Rusty Nail’s Recipes
Dear Drinkers.
I do hope you, and yours, are enjoying this St. Valentines Day.
However.
We are here gathered. In recognition. In remembrance. In celebration.
We gather here, today, for Spock The Cat.
Spock has, sadly, passed. I can only offer Wiggles my deepest, and most heartfelt condolences.
Spock, however. Spock, I am certain, left this world knowing that above, and beyond all else. He was loved. By his mom, most of all. But also by thousands; by *Thousands*, who reached their five fingers out to his seven, and sought to assist him in his hours of need. And assist him we did, and we have. There’s still one Donor Recipe to come, and don’t think I’ve forgotten it. First, though. Remember his space-eye? The sideways growing claw? The Polydactyl-Polydactyly? Remember him. Remember this goober of a butt, who, no doubt, wherever he is, is trying to grab onto something using far too many toes. I know of at least one thing he managed to grab onto. All of our hearts. Goodbye Spock, and Good Boy. It is with both a heavy heart, and deep honor, that The Pony Keg inducts its first honoree from real life.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
It’s Spock The Cat.
I have no rose to lay before your marker. No dirt to toss upon your soil. I’ve got this, buddy. So this’ll have to do.
A Spock The Cat
Ingredients:
- 2oz Godiva white chocolate liqueur
- 1oz Gosling's Black Seal rum
- 1oz Rumchata
- 1oz Amarula Cream liqueur
- Frozen Tumbler.
- Ice
- Chocolate Syrup
- Magic Shell
- A plate
- A brand new paintbrush, one of the little tiny ones, that you’re going to clean, and only ever use for this.
- A Ferrero Rondnoir. (This is the Dark Chocolate version of a Ferrero Rocher)
- A Swizzle-Stick. (You can ask, if you don’t know what these are, they’re cocktail stirrers, you want ones that are kinda pointy on one end.)
Special Equipment:
A Cocktail Shaker.
Making a Spock The Cat.
- Place Tumbler into freezer. Get this as cold as possible.
- Pour Magic Shell and Chocolate Syrup onto the plate in a 2 Magic Shell to 1 Chocolate Syrup squeeze ratio, then swirl up with paintbrush.
- Remove glass from freezer, and, using paintbrush, paint on a big chocolate spot on the inside of the glass. Put it back in the freezer for an hour or so. Repeat this twice more.
- Pour Godiva, Gosling’s, Rumchata, Amarula, and Ice into Shaker.
- Shake!
- Gently, but firmly, while it’s still inside it’s foil, push the cocktail stirrer all the way through the chocolate. So that it’s sitting where it’d be partially, but not wholly, submerged by the drink.
- Remove glass from freezer
- Place Stirrer-Garnish in glass, without scratching chocolate, but without wasting time.
- Strain shaker into glass.
- Drink!
You’ve just finished making a Spock The Cat!
This recipe uses the same technique I’ve used a few times on here, of freezing chocolate on the walls of the glass. This time, with the white drink, the chocolate splotches will give the resemblance of Spock’s Coat. The garnish, peeking up out of the drink? Why, that’s Spock’s goofy Space-Eye. And the warm feeling this drink’ll leave in your chest and cheeks? That’s a thought or two, for the little guy this drink honors.
And hey, if you really feel you need to do something, why not donate to a really worthy cause, in Spock’s name.