With London Cocktail Week upon us we couldn’t help but think it would be the perfect time to publish some of our favourite cocktail recipes. I mean, we’re not fussy, but this little lot are easy to make, and perfect for a pre-date drink. So get the ice in the fridge, pull out your shaker and get making…
Lovestruck’s top 5 romantic cocktails
Strawberry Daiquiri
Ingredients
60ml white rum
10ml lime juice
5mg sugar
Two fresh strawberries
15ml strawberry syrup
Method
Puree one strawberry, mix the rum, lime juice, powdered sugar, strawberry syrup and shake well. Serve over crushed ice in a margarita glass. Garnish with the second strawberry. Enjoy!
French Kiss
Ingredients
37.5ml Cointreau
Flesh from one ripe large fresh passion fruit
15ml fresh lemon juice
5ml sugar syrup
Method
Scoop flesh from the passion fruit. Add all other ingredients into a shaker. Shake and strain into a cocktail glass. Garnish with orange. Voila!
Woo Woo
Ingredients
25ml peach schnapps
25ml vodka
50ml cranberry juice
Instructions
Put ice in a glass. Then add archers and vodka and finally fill the rest of the glass to the top with cranberry juice. Stir it with a stirer and your drink is complete.
Hanky Panky
Ingredients
40ml Bombay Sapphire gin
20ml Martini Rosso sweet Vermouth
7.5ml Fernet Branca
Method
Pour the ingredients into a cocktail shaker tin and add cubed ice. Attach the strainer to the top and then pour the liquid into another ice filled cocktail shaker tin. Swap the strainer to the other tin and repeat the process five times, in a process known as throwing. Add a lemon to garnish. Not only will it look nice – it will be delicious too!
Passionate Cosmos
Ingredients
85ml vodka
25ml passion fruit juice
25ml simple syrup (equal parts sugar and water heated until the sugar dissolves, then chilled)
0.5 tsp freshly squeezed lime juice
Passion fruit seeds
Method
Fill a cocktail shaker with ice. Pour the vodka, passion fruit juice, syrup and lime juice into the shaker. Cover and shake vigorously, until combined and chilled for about 30 seconds. Strain the cosmo into a chilled cocktail glass. Sprinkle with passion fruit seeds, if desired.
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