World's Best Crappy Cup of Coffee
Inspired by Buddy’s sweet optimism and mailroom mischief, this bold, spirit-forward cocktail blends bourbon, coffee liqueur, maple syrup, and orange bitters to create the “World’s Best Crappy Cup of Coffee”—a cheeky and cozy nod to Elf’s most heartwarming moments. (Recipe Below)
The "World's Best Crappy Cup of Coffee" is what Buddy treats his love interest Jovie, played by Zooey Deschanel, to at a diner after they begin to really connect. Around that moment, Buddy is working a sort of internship in the mailroom and one of the clerks encourages Buddy to pour from a flask into his coffee, advising that it is maple syrup. We find out that it is actually Bourbon, so we use that, combined with coffee liqueur, maple syrup and some orange bitters to give Buddy the World's Best Crappy Cup of Coffee, and definitely a good coffee cocktail. This is a spirit forward cocktail, so chilling it is key and so is serving it in a chilled rocks glass with a sphere to keep it really cold.
World’s Best Crappy Cup of Coffee
2 oz (60mL) Bourbon
1 oz (30mL) Coffee Liqueur
.5 oz (15mL) Maple Syrup
2 Dashes Orange Bitters
Side Half and Half
In a mixing glass, pour in 2 oz of Bourbon, 1 oz of Coffee Liqueur, .5 oz Maple Syrup, dropper of saline and 2 dashes of orange bitters, add ice and stir for 2 minutes. Strain into a rocks glass with a rock and garnish with a side half and half.
Cocktail recipes and instruction videos are created by Boozy Movies, LLC
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Four Roses Bourbon Whiskey
Country: United States
ABV: 80 proof/40%
Brand: Four Roses
Spirits Style: Whiskey
Taste: Fruit, Honey, Vanilla, Corn, Mint and Spice
Price Category: $$
Four Roses uses two different mash bills of neutral grains and five yeast strands to compose 10 different varieties of Kentucky Straight Bourbon. The various blends are noted on the bottle in a four letter acronym and can be matched up with its expected flavor profile on the Four Roses website.
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Kahlua Coffee Liqueur
Country: Mexico
ABV: 40 proof/20%
Brand: Pernod Ricard
Spirits Type: Liqueurs/Cordials/Schnapps
Taste: Coffee, Deep Chocolate, Vanilla
Price Category: $
Awards: Silver Medal 2009 International Wine & Spirits Competition
Kahlua uses 100% arabica coffee beans that are roasted and made into a coffee concentrate. The concentrate is blended with rum, vanilla and sugar and then aged for about 4 weeks then filtered and bottled. The resulting flavor is a sweet, roasty coffee flavor often enjoyed affogato style.
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Maple Syrup
A natural sweetener made from tree sap. Maple Syrup will bring out wood and straw notes in a spirit while adding sweetness stronger than simple syrup.
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Angostura Orange Bitters
89.4 proof/ 44.7 ABV
Angostura Limited
Bitters are made by concentrating flavors into an alcohol base. Orange bitters vary by brand, but are generally made with bitter orange peel, cardamom, caraway, coriander, anise and toasted sugar.
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Half and Half
10.5% - 18% fat
Half and half is an equal parts mixture of cream and milk. Now, there are great non-dairy options in the market.
Elf, Spiked Syrup, and Holiday Chaos: Inside the Sweetest Meltdown in Christmas Movie History
Elf is what happens when pure childhood wonder collides headfirst with adult cynicism, with Will Ferrell turning Buddy into a sugar-fueled chaos agent loose in the cold machinery of New York City. Raised among elves but painfully aware he’s built less for toy-making and more for accidentally destroying department stores, Buddy leaves the North Pole in search of his biological father and instead stumbles into a crash course on love, family dysfunction, caffeine, and the devastating reality that not everything can be solved with maple syrup. The cocktails inspired by the film lean gloriously into Buddy’s childlike excess, beginning with “Elf Food Groups,” a dessert-in-a-glass riot of vodka, hazelnut liqueur, Irish cream, vanilla, candy garnishes, and syrup that tastes like Christmas morning after absolutely no parental supervision. Its companion, “World’s Best Crappy Cup of Coffee,” takes Buddy’s wide-eyed diner date with Jovie and spikes it with bourbon, coffee liqueur, maple syrup, and bitters, transforming an aggressively average cup of joe into something warm, reckless, and strangely heartfelt. Like the movie itself, the drinks work because beneath all the sugar highs, slapstick meltdowns, and screaming about Santa, Elf understands that the holidays are really about finding people willing to embrace your weirdness — preferably while holding a cocktail rimmed with candy canes.
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