Lavender Series
Late Spring begins lavender season and nothing beach the bright sunshine of June than enjoying the outdoors with an aromatic refreshing beverage. You add lavender to pretty much anything, a little goes a long way. Start by making a lavender tea, turn it into a syrup if you prefer and add it to anything from your seltzer water to your morning cup of coffee.
For the cocktails below, we’ve left the lavender tea/water as just that and then added a sweetener separately. This way we can control how much lavender to sweet flavor we want, and also give the freedom to add different types of sweeteners (simple syrup, honey or agave are the most common).
Lavender Tea:
½ oz by weight dried lavender petals (no stems)
¼ oz by weight butterfly pea flower (optional for color),
2 cups of water
Bring water to a boil
Add lavender and pea flowers to a bowl
Pour boiling water over the lavender and pea flower, and steap 10 mins
Strain mixture into a clean bowl or tupperware, and chill in the fridge before use.
✨Lavender Lemonade ✨
There is nothing quite as lovely on a hot day as a refreshing lemonade. Well we have the thing for you! This delicious Lavender Lemonade is as beautiful as it is delicious. Mixed up with fresh lavender water, simple syrup, lemon juice and water - it is sure to cure your thirst! Make one or make it for the group, and add vodka or gin in to make it a delicious cocktail.
Ingredients for 1:
1 Tsp lavender water
2oz simple syrup
1.5 oz lemon juice
4oz water (sparkling or still)
Optional 1.5 oz citrus vodka
Directions:
Start with highball glass with ice. Add in vodka, simple syrup, lemon juice and water.
Top with lavender water to your taste
Stir
Top with Lemon and Fresh Flower
Sip & Enjoy!
This one is great to make as a batch. Add all the ingredients to a dispenser with ice and some fresh lemons for garnish and you not only have a tasty beverage but also a stunning centerpiece.
Portions for a group (16-20 servings):
½ - 3/4 cups lavender water (can be strong so start with ½ cup and taste, add more to preference)
4 cups parts simple ( 1/1 water sugar)
3 cups lemon juice
9 cups reg water
10 cups of ice plus more for servings
✨ Pear-fect Lavender Martini✨
As we know cocktails are all about being well balanced. And we think this martini is just ‘pear-fect’! The second in our Lavender Series, this drink is surly delightful. Mixed up with vodka, pear juice, honey syrup or agave, and lavender water it is a delicious treat! Balanced with sweet and sour, we hope you enjoy this one just as much as we do.
Ingredients:
2 oz pear vodka (or regular)
1 oz pear juice
1 oz honey syrup or agave)
½ oz Tsp lavender water
Directions:
Add all ingredients to a cocktail shaker with ice
Garnish rim of coupe glass with lavender and sugar rim (or use pear fruit as a garnish)
Add top and shake it up for 20-30 seconds to get a good amount of air in it
Pour into a chilled coupe or martini glass
Sip & Enjoy!
✨ Lavender Haze✨ 💜
Our excitement for this cocktail is unparalleled! This is a variation on the classic gin fizz. Just add some Lavender and make it after a Taylor Swift song and you have a winning combination.
Ingredients:
2 oz gin
1 oz lemon juice
1 oz simple
¼ oz lavender water
Egg white
Top with 1oz club soda
Directions:
Add all ingredients except soda water to a cocktail shaker with NO ICE.
Dry shake for 20-30 seconds or use a frother to aerate the mixture
Add in ice and finish shaking
Strain into High Ball Glass with Ice
Top off with Soda Water
Garnish with lavender
Sip & Enjoy!
✨ Lavender Manhattan 💜
Classic Cocktail meets floral forward. The perfect manhattan is a quintessential classic cocktail, and we’ve dressed this one up in style. This makes a Perfect Manhattan which combines sweet and dry vermouth. A typical (or not perfect) manhattan uses bourbon and sweet vermouth. We use Rye here to bring out those lighter flavors as opposed to a bourbon which can be sweeter. Featuring our Lavender water for lavender season, you won’t want to skip this one! Mixx it up and let us know how you like it!
Ingredients:
2 oz Rye Whiskey or your choice of Bourbon
½ sweet vermouth
½ dry vermouth
½ oz lavender water
Dashes of lavender bitters
Garnish with lavender sprig
Directions:
Add all ingredients with ice to a cocktail shaker
Shake 20-30 seconds
Pour over ice in rocks glass
Garnish with Lavender sprigs
Sip & Enjoy!