WThis is a home-style interpretation of a beverage featured on a new cocktail list. Designed as a party-sized prepared mix which is loaded with tastes associated with holiday season, making it ideal for hosting a festive gathering. Reserve the remaining cordial for morning drinks, desserts, or to mix another batch of bikinis.
The Bikini Cocktail
Serves 10 servings
To make the Clementine Cordial (yields 750ml)
300ml fresh clementine juice
200ml recently pressed lemon juice
500g granulated sugar
For the Cocktail (yields 850ml, enough for 10)
400ml good quality vodka
100ml London dry gin
150ml peach liqueur
200ml clementine syrup (as made above)
Fresh cranberries, to garnish
Mandarin essential oil, as a final touch
Directions
Making the Syrup: Place every ingredients into a pot, heat until it reaches a gentle boil, stirring until the sugar dissolves. Next, turn off the stove allowing it to cool completely. Decant into an clean bottle, seal and refrigerate it chilled, it will last for up to four weeks.
For the Cocktail Base: Mix every spirits and syrup into one large bottle, allow it to infuse for 60 minutes, then strain , ideally through cheesecloth, to ensure it's completely strained.
For serving: Pour 85ml of the premix to a cocktail shaker filled with ice, and stir carefully for about 60 seconds to cool it down. Filter to a cold coupe glass or similar, decorate with the cranberries and finish by giving it a light spray of the essential oil over the top.
