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Cosmopolitan
EasyVegetarian
Ingredients
35ml / 1 ½ fl oz Vodka
15ml / ½ fl oz orange liqueur
Fresh Lime Juice
25ml / ½ fl oz Cranberry Juice
Orange Peel to Garnish
Method
Place the vodka, orange liqueur, lime juice and cranberry juice into a cocktail shaker and fill with ice. Shake hard and then strain into a coupe glass or small Martini glass.
Hold the piece of orange peel over the glass and carefully flame with a match. Garnish the cocktail with the flamed orange peel and serve.
Frozen Strawberry Daquiri
EasyVeganGluten-free
Ingredients
500g strawberries, hulled
200g ice
100ml rum
Juice ½ lime
Garnish
1 strawberry, halved
2 slices of lime
2 cocktail sticks
Method
Blend the strawberries then push the resulting puree through a sieve to remove some of the seeds. Tip the sieved puree into the blender again and add the ice, rum and lime juice. Blend again and divide the mixture between 2 Martini glasses.
Thread the lime slices and strawberry halves onto the cocktail sticks and place onto the edge of the glass, serve immediately.
Salted Caramel Pecan Sour
More Difficult
Ingredients
100g pecans, finely chopped
160g golden caster suger
½ tsp sea salt flakes
Reyka 300ml Vodka
3 egg whites
120ml fresh clementine juice
18 drops chocolate bitters
Ice
6 Dehydrated orange slices, to serve
Grating of nutmeg, to serve
Method
Toast the pecans in a dry saucepan for 1-2 mins, then take off the heat. Quickly add the sugar and 80ml water, stir rapidly to dissolve the sugar, add the salt, then leave the mixture to cool completely. Pour through a sieve to remove the pecans.
Pour the pecan salted caramel syrup, vodka, egg whites, clementine juice and bitters into a cocktail shaker. Shake hard for 30 secs to add volume to the egg white. Add some ice and shake again for a further 15 secs, then strain into rocks or coupe glasses. Garnish each with a dehydrated orange slice and grate fresh nutmeg over, to taste. Serve immediately.
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