Warm Cocktails for the Big Chill – Salted Caramel Hot Chocolate with Tequila, Hot Buttered Rum, Mexican Coffee with Tequila and more! Recipe
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Warm Cocktails for the Big Chill – Drinks to help you survive Winter!
January 10, 2014 by Barb | Creative-Culinary.com 23 Comments
I feel for the folks in the Northeast who have suffered with this bone chilling weather; we had a few days of -15 weather in Colorado a couple of weeks ago and that’s a cold that goes beyond cold and reaches into the realm of painful. When even the dogs that always like to wander around the yard a bit hurry and do their business to get back inside before their little paws freeze. It’s a time when soup becomes one of the few things that can help us warm from the inside out and the idea of a cold cocktail results in an additional shiver.
So, I’ve got some solutions for this Friday Cocktail (or…
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