Welcome back to Booze On The Rocks, where we make cocktails for everyone.
My name is David Edwards, and it's great to have you here today.
We're going to make a cocktail called a Flying Grasshopper.
Now it is a variation of the original grasshopper and that cocktail was
created in 1919 by Philibert Guichet Jr.
Now there is some debate on whether it was 19 19, or whether he created
it in the twenties and prohibition for a cocktail competition in New York.
Neither here nor there.
He actually came in second prize with this and it stuck around for a long time.
Now it hit his heyday in the seventies and eighties.
And you know what happens in all this time, somebody will make a
variation and that variation on this case is a very simple change,
but is it any good let's find out.
Now, this is a simple four ingredient cocktail, but before we
get started, we are going to dress up our coupe just a little bit.
So the first thing you want to do, grab a bit of a plate, grab
whatever liquor you want to use.
You could use a bit of your vodka or a little bit of the Creme de Cacao.
And I suggest that oops.
And we're going to pour way too much on the plate.
I'll drink that later because you know, you can't waste it anyways.
Um, the easiest way to do that is to steal your child's little watercolor paintbrush.
And this is a trick nobody will show you.
So come on in closer and we'll show you exactly what I am going to do.
Use the Paintbrush to apply a little bit of Creme to Cocoa around the glass,
just to give you something for the cocoa powder to attach to perfect.
Look at that.
A nice, gorgeous Coco rip.
So what we're going to do now is start with the first of our ingredients and
because this is a shaken cocktail, we are going to start with a little bit of vodka.
Now I'm using Alberta Pure vodka, and we're going to use three quarters
of an ounce or 22 and a half.
Now your second ingredient will be another clear look here.
This is where we're going to use some of that Creme de Cacao.
And this is a great chocolate liqueur.
What can you say?
You know, we're gonna use the same amount, three quarters of an ounce
or 22 and a half milliliters.
Awesome.
Now your third ingredient will be a Creme de Menthe, and you want to make
sure that the Creme de Menthe you use is green, because that will add to
the color that you're required to be.
And this is again the same three quarters of an ounce or 22 and a half milliliters
now.
He is very, very green.
It's also very, very minty and you'd almost think it would be too minty.
However, our next ingredient is some Heavy Whipping Cream.
Now I use a 35% whipping cream.
You could use a half and a half, but this gives me a slightly thicker
and silkier mouthfeel in my opinion.
So now we're going to use for this one out.
Or 30 milliliters.
Now, maybe that's not the best looking of combinations right there, but
trust me the way this is going to come together, it is going to work.
So what we're going to do is we're going to fill this with a little bit of ice.
Again, making sure that your glass is completely and utterly full of ice.
Assuming it'll.
Nevermind.
I'm just going to slide that on, like, so make sure it's on good.
Give it a flip and shake it with a smile.
Yeah.
Pop that off with the strength of a thousand mint leaves, which we're
going to use as a garnish to put that off to the side and grab your
fantastic looking coupe, because this has a dairy product in it.
You want to make sure that you find strain this cocktail, like, so.
Oh, yeah, look at that.
Absolutely fantastic.
She is gorgeous.
Now what we are going to do is just finish this off with a mint leaf.
We're just going to give it a bit, a little bit, a little bit about smack,
just to wake it up and put it on the edge.
Just like, so.
So immediately you get the mint directly off the leaf and a very muted mint
out of the drink itself, but you can actually get that cocoa taste or smell
so good.
Uh, you get that dry cocoa taste that's dry, but you get the sweetness from the
criminal cacau and the creme de mint.
They work so well together and you get that slight bump from the.
And it's all blended together with that heavy cream.
What I'll do is I will put the ingredients and a method of how to make this down
in the description down below for you.
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