ensures the creative juices flow!

Some days, when you’re whiling away your time behind a bar, a sudden flash of inspiration hits you! It’s like being struck by lightening, of the culinary kind. Then it is time to create! This happened to me a wee while back now, and I have perfected it.

It contains some of my favorite flavors, and has just a few simple ingredients in it! It contains four ingredients, and it has regularly been said that a cocktail must contain at least three ingredients to be a cocktails (a point hotly debated by the martini enthusiast out there). So I have made sure that there are plenty, although don’t be afraid to experiment at home if you only have a couple of the ingredients- these ingredients match each other individually as well as when combined!

So now I’ve whittered on about it I’m sure you’d like to know what it is! It is the Raspberry Haven! Because believe me it’s heavenly to drink!

Ingredients;

45ml Amaretto

15ml Chambord (black raspberry liquor)

½ cup raspberries

Squeeze ½ lemon

Method;

Add the raspberries and the squeeze of lemon into the glass boston, then muddle the raspberries for about 30 seconds. Then add the amaretto and Chambord, top the boston with ice and shake for the next 40 seconds. Then pour into a short glass, and add a whole raspberry on the top.  This mixture makes one scrummy cocktail!

You should always feel free to ask for a cocktail the way that you like it, as a good cocktail bartender should always be able to make a cocktail more sweet or sour! And the same applies when you are making your own delectable cocktails- if you like your cocktail more sweet, try adding some sugar syrup/ less lemon. If you like your cocktail more sour, add more lemon! 

Go create, live and enjoy your cocktails!