Five floral inspired gin cocktails
Need an excuse to get the girls together for a night of delicious cocktails? Look no further. World Gin Day is gracing us for its ninth year this Saturday, 10th of June.
And do you know what goes hand in hand with gin? Beloved flowers. We have gone through extensive research and extremely necessary taste testing to find five floral inspired gin cocktail recipes for you to try at home.
These cocktails not only taste good but look fantastic so you’ll be sure to impress throughout the celebrations.
June Blush Cocktail
Perfectly tied in with the month of June, this cocktail created by Freautcake is inspired by the June birth flower, Rose. With hints of ginger, lemon, rose water and plenty of ice, this cocktail is perfectly fresh and fragrant.
Ingredients
Cocktail:
60ml of a floral gin (G’Vine is her preferred brand for this)
30ml Canton Ginger Liqueur
15ml rose water
15ml freshly squeezed lemon juice
1-½ cups crushed ice
Lemon zest.
Sugared petals:
1 egg white
¼ cup granulated sugar
small handful of rose petals, cleaned and dried
Method
Cocktail:
In the bottom of a double rocks glass or goblet, add the gin, Canton, rose water and lemon juice
Add crushed ice and stir
Garnish with rose petals and fresh lemon zest.
Sugared petals:
Whip the egg white until frothy.
Take a single petal, dip into the egg white and then dredge through the sugar on both sides. Set aside on parchment and repeat.
Let the petals air dry for at least 3-4 hours and then transfer to an airtight container for storage if not using right away.
Aviation
The good people at Honestly Yum have put together a sophisticated, floral infused gin cocktail recipe using Violet. The beautiful purples and blues known to violet make this cocktail not only delicious but so very appealing to the eye.
Ingredients
60ml gin
15ml maraschino liqueur
20ml lemon juice
10ml crème de violette
edible violet for garnish
Method
60ml gin
15ml maraschino liqueur
20ml lemon juice
10ml crème de violette
edible violet for garnish
The Collins Street
We’re all about supporting local businesses at Flowerfox. After all, we’re the place to come if you want to buy from local florists online. . So, we thought it necessary to include a mouth-watering gin cocktail from local distillers The Melbourne Gin Company. No flowers here, but hey, we sell plants too! The Collins Street incorporates tasty herbs you can grow in your very own gardens at home.
Ingredients
60ml MGC
10ml Manzanilla sherry (dry Spanish sherry)
30ml Grapefruit sherbet (2:1 grapefruit juice to sugar)
Top with soda
Garnish: Maraschino cherry, Thai basil and a rosemary sprig
Method
Pour the ingredients together in a tall glass filled with ice.
Stir gently.
Garnish with cherry, basil and rosemary.
Hibiscus
We couldn’t go past the beautiful, vibrant colour of this hibiscus infused gin cocktail. Food and drink specialist Hazel Patterson from Metro has used an abundance of ingredients that can be so easily grown in the backyard, making this too-pretty-to-drink cocktail both affordable and accessible. Win!
Ingredients
Gin infusion:
1 750ml bottle Gin
Dry or fresh hibiscus flowers
2 cardamom pods
2 coriander seeds
2 black peppercorns
1 to 2 tablespoons of caster sugar
Fresh thyme
Rose petals
Cocktail:
1 glass of Prosecco
15 - 30ml of gin infusion
Method
Infused gin:
Decant your gin into a separate bottle (or remove a small amount of gin from the original bottle to make room for your botanicals).
Add hibiscus flowers, cardamom pods, coriander seeds, caster sugar and black peppercorns to your gin.
Leave to steep and deepen colour for a few hours.
Cocktail:
Pour a glass of prosecco and add a shot of the gin infusion.
Bloody Jasmine
Okay, so we know there are no flowers in this one, but it’s called the Bloody Jasmine right? Jasmine is a flower. Roll with it. We just had to include another local company, the irresistible Four Pillars Gin. The fruity flavours of this cocktail will no doubt be a crowd favourite. And once all your ingredients are in reach, it’s so easy to recreate. We’re no expert mixologists over here, so this one’s fool proof.
Ingredients
20ml Four Pillars Bloody Shiraz Gin
20ml Campari
20ml Dry Curacao (or any other orange liqueur, such as Cointreau)
20ml fresh lemon juice
1 dash of Regan’s Orange Bitters
Lemon twist for garnish
Method
Add ingredients into a cocktail shaker with ice.
Shake and strain into a chilled coupette glass
Garnish with a lemon twist.
We hope you enjoy these gin cocktails with a floral twist as much as we did. Happy World Gin Day!
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