Raspberry Gin Cocktail – Lexi’s Clear Kitchen

This Raspberry Gin Cocktail is the right candy and fruity drink for Valentine’s day. This refreshing cocktail is made with two forms of liquor, contemporary lemon, and a refined sugar-free raspberry easy syrup!

Elderflower Gin Cocktail with Lemon and Raspberry

This Raspberry Gin Cocktail is a wonderful combined drink recipe. It’s gentle and refreshing, made completely candy with a straightforward raspberry easy syrup and contemporary squeezed lemon, spiked with gin and elderflower liqueur, then topped with a splash of bubbles.

I serve mine over ice cubes with contemporary raspberries frozen proper into them. It’s the right presentation for the right drink!

Get pleasure from this gin cocktail for Valentine’s day (or any vacation for that matter) or whip it as much as make your weeknight meal a bit of fancier! 

Substances Wanted

You want just some easy substances to place collectively this refreshing raspberry elderflower cocktail. See the recipe card beneath for ingredient quantities!

• Raspberry Easy Syrup: We’re making a do-it-yourself refined sugar-free easy syrup with a mixture of raspberries, filtered water, and maple syrup. It’s straightforward I promise!
• Gin: Use your favourite number of gin. I like to recommend good high quality stuff! 
• Lemon Juice: Use freshly squeezed lemon juice for one of the best taste.
• Elderflower Liqueur: That is non-obligatory, however does give the cocktail an additional layer of fruity taste.
• Membership Soda or Glowing Water: They’re solely subtly totally different. Both one will work! 
• Ice Cubes: You’ll shake the cocktail with ice to sit back the drink, then pressure them out.
• Rosemary Sprigs: Optionally available. For garnish!
• Raspberry Ice Cubes: Optionally available however enjoyable! You may simply make raspberry ice cubes by inserting raspberries into an ice dice tray, protecting them with water, then freezing them.

The right way to Make a Raspberry Gin Cocktail

This straightforward gin cocktail is the right drink for a dinner date at dwelling. It takes simply 10 minutes to make! 

1. In a small saucepan, combine collectively raspberries, water, and maple syrup. Deliver to a boil over medium warmth, then cut back to a simmer and prepare dinner till lowered by half. Pressure and funky utterly.
2. Add gin, lemon juice, membership soda, 1.5 ounces of raspberry easy syrup, and elderflower liquor to a cocktail shaker with ice. Shake to sit back, then pressure into your serving glass. 
3. Serve with raspberry ice cubes and a garnish of rosemary.

Your Personal Easy Syrup

I like making Easy Syrup at dwelling! This model beneath is spruced up with raspberries and I promise it’s tremendous duper straightforward.

Gin Lemon Cocktail Variations

• Use one other fruit. Swap the raspberries out for another berry you want. Blackberries or strawberries could be scrumptious. 
• Swap the membership soda. You should use Prosecco or a moscato wine (sweeter) to the same impact.
• Use a distinct citrus. Orange or lime is nice!

Serving Strategies

This elderflower gin cocktail is ideal for Valentine’s Day with this menu!

The right way to Retailer

The one part of this recipe that you may actually retailer is the raspberry easy syrup. It is going to final in an hermetic container within the fridge for as much as 5 days. 

The raspberry cocktail itself is certainly finest served instantly. The more energizing the higher!

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For the Raspberry Easy Syrup:

• 1 pint raspberries
• 1 cup filtered water
• 1/4 cup maple syrup

For the Cocktail:

• 1.5 ounces gin
• 2 teaspoons contemporary lemon juice
• 1 ounce membership soda or glowing water
• 1.5 ounces raspberry easy syrup
• 1/2 ounce elderflower liquor non-obligatory however extremely advocate
• Rosemary sprigs for garnish
• Ice Cubes

• Add raspberries, water and maple syrup to a small sauce pan. Deliver to a boil over medium excessive warmth, after which cut back the warmth to simmer till the syrup has lowered to half, about 10 minutes. Pressure, and let cool utterly.

• Add gin, lemon juice, membership soda, 1.5 ounces of the raspberry easy syrup, and elderflower to a cocktail shaker with ice. Shake nicely, and pressure right into a cocktail glass.

• Serve instantly with one or two raspberry ice cubes (or common ice cubes) and a sprig or rosemary.

To make raspberry ice cubes: place a raspberry right into a gap of an ice cub stray, cowl with water and let freeze.
Leftover raspberry easy syrup will maintain for as much as 5 days within the fridge.