Let it burn!

Want to serve up some exotic flaming cocktails at your New Year party? Omkar Watve, Director, Boozers n Shakers, a school of bar and beverage management, puts together a few fashionable and easy recipes, deliberately set on fire! By Trupti S

FLAMING HAWK
Keep an eye on the flaming hawk. It’s sure to set you flying high with delectable, blazing ingredients!

INGREDIENTS
30ml Sambuca
15ml Blue Curacao
10ml Cream liqueur
10ml Coffee liqueur

METHOD
1. Pour the Sambuca and the Blue Curacao into a small martini glass and the cream liqueur and coffee liqueur into two test tubes.
2. Flame the Sambuca and pour it into the test tube. Suck it with the help of a straw, with the flame still on.

BLAZING TOWER
This is one tower you won’t mind burning. The delicious and extremely potent flavours of orange flavoured vodka with cranberry juice are sure to leave your taste buds tingling for more!

INGREDIENTS
60ml Orange flavoured vodka
100 ml Cranberry juice

METHOD
1. Place a tall glass upside down in the centre of a pasta bowl, and then place a shot glass upside down over the tall glass.
2. Pour the juice into the plate. Flame the vodka in a shot glass and pour it slowly over the inverted shot glass into the plate. Sip the mix from the plate with a straw.

BMW
No, we aren’t talking about the car. BMW is an acronym of the ingredients that we use to whip up this delicious cocktail. Like its namesake, it is stylish and sure to set your pulse racing once you get a taste of it. Aye Carumba!

INGREDIENTS
20ml Baileys
20ml Malibu
20ml Whisky

METHOD
1. Float the Baileys & the whisky over the Malibu in a shot glass.
2. Flame the mix and sip it with the help of a straw with the flame on.

Remember to be careful
You always have to be careful when you play with fire and that holds true for these flaming cocktails as well. Make sure you keep in mind:

1. Girls, while preparing and even drinking the flaming cocktails, ensure your hair is in place and not running all wild. You don’t want your crowning glory to catch fire now, do you?
2. As mentioned in the methodology, do not drink these drinks directly. Always use a straw. Or else, once you flame the cocktail, let it burn for some time and then blow it off. The effect may not be as dramatic but the taste will remain more or less the same.