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I love a good cocktail. They’re tasty, they look amazing and they make you feel fabulous – a bit like a handsome MC, whispering sweet bars for weeks down your ear, in a sweaty rave. Last night I had a lesson in cocktail making with Smirnoff Black – a new breed of Smirnoff which, as it’s name suggests – leaves a more…lasting effect. A group of us were involved in a Twitter event, where we were instructed via twitvid by a mixologist, and made 3 cocktails – Vodka Tonic, Strawberry Caipiroska and Moscow Mule. Well summer is here, we’re wearing less and less clothes and of course it’s the perfect season for cocktails, so I thought I’d share the recipe for my favourite of the three – the Strawberry Caipiroska. I have dubbed this The Roska Cocktail not only because his name is in it and because I was coincidentally listening to his music whilst making it, but also because if Roska’s music was a cocktail, it would be this one – deeeelicious.
WHAT YOU WILL NEED:
a tumbler glass
a double shot of Vodka (50 ml)
a teaspoon of brown sugar
a tablespoon of gommes syrup
1/2 a lime
2 strawberries
a load of crushed ice
HOW TO MAKE IT:
STEP 1 - cut your lime into 4 smiles and squeeze the juice into the bottom, leaving the limes in the bottom of the glass. Use a rolling pin or one of these masher things I’m holding below to makes sure you get all the juice out.
STEP 2 - add a teaspoon of brown sugar and a table spoon of gommes syprup to balance out the citrus otherwise it will be too bitter.
STEP 3 – add a double shot of Vodka.
STEP 4 - cut the 2 strawberries in half and add them to the limes/vodka/syrup/sugar concoction. Using your masher thing or rolling pin, press them into the drink to get the strawberry flavours flowing. By this point your drink should look like mashed limes and strawberries floating in vodka.
STEP 5 - add the crushed ice (to the top of the glass) and stir through using a teaspoon. Decorate it with a strawberry and Voilà – The Roska Cocktail:
It tastes better than your mums cooking and is best enjoyed listening to music like this:
*n.b. be healthwise: always drink safely and only listen to good house music.
