We present an easy version of a cocktail found on the seasonal drinks list. Designed as a large-volume premix that is loaded with flavours of a holiday season, making it ideal for a celebration. Any leftover cordial for breakfast cocktails, puddings, or for more rounds of bikinis.
The Bikini Cocktail
Serves 10 people
To make the Clementine Syrup (yields 750ml)
300ml recently pressed clementine juice
200ml recently pressed lemon juice
500g fine sugar
Ingredients for the Drink (produces 850ml, serving 10)
400ml good quality vodka
100ml classic gin
150ml peach-flavored liqueur
200ml citrus syrup (from the recipe above)
Fresh cranberries, as a garnish
Mandarin essential oil, to finish
Instructions
Making the Syrup: Combine the listed items inside a saucepan, heat until it reaches a light boil, mixing until the sugar dissolves. After that, take off the stove and leave to cool entirely. Decant into a clean bottle, cap it and refrigerate it chilled, it can be stored for around a month.
Preparing the Cocktail Base: Combine all the liquids into one sizeable container, leave to sit for an hour, then pass it through , ideally through a fine cloth, making it completely strained.
To serve: Add 85ml from the premix into your stirring glass packed with ice, and stir lightly for one minute to cool it down. Pour into a cold coupe glass or equivalent, decorate with some cranberries adding the final touch by giving it a brief mist with the mandarin essence over the drink.
