15 Mother’s Day Cocktail Recipes
Celebrate the special woman in your life with a tasty tipple. A perfect blend of floral, fruity and elegant cocktails to make her day special.
Let’s raise a glass to all the mothers who continue to positively impact our lives, nurture and love us unconditionally.
Our mother’s day cocktail recipes are the perfect way to add a special touch to her day and present her with a beautiful drink that resembles her sweetness and grace.
Mother’s Day is a day full of flowers and we have put together an array of beautiful floral cocktails to give her flowers in a unique and tasty way. The floral theme is represented not only through the notes in the flavour profile but also the aesthetic and stunning garnish.
We believe that every cocktail tells a story and these cocktails have been crafted to reflect notions of beauty, class, vibrancy and elegance.
Take a peak into our garden of love…
1
Sweet Lady
A fresh, fruity and floral fizz cocktail, perfect for spring
Ingredients:
50ml J.J Whitley passionfruit vodka
25ml Elderflower cordial
Method:
1) Fill a highball glass with ice and a lemon slice
2) Add elderflower cordial and rose lemonade
3) Top with a passionfruit vodka float
Garnish:
Flowers
Lemon slice
Mint
2
The Love Bird
A delicious blend of strawberry and orange flavours giving the perfect balance of floral, citrus and subtle sweetness.
Ingredients:
50ml Bayab African rose water gin
25ml Strawberry puree
25ml Fresh orange juice
25ml Aquafaba
Agave (1 bar spoon)
A few dashes of Aromatic bitters
Method:
1) Add all the ingredients into a cocktail shaker
2) Dry shake, add ice and shake again
3) Double strain into a bird glass
Garnish:
Rose petals
3
Gin D'Azur Sour
A sweet and sour floral cocktail, perfectly fluffy and a gorgeous way to give your mother her flowers in a tasty way!
Ingredients:
50ml Gin d’Azur
50ml Elderflower cordial
Half a lemon
Half a lime
Half a grapefruit
Egg white (1 egg)
Method:
1) Add egg white, gin, elderflower cordial, lime, lemon, and grapefruit juices to a cocktail shaker
2) Dry shake (without ice)
3)Add ice, shake and put into a glass. Garnish with a flower and enjoy
Garnish:
Brightly coloured flower of your choice
4
Ginger & Hibiscus Gin Punch
A floral, fiery and sweet blend of hibiscus and ginger.
Ingredients:
50ml Gin
50ml Carisips Hibiscus punch
25ml Lime juice
25ml Ginger syrup
Method:
Add all the ingredients into a shaker and strain into a glass
Garnish:
Crushed flowers
5
New York Sour
A classic sweet and sour cocktail with a hint of bitter orange and a red wine float.
Ingredients:
50ml Whiskey
25ml Lemon juice
12.5ml Sugar syrup
1 Dash of orange bitters
25ml Egg white
20ml Red wine
Method:
1) Dry shake whiskey, lemon juice, sugar syrup, orange bitters and egg white.
2) Add ice, shake again and pour into a glass over ice.
3) Slowly pour the red wine and allow it to settle to form layers
Garnish:
Mint sprig
Lemon wheel
Small flowers of your choice
6
Strawberry & Elderflower Mojito
An all-time classic strawberry and elderflower cocktail packed full of fresh fruity and flagrant taste.
Ingredients:
50ml White rum
15ml Strawberry syrup
15ml Lime juice
15ml Elderflower syrup
Soda water
Lime wedges
Mint leaves
Method:
Add some slices of strawberry, lime, mint and brown sugar to a glass and muddle
Add white rum, lime juice, elderflower syrup, strawberry syrup and crushed ice
Top with soda and stir
Garnish:
Strawberry, lime and mint
7
Kiwi Kiss
A refreshing and thirst-quenching, kiwi cocktail with hints of elderflower and citrus flavours.
Ingredients:
Kiwi (+ slices to garnish)
50ml Vodka
25ml Elderflower cordial
25ml Homemade kiwi simple syrup
Freshly squeezed lime juice (1 half)
Soda water
Method:
1) Muddle a full kiwi in the base of a cocktail shaker until the juices are fully released
2) Add vodka, elderflower cordial, kiwi simple syrup and lime juice
3) Fill the shaker with ice and shake until cold
4) Strain the cocktail into a glass and top with soda water
Garnish:
Kiwi and lime slices
8
Pineapple and Elderflower Fizz
A fruity and floral pineapple and elderflower blend.
Ingredients:
50ml Kromanti rum
25ml Lemon juice
Half and half of Elderflower Presse and pineapple juice
Method:
1) Fill a glass with crushed ice
2) Add 8 mint leaves, lemon juice, pineapple juice and elderflower presse
3) Top the drink with a spiced rum float
Flaming lime garnish:
1) Remove the flesh from half a lime and place a sugar cube inside
2) Fill the lime half with spiced rum and light it using a flame torch
3) Lightly sprinkle cinnamon to intensify the orange glow to the flame
Garnish:
Mint
Flaming lime cup
Dahes of cinnamon
9
Flat Cap’s Cherry Bakewell Tart Sour
A sweet and mouth-puckering cherry sour. For those who like it sweet and sour, this is perfectly accompanied by cherry and vanilla-flavoured rum.
Ingredients:
50ml Flat cap vanilla and cherry rum
25ml Amaretto
25ml Maraschino syrup
25ml Egg white
Half a lemon
Half a lime
Method:
Add all the ingredients into a shaker and dry shake (without ice)
Add ice and shake again
Pour into a chilled coupe glass
Garnish:
Maraschino cherry
10
Gin Apple Sour
A sweet and sour apple blend with a hint of freshness.
Ingredients:
50ml Apple sourz
50ml Gin
25ml Lemon juice
25ml Lime cordial
25ml Egg white
Method:
1) Dry shake all ingredients (in a shaker without ice)
2) Shake again with ice
3) Double-strain through a wire mesh strainer into a chilled glass
Garnish:
Mint leaves
11
Red Wine Punch
A simple and fruity 3 ingredient recipe to spice up your red wine.
Ingredients:
Equal parts Red wine
Equal parts Sprite
Dash of Grenadine syrup to your desired sweetness
Method:
1) Fill a glass with ice and plenty of chopped fruit
2) Add equal parts of wine and lime-lemon soda in a glass
3) Add a dash of grenadine to the sweetness of your liking
Garnish:
An assortment of fruits
12
Pineapple, Passionfruit and Lime G&T
A tropical and fruity variation of the gin and tonic cocktail.
Ingredients:
50ml Bayab Gin
50ml Pineapple juice
15ml Lime juice
Top with passionfruit & lime tonic water
Method:
1) Fill a glass with ice and passion fruit pulp
2) Add all the ingredients and stir
Garnish:
Passion fruit, pineapple
13
Spiced Peach & Tamarind Daiquiri
A sweet and tangy blend of peach, tamarind and spiced rum.
Ingredients:
50ml Kromanti rum
50ml Peach puree
15ml Peach schnapps
25ml Lime juice
15ml Tamarind syrup
15ml Orange juice
Alterations: If you are unable to get hold of tamarind concentrate to make the tamarind syrup, substitute it with honey. This will then make a spiced peach & honey daiquiri.
Method:
Add all the ingredients to a shaker and pour through a strainer into a coupe glass
Garnish:
Peach wedge on a cocktail pick
14
Strawberry and Hibiscus Sip
A delicate, rich a fruity blend of gin, hibiscus and strawberry.
Ingredients:
50ml Strawberry infused gin
50ml Hibiscus syrup
25ml Lemon juice
25ml Gin spiked strawberry puree
Method:
1) Add strawberry infused gin, hibiscus syrup, strawberry puree and lemon juice to a shaker with ice
2)Shake then strain into a glass
Garnish:
Sliced strawberries, hibiscus and lemon slices
Lime cup with strawberries, mint and hibiscus
Crushed dried hibiscus flowers
For the mocktail lovers:
50ml Strawberry puree
50ml Hibiscus syrup
25ml Lemon juice
Top with soda water
Method:
1) Shake the ingredients minus the soda water and pout into a glass over ice
2) Top up with soda water
Garnish:
Strawberry and mint filled lime cup
Lemon slice
Crushed hibiscus
15
Lychee Lemon Drop
A light and floral blend of citrus and lychee.
Ingredients:
50ml Vodka
25ml Triple Sec
25ml Lychee juice
25ml Lemon juice
12.5ml Lychee syrup
Method:
1) Shake all the ingredients in a cocktail shaker
2) Strain into a martini glass
Garnish:
Clipped gypsophila flower