It’s Friday AND it’s just two weeks until Christmas. So do you know what that means?

It’s cocktail time!!!

And not only do I have a great cocktail recipe to share with you today. But I’ve also got a recipe for an easy to make homemade liqueur. Hip hip hooray!

The inspiration for this intoxicatingly delicious post (see what I did there?) comes from my friends at Lavazza, who sent me some of their Gran Selezione and asked me to come up with a way to spread some #LavazzaCheer with my friends and family this Holiday season. So I decided to make a Homemade Coffee Liqueur, because I knew it would make a great gift for any cocktail lover, coffee aficionado or hostess with the mostess.

And because you can’t just give someone a bottle of homemade liqueur without a suggestion for how to use it, I created this Coffee Dark and Stormy recipe (with a tangerine twist instead of the more traditional lime garnish) to go along with it. Move over Martha Stewart. There is a new blonde lady in town!

The coffee liqueur is super simple to put together, but it does take a few days to complete the whole process. So you might want to get started on that, like, now. Just saying.

For more ideas on how to spread LavazzaCheer this Holiday season, be sure to follow along with Lavazza on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Pinterest. And if you make my Homemade Coffee Liqueur and have some awesome ways to use it (I’ll give you another hint: try adding some to a porter or stout beer!) come back and tell me all about it!