WThis is a home-style interpretation of a beverage found on a new cocktail list. Designed as a large-volume premix that's loaded full of tastes of the holiday season, which makes it perfect for your holiday party. Save the extra syrup to use in breakfast cocktails, sweets, or for more rounds of this cocktail.
The Bikini Cocktail
Makes enough for 10 guests
For the Clementine Cordial (yields 750ml)
300ml fresh clementine juice
200ml fresh lemon juice
500g caster sugar
Ingredients for the Cocktail (makes 850ml, to serve 10)
400ml good quality vodka
100ml dry gin
150ml peach-flavored liqueur
200ml clementine syrup (from the recipe above)
Whole cranberries, for garnish
Mandarin essential oil, as a final touch
Instructions
Making the Citrus Syrup: Put every ingredients in a pan, bring to a gentle boil, agitating to dissolve. Then, remove from the heat and let it to reach room temperature completely. Decant into a sterilised bottle, close it keeping it in the refrigerator, where it will keep for about four weeks.
For the Cocktail Base: Mix the specified liquid ingredients into one large bottle, allow it to infuse for 60 minutes, then filter it preferably using cheesecloth, making it completely strained.
To serve: Pour 85ml of your cocktail base into your stirring glass packed with ice, gently stirring carefully for a minute to chill. Filter into a frosted cocktail glass or a similar vessel, top with a few cranberries adding the final touch by giving it a light spray of mandarin oil over the top.
