19 February 2015


It's Improv time again!


The premise of the Improv Challenge is easy: each month there are two assigned ingredients.  The participants must make a recipe using both ingredients and blog about it.  


This month's ingredients are coffee and cream.  Two ingredients that I enjoy every day!  I thought it would be fun to be super creative and use coffee and cream in some kind of savory dish.  And I'm sure it would have been, but February got too busy and I went with something more obvious. And simple.  But you know, it's just so perfect for this time of year.  I don't know what the weather is like where you are, but here in Wisconsin, it is frigid!  It is -1 right now as I type this (Wednesday night) and today have a high of 1.  1 degree for a high!  And living on Lake Michigan, the windchills are brutal. Supposed to be between -20 and -30 tomorrow.  So you can understand why a hot coffee drink was appealing to me!

This one is awesome because it not only contains hot coffee, but also alcohol!  I often get so cold in the evenings that I just can't warm up no matter how many layers I wear or how many blankets I pile on.  Whenever that happens I have to get warm from the inside out.  A glass of wine does the trick every time.  So combining coffee and alcohol in one drink is doubly effective!  Are you familiar with a hot toddy?  A traditional hot toddy is hot water or tea mixed with rum, brandy, or whiskey and sweetened with honey or sugar.  This variation uses coffee, a caramel creme liqueur, butterscotch liqueur, and is topped with whipped cream and caramel sauce.  Mmm.  I got the recipe from Delightful E Made.

Caramel Creme Coffee Toddy

Ingredients:
1 shot caramel creme liqeuer
1 shot Buttershots 
8 oz. hot brewed coffee
Whipped cream
Caramel ice cream topping

Directions:

Pour caramel creme and Buttershots in a mug.  Pour in hot coffee.  Top with whipped cream and drizzle with caramel sauce.

Makes 1 drink.

It's so easy, it's almost not even a recipe, but it's too good not to share.  Bailey's has a salted caramel variety, but I found a Bailey's knock-off brand at Aldi that came in caramel cream variety.  It was really good and less than half the price of Bailey's.  Love Aldi!

Since my husband and I enjoy this drink in the evening, we use decaf coffee.  But of course it works with any kind of coffee.

I don't actually recommend serving this in the kind of glass I used in the pic above.  It's best served in your favorite coffee mug.  But I chose a clear glass for the pic so you could see what it looked like.  Otherwise it would have just been a mug with some whipped cream on top.

So if you are experiencing the same cold snap I am, go make yourself one of these!  If not, and you are someplace warm, I don't want to hear about it! ;)

Check out all the other great coffee and cream recipes below and come back next month to see what I make with chicken and noodles.



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6 comments:

  1. Ashley@CheesecurdinparadiseFebruary 19, 2015 at 8:51 AM

    Oh my.... I want to drink this now. It is sooooooooo cold here and this would be so good !

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  2. This looks delicious!! Funny that you mention savory...looks as if more than half of us, so far, went savory. Thanks for the challenge.

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  3. argh! Me wants one, now. (However, since we're supposed to be 83° this afternoon, I'll take mine blended, please.:) )

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  4. Sadly I didn't get to post what I had prepared this month, but I am just so anxious to try all of the recipes. This one sounds great and even though it isn't cold where i live I would still do this. Hot or cold this would be yummy!!!

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  5. I am sooo late posting, but I did make it!

    I wish I had one of these toddy's right now instead of my plain coffee. That might get me through the next few hours of cake decorating! Can't wait to try this. (And so jealous that your Aldi has liquor. Oh, NC. *sigh*)

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  6. Holy moly ... it's only 11:30 in the morning, but I really want one of these right now! Sounds divine!

    Kimberly {Rhubarb and Honey}

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