Chocktails at the Living Room

NOBODY is suggesting that the cheap bottle of Irish liqueur you buy from the supermarket every Christmas is full of horse, but then the label did say it contained traces of red rum.

These days anything goes.

Pre-bottled chocolate-cream style drinks are full of sugar, starch and emulsifiers anyway (see how we didn't say they were full of Shergar?). And while this stuff won't do you any harm, the consensus in the Liverpool Confidential HQ is that it's far more satisfying to shake up your own Brandy Alexander which, depending on how many you down, has the potential to do just that.

By happy coincidence, mixologists from Victoria Street bar and restaurant The Living Room today unveiled something a little different this Easter, as they introduce a new range of make at home ‘Chocktails’ – cocktails made from chocolate. 

They’ve created innovative blends of white, dark, and milk chocolate flavours and spirits to create a mouth-watering range of cocktails "that will delight discerning chocoholics" they say. Not to mention discerning, er, fully functioning regualr drinkers. 

Manager Jamie McDiarmid said: “Everyone loves cocktails and chocolate, so when we decided to combine the two we knew we’d be on to a winner. 

“Whether you like your chocolate dark and delicious, or white and wicked, this range will take your favourite bar and turn it into something 100 times better.” 

With recipes for five bespoke chocktails listed below for you to try at home, you may well want to leave the Easter eggs on the shelves to leave room for these toothsome treats.

Chocolate orange martiniChocolate Orange Martini

Ingredients

15ml Chairmans Reserve Spiced Rum

15ml Grand Marnier

30ml Chocolate Liqueur

75ml mix of cream and milk 

Method

• Add all ingredients into a cocktail shaker, fill with ice and shake well

• Strain the mixture into the glass

• Garnish with an orange zest

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  Chocolate Sidecar

 Ingredients

 25ml Hennessy Fine Cognac

25ml Chocoloate Liqueur

15ml Port

Juice of a whole lime

10ml Sugar Syrup

Method

• Add all ingredients into a cocktail shaker, fill with ice and shake well

• Run a lime wedge around the rim of the glass, dip it in chocolate powder

• Strain mixture into glass

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Cherry Chocolate Delight

 Ingredients 

 25ml Cariel Vanilla Vodka

25ml White Chocolate Liqueur

15ml Cherry Heering

75ml Milk and Cream mixture

 Method

• Add all ingredients into a cocktail, fill with ice and shake well

• Strain mixture into glass

• Garnish with a cherry

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Brandy Alexander

 Ingredients

 30ml Hennessy Fine Cognac

15ml Chocolate Liqueur

75ml Milk and Cream mixture

 Method

• Add all ingredients into a cocktail shaker, fill with ice and shake well

• Strain mixture into glass

• Garnish with a dusting of ground nutmeg

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Mochatini 

 Ingredients

 30ml Stolichnaya Vodka

20ml Chocolate Liqueur

15ml Kaluha

10ml Sugar Syrup

1 Shot of Espresso 

Method

• Add all ingredients into a cocktail shaker, fill with ice and shake hard to create a foam from the espresso

• Strain mixture into glass

• Garnish with three coffee beans on the foam