Honeydew Witches Brew

Maybe it's the re-runs of Supernatural that my 15 year old son forces me to watch, or maybe the spirit world is calling to me. Dean Winchester certainly is!!

This weekend is Halloween and to appease the ghosts and ghouls, I offer up this cocktail and ask for a plentiful harvest!

Honeydew Witches Brew

(Couldran is optional)

Ingredients

500gm Honeydew Melon frozen in cubes

50gm Fruit Juice (tropical or OJ will do just fine)

60gm Midori

60gm White Rum (Bicardi or Malibu for a coconut twist)

30gm Blue Curacao

1 tbsp Honey

Strawberry syrup to garnish

Method

Add all ingredients to the TM bowl

Mix on Speed 7 for 20 seconds or until smooth

Sacrifice your first born child and dance naked under the full moon

Serve in a bowl coated with the blood of a virgin (strawberry syrup) and garnish with creepy crawly critters.

Strawberry Champagne Bellini

Today is International Champagne Day. Something I have only just been alerted to but am happy to celebrate, after all it is Friday! 

So let's pretend for a moment that I'm a sophisticated lady, who enjoys bridge and wearing hats! (Actually I'm in yoga pants with unwashed hair, not even practising yoga!)

I dusted out the wine cellar and discovered a bottle of Moët, presumably gifted to me after a profitable exchange on the stock market.  Strawberries are in season and thankfully I froze some before they rotted away in my refrigerator!  

Champagne and strawberries are perfect together and with a hint of vanilla, you too will be sipping like a lady, while deciding on an outfit for the Spring Racing Carnival.

Ingredients

200ml Champagne - you could use any Brut, Prosecco or sparkling wine you prefer.

200gm Frozen Strawberries

1 tsp vanilla extract

Juice of Half a Lime

1 tsp sugar

Garnish - lime slice and fresh strawberry

Method

Add your ingredients to the TM bowl. 

Blitz on speed 9 for 20 seconds. 

Add more time in 10 second increments if the fruit is still in frozen pieces.

Pour into a champagne flute, garnish with a fresh strawberry and a slice of lime.

Ask the butler to clean up the mess and celebrate International Champagne Day in your finest high heels!

Kahula Margaritas

My all time favourite frozen cocktail! Hailing from North Queenslands very own Cactus Jacks Bar and Grill, this delectable cocktail is all the dessert you need to top off a Mexican feast.
If you would like to taste the original, check them out at www.cactusjacks.com.au

This was the first cocktail I ordered from my bar tender (aka Thermomix) and he didn't disappoint.

Serving up to 4 ( why not after all) 


Ingredients
1000g ice
120g Kahlua
60g Frangelico
100g milk 
60g chocolate sauce
lemon and sugar to coat glass
Cherry or strawberry to garnish

Method
Add ice and milk to TM bowl mix on speed 10 for 1 minute or until crushed smooth
Add alcohol and chocolate sauce, mix on speed 10 for 10 seconds
Rub a lemon around the rim of your glass and dip in sugar to coat
Pour margarita into glass, piling high, drizzle with additional chocolate sauce and top with a cherry.
Enjoy with friends, preferably ones who politely decline and then there's more for you!!