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Two-stage ARC giveaway!

It's time for another ARC giveaway here in my weird little corner of the world. This time, it's going to be a two-fer. Specifically, we're having both a contest and a random drawing. If you comment at all, you'll be entered in the random drawing for an ARC of An Artificial Night. If you comment and participate in the contest, you'll be entered both in the random drawing, and in the judged portion of the giveaway. Ready? Awesome.

Suggested by talkstowolves, our contest for today is:

"Design signature cocktails or desserts for major characters/places in the Tobyverse."

What does the Luidaeg drink on a Friday night? What's Toby's favorite way to get wasted? How many virgin cocktails can Quentin down before he reaches legal age? Whip up something intoxicating and put it in the comments for the world to see.

The random drawing will be held Monday, July 12th. Voting on the cocktail/dessert competition* will begin the same day, and continue through July 15th. As no actual drinking is involved, you don't have to be twenty-one to enter, and there are lots of websites happy to help you out.

(*If we receive fewer than five entries, I won't do open judging, and the prize will be awarded based on how much I want to drink your cocktail or eat your pie.)

Game on!
Tags: an artificial night, contest, giving stuff away, toby daye
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Hmmmm... Dessert!

If you just want a description: a waffle bowl with what looks like a sundae in it (whipped cream, sprinkled nuts, chocolate syrup, cherry on top if that's how you swing or you could use it as a non-alcoholic designator). However, this sundae isn't made with ice cream: it's a homemade no-bake cheesecake with an added bit of liquor.

Recipe ;) Pulled from memory, so it won't be exact. Recipes are like the Pirate Code, more like guidelines.

3 softened 8 oz packages of cream cheese
1 8 oz tub of cool whip
1/3 cup sugar
1 tbsp vanilla

Alcohol I've used that works fairly well is Triple Sec and/or Creme De Cacao. It's a reasonably forgiving mixture so you can use the liquor in place of the vanilla or in addition to it. I'm not sure how mint Bailey's would work, but it sounds interesting with dark chocolate topping. You get the idea :)

And for some reason I would find it really funny if the intoxicating part for the smaller fey was the high sugar content, not the alcohol. But that's me.
Oh, nice.