
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