Cocktail Recipe: King Baby Hot Buttered Rum
In honor of the start of Mardi Gras season and National Hot Buttered Rum Day, we brought a bit of New Orleans' flavor to warm us up in Upstate New York with our new cocktail recipe, a take on a King Cake-inspired Hot Buttered Rum. Yesterday here in Ithaca the sky opened up and dumped inch after inch of fresh powder, smacking you in the face with flurries of snow, and yet I was warmed from the inside out by our King Cake-inspired Hot Buttered Rum, which paired the classic baking spice flavor of King Cake with our herbaceous and citrus-forward Lafcadio Botanical Rum! Continue reading for a brief history on hot buttered rum, King Cake, and a recipe for this seasonal rum cocktail. The history of hot buttered rum dates back to colonial times at least and perhaps even further. The act (or art? You decide) of incorporating butter into a...