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Santa's Mug Shot
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Dessert 1 · Candy Cane Lane

Santa's Mug Shot

Hot chocolate, whiskey and Irish cream, finished like a cocktail bar made it.

Serves1
GlassCeramic mug
Difficulty1 of 3
Sweet / Strong4 / 2
CostLow
Make-aheadMake 20 stir sticks ahead

Ingredients

  • 1 packet quality hot chocolate mix with 6 oz hot water (or hot milk)
  • 1 oz Irish cream
  • 1 oz Irish whiskey (or vanilla vodka)
  • Whipped cream, salted caramel sauce, cocoa powder
  • Peppermint-bark stir stick: dark chocolate strip, crushed candy cane, white chocolate drizzle

Build

  1. Make the hot chocolate in a warmed mug.
  2. Stir in the Irish cream and whiskey off the heat.
  3. Pipe a tall swirl of whipped cream.
  4. Spiral salted caramel over it; dust lightly with cocoa.
  5. Lean the stir stick against the cream.

Zero-proof twin

same mug, skip the spirits, add 0.25 oz vanilla syrup.

Batch for 8. 48 oz hot chocolate in a slow cooker; 1 oz each spirit per adult mug; toppings bar.

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