WThis is an easy interpretation of a cocktail found on the seasonal drinks list. Designed as a batch pre-mixed that's bursting with the flavours of a Christmas time, making it excellent for hosting a celebration. Reserve the remaining syrup you can use for breakfast cocktails, sweets, or to make additional servings of the drink.
The Bikini Cocktail
Serves 10 guests
Ingredients for the Clementine Cordial (makes 750ml)
300ml recently pressed clementine juice
200ml recently pressed lemon juice
500g fine sugar
To make the Premix (produces 850ml, enough for 10)
400ml good quality vodka
100ml London dry gin
150ml peach schnapps
200ml citrus syrup (as made above)
Fresh cranberries, to garnish
Mandarin essential oil, to finish
Instructions
For the Syrup: Place the listed ingredients inside a pot, heat until it reaches a light boil, mixing until the sugar dissolves. Then, remove from the heat allowing it to reach room temperature fully. Transfer into an clean bottle, close it keeping it in the fridge, where it will keep for about a month.
For the Premix: Pour every liquids into one big jug, let it rest for an hour, then filter it preferably using muslin, making it perfectly clear.
To serve: Measure 85ml from the cocktail base into your stirring glass packed with ice, gently stirring carefully for one minute to cool it down. Filter into an cold coupe glass or equivalent, top with the cranberries and complete it using a brief mist of mandarin oil over the drink.
