Merry Christmas, Dear Drinkers! I do so hope that today’s missive finds you all in the merriest of holiday spirits. And speaking of Spirits! Y'all may have noticed fewer recipes this month, than you’ve been seeing me produce recently; and there is a good reason for that, which I can now impart to you. Today’s honoree has not one, not two, but three recipes honoring them, the work they’ve done, and the contributions they’ve made to our community. I make no exaggeration when I say that were it not for today’s honoree, our community would be smaller, and sadder. Their work has spanned the history of our hobby, and ranged from phenomenal sight gags to Gaslamp Fantasy to one of the most beloved stories of our little corner of the internet. Today’s honoree, folks, is Egophilliac.
Ladies and Gentlemen, we’ll start with her most recent work
In this delightful Gaslamp AU, we see our mane six re-imagined as fully autonomous AI’s. The setting itself is a delight, with the integration of AI as equal or integrated participants in society, and with human augmentation and assistance provided through steampunk science.
An Accomplished Steampunk Scientist Twilight
Ingredients:
1 teaspoon Earl Grey Tea Leaves
1 Cog Wheel, cut from Lemon Rind.
Special Equipment:
A strainer, a Cocktail Shaker..
Making an Accomplished Steampunk Scientist Twilight
Pour Gin and Tea Leaves into spare glass.
Strain Gin into Cocktail shaker..
Add Lemon Juice, Ice, and Simple Syrup.
Strain into Martini Glass.
You’ve just finished making an Accomplished Steampunk Scientist Twilight!
The combination of the Bluish Bombay Sapphire Gin with the Tea Leaves will not only produce a taste that is distinctly centered in the mind’s palette on Victorian Times, but will also come closer than much else I could put my hands on towards getting to Twi’s purplish hue, short of using something literally purple, like Chambord, or Merlot.
Now, if we look up at that last image, we can see Twilight telling her mentor and teacher to “Ignore the one on the end.” You know, it seems like having to make those kind of excuses would be awfully… Inconvenient.
It’s Inconvenient Trixie!
She shows up in the darndest places, and always seems to be just about on a poor, exasperated Twi’s last frayed nerve. Maybe a nice refreshing drink would help take the edge off, Twi.
An Inconvenient Trixie
Ingredients:
Two NON-CHILLED rocks glasses.
Special Equipment:
If Googly Eyes and Masking Tape aren’t special equipment for a drink, I don’t know what are.
Making an Inconvenient Trixie:
Pour all of your liquids into the 16 oz container.
Place a strip of Masking Tape on the outside of each of the two rocks glasses.
Adhere two Googly Eyes an equidistant length apart on each of the strips of tape..
Place two cubes of ice in each glass.
Pour drink over ice in each of the two glasses.
You’ve just finished making an Inconvenient Trixie!
This drink not only matches Trixie’s cream-blue coat-color, but with the recipe being as it is, it will produce enough of a beverage that it can’t be easily reduced into a smaller portion, meaning that in that the recipe requires the production of two portions of this drink, it is, in and of itself, Inconvenient.
Finally. What can I say about the last drink I’m sharing, today. When I started doing this aspect of my blog, the creating recipes portion, I knew this was a drink I wanted to make. It has taken me longer to produce this recipe than any other I have worked on. I feel that it is absolutely, 100% justified in being a recipe that has taken this length of time, to get absolutely, utterly correct. The story it honors is about growth. It’s about adventure. It’s about life. And it’s about one brave little pony learning that with a hat on her head, and friends by her side, there wasn’t anything she couldn’t do, if she put her mind to it.
It’s Woona, of Moonstuck!
This little filly went through hell and high water to get from where she started, on the surface of the moon, to where she ended up; but she did it all with aplomb, and dignity, and friends, and fetch quests, and Science. But it’s to her most steadfast and dedicated companion that I honor, with this tip of a… hat. I’ve been working on the recipe this long, that is true. The name of this drink, though? I am PROUD of this one, Dear Drinkers.
A Cartographer’s Cocktail (Both Safe For Woona, and Not Safe For Woona Editions!)
Ingredients:
4 large scoops French Vanilla Ice Cream
½ cup white chocolate chips
SUPER CHILLED, LIKE, FROZEN, LIKE, LITERALLY LEAVE THIS IN THE FREEZER OVERNIGHT Rocks Glass(es).
2 shots White Chocolate Godiva Liqueur (Or White Chocolate Syrup)
A White Hibiscus for each drink you pour.
Chocolate Syrup or Magic Shell.
Special Equipment:
A thin-tip paintbrush you’ve never used to paint, or for any other project, and that is 100% clean, and that you yourself have washed and scrubbed clean. A plate, A Blender.
Making a Cartographer’s Cocktail:
Squeeze an amount of Chocolate Syrup or Magic Shell onto plate, and place Paint-Brush near the plate.
Remove glass from freezer, and quickly move to plate and brush
Using Brush, and Syrup, Draw dotted lines, X’s, O’s, and other landmarks on the INSIDE of the glass. Do not hesitate to pop the glass back inside the freezer to help the syrup or shell set. Do not over-decorate.
Place glass back inside Freezer after decorating.
Put Ice cream, milk, chips, and Liqueur (for a Not Safe For Woona Version) OR the White Chocolate Syrup (For a Safe For Woona Version) in the blender.
Remove glass(es) from freezer.
Garnish drink with flower and Whipped Cream.
You’ve just finished making a Cartographer’s Cocktail, in honor of Moonstuck!
The interior decoration of the glass is meant to evoke the image of Woona’s ever-trusty headpiece; it will also melt into the drink as you drink it, altering the change of the flavor as you work yourself through your beverage. The White Hibiscus is meant to evoke the moon-flower by which Woona establishes her friendship with the Batponies. Doing two versions of this drink lets me take it even one step further, and make use of both Not Safe For Woona, and Safe For Woona. I really, really hope that this one manages to properly honor this effort.
Keep sending in suggestions as to who you’d like to see made into a drink, and Stay Thirsty, my friends!
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