Breakfast of Champions - Morning Shots

Breakfast in Bed

The Breakfast in Bed Shot is a boozy brunch favorite made with smooth whiskey, sweet butterscotch schnapps, fresh orange juice & crispy bacon. 

Ingredients
3/4 ounce Jameson or Crown Maple 
3/4 ounce Butterscotch Schnapps
3/4 ounces of orange juice
1 strip of delicious cooked bacon. Consider candied bacon or maple bacon to amp it up.

Instructions

1. Combine booze, butterscotch schnapps & orange juice in a cocktail shaker.
2. Add ice to the mixing tin.
3. Shake for 10 seconds.
4. Strain into a rocks or big shot glass.
5. Garnish the top of the glass with a scrumptious slice of bacon.
6. Shoot the shot & eat the bacon in that order. Breakfast of Champions

Cinnamon Roll Shot

The sinfully good Cinnamon Roll Shot is made with spicy Fireball Whisky, small batch craft Boylan’s Crème Soda, fluffy whip cream, & fresh nutmeg. 

Ingredients
2 ounces of chilled Fireball Cinnamon Whisky
2 ounces of chilled Boylan’s Crème Soda
Garnish: whip cream
Garnish: fresh nutmeg

Instructions

1. Combine Fireball and Boylan’s Crème Soda in a mixing glass or shaker, and gently stir with a cocktail spoon.
2. Pour mixture into shot glasses. I think these mason jar shot glasses are really cute!
3. Top with whip cream.
4. Grate fresh nutmeg over the whip cream

Bananas Foster Shot

The New Orleans Bananas Foster Shot takes the enticing flavors of the classic dessert and combines them into an adult dessert shooter!

Ingredients 

1 ounce Blue Chair Bay Banana Rum Cream

1/2 ounce 3 Howl Bananas Foster Flavored Vodka

1 ounce Crème de Banana

1/2 ounce Butterscotch Schnapps

6 drops Bittermens ‘Elemakule Tiki Bitters

Garnish: caramel sauce

Garnish: turbinado sugar 

Garnish: sliced bananas

Instructions

1. Rim a large shot or rocks glass with caramel sauce, and then dip in turbinado sugar.
2. Combine all the ingredients into a cocktail shaker.
3. Shake for 10 seconds and strain into a caramel sugar rimmed glass.
4. Garnish with a slice of banana cut on the bias.

Notes: Want to get fancy? Use a kitchen blow torch to slightly flambé the sliced bananas for garnish; Can’t find 3 Howl Bananas Foster Flavored Vodka? You can substitute with another kind of Banana Vodka.

Key Lime Pie Shooter 

Ingredients
1.5 oz. Key Lime Rum Cream

Crushed Graham Cracker

Instructions

1. Rim the shot glass with simple syrup and dip into the crushed graham crackers. 
2. Chill 1.5 oz. of Blue Chair Bay® Key Lime Rum Cream over ice and pour into the shot glass.

El Cafecito

From the Lobster Bar Sea Grille in Miami Beach

Ingredients

1.5 oz Papa's Pilar Dark Rum

.5 oz Miami Club Cuban Coffee Liqueur

.5 oz Licor 431 dash simple syrup

2 dashes Bitter Truth chocolate bitters

Instructions

In a shaker, add all the ingredients, shake vigorously, then pour into a rocks glass with a large ice cube

Colorado Bulldog

Ingredients:

1 oz Kahlúa

1 oz Absolut Vodka

1 oz cream

Top with Cola

Instructions

1. Shake the alcohol and cream with ice. 
2. Strain into a short glass with lots of ice, but make sure not to fill it to the brim. 
3. Leave some space to top it off with cola.

Coffee Old Fashioned

Recipe from Bon Appetit

Ingredients

1 double shot espresso (about 2 oz.), room temperature

1 oz bourbon or rye whiskey

.25 oz simple syrup

A dash of Peychaud's bitters

1 1-inch piece of lemon peel

Instructions

1. Combine espresso, bourbon, simple syrup, and bitters in a shaker and fill with ice. 
2. Stir with a bar spoon for 30 seconds and strain into a rocks glass filled with ice. 
3. Twist lemon peel over the drink and rub around the rim of the glass. 
4. Garnish with lemon peel, optional.

Siciliano

Recipe from Bon Appetit

Ingredients

2 oz sweet vermouth, preferably Italian

1.5 oz amaro (preferably Averna)

1.5 oz strong cold-brew coffee

1 oz simple syrup

Club soda

Orange wheel (for serving)

Instructions

1. Mix vermouth, amaro, coffee, and simple syrup in a tumbler. 
2. Add ice to fill and top off with club soda. Garnish with orange wheel.