Summer Cocktails with Catherine

Summer Cocktails with Catherine

This Summer season, we invited Catherine to create fruity and flavourful recipes for you to drink all summer long.

Watermelon Crush

You can’t get a more refreshing summer fruit than watermelon, serve this on hot summer days whilst you cool down in the shade.

Serves 2

Ingredients

  • 120g fresh watermelon, you can de-seed if so inclined, extra to cube for garnish
  • 50ml pink lemonade
  • 40ml Vodka
  • 25ml Cachaça – or Rum
  • Juice of ½ lime
  • 3 handfuls ice
  • Mint leaves garnish

Add all the ingredients (except for the garnish) to a blender, pulse until you have a textured consistency but all the ingredients are combined. Pour into glasses, garnish and serve immediately.

Grapefruit Sunset

I forget how delicious the bitter-sweetness of a truly ripe grapefruit can be and it makes a great base for this cocktail. To take it a step further, create your own dried grapefruit garnish.

Serves 2 

Ingredients

  • Fresh grapefruit juice, squeeze and strain 1 grapefruit (another for garnish)
  • 60ml Gin 
  • 50ml Apersol
  • Tonic 
  • 2 handfuls ice
  • To garnish edible flowers and dried grapefruit slices

To dry the grapefruit slices, pre-heat the oven to 120C Fan, line a baking sheet with parchment and add grapefruit slices. Cook for 1 hour, remove and allow to cool on a wire rack

For the cocktail, squeeze the grapefruit, strain and divide between two glasses. In a cocktail shaker add a handful or two of ice, the gin and Apersol. Shake and add to the glass. Top with tonic a few extra ice cubes and garnish with the dried slices and/or edible flowers.

Summer Fruit Fizz

Summer in a glass, peach, raspberry and strawberries bathed in Prosecco.

Serves 2

Ingredients

  • 50ml Peach Liqueur
  • 2 scoops raspberry sorbet
  • Prosecco
  • Fresh Strawberries and sprigs of basil to garnish

Add the peach liqueur to each glass along with a scoop of sorbet. Top with the Prosecco and serve with a Strawberry on the side and sprig of fresh basil.

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