Squashed Frog
 
1.5 oz                Midori melon liqueur
1 oz.                  Bols Advocaat liqueur
1 oz.                  Bailey’s Irish cream
2 dashes             grenadine syrup 

Pour the Midori into the shot glass. Next, add the Advocaat into the glass. Add a few dashes of grenadine and then float the Bailey’s on top.

After yesterday’s foray into the Jambalaya shot that tasted nothing like jambalaya (nor was it really intended to) and our recent post on the Mounds Bar shot (which was awesome ! ), we thought today’s recipe should be nothing that even suggests food. So we polled the rest of the office staff for a good suggestion—as we sometimes do to try and involve people——and someone came up with the Squashed Frog.

That name definately didn’t conjure up fantasies of delicious quisine.

But it did sound rather interesting and calls for a liqueur that we haven’t explored yet on ShareMyShot. It does employ a couple of our old friends in the Midori melon liqueur and the Baileys. And I think the grenadine syrup (usually red) is meant to infer the “squashed” element of the frog. Of course, the Midori provides the green element of the squashed frog.

What we haven’t yet had as a component in any of our prior 100+ recipes is the liqueur known as advocaat. It is a rich and creamy liqueur made from eggs, sugar, and brandy. While only about 30 proof, it has a smooth, custard-like flavor. The drink is Dutch in origin, but is produced in a handful of countries around the world. You can typically find a bottle in the States for around $14-20 at a decent liquor store. Bols and Warninks both offer an advocaat selection.

Now back in his usual role of office lackey after filling in admirably on the taste panel last week, Keith ran down to the liquor store we get our supplies from and procured a bottle of Bols Advocaat liqueur for us. We also called on Tony, the part-time bartender, to prepare the shots for us because we did want to capture the correct aesthetic quality of the shot.

The panel did have to admit that once prepared, you could convince your mind that there was a squashed, liquid frog in the shot glass. As mentioned, the green of the Midori melon, the red of the grenadine, and the overall thickness of the shooter–thanks to the advocaat gave the image of a squashed frog in a shot glass.

However, that didn’t prevent us from trying the thing. And we were all glad that we did. This was a damn good shot ! I am now a new fan of this advocaat liqueur. I wasn’t too familiar with it before this recipe. I’d heard of it….but I’m not exactly sure that I had ever tasted it before. And combined with the smoothness of the Baileys, it really added a terrific flair to the Midori melon flavoring. The shot was a tad thicker than most shots if you don’t like that sort of thing. But it went down smooth and there was honestly an after-taste that made me think I had taken a small spoonful of pudding. But in a good way.

ShareMyShot gives this aptly named shooter a 4 on a scale of 5. It is creative, it employed some original ingredients, and it tasted awesome. The only thing preventing it from achieving a perfect 5 on our scale was the lack of punch. It’d probably take 5-7 of these to feel anything. But it is a good conversation starter and the panel enjoyed discussing it thoroughly. So we gave it a very respectable 4 on our scale.

I wonder if it would go well served with some fried frog legs ?

Cheers !!