Toffee Vodka success (merged with other flavours)

pobby_2

Hi
Can't remember who started the toffee vodka post but I found it inspirational (well anything including toffee and vodka has to be good right?!) :beer:

I plan to make some home made hampers for friends this christmas, but was nervous the toffee vodka wouldn't be good, so I made a test batch last week.

We decided to test it last night (oh the sacrifices I make) Needless to say it was a HUGE success and my husband after being initially sceptical has banned me from giving away any of this bottle, saying I need to make more! :rotfl: So I am this morning shopping online for fancy bottles and off out later today for more vodka and toffee supplies. I may even branch out into new flavours!

So a BIG THANK YOU to whoever it was.

Oh and anyone know anywhere I can get some bottles cheap?! Would prefer less than a standard 375ml bottle so that it will go further ... maybe 200 or 250 ml?

lisndai

Hi there would you mind posting the receipe again please

Thanks lisa

kethry

i got 250ml bottles from Wares of Knutsford, for £8.95 (not including P&P) for 6 bottles. Not cheap as chips, but they are nice bottles, you can put nice labels on and use them for different things. They're actually sold as oil bottles so you could use them for anything i suppose (although i've been making flavoured booze too!). Anyway, Wares delivered very promptly - 3 days after payment, and that was at the height of the postal strike!!! if those bottles don't catch your fancy they've other ones there so worth a look. Other than that, i can only think of Lakeland.

HTH

keth
xx

pobby_2

lisndai wrote: »

Hi there would you mind posting the receipe again please

Thanks lisa

Sure no probs this is what I used:

1 bottle vodka (I bought Lidl one in a conical shaped bottle) - no need for expensive branded one.
1 large back werthers original toffee (the hard ones)

I used an empty, well washed and dried bottle and put the toffee in the bottom (I had to chop them up a bit as the neck was too narrow). They went about a third of the way up the bottle. Then poured the vodka on top (used about three quarters of the bottle). Put the lid on, give it a good shake and leave for 2-3 days, shaking up once or twice a day.

It took 3 days for them all to dissolve. I then put in the fridge (although I think you can also freeze as vodka doesn't totally freeze due to high alcohol level).

I think you could dissolve quicker by standing the bottle in a big jug of boiling water but they will dissolve by themselves if you aren't in a rush.

Hope this helps.

My next experiment is going to be ..... Jelly baby vodka!!! Same principle but replace werthers with jelly babies Someone told me don't use the black ones. Oh the sacrifice, I'll have to eat them so they don't go to waste Will let you know how I get on.

Dusty_Moth

If it went that well for you I may yet be brave enough to try it!!!

Did you see the recipie for Christmas Pudding vodka float by too? That sounds lovely I can vouch for skittles vodka being nice (same thing as the jelly babies - avoid the green ones I seem to recall else it all goes brown) but lethal with all the sugar turning to alcohol. Plus it tastes all sweet and syrupy so you don't notice you've drunk half the bottle :rotfl:

Or is that just me? :A

Saw someone mention vanilla vodka too - Wish I had more friends who'd appreciate the flavoured vodka as I have too much indoors I've not drunk to be able to justify doing lots for myself!!!

:beer:

rls1973

i made some a couple of months ago, using werthers and one of those little quarter bottles of cheap voddie ,just from the local costcutter.

tried it last nightfor the first time, wow.
and it seems stronger , so it's true about the sugar turning to alcohol, lol

rooo

I've tried Pear Drop Vodka, and Kola Kube Vodka - both were extremely good, and dead easy to do.

Skittle Vodka is good too, but even if you remove the green ones, the colour is still a bit ucky!

carebabe

can someone who has tried the toffee vodka tell me what colour the finished result is ?

pobby_2

carebabe wrote: »

can someone who has tried the toffee vodka tell me what colour the finished result is ?

Yep it is the same colour as the toffees you use. I bit like baileys type colour.

It was yummy I don't think it will last long. And yes it tastes stronger so the sugar definitely does that.

I'm having second thoughts about the jelly babies now 'cos of the colour. I wonder if I made them with a single colour it would help? ...but then I'd have to buy loads and loads of jelly babies!!

.....erm maybe i'll chicken out and buy pear drops instead...OOHHHH I've had a brainwave....RHUBARB AND CUSTARD ...you know the boiled sweets. Yay :j :beer: :T

pobby_2

Dusty_Moth wrote: »

If it went that well for you I may yet be brave enough to try it!!!

Did you see the recipie for Christmas Pudding vodka float by too? That sounds lovely I can vouch for skittles vodka being nice (same thing as the jelly babies - avoid the green ones I seem to recall else it all goes brown) but lethal with all the sugar turning to alcohol. Plus it tastes all sweet and syrupy so you don't notice you've drunk half the bottle :rotfl:

Or is that just me? :A

Saw someone mention vanilla vodka too - Wish I had more friends who'd appreciate the flavoured vodka as I have too much indoors I've not drunk to be able to justify doing lots for myself!!!

:beer:

I did see the christmas pudding one too. Sounds nice. Oh decisions, decisions. I need to make my mind up or i'll end up with about 10 different flavours! I have lots of friends who will appreciate it but just not lots of money to make hundreds of flavours!!

kethry

poppy (me again..!) - just a suggestion to save money - decant your vodka into the smaller bottles and make your flavour in the smaller bottles. that way you can make a single bottle of vodka stretch into more flavours... its what i did.

one thing though: obviously you won't actually fill your bottle up with 250ml of vodka cos the thing you're infusing will take up space in the bottle. if whatever you're infusing then has to be removed afterwards (e.g. chilli vodka - unless you like the OMG factor like my OH then you're supposed to remove the chilli after a week) then you're going to be left with a bit of a space between the top of the liquid and the top of the bottle. Obviously the temptation is there to top it up with normal vodka, but i did this with a toblerone vodka and the "new" vodka didn't mix in with the "old" at all well (kept seperating), so you may want to hold off from doing this.

HTH

keth
xx