This Festive Bikini – How to Make It
We present a home-style version of a beverage featured on a new menu. This is a large-volume pre-mixed that is loaded with flavours associated with Christmas time, rendering it ideal for your holiday party. Save the extra syrup to use in morning drinks, sweets, or for another batch of this cocktail.
The Bikini Cocktail
Makes enough for 10 servings
Ingredients for the Clementine Syrup (yields 750ml)
300ml fresh clementine juice
200ml recently pressed lemon juice
500g caster sugar
To make the Premix (produces 850ml, serving 10)
400ml decent vodka
100ml dry gin
150ml peach-flavored liqueur
200ml clementine syrup (as made above)
Whole cranberries, as a garnish
Mandarin essential oil, to finish
Instructions
To prepare the Cordial: Combine all the ingredients in a pan, bring to a light boil, agitating until the sugar dissolves. Then, take off the burner and leave to cool entirely. Transfer into an sterilised bottle, seal and refrigerate it in the fridge, it will last for up to four weeks.
To make Cocktail Base: Mix the specified spirits and syrup into one big jug, leave to sit for one hour, then pass it through preferably using muslin, so it's fully clarified.
For serving: Measure 85ml of your cocktail base into a cocktail shaker filled with ice, gently stirring carefully for one minute until cold. Strain into an cold coupe glass or similar, decorate with a few cranberries adding the final touch by giving it a quick spritz of mandarin oil above the glass.
