Here at Craft Gin Club, we are all about encouraging “at-home mixology” and we’re constantly trying to find ways to use store cupboard ingredients to make fancy cocktails! This Candy Cane Martini is the perfect cocktail for Christmas Eve and you can make the peppermint syrup using tea bags! Don’t believe us? Watch…

Candy Cane Martini

Syrup -
3 x peppermint tea bags
150ml boiling water
150g caster sugar

Cocktail -
35ml gin
25ml white chocolate liqueur
20ml peppermint syrup
25ml double cream
Candy cane to rim the glass and one to garnish

Syrup -
Add a 3 tea bags to 150ml of boiling water. Stir in 150g of caster sugar until dissolved. Allow to cool.

Cocktail -
add gin, chocolate liqueur, syrup and cream to a cocktail shaker and shake hard. Pour some peppermint syrup into a saucer and crushed up candy cane into another one. Dip martini glass into the syrup and then into the crushed candy cane to rim. Strain cocktail into martini glass. Garnish with a candy cane.