The Cocktail Hour: Cafe De Playa


It's Blooper Reel calendar week hither on The Cocktail Hour!  Not really, only you lot volition encounter a major prop malfunction inwards the video below (what happens when whipped cream isn't whipped?  Find out below).

It's getting colder instantly together with we're going to become amongst a hot drink.  Cold agency 58 degrees mid-afternoon hither inwards Southern California, only it's besides real windy today together with nosotros require something hot if we're going to sit down out on the patio.
Watch the Video!

Today, it's the Cafe de Playa, which agency beach java inwards Spanish.  If you're on a mutual frigidity beach this wintertime (which tin live on real fun...if you lot guide keep a prissy burn downward to sit down by), this is what you lot require to accept the chill off.  I modified this recipe from the Cafe Platino recipe on the Jose Cuervo site, together with mashed it upward amongst Giada de Laurentis' spice java recipe.


It came out good.  Letty liked it a trivial amend when she added one-half a shot of amaretto to it which besides adds 42 calories to the total.  Here's the recipe...as is it's 120 calories.  Add 42 to a greater extent than if you lot usage the amaretto:


INGREDIENTS
1.5 oz. - - tequila
1/2 oz. - uncomplicated syrup (can substitute sweetener to eliminate to a greater extent than calories)
1 loving cup - coffee
reddi whip or whipped cream (1 tbls)
dash of ginger
dash of nutmeg
dash of cinnamon powder


Put ginger together with nutmeg inwards java cup.  Add tequila together with uncomplicated syrup.  Pour inwards java together with stir. Put whipped cream on top.  Sprinkle amongst cinnamon.

Enjoy!


-Darryl

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