The elegant elderflower liqueur is back in style these days. Mix ½ oz. St. Germain with 4 oz. champagne and garnish with an orange slice or a strawberry.
Add all the ingredients to a rocks glass filled with ice and stir to combine. Garnish with an orange twist.
(To serve the drink up, add all the ingredients to a mixing glass and fill with ice. Stir, and strain into a cocktail glass. Garnish with an orange twist.)
6-8 tablespoons butterscotch sauce (depending how sweet you like it)
3 cups apple cider
1 cup bourbon whiskey (optional)
2 cups ginger beer
Whipped cream, for garnish
Instructions
Heat cider, bourbon and butterscotch syrup in a medium saucepan until the butterscotch dissolves and the mixture is steaming hot. Remove from heat and stir in the ginger beer. Ladle into mugs and serve with loads of whipped cream on top.
1 bottle white wine (I suggest sauvignon blanc but chardonnay or pinot grigio would work too)
1 fresh orange, thinly sliced
1 fresh white grapefruit, thinly sliced
1 fresh lemon, sliced
¼ c. sugar
8 oz. sparkling water
Instructions
Cut your slices of citrus into either halves or quarters (you can leave some whole for visual variety if you want) and place them into the bottom of a clear pitcher.
Add the sugar and wine to the pitcher and stir for a couple minutes until the sugar is mostly dissolved.
Cover and refrigerate for at least an hour.
When you’re ready to serve, remove it from the refrigerator and stir it together to make sure the sugar is completely dissolved.
In each glass, add a few cubes of ice, then an ounce or so of sparkling water, then the sangria. Enjoy the lusciousness!
Top one or two shots of rum with Coke and garnish with a lime wedge. (NB that this drink only gets to use the fancy Spanish name if you serve it with lime.)
2 ounces VSOP cognac, armagnac or good California brandy
1 ounce Cointreau
¾ ounce fresh lemon juice, to taste
superfine sugar, for garnish (optional)
Instructions
(Optional) prepare cocktail glass by making a slit in a lemon wedge and running the cut edge around the rim of the glass; then dip the rim in a saucer of superfine sugar to create a thin crust; chill the glass until needed.
Combine ingredients in a cocktail shaker and fill with ice. Shake well until chilled, about 10 seconds. Strain into prepared glass; garnish with a twist of orange or lemon peel, if the urge comes across.
WHERE ARE MY 21 AND OVER (or non-american lol) ML FANS AT??
Had some fun yesterday and created fancy Miraculous Ladybug inspired specialty cocktails!
I call them Lucky Charm and Cataclysm!
Lucky Charm is a gin-based cocktail. I used Hendrick’s gin, as it’s known for its hints of rosy floral botanical notes, alluding to Marinette’s pink floral motif on her civilian outfit! Pomegranate syrup and cranberry juice give the drink that deep Ladybug red hue, and I also added a bit of Luxardo cherry syrup to make the color just a touch deeper. To finish it off, the drink is garnished with Luxardo cherries, which act as the lucky spots!
Cataclysm is a whiskey-based cocktail. I used Maker’s Mark as the base liquor, then added equal parts lemon and lime to the mix. There’s a bit of simple syrup to add sweetness, and then some pasteurized egg whites to add texture, and that beautiful layer of white foam on top! My favorite part of making this cocktail was playing around with the color. I knew I wanted to make something to match Chat Noir’s outfit, but black is a hard color to create naturally. So I got creative! I took activated charcoal powder (no, not the kind of charcoal from your BBQ haha) which is the only tasteless, natural, food safe food dye that can color something stark black, and I made a solution out of this. I added just a tiny bit to the drink, which turned it from a yellowish color to COMPLETELY BLACK. Super cool! I shook it all up like crazy to get a super thick layer of foam, I then used an eyedropper and verrrrrryyyyy carefully designed the pawprints on top of the drink!
Super happy with how they turned out and they were so fun to come up with!! Also, they both taste like….. super good, which is a pretty awesome bonus. If anyone is interested in recreating the drinks, let me know and I can post exact recipes!!!
But I’d love to tweak them and see how it tastes as well. I think for Ladybug’s drink I’d love to do a cherry chocolate drink, but with the gin this person used. And I’d either try to do some chocolate spots in the glass and gently pour the drink over that. If that didn’t work then the cherry garnish is good (always sounded good, lol).
For the Cataclysm drink I think it’d be cool to make it like a layered martini type drink. One layer is that glowing yellow-green of Chat Noir’s Miraculous (forgive me I watch it im the English dub and can never understand what they’re saying when they say its name :/ ) and the other layer like how the person did the one in this post.
Or I’d just do a yellow sugared rim, maybe flavored sugar, and/or a lemon garnish.
This beautifully refreshing and delictely fragrant Gold Rush is the best of both worlds between a Bee’s Knees and a Whisky Sour. It is a particularly delightful cocktail to enjoy in the garden, on a sunny Spring afternoon, watching bees buzzing all over the blooms! Happy Friday!
Ingredients (serves 1)
8 ice cubes
60 millilitres/2 fluid ounces (4 tablespoons) Single Malt Whisky (some favour bourbon, but I reckon this drink benefits from the floral and herbal notes of The Glen Grant’s Arboralis)
Heatmilk over a low flame. Once simmering, stir in Vanilla Extract, caster sugar, dark muscavado sugarandcocoa powder. Stir well, until perfectly blended. Add Cardamom and Vanilla Rum and, continue stirring just foamy.
