If you’re looking for a summery cocktail with a delicious twist, then lavender is the trendy – and super tasty – ingredient that’s sure to get everyone coming back for one more sip.
We have published quite a few lavender cocktail recipes here on the blog, but we thought it would be helpful to round them all up in one place. So here we go, three cocktails and two mocktails to get you started!
Lemony Lavender Gin Fizz
Ingredients
1 shot of gin
150ml tonic water
1 tbsp Gower Lavender Syrup
2 tsp lemon juice
A pinch of butterfly pea flowers
Boiling water
Ice
Method
1. Put the butterfly pea flowers in a small measuring jug and add boiling water to the 50ml mark. Steep until you have some lovely blue water.
2. Put all the other ingredients in a glass of your choice and stir.
3. Pour in the butterfly pea water and watch it turn purple!
4. Sip and savour.
Magical botanical lavender gin cocktail
Here’s our lavender twist on a classic gin cocktail, made with lemon juice, elderflower cordial and prosecco.
Ingredients
50ml gin
25ml lemon juice
25ml lavender syrup
25ml elderflower cordial measure
250ml prosecco
A sprig of mint
3 slices of cucumber
A few ice cubes
Method:
Combine all the above and stir, then enjoy!
The Lavender Raindrop
Inspired by our rather mixed Gower weather, here’s a raindrop you won’t be sad to see heading your way…
Ingredients:
50ml Gin of your choice
50ml Lavender syrup
150ml Tonic
Juice of 1/2 Lemon
Juice 1/2 Clementine
Ice
Raindrops (optional, lol)
Edible flowers to decorate
Method:
Put a handful of ice in a gin balloon or tumbler. Pour over equal measures of gin and lavender syrup. Add the lemon and clementine juice, and muddle. Add the tonic, and finish with a few flowers (we used a sprig of dried lavender and some freshly picked violets). Drink, and say ‘aah!’
You can make a beautiful mocktail version too, just by leaving out the gin.
Lavender cranberry fizz mocktail
Speaking of mocktails, this is a berry and lavender drink that’s sure to be a hit with the kids, teetotallers or designated drivers in your life: a cranberry juice fizz with lashings of ginger beer.
Ingredients
100ml ginger beer
25ml lavender syrup
100ml cranberry juice
1tsp lime juice
A couple of ice cubes
Method:
Combine all the above in a fancy glass and stir, then enjoy!
Lavender lemonade
This has to be the recipe we get asked for the most, and it’s definitely the easiest, so it’s going down as an absolute classic. It’s also ridiculously easy to make!
Ingredients
2tsp lavender syrup
25ml hot water
300ml lemonade
juice of half a lemon
Method
- Put lavender syrup in a glass and add about 1cm of hot water. Stir until the syrup has dissolved
- Add ice and squeeze over the lemon juice
- Top up the glass with lemonade
- Stir to combine
- Add a sprig of lavender and a twist of lemon zest to garnish, if desired.
The magic ingredient – lavender syrup
Lavender syrup is a wonderful ingredient, and not just in cocktails. You can bake with it, or enjoy it over ice cream or in sauces, hot drinks, cold drinks – we even love it on our morning porridge! We offer lavender syrup in two sizes, a smaller 100ml bottle or a catering-size 500ml, which you can order here on our website. We also supply syrup in larger quantities to trade customers such as cafes, bars and restaurants. Please email for a price list.