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Do you remember that kid in school who always sat in the middle of the rambunctious boys at the lunch table? After you’d settled in to your meal, you’d hear them start with their pitch.
“Tony, if I give you a dollar will you eat this?”
And then the concoction would be created – a juice box filled with ketchup, mashed potatoes, a few cubes from the canned fruit salad, a squeeze of mustard, a spoonful of gravy, all mixed together and then Tony would do it.
You couldn’t watch, you’d look away and grimace, but afterwards Tony seemed pleased as punch and a dollar richer.
“The food was all going to end up in the same place anyway,” he’d say.
But oh, you knew that wasn’t the point. It wasn’t meant to go together like that…
Fast forward to a couple of months ago when my husband and I were settling in after a busy and hectic day.
We’d had dinner and were thinking about a cocktail, but the only thing in the house was gin. No tonic, no limes, no mint. (Alas, nothing we needed for the perfect gin and tonic.)
Alas.
I looked to the fruit bowl and decided my juicer needed a break from making farmers market juice with tomatoes and cucumber.
A couple of oranges went down the chute, and then my husband said it…
“What if we added vanilla soy milk to the gin and juice? It’d be like a orange creamsicle.”
Soy milk in a cocktail? I thought of Tony. This could go so horribly wrong.
“Let me try yours first,” I said.
The thick soy milk poured into the gin and juice, melting down the inside of the glass, not fully combining with the juice but contrasting it – orange against white.
Then I had a taste, and it was exactly like an orange creamsicle cocktail. The bite of the citrus against the mellow, creamy vanilla could make this drink go down too, too easy.
Tony never had it this good.
Orange Creamsicle Cocktail
Ingredients
- 1 shot gin
- ¾ cup freshly squeezed orange juice about two oranges worth
- ¼ cup vanilla soy milk
Instructions
- Mix together in a glass, add ice, and enjoy.
Nutrition
Rose says
A stroke of genius! Creamsicle is a combo bigger than the sum of it’s parts…classic. It’s so pretty too; I love how the orange and the frothy soy milk settled in a graduated fashion.
Andrea says
This sounds so delicious. I have fond memories of orange creamsicles from the Good Humor truck.
Jeni Treehugger says
This sure does sound delicious – YAY! for happy experiments.
🙂
Bobbie {thevegancrew} says
Ohhh, yummy…last night I was actually daydreaming about making a creamsicle and was wondering if I could pull it off. But I think I like your grown-up version much better 🙂
KT says
want!
Suburban Snow White says
Must share with spouse. He gets so happy making new drinks!
Mel says
I must say it sounds a lot more appetising than Tony’s concoction but I’m not really a gin drinker. It certainly looks refreshing. Your post brought back some old school memories – love it!
Sarah says
This sounds so amazing! I love simple coctails.