Spice Up World Cocktail Day With These Recipes
This month sees World Cocktail Day on the 13th – so impress your friends with a range of delicious and unusual cocktails using Spice Drops®.
Spice Drops® can add an authentic, intense taste and aroma to cocktails. What’s more, when catering for a crowd, they are the perfect way to easily add flavour to large volumes of drinks, make up a range of cocktails in bulk, make flavoured ice cubes or even a bespoke cocktail syrup for your own signature tipple.
A favourite of celebrity chefs including Nigella Lawson, Cyrus Todiwala and Tom Kerridge, Spice Drops® are a range of highly concentrated, natural extracts of herbs, spices, fruits and flowers. They contain no artificial flavourings, colourings or preservatives, no alcohol and no added salt or sugar, are suitable for vegans and those following a gluten-free diet. So why not try these?
Tomato Mojito
Ingredients
- 2 to 3 grape tomatoes
- 1 drop of Mint Spice Drops®
- Juice of ½ lime
- Juice of ½ lemon
- Pinch of salt
- 2 tbsps agave syrup
- 60ml tequila
- Sparkling water
- 2 grape tomatoes and a sprig of mint for garnish
Method
- Muddle together the tomatoes, lemon and lime juices, and salt.
- Pour in the agave syrup, Spice Drops® and tequila. Add ice and shake vigorously.
- Pour into an ice-filled short glass. Top off with sparkling water. Garnish with mint leaves, and a few grape tomatoes on a toothpick. Enjoy!
Cardamom & Rose Gin Fizz
Ingredients
- 50ml gin
- 30ml fresh lemon juice
- 30ml simple syrup
- 2 drops of Cardamom Spice Drops
- 2 drops of Rose Spice Drops
- Pinch of natural pink food colour eg Beetroot powder
- Soda water
- Ice
Method
- Mix all ingredients, except for the soda in the shaker.
- Shake until very chilled. Strain into coupe glass, top with soda.
- Garnish with fresh lemon twirl.
Summer Strawberry Fizz
Ingredients
- 50ml vodka
- 50ml simple syrup
- 2 drops Holy Lama Lemon Spice Drops
- 1 drop Holy Lama Mint Spice Drops
- 2 strawberries
- Soda water
Method
- Muddle the strawberries and spice drops.
- Pour over the vodka and syrup.
- Add ice then top up with soda water.
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Mint Chocolate Chip Cocktail
Ingredients
- 30ml vodka
- 30ml white cacao
- 2 drops of Mint Spice Drops®
- 10ml sugar syrup
- 30ml cream
- Dark chocolate shavings and mint sprig for garnish
Method
- Shake all ingredients with ice.
- Strain into a rocks glass over fresh ice.
- Finish with dark chocolate shavings.
Spiced Apple Cocktail
Ingredients
- 45ml spiced rum
- 100ml apple juice
- 2 dashes amaretto
- 1 drop of Cinnamon Spice Drops® (optional if you want a light cinnamon flavour)
For the decoration
- 1 tsp sugar, large granules would work best
- 1 drop Cinnamon Spice Drops®
- 1 tbsp agave syrup
- Apple slices, to garnish
Method
- To decorate the cocktail glass, rub the rim of the glass with the agave syrup.
- Combine the Spice Drops® and sugar on a plate and roll the rim of the glass in the sugar mixture.
- Combine the spiced rum, apple juice, amaretto and 1 drop of the Cinnamon Spice Drops® and the remaining sugar mixture, in a cocktail shaker with ice.
- Strain into the prepared cocktail glass. Garnish with the apple slices.
You can find Spice Drops® online at Ocado and Amazon, or direct from www.holylama.co.uk. Each handy 5ml bottle contains 150 drops and has a shelf life of three years, so will cater for many a World Cocktail Day and party!
• For more information about the full Spice Drops® range and some exciting recipe ideas, visit www.holylama.co.uk – they make great mocktails too!
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