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October 14, 2009 at 5:13 pm Leave a comment

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Homemade Kahlua

Homemade Kahlua

In the next few weeks we will be posting ideas for making your own seasonal gifts for friends and family.  These are fairly easy and inexpensive food and drink ideas that you will be proud to give and the recipient will be happy to receive.

Today’s gift idea is homemade Kahlua.  Who doesn’t enjoy this great coffee flavored liqueur?  It’s great in coffee, fantastic with a little cream added as an after dinner cordial and makes our Tiramisu a very special holiday dessert. We started with this recipe as it takes about 5-6 weeks to develop it’s deep, rich flavor.  Spend 10 minutes mixing the recipe, hide it in a closet for 6 weeks , pour into a decorative bottle and then deliver it at the holidays.

A quick word of caution should you decide to consume this yourself.  Regular Kahlua is 20% alcohol by volume, depending on the Vodka you use, this may exceed the 20% by a bunch.  We made half a recipe which makes a quart of homemade Kahlua.  We put ours in a container that can be used to store coffee after the Kahlua is gone.

Homemade Kahlua

Recipe Summary
Complexity: Easy
Serves: 12
Category: Misc
Meal: other (General)
3.75 cup sugar, white
1 cup water
6 Tb coffee, instant
1 cup water
1 medium vanilla bean
1 qt vodka
1 tsp glycerin

Dissolve sugar in boiling water. Cool. Dissolve instant coffee in boiling water. Place vanilla bean, broken into 3 pieces in coffee mixture for 3 minutes or use 1 tsp of good vanilla extract.  Place all in large jug, add vodka and glycerin. Let stand in a dark place for 6 weeks.

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