Salted Caramel + Orange Rum Coffee

During the colder months, I like to experiment with hot drink recipes and elevate them with easy ingredients to make those cold nights at home, a little cozier.

 

What you’ll need:

• Coffee of your choice (I used espresso from Starbucks), make sure it’s HOT.
• 2 teaspoons of raw sugar.
• 20 ml of dark rum (I used the infamous  Newfoundland Screech Rum).
• 20 ml of gold rum.
• A pinch of cinnamon, or a cinnamon stick for aesthetic and for the cinnamon flavour to slowly breathe through the coffee.
• Orange zest.
• Dark chocolate shavings (I used the salted caramel chocolate from Lindt).
• Whipped cream of your choice.

How to make it (Only consume this if you’re 19+/21+ years of age, of legal drinking age):

1. Use a heatproof glass mug  (to show off the final look, and to impress your guests), and stir in the coffee and raw sugar, until the sugar is dissolved.
2. Stir in both rums.
3. Add in the cinnamon into the body of the coffee and rum.
4. Garnish with whip cream, chocolate shavings, orange zest and another dash of cinnamon (or nutmeg).

Then snuggle up with this drink that’s sure to warm your soul. After I made this drink, I watched a classic movie while the cold rain fell outside.

Adapted from Food & Wine.

What’s a favourite drink of yours in the colder months? Coffee with Baileys cream is another drink I reach for whenever I want a change for a cold weekend treat, but this weekend I’ll be enjoying this recipe before the grind starts again on Monday, until then have an amazing weekend.