Thursday, August 2, 2012

Are You Ready to Rum Bell?

My son in law and daughter gave me an amazing machine for Father's Day.  Apparently, as advertised, it cools a drink to 15 degrees F.  So this inspired me to finally create my own rum drink.  Here 'tis.

The easiest ingredient to settle upon was Blue Bell ice cream.  The only intense moment will be finding out if the melted ice cream will flow through the dispenser.  If not, then there is an alternative recipe for dispensing at parties (and on the bar for hot weekends).

Then the notion of another alternative hit me.  I love real hot chocolate--fudge.  So when the dispenser is not being used, the chocolate can be fudge rather than chocolate syrup.

The Recipes


The Rum Bell

  • 1 Cup of Blue Bell Ice Cream 
  • 2 Tablespoons of Smucker's Hot Fudge Topping (Unheated)
  • 1 Jigger Bacardi Ron 8 Anos (or Equivalent)

The Bar Belle
  • 1 Cup Heavy Cream
  • 2 Tablespoons of Hershey's Chocolate Syrup
  • 1 Jigger  Bacardi Ron 8 Anos (or Equivalent)
So this weekend, I'm going to try these out.