Month: December 2014

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Christmas Cocktails Rose Delight

It’s our final Christmas cocktail before the day itself and this is one of our favourites! This Rose Delight is a wonderfully fruity drink with an unusual floral twist – and so easy to make! Inspired by our Summer Rose fragrance range, this cocktail is fast becoming a signature drink in our household. For a sophisticated yet playful theme, why not give this a go?

rose-cocktail-glass

Ingredients:

2 measures Rose Syrup

2 measures White wine

Sparkling water to taste

It’s best to use a large measure and make this in a jug, just mix together the wine and rose syrup then add sparkling water to taste.  Alternatively – for a stronger flavour – use sparkling wine and leave out the water.  Decorate with a sprinkle of petals and a straw.

Seasons greetings everyone  from the St Kitts Herbery team.

 

 

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Christmas Cocktails Festive Fruit Cup

It’s week two of our Christmas cocktail concoctions and the turn of the fabulous Festive Fruit Punch. No matter how much you enjoy Christmas, it’s undeniable that the winter can be cold and miserable. This fruity cocktail is guaranteed to give you that hit of summer we all need to see us through!

festive fruit punch glass

2 measures crème de fraise (raspberry liquor)

2 measures crème de cassis (blackcurrant liquor)

1 measure vodka

1 measure sugar syrup

3 measures cranberry and raspberry juice

6 frozen raspberries per glass

Pink sugar crystals (optional)

This cocktail really is best shaken (resisting a James Bond joke here!), simply pour all of the ingredients into a cocktail shaker and mix well, before straining over your frozen raspberries. This drink looks its best in a traditional cosmo glass – to decorate the rim, dip in lemon juice and then pink sugar crystals. Voila, you can serve summer for Christmas!

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Christmas Cocktails Chocolate Alexander

It’s December and Christmas is on its way.  To help you celebrate in style this year, we’re going to be posting one of our favourite cocktail recipes every week this December! To start you off is the ‘Chocolate Alexander’.  Created when I was still a teenager and alcopops weren’t yet around, we made our own of whatever we could.   I can’t drink quite so much of this these days, but I still give it a good go!

chocolate alexander glass pic

1 part vodka

1 part crème de cacao

1 part tia maria (or similar)

1 part baileys (or similar)

chocolate milk (chilled) to taste

It’s really easy too – just stick it all in a glass and give it a stir!  For an extra pretty touch, garnish the glass by melting some chocolate and dipping the rim of the glass, then quickly dipping in chocolate vermicelli and leaving to set.  Cinnamon chocolate works great for this if you’d like a Christmassy twist, you can also replace the Tia Maria with an orange liqueur such as Grand Marnier.  Or try Amaretti instead of vodka (or as well as vodka, we won’t tell anyone).

(Warning: This is a lot more alcoholic than it tastes  – not to be confused with regular chocolate milk!)