{"id":7972,"date":"2012-10-16T21:39:26","date_gmt":"2012-10-16T20:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.socialandcocktail.co.uk\/?p=7972"},"modified":"2014-07-28T18:55:23","modified_gmt":"2014-07-28T17:55:23","slug":"a-classy-concoction-the-brandy-cocktail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.socialandcocktail.co.uk\/a-classy-concoction-the-brandy-cocktail\/","title":{"rendered":"A Classy Concoction &#8211; The Brandy Alexander"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.socialandcocktail.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Brandy-Alexander-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-4677\" title=\"Brandy Alexander cocktail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.socialandcocktail.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Brandy-Alexander-2-239x300.jpg\" alt=\"Brandy Alexander cocktail\" width=\"153\" height=\"192\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.socialandcocktail.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Brandy-Alexander-2-239x300.jpg 239w, https:\/\/www.socialandcocktail.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Brandy-Alexander-2.jpg 817w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 153px) 100vw, 153px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a title=\"Brandy Alexander\" href=\"https:\/\/www.socialandcocktail.co.uk\/cocktails\/brandy-alexander\/\"><strong>Brandy Alexander<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0cocktail is a <strong>popular dessert cocktail<\/strong> which is the ideal concoction for cocktail novices due to its simplicity to prepare and its creamy, pleasant taste, making it very easy to drink. The <strong>Brandy Alexander<\/strong> cocktail is a sweet, brandy-based cocktail, which consists of brandy and cr\u00e8me de cacao and became very popular during the early 20<sup>th<\/sup> century. The <strong>Brandy Alexander<\/strong> is actually a variation of an earlier gin-based dessert cocktail, called an <strong><a title=\"Alexander\" href=\"https:\/\/www.socialandcocktail.co.uk\/cocktails\/alexander\/\">Alexander<\/a><\/strong> and is ideal for cold winter afternoons or served as an after dinner drink. The <strong>Brandy Alexander<\/strong> is known to pair particularly well with chocolate desserts such as Tiramisu or a chocolate panna cotta.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The origins of the\u00a0<strong>Brandy Alexander cocktail<\/strong>\u00a0has been strongly debated. One popular story is that it was invented in London in 1922 to celebrate the wedding of <strong>Princess Mary<\/strong> and <strong>Viscount Lascelles<\/strong>. <strong>Alexander Woolcott,<\/strong> who was a well-known drama critic and member of the Algonquin Round Table claimed it was named after him. Another popular story was that it was named after the legendary Russian tsar, <strong>Alexander II<\/strong>.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.socialandcocktail.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Tsar.Alexander.II_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7973 aligncenter\" title=\"Tsar.Alexander.II\" src=\"https:\/\/www.socialandcocktail.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Tsar.Alexander.II_-252x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"121\" height=\"144\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.socialandcocktail.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Tsar.Alexander.II_-252x300.jpg 252w, https:\/\/www.socialandcocktail.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Tsar.Alexander.II_.jpg 379w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 121px) 100vw, 121px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>How to make a Brandy Alexander Cocktail:<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Ingredients<\/h3>\n<p>37 1\/2 ml Brandy, 20 ml Cr\u00e8me de Cacao, 50 ml Milk, Grated Nutmeg<\/p>\n<h3>Directions<\/h3>\n<p>Add all ingredients into a mixing glass. Fill glass with cubed ice and shake for 10 seconds. Double strain mixture into cocktail glass. Garnish with dusting of nutmeg.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ft46oyZqBOY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Brandy Alexander\u00a0cocktail is a popular dessert cocktail which is the ideal concoction for cocktail novices due to its simplicity to prepare and its creamy, pleasant taste, making it very easy to drink. The Brandy Alexander cocktail is a sweet, &hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.socialandcocktail.co.uk\/a-classy-concoction-the-brandy-cocktail\/\">Continue <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9809,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[817],"tags":[848,1012,843,1013],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.socialandcocktail.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7972"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.socialandcocktail.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.socialandcocktail.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialandcocktail.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialandcocktail.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7972"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialandcocktail.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14428,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialandcocktail.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7972\/revisions\/14428"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialandcocktail.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.socialandcocktail.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialandcocktail.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socialandcocktail.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}