3 Delicious Ways To Eat Your Whisky

I love a good old fashioned as much as the next tippler, but for a new-fashioned spin on whisky consumption, give your taste buds a treat with cocktail-inspired recipes, baked goods, and candies featuring the world's favorite elixir from Ireland, Scotland, and the American South.

Chocolate Bourbon Torte

Bourbon takes a stand in various edible forms such as a line of gourmet desserts made by Blaine and Deanna Matthews of Matthews 1812 House, which has been baking small-batch, non-alcoholic goodies in Cornwall, Connecticut, since 1987. Its new bourbon menu of mail-order goods includes such top sellers as a rich Chocolate Bourbon Pecan Torte, Bourbon Blondie Bar, and a rich, dark Chocolate Bourbon Sauce that won an award at the 2016 Connecticut Specialty Food Association Awards.

Chipotle Chicken Wings

Bourbon is a barrel-aged distilled spirit made primarily from corn, so it's not surprising that more than a few chefs think it makes perfect sense to add bourbon to sides, sauces, and savory meat dishes. In his latest cookbook, Big Bad Breakfast: The Most Important Meal of the Day, James Beard Award-winning chef John Currence curated 75 recipes inspired by his restaurant, Big Bad Breakfast in Oxford, Mississippi. And yes, Virginia, the Southern godfather of breakfast does indeed suggest booze to spike your brunch in recipes such as these Chipotle Chicken Wings created by cookbook author and food writer Genevieve Ko.

Click here for the Chipotle Chicken Wings recipe.

Scottish Whisky Bonbons and Truffles

Inspired by poet Robert Burns, New Hampshire chocolatier Michael Klug of L.A. Burdick Chocolate handmade a batch of bonbons for a dinner club of Scotch-lovers in 2004. They were so popular that Klug released a limited-edition Scotch whisky collection in 2009 and has done so in every year since. The collection's bonbons and truffles feature six different single-malt scotch whiskies from a variety of locales: a Lagavulin (Isle of Islay) chocolate truffle; a Macallan (Speyside) dark ganache and pistachio-almond bonbon; a Talisker (Isle of Skye) milk chocolate and currant bonbon; a Springbank (Campbeltown) honey bonbon; a Highland Park (Orkney Island) dark chocolate square with a hint of grapefruit; a Glenfarclas (Speyside) dark chocolate with fig; and a Lagavulin Honey (Isle of Islay) truffle with a ganache center. Circle your calendar for the next shipping dates: January 8 – February 2, 2018.