Is it a Cocktail? Is it a Dessert? Who Cares?

Tobler-for-one

30ml Drambuie

15ml Frangelico Hazelnut Liqueur

20ml Disaronno (turns out, you have to call it an "amaretto-tasting liqueur")

1 big old scoop of Vanilla ice cream

2 dashes of Chocolate bitters

50ml Full fat milk (you're drinking a cocktail that tastes like a chocolate bar, don't act like this is your tipping point)

Chocolate sauce

Cocoa powder (or hot chocolate powder, if you're nasty)

About 2 hours before you make this, put your coupe in the freezer

Just before you're going to rattle the tin, whip it out

Grab the chocolate sauce and drizzle it around the inside of the glass

Put everything but the sauce and the cocoa powder in the cocktail shaker, without ice

Give it good ole' shimmy

Add ice and shake it again

Fine strain it into a coupe and dust with the cocoa powder

The first cocktail bar I ever worked at was this little place in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. It was a bar just outside of Central Station and it was one of those painfully hip places all the cool kids went to.

I was on a night out with future Eurovision contestant (name dropping like a pro), Jim. He goes by James now. Jim, you've changed.

We were having a drink, feeling like one of the cool kids, and thought it would be pretty sweet to work there. So we decided, on a whim, we'd just ask for a job.

I got one, Jim didn't. Sorry, dude.

He's an award-winning songwriter now while I work in a call center and write a blog that about 3 people read. But who's the real winner?! Ha ha...

Back on track...

The place had a pretty cool cocktail menu. It was one of those bars which refused hen and stag dos and definitely wanted a certain clientele.

They had this Toblerone cocktail which was awesome.

I'm not a fan of sweet drinks, usually. Give me something so sour I get cramp in my neck or so strong I am forced to rip my shirt off and wrestle it like some common bear.

This thing was a dessert of a drink. You couldn't have more than one, but that one... Jebus it was good.

Their's had 42 Below Honey Vodka and instead of Drambuie, but I was hammered when I made that one up there and I didn't have that to hand. Besides, mine tastes better.

They also used half and half (mixture of cream and milk) but I was going balls to the wall on this one. Ice cream that bad boy up. This also means that you don't have to add any sugar syrup.

The weird thing about this cocktail is that I can't think of a single scenario in which it would be a good idea to drink it. I know I probably shouldn't say that about my own cocktail, but it's true.

On a night out? No. Just 1 of these and you're taken off the board

During a meal? Ha ha.. no. Imagine eating something while you're drinking ice cream

After a meal, in lieu of a dessert? Unless you just had a salad, there is not going to be enough space in your body to fit this.

I guess you could make one and have it on its own, but only serial killers drink like that and they certainly aren't drinking this.

Just make one and figure it out yourself.