Post #523694 by congawa on Tue, Apr 13, 2010 10:51 AM

I received BB Remixed two weeks ago and have been on a quest to make new things I haven't tried before, including ingredients I've shied away from because I know they aren't really my bag (but as a completist I'm going to at least try to check some drinks off the list). One such ingredient is coconut cream.

I opened a can of Coco Lopez last night and made the Tradewinds. However, since it's a bowl, I downsized it by 1/3, so instead of 4 oz of lemon juice and 3 oz each of everything else called for, I did 1 1/3 and 1 oz. respectively. I poured the blended result into a Trader Vic's coconut bowl. It tasted good, but was too "desserty" for my tastes and even at 1/3 almost immediately filled me up. So one coconut cream drink off the list, and will use the rest of the 15 oz can to check a few other coconut cream items off the list (though spaced out every couple of weeks, or until the cream goes bad in the fridge). Much better than the drink I made last week with Kahlua, whose name I forget (once I got home I discovered the 50oz bottle of Kahlua at Bevmo was the Hazlenut flavor--ecch--so I may have to try again with regular Kahlua, though I'm not really a fan of it in general--I'm way more into the drinks calling for falernum and allspice dram).