We present a simplified take on a beverage featured on a new menu. Designed as a party-sized pre-mixed that is bursting full of tastes associated with holiday season, rendering it ideal for your celebration. Reserve the remaining cordial to use in breakfast cocktails, desserts, or to mix another batch of bikinis.
The Bikini Cocktail
Serves 10 guests
Ingredients for the Clementine Syrup (yields 750ml)
300ml newly squeezed clementine juice
200ml recently pressed lemon juice
500g fine sugar
To make the Drink (yields 850ml, serving 10)
400ml good quality vodka
100ml classic gin
150ml peach liqueur
200ml clementine syrup (as made above)
Fresh cranberries, as a garnish
Mandarin essential oil, as a final touch
Instructions
Making the Syrup: Combine the listed ingredients in a saucepan, heat until it reaches a gentle boil, agitating to dissolve. Then, take off the heat allowing it to cool fully. Decant to a sealable bottle, cap it keeping it in the fridge, it can be stored for about one month.
Preparing the Cocktail Base: Pour all the spirits and syrup into one sizeable container, let it rest for 60 minutes, then pass it through , ideally through muslin, making it fully clarified.
When ready to serve: Pour 85ml from the batch mix into a mixing glass packed with ice, and stir gently for a minute to chill. Strain into a chilled martini glass or a similar vessel, top with some cranberries adding the final touch using a brief mist of the essential oil over the drink.
