{"id":15069,"date":"2025-12-25T09:21:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T09:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=15069"},"modified":"2025-12-25T05:33:46","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T05:33:46","slug":"christmas-cocktail-the-alexander-not-brandy-alexander","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=15069","title":{"rendered":"Christmas cocktail &#8211; the Alexander (not Brandy Alexander)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Historically the Alexander preceded the Brandy Alexander &#8211; you sub dry gin for cognac. It&#8217;s worth trying. Surprisingly good &#8211; we used exactly the recipe from this super short video. He&#8217;s using white creme de cacao and we did also. Of course dark creme de cacao is more traditional.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-9-16 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How to make a (Gin) Alexander cocktail. Part 1 #shorts\" width=\"422\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UgT6PcYI7e4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Farandaville mimicking above.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1 1\/2 oz. dry gin<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1 oz creme de cacao. (white or dark)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1 oz heavy cream <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>shake like mad for 20-25 seconds and pour into your glass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nutmeg on top! Doesn&#8217;t have to be fancy like the video &#8211; just grate a small amount on top. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Historically the Alexander preceded the Brandy Alexander &#8211; you sub dry gin for cognac. It&#8217;s worth trying. Surprisingly good &#8211; we used exactly the recipe from this super short video. He&#8217;s using white creme de cacao and we did also. Of course dark creme de cacao is more traditional. Farandaville mimicking above. 1 1\/2 oz. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cocktails","category-farandaville-family-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15069"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15070,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15069\/revisions\/15070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}