This Festive Cocktail – A Recipe
We present a home-style take on a beverage featured on a new drinks list. Designed as a party-sized premix that is packed full of flavours associated with holiday season, making it perfect for hosting a celebration. Reserve the remaining syrup for brunch beverages, puddings, or to mix additional servings of this cocktail.
The Bikini Cocktail
Yields 10 people
For the Clementine Syrup (makes 750ml)
300ml recently pressed clementine juice
200ml newly squeezed lemon juice
500g fine sugar
Ingredients for the Cocktail (produces 850ml, to serve 10)
400ml decent vodka
100ml classic gin
150ml peach schnapps
200ml clementine cordial (from the recipe above)
Fresh cranberries, to garnish
Mandarin essential oil, to finish
Directions
Making the Syrup: Put the listed items in a saucepan, bring to a light boil, agitating until the sugar dissolves. Next, remove from the heat allowing it to cool down entirely. Decant into an clean bottle, seal keeping it in the fridge, it will last for about one month.
To make Premix: Pour all the spirits and syrup into one large bottle, leave to sit for 60 minutes, then filter it , ideally through muslin, so it's completely strained.
To serve: Pour 85ml from the cocktail base into a mixing glass packed with ice, gently stirring lightly for about 60 seconds to cool it down. Pour into a cold coupe glass or equivalent, top with a few cranberries and complete it with a brief mist of mandarin oil above the glass.
