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Tuaca Liqueur offers some great drink ideas for the holiday season.  For those of you unfamiliar with the brand, its an Italian liqeur that is flavored with vanilla and citrus. Mmmm…. delicious.

This drink recipe brings you the warm comfort of a hot apple pie with the added splash of fun.  This drink would be perfect for any holiday party as it’s sure to warm people up and get the party started!

Enjoy!

1½ parts TUACA® Liqueur

5-6 parts warm apple cider

Pour ingredients into a coffee mug. Garnish with whipped cream and a
cinnamon stick.

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A Hot Steaming Cup of Apple Pie

Vampire Juice

In a tall glass with ice mix:
2 oz Finlandia Lime Vodka
4 oz tomato juice
1/2 teaspoon fresh horseradish
Splash of steak sauce (any brand)
Splash of hot sauce
Garnish with eye ball radish

To make ice “eyeballs”. Peel radishes, leaving thin streaks of red skin on to represent blood vessels (see image). Using the tip of the vegetable peeler, or a small, knife, carefully scoop out a small hole in each radish, roughly the size of an olive. Stuff a green olive, pimiento side out, in each hole. Place one radish eyeball in each section of an empty ice cube tray. Pare the radishes down a bit to fit, if necessary. Fill the tray with water and freeze overnight.

Vampire Kiss Martini 

1 ½ oz. Finlandia Vodka, chilled
1 ½ oz Korbel Champagne
¾ oz part Chambord Black Raspberry Liqueur

Rim the glass with red sugar (use food coloring) or drop in a set of wax vampire teeth for a real surprise.

Pour vodka and half of the Chambord in a martini glass, top with Champagne and pour the remaining Chambord over the back of a spoon to make it float.

Candy Apple Martini

1 oz Chambord Black Raspberry Liqueur
1 oz Finlandia Vodka
3/4 oz apple schnapps
Splash of Tuaca Liqueur

Shake ingredients with ice and strain into a martini glass.
Rim the glass with caramel and garnish with an apple slice.

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Halloween Drinks

There’s notes of vanilla, orange, brandy, and citrus, and it sometimes has been described as a Grand Marnier type spirit.

Let’s just put it this way, Tuaca is really good.

Legend has it that the origins of the secret family recipe for Tuaca dates back to the Renaissance. It was apparently crafted for Lorenzo the Magnificent, a patron to Botticelli and Michelangelo.

The Washington Post called Tuaca the “new Jagermeister” and said that it’s a “shot of a generation”. This is certainly true – one of the best ways to drink Tuaca is icy cold and either shoot or sip it.  However, in my opinion, it’s more complex spirit for just a shot. 

When I’ve got all the ingredients in stock, I prefer a “Tuaca Twister” or a “Consigliere”  (recipes below) and if I don’t have everything on hand, I go simple and have Tuaca and ginger ale. There’s a million different things you can do with Tuaca though, so experiment. There’s very little that you can’t mix with Tuaca. It mixes amazingly well with Bourbon or Tequila, and provides a soft edge to drinks.

Tuaca has been available in the States for ages, and has recently launched in Canada, which just makes me happy. I don’t know what you’re doing tonight, but I’m going to have dinner, and go get the ingredients for a Tuaca Twister, and if I can find Giffard Citrus, an Italian Sour as well.

Italian Sour

In shaker filled with ice add:
2oz Tuaca
1oz Giffard Citrus Syrup
1oz Egg white
2-3 dash old fashioned bitters
Shake hard and pour into double rocks glass

Tuaca Twister

1.5 oz Tuaca
1 oz Finlandia Lime Vodka
1 oz Midori Melon Liqueur
Splash of Sprite or 7-up
Pineapple Juice

Pour the Midori  into the bottom of a rocks glass. Add ice. Shake tuaca, vodka, soda and pineapple juice over ice. Carefully pour into the rocks glass, ideally, not disturbing (too much) the Midori.
Consigliere

In Double Rocks glass muddle orange peel (no flesh) with brown sugar (1/3
tsp) and 2-3 dash old fashioned bitters
FIll Glass with ice.

In Shaker filled with ice:
Add 1.5oz Tuaca
Add 0.5oz Jack Daniels
Stir until very cold
Strain into double rocks glass.

(image courtesy: Tuaca & me on Flickr)

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