Spring Cocktails to Make at Home

Whether you’re preparing to celebrate Easter bank holiday or looking for a tipple (or two) to aid you through isolation, these floral and flavoursome spring cocktails – as delicious to look at as they are to drink – are sure to leave you with a spring in your step. 

Spring Cocktails to Make at Home

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• Gin, Watercress & Pink Grapefruit Cocktail

  Ingredients (serves one)

  • 50ml gin
  • 20g watercress, roughly chopped
  • 50ml pink grapefruit juice
  • 250ml tonic water

  To serve (optional)

  • Watercress sprigs
  • Edible petals
  • Pomegranate seeds
  • Pink grapefruit slices

  Method

  To make decorative ice cubes for your cocktails, place a few watercress sprigs, petals or pomegranate seeds into the sections of an ice cube tray.  Fill with water and leave to freeze solid for at least one hour.

  Muddle together the gin and watercress by putting them both into a jug and mashing well with a fork.  Strain the gin through a fine meshed sieve to remove the chopped watercress while still leaving the flavour.  Add the grapefruit juice to the gin and mix.

  Take two gin and tonic glasses or large tumblers and fill with ice cubes.  Pour over the gin and grapefruit, then top up to the desired level with tonic water.  Garnish with a slice of pink grapefruit and serve immediately.

  Recipe courtesy of watercress.co.uk

• Alohan

  Ingredients

  • Aloha 65
  • Ginger ale
  • Ice
  • Lemon and mint to garnish

  Method

  Pour 1 part Aloha 65 and 2 parts ginger ale into a jug or pitcher. Add loads of ice, lemon slices, mint sprigs and stir gently. Dive in.

  Recipe courtesy of Aloha 65

• Hot Cross Yum

  Ingredients

  • 50ml BACARDÍ Spiced
  • 20ml Lemon juice
  • 10ml Lime juice
  • 25ml Hot cross bun syrup
  • 50ml cream
  • 50ml soda water

  Method 

  Shake ingredients well. Serve in a highball glass over cubed ice. Garnish with grated nutmeg on top.

  Recipe courtesy of BACARDÍ 

• Bathtub Gin

  Ingredients

  • Gin & Tonic
  • 50ml Bathtub Gin
  • 150ml Premium Tonic Water
  • Orange slice garnish

  Method

  Fill a highball glass with ice. Add 50ml Bathtub Gin. Top with premium tonic water. Garnish with orange slice.

  Recipe courtesy of Bathtub Gin, available at masterofmalt.com

• Italicus Spritz

  Ingredients

  • 2 part Italicus Rosolio Di Bergamotto
  • 2 part Prosecco (or Champagne)

  Method

  Build over ice cubes in a large wine glass, then garnish with three green olives.

  Recipe courtesy of Italicus Rosolio Di Bergamotto

• Honey I’m home (Twisted BEE’s KNEES)

  Ingredients

  • 50ml Caorunn Raspberry
  • 25ml lime juice
  • 1.5 teaspoons honey
  • Lime zest to garnish
  • Coupette or any cocktail glass

  Method

  Shake all ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice and double strain into a cocktail glass.

  Recipe courtesy of Caorunn Gin 

• El Dorado

  Ingredients

  • 50ml Caleño
  • 3-4 inca berries
  • 25ml raw honey syrup (2:1)
  • 10ml fresh lemon juice

  Method

  Muddle berries, then churn with crushed ice. Pour into a Collins glass and garnish with a uchuva berry.

  Recipe courtesy of Caleño.

• Diablesse Clementine Sour

  Ingredients

  • 30ml Diablesse Clementine Spiced Caribbean Rum
  • 20ml Peach & Hibiscus liqueur (Gabriel Boudier)
  • 20ml Pomegranate Molasses
  • 25ml Lime Juice
  • 25ml egg white
  • Dried Hibiscus flowers

  Method

  Put ingredients into a Boston Tin (cocktail shaker);  shake once without ice, then again with ice. Fine strain into a martini glass or over ice if you prefer. Garnish with dried hibiscus flowers.

  Recipe courtesy of Diablesse Rum

• La Vie en Rose

  Ingredients

  • 25 ml Bombay Sapphire
  • 25 ml Lanique Rose Liqueur
  • 15 ml Monin Rose Syrup
  • 0.5 ml Chambord

  Method

  Shake all ingredients and pour into a wine glass, then top up with Champagne and garnish with edible flowers.

  Recipe courtesy of The Balmoral, Edinburgh 

• The Botanist Gin Forager’s Refresher

  Ingredients

  • 40ml The Botanist Gin
  • 30ml fortified white wine
  • 15ml lemon juice
  • Soda water
  • Thyme
  • Lemon

  Method

  Add The Botanist, lemon juice and fortified wine to a highball glass. Add ice, finish with soda and gently stir, garnish with thyme sprig and lemon wheel.

  Recipe courtesy of The Botanist

• Mediterranean Highball

  Ingredients

  • 30ml Metaxa 12 Stars
  • 20ml Pink Grapefruit Juice
  • Tonic Water
  • Rosemary

  Method

  Use a tall glass, add the Metaxa 12 Stars and Pink Grapefruit Juice, then add 2-3 ice cubes and the tonic water. To serve, garnish with rosemary.

  Recipe courtesy of Metaxa

Featured Image: Brooke Lark on Unsplash

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