Looking for a new cocktail to sip on or serve at dinner party? Try these quirky-cool modern cocktails sure to tantalise your tastebuds.
Leviathan’s Kiss
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Ingredients
Rasberry-rose syrup
- 1 cup water
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1½ cups raspberries
- 4 drops rose water
Cocktail
- 60ml London dry gin
- 20ml fresh lemon juice
- 20ml Raspberry-Rose syrup
- 1 egg white from a medium egg
- Rose petals, to garnish
Method
- First, make the raspberry-rose syrup. In a small saucepan, heat the water and sugar over a medium heat until the sugar dissolves.
- Remove from the heat, add the raspberries, and mash them. Add the rose water and let steep for 2 hours or overnight.
- Strain through a fine-mesh strainer, pressing the raspberry solids to extract all the juices.
- Next, make the cocktail. Shake the gin, lemon juice, raspberry-rose syrup, and egg white vigorously with ice, and strain into a cocktail glass. Garnish with rose petals.
TIP: The syrup can be sealed in a jar in the refrigerator for up to 2 weeks.
Feline Fatale
Ingredients
- 30ml elderflower liqueur
- 30ml Campari
- 60ml prosecco
- 30ml club soda
- Lemon slice, to garnish
Method
- Combine the elderflower liqueur, Campari, prosecco, and club soda in a wineglass with ice, and stir.
- Garnish with a lemon slice and serve with a straw.
Smoke Pellet
Ingredients
- 1 cinnamon stick
- 60ml blended scotch
- 20ml Averna
- 15ml Ancho Reyes
- 1 dash Peychaud’s bitters
- 1 lemon twist
Method
- Chill a rock glass, then smoke-rinse it by lighting the cinnamon stick and covering with the upside-down glass. Use a kitchen torch to light the cinnamon, as lighter fluid will impart a chemical flavour to the smoke.
- In a mixing glass, stir the scotch, Averna, Ancho Reyes, and Peychaud’s bitters with ice, and strain into the prepared rocks glass.
- Express the lemon twist over the drink, and discard.
This is an edited extract from Gotham City Cocktails: Official Handcrafted Food & Drinks From the World of Batman by André Darlington, published by Insight Editions and distributed by Simon & Schuster, RRP $39.99. Available in stores and online.
This article was originally published in Mindful Puzzles 25 – Exploration of Life
