Superheroic Cocktails
The Wayne Wake-Up Call
Bruce Wayne, apart from being a weird, bat-themed vigilante, is also a cosmopolitan, well-traveled gentleman. In my imagination, he brings with home many of the customs and recipes from his travels, including the combination of coffee and anise liqueur common to Italy and the surrounding areas. The spiced rum adds a lovely richness to the drink that I think Billionaire Bruce Wayne would appreciate. Note: this cocktail is not for the faint of heart, it's full of strong flavors, and it most certainly tastes like licorice.
Ingredients
.25oz sambuca (or another anise-flavored liqueur)
2oz dark spiced rum
4oz hot coffee (unsweetened)
Instructions
Make yourself some coffee, and while it's still nice and hot, add in the rum and sambuca and enjoy!
The Grayson All-Nighter
Whereas Bruce is all about the elegant morning (or afternoon), I think Dick (the first Robin) is more likely to create this cocktail in a slap-happy haze after spending all night working on a case. While this sounds like utter insanity and indulgence, it's actually delicately sweet and creamy. Like the Wayne Wake-Up Call, this cocktail also has Italian roots. Affogato is a classic Italian treat where one tops gelato with a shot of hot espresso (which is delightful). This is kind of the idiot cousin of that delicacy, but it's also delicious (and has brandy!).
Ingredients
6oz iced coffee (unsweetened)
2oz brandy
1 small scoop of salted caramel ice cream
Instructions
Make yourself some coffee and ice it down (either by making a strong batch and icing it immediately, or by making a regular batch and sticking it in the freezer for 20 minutes or so), and then add some brandy and ice cream and get ready to solve some crime!
Poison Ivy's Kiss
In the depths of the vine-choked Robinson Park, Poison Ivy reclines with one of these botanical beauties while planning her next move against Gotham and the Batman. Enjoy a drink with Pamela by mixing the raw green taste of silver tequila and little lavender liqueur with the zing of lime juice an the bitter sweetness of absinthe. Egg white adds dimension to the drink, while the soda water keeps the cocktail from becoming too bitter.
Ingredients
1.5oz silver tequila
.25oz lavender liqueur
.5oz lime juice
.25oz absinthe
1 tbsp egg white
top with soda water
Instructions
Add the egg white to a shaker with some ice and shake it as hard as you can to break it up. Afterwards, add the rest of the ingredients and shake it again, and pour it out into a coupe glass. Garnish with a sprinkle of lavender blossoms for the x factor.
Catwoman's Whip
After a fabulous jewelry heist and a little bat-baiting, it's time to sit back and rest on your laurels with this little cocktail. It's a twist on a brandy flip, which I initially turned to because I didn't want to waste the yolk after using the white for the Poison Ivy drink above. It's simple, creamy cocktail with a delicate sweetness and a beautiful pale yellow color. Watch out, though, it packs a mean punch.
Ingredients
2oz cognac
1 egg yolk
1oz half and half
.5oz peach liqueur
Instructions
Add all the ingredients to a shaker with some ice and shake it like your life depends on it (you want to get that egg yolk completely worked in). Pour it into a coupe glass and drink up! I decided to garnish the drink with the spoils of the night (which in this case is a couple of star-shaped sprinkles).
A Harlequin Romance
And now the Gotham City Sirens are complete, and ready to tend bar together! This lovely cocktail is a delightful confluence of contradictions, just like the inestimable Harley Quinn herself. The fruity notes give the cocktail an almost candy-like taste, but the bitter, herbal notes of the Pimm's and gin keep it from being cloying and add some depth to the drink. In appearance, the drink isn't as ostentatious as Harley generally is, but sometimes you just have to kick back and wipe the greasepaint off.
Ingredients
1oz pear liqueur
1oz Pimm's liqueur
1.5oz gin
1oz apple juice
2 dashes Peychaud's bitters
Instructions
Nothing complicated here. Mix everything together and pour it over some ice. If you want to really pump up that Harley Quinn feel, make sure to drop some red and/or black fruit into the drink.
The Mystique
You know, I was going to come up with some clever, Mystique-related name for this drink, but can there be a cooler name than "The Mystique." She's already the epitome of cool. This drink is just as sophisticated and changeable as the mutant herself, with delicate flavors of ginger and lemongrass from the tea, as well as light fruity, grassy, and nutty flavors from the other ingredients.
Ingredients
4oz iced Aurora Blue tea*
1oz Arrogante Damiana liqueur
.5oz pear liqueur
.25oz orgeat
*Aurora Blue is an herbal tea from The Spice and Tea Exchange, which gets it's flavor mainly from the lemongrass, ginger, and orange within it. However, it gets it's name from the butterfly pea flowers that turn the tea blue. You can certainly use another lemongrass/ginger tea to make this drink, but I would recommend throwing a little blue curacao into drink afterwards to keep the color.
Instructions
Brew the tea first, either icing it immediately or letting it cool on it's own. Then add in the other ingredients and stir together.
Serving suggestions: serve in a tall glass, like a collins or a pilsner glass, and add a little silver edible glitter to the drink for a truly elegant and unearthly touch
Bruce Wayne, apart from being a weird, bat-themed vigilante, is also a cosmopolitan, well-traveled gentleman. In my imagination, he brings with home many of the customs and recipes from his travels, including the combination of coffee and anise liqueur common to Italy and the surrounding areas. The spiced rum adds a lovely richness to the drink that I think Billionaire Bruce Wayne would appreciate. Note: this cocktail is not for the faint of heart, it's full of strong flavors, and it most certainly tastes like licorice.
Ingredients
.25oz sambuca (or another anise-flavored liqueur)
2oz dark spiced rum
4oz hot coffee (unsweetened)
Instructions
Make yourself some coffee, and while it's still nice and hot, add in the rum and sambuca and enjoy!
The Grayson All-Nighter
Whereas Bruce is all about the elegant morning (or afternoon), I think Dick (the first Robin) is more likely to create this cocktail in a slap-happy haze after spending all night working on a case. While this sounds like utter insanity and indulgence, it's actually delicately sweet and creamy. Like the Wayne Wake-Up Call, this cocktail also has Italian roots. Affogato is a classic Italian treat where one tops gelato with a shot of hot espresso (which is delightful). This is kind of the idiot cousin of that delicacy, but it's also delicious (and has brandy!).
Ingredients
6oz iced coffee (unsweetened)
2oz brandy
1 small scoop of salted caramel ice cream
Instructions
Make yourself some coffee and ice it down (either by making a strong batch and icing it immediately, or by making a regular batch and sticking it in the freezer for 20 minutes or so), and then add some brandy and ice cream and get ready to solve some crime!
Poison Ivy's Kiss
Ingredients
1.5oz silver tequila
.25oz lavender liqueur
.5oz lime juice
.25oz absinthe
1 tbsp egg white
top with soda water
Instructions
Add the egg white to a shaker with some ice and shake it as hard as you can to break it up. Afterwards, add the rest of the ingredients and shake it again, and pour it out into a coupe glass. Garnish with a sprinkle of lavender blossoms for the x factor.
Catwoman's Whip
After a fabulous jewelry heist and a little bat-baiting, it's time to sit back and rest on your laurels with this little cocktail. It's a twist on a brandy flip, which I initially turned to because I didn't want to waste the yolk after using the white for the Poison Ivy drink above. It's simple, creamy cocktail with a delicate sweetness and a beautiful pale yellow color. Watch out, though, it packs a mean punch.
Ingredients
2oz cognac
1 egg yolk
1oz half and half
.5oz peach liqueur
Instructions
Add all the ingredients to a shaker with some ice and shake it like your life depends on it (you want to get that egg yolk completely worked in). Pour it into a coupe glass and drink up! I decided to garnish the drink with the spoils of the night (which in this case is a couple of star-shaped sprinkles).
A Harlequin Romance
1oz pear liqueur
1oz Pimm's liqueur
1.5oz gin
1oz apple juice
2 dashes Peychaud's bitters
Instructions
Nothing complicated here. Mix everything together and pour it over some ice. If you want to really pump up that Harley Quinn feel, make sure to drop some red and/or black fruit into the drink.
The Mystique
You know, I was going to come up with some clever, Mystique-related name for this drink, but can there be a cooler name than "The Mystique." She's already the epitome of cool. This drink is just as sophisticated and changeable as the mutant herself, with delicate flavors of ginger and lemongrass from the tea, as well as light fruity, grassy, and nutty flavors from the other ingredients.
Ingredients
4oz iced Aurora Blue tea*
1oz Arrogante Damiana liqueur
.5oz pear liqueur
.25oz orgeat
*Aurora Blue is an herbal tea from The Spice and Tea Exchange, which gets it's flavor mainly from the lemongrass, ginger, and orange within it. However, it gets it's name from the butterfly pea flowers that turn the tea blue. You can certainly use another lemongrass/ginger tea to make this drink, but I would recommend throwing a little blue curacao into drink afterwards to keep the color.
Instructions
Brew the tea first, either icing it immediately or letting it cool on it's own. Then add in the other ingredients and stir together.
Serving suggestions: serve in a tall glass, like a collins or a pilsner glass, and add a little silver edible glitter to the drink for a truly elegant and unearthly touch
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