Homemade Baileys?!

While I have neglected to post a drink recipe of mine own this year I can't pass up sharing the extensive amount of awesome bartending related links that keep coming my way. Today's comes from a place called Cupcake Project, and its a recipe for crafting your own homemade irish cream. Bailey's being the standard, irish cream factors in to a large number of pretty amazing cocktails, and if you can put a season on drinks, and I think you can, winter is definitely the best season for good irish cream.

Below is a link to the recipe which is pretty simple as long as you have a decent blender. I also recommend adding ingredients to the mix to create more interesting flavors beyond "original." Butterscotch syrup or schnapps, amaretto, or any esspresso flavored syrup or schnapps would go well here.

Cupcake Project's Homemade Irish Cream

Cheers!
Foggy

How much is in your drink?

To start off 2010, I want to share an awesome site that a buddy of mine found. It's called the "Cocktail Cost Calculator." You plug in the ingredients you need for a particular drink, and it will spit back to you the total cost to make it. For example, a Long Island Iced Tea costs approximately $1.28 using rail liquors. Here's to a year of mixology. (Fun Fact: 2010 is the Chinese Year of the Barman).

Cocktail Cost Calculator

Happy New Year!

Foggy