WHere is a home-style take on a drink featured on the seasonal drinks list. It's a large-volume prepared mix which is loaded with the flavours of a festive period, rendering it ideal for your holiday party. Save the extra citrus syrup for breakfast cocktails, sweets, or to mix more rounds of the drink.
Bikini Recipe
Serves 10 guests
Ingredients for the Citrus Syrup (makes 750ml)
300ml fresh clementine juice
200ml recently pressed lemon juice
500g granulated sugar
For the Drink (produces 850ml, to serve 10)
400ml premium vodka
100ml classic gin
150ml peach-flavored liqueur
200ml clementine syrup (from the recipe above)
Fresh cranberries, as a garnish
Mandarin essential oil, to finish
Instructions
Making the Syrup: Combine every items in a pot, bring to a simmer, mixing so the sugar melts. Then, take off the burner and let it to cool down completely. Decant to a clean bottle, close it and store in the fridge, where it will keep for about four weeks.
For the Premix: Mix every liquid ingredients in a large bottle, leave to sit for one hour, then filter it best through cheesecloth, so it's perfectly clear.
To serve: Pour 85ml from the premix into a cocktail shaker filled with ice, and agitate gently for a minute to cool it down. Filter into a frosted cocktail glass or similar, decorate with a few cranberries and complete it using a quick spritz with the mandarin essence above the glass.
