Gingerbread Martini

Ingredients

  • 200ml Absolut Vodka
  • 50ml hazelnut-flavoured liqueur
  • 25ml herbal digestifor liqueur
  • For the ginger syrup
  • 50g dark brown soft sugar
  • 1 tsp ground ginger
  • ½ tsp ground cinnamon
  • strip of lemon peel

Method

  1. First, make the ginger syrup. Put the sugar, ginger, cinnamon, lemon peel and a pinch of black pepper in a pan with 50ml water and bring to a simmer (watch closely, as it can bubble up). Stir once or twice until the sugar has dissolved. Turn off the heat and leave to infuse until cold.
  2. Strain through a fine mesh sieve and discard the lemon peel. Pour the syrup into a 500ml bottle along with the Absolut Vodka, all the liqueurs and 100ml cold water. Shake and chill until needed.
  3. To gift, package up the cocktail base and the instructions: Chill, then divide between four chilled glasses and serve straightaway. The cocktail base will keep chilled for three days.