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Lavender Bramble

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Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 10 minutes
30 minutes
Total Time 50 minutes
Course Drinks
Servings 1 cocktail

Equipment

  • 1 fine mesh strainer or cheesecloth
  • 1 mason jar

Ingredients
  

  • 2 ounces gin
  • 1 ounce lavender syrup (1/2 cup sugar, 1/2 cup water, 2 tablespoons dried culinary lavender flowers, squeeze of lemon)
  • 1 ounce lemon juice
  • 5 blackberries
  • 2 sprigs fresh mint
  • Blackberries and fresh mint sprig for garnish

Instructions
 

  • Make lavender syrup: 1/2 cup granulated sugar, 1/2 cup water, 2 tablespoons dried culinary lavender flowers, squeeze of lemon. Place sugar and water in saucepan. Stir. Heat over medium heat until simmering and sugar has dissolved. Add lavender flowers and lemon. Stir. Remove from heat and allow to steep for 30 minutes. Strain through fine mesh strainer or cheesecloth into a mason jar. Syrup will keep, tightly covered in refrigerator for up to two weeks.
  • Muddle blackberries and mint in the bottom of a rocks glass. Fill rocks glass with pebble ice or crushed ice.
  • In another glass, combine gin, lavender syrup and lemon juice. Stir to incorporate syrup well. Pour into glass with blackberries and mint. Stir, garnish with blackberries on a cocktail skewer and a fresh mint sprig.