Flowery Cocktails for Mom

Everybody knows Mother’s Day isn’t complete without flowers for Mom. Here are some floral-inspired cocktail recipes if you want to accompany your bouquet with a special beverage. 

Hibiscus Champagne Cocktail

Ingredients:

Champagne, prosecco or other sparkling wine, chilled

1/2 to 2 tsp. hibiscus syrup

Wild hibiscus flower to garnish 

**Notes – you can make this with ginger ale instead of sparkling wine, for non-alcoholic version. If you can’t find hibiscus flowers, you can actually buy them in syrup on Amazon.

Preparation:

Add flower and desired amount of syrup to a champagne flute. Carefully pour champagne into flute so the flower “blooms.” Serve immediately.

Golden Jasmine Martini

Ingredients:

1 heaping tsp. jasmine green tea

boiling water

3 or 4 ice cubes

2-4 oz. vodka

1 Tbsp. simple syrup or honey

jasmine flowers to garnish

Preparation:

Chill martini glasses in freezer for 30 minutes or so. Make a cup of jasmine tea with boiling water and leave it to steep for a few minutes. Add honey or simple syrup and stir to dissolve. Place ice cubes in cocktail shaker and pour tea, through a strainer to catch any tea leaves, into shaker and add vodka. Shake well until ice-cold and strain into frozen glasses. Garnish with jasmine petals.

Lavender Bee's Knees

Ingredients:

2 oz. gin

3/4 oz. lavender honey syrup

1 oz. lemon juice

1 tsp. lavender

Lavender Honey Syrup

1/4 c. honey

1/8 c. hot water

1 tsp. lavender

For Lavender Honey Syrup:

Combine hot water with honey and stir until evenly mixed. Add lavender, stirring to combine. Let cool, approximately 30 minutes, then pour through a fine mesh strainer to remove lavender.

Preparation:

Combine all ingredients in a cocktail shaker full of ice. Shake vigorously for 10 full seconds. Double strain into a cocktail glass and garnish with a lavender sprig.

Rosewater Lemonade

Ingredients:

2 Tbsp. rosewater

1 Tbsp. simple syrup

 1/2 c. lemonade

 2 oz. vodka

Preparation:

Combine all ingredients with ice in a cocktail shaker. Shake until chilled. Pour into glass (with or without ice). Float rose or rose petals on top for garnish. 

Floral Mint Spritz

Ingredients:

1 can chilled club soda

1 lime

2 large sprigs mint

2 tsp. elderflower syrup

4 ice cubes

Preparation:

Using a vegetable peeler, slice two pieces of lime's rind, making shallow cuts with the peeler to avoid any bitterness from the white pith. Place a piece of rind in each glass. Cut lime in half width-wise and cut two slices to save for garnish. Squeeze the lime juice into two sturdy rocks glass. Add 1 tsp. of elderflower syrup and two ice cubes to each glass. Top off each glass with club soda. Mix gently. Garnish with sprig of mint and lime slice. Serve immediately and enjoy. **Note: This is also delicious with a splash of rum added!