Good Morning!

Tomorrow night is our annual friends gathering and last year I passed out a little gift bag with a bottle of my wine and some homemade cookies for each friend to take with them. At the party last year, I opened some great wines, made some of my semi-famous Friendship sangria and we had beer iced down for everyone to enjoy. While the party was getting started one friend was helping in the kitchen and she opened the frig looking for something and said, what’s this chocolate milk stuff in here? I giggled and said, that is not chocolate milk, it’s my homemade Bailey’s. She said can I try it?

Well, every time a new bunch of friends arrived she bragged about the Bailey’s and made them try it….it was gone within a few hours and everyone wanted my recipe. So, tonight when the party goers arrive they will still get punch, wine and beer but in their gift bag, they will take home a bottle of the Bailey’s with a copy of the recipe.

I found some cool bottles at the hobby store and they have attached rubber stoppers so I made mega batches of the Bailey’s this morning and have all the bottles filled for my pals. I wanted to share the recipe with you, so here is it!

1 3/4 c. Irish whiskey
1 can Eagle condensed milk
1 c. whipping cream
4 beaten eggs
6 tbsp. chocolate syrup
3 tbsp. instant coffee
1 1/2 tsp. vanilla extract
1/2 tsp. almond extract

Add all these ingredients in the blender and taste…you might like more whiskey…I always use Jack Daniels, since I am not much of a hard alcohol fan, you might have a brand you prefer. Also, I am not a coffee drinker so sometimes I only use 2 tbsp’s of instant coffee.

Remember you have eggs in here, so this is not like store bought Bailey’s..must refrigerate and consumer within about a week.

I hope you enjoy and I hope you get time to enjoy the holidays!

Much LOVE and wine,

Tammi