November 22, 2021
COCKTAILS AND FROCKS
By Elizabeth Clarke
Come party season, the greatest indulgences can prove very simple – the right drink + the perfect frock.
Get festive with our favourite new season duos… Cin-cin!
INGREDIENTS
45ml lemon vodka
15ml triple sec
30ml cranberry juice
10ml lime juice
Ice
45ml lemon vodka
15ml triple sec
30ml cranberry juice
10ml lime juice
Ice
FOR THE GARNISH
Orange zest, or a lime wedge
Slip into dress, snap on some earrings, and shake ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice. Strain into a cocktail glass.
To make the garnish, hold a 3cm round piece of orange zest about 10cm above your Cosmo and wave it over a lit match. Bend the outer edge of the zest in towards the flame so the orange oils are released then drop the zest into your drink.
INGREDIENTS
3 oz gin or vodka
.5 oz dry vermouth
Lemon peel or olive
Behaving as mysteriously as a Bond girl, stir ingredients in a mixing glass with ice and strain into two chilled martini glasses.
Squeeze oil from lemon peel into the glass or garnish with olive.
Serves 2.
INGREDIENTS
1 oz gin
1 oz Campari
1 oz sweet vermouth
Stir ingredients with ice and serve.
The Negroni is known as the perfect cocktail - just like this dress with its perfect proportions. It’s a fashion/cocktail marriage made in heaven.
INGREDIENTS
500ml peach purée or peach nectar
1 bottle prosecco
Put the peach puree in a Champagne flute up to about 1/3 full and slowly top up with Prosecco. Or quickly depending on how keen you are for a sip.
For maximum effect, paint your nails the perfect shade of Bellini.
Serves 6 (don’t forget to share).
INGREDIENTS
1 teaspoon superfine sugar
1¾ ounces white rum
¾ ounce fresh lime juice
½ ounce simple syrup
1 lime
Combine sugar, rum, lime juice, and simple syrup in a cocktail shaker; stir until sugar dissolves. Fill shaker with ice, cover, and shake vigorously until shaker is very cold.
Place a large ice cube in a coupe glass; strain cocktail into glass.
Twist lime peel over drink to express oils and garnish with a lime twist.
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