The nearly "Feuerzangenbowle"

Since December is coming close, and Sunday will be the first of Advent, we decided to bring german traditions to Spain and to celebrate this evening with a "Feuerzangenbowle".

For those of you not familiar with this thing, Wikipedia (as nearly always) is a pool of wisdom:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feuerzangenbowle

Below, you can see what it should look like:

Unfortunately, we were unable to get all the ingredients. At first, you need a "zuckerhut", a sugarloaf. But this one can be easily replaced by sugar cubes. Ok, it's not as original as it would be with a real sugarloaf, but it works. What's not gonna work is if you're not able to find some rum with at least 50% alcohol content. Because, it's not burning, unless you do some nasty tricks, like heating it up before. And we didn't succeed, although we went to three different grocery stores.

So, in the end we did just the cheap version: a simple Glühwein. Which was also quite nice, and enough to get some of us really drunk. ;-)