mystic magic color changing cocktail;
A brilliant blue cocktail that changes from blue to purple before your very eyes! Perfect magic for your Halloween party, this cocktail features mint, whiskey, honey, and lemon for a potent drink.
Servings: 1
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Equipment
- tea strainer or fine mesh strainer
Ingredients
butterfly pea simple syrup;
- 1 Tbsp dried butterfly pea flowers
- 2 cups water
- 1 cup sugar
mystic magic cocktail;
- 10 leaves mint
- 1.5 oz whiskey (1 shot)
- .75 oz honey jack
- 2 Tbsp butterfly pea simple syrup
- 4 oz butterfly pea tea
- ¼ lemon
- 2 oz ginger beer
Instructions
butterfly pea simple syrup;
- Add 2 cups water to a medium pot. If you have a tea strainer available, add the 1 Tbsp butterfly pea flowers to the strainer and add to the pot. If you don't have a strainer, add the flowers directly to the water (but you'll need to strain them out at the end.)
- Heat pot over medium heat until it boils gently, then reduce and simmer for 8-10 minutes or until desired blue color is achieved. Remove from the heat. (Strain through a strainer if using loose tea to remove the flowers and any debris)
- Portion off roughly 1 cup of the tea and set aside. Leave the remaining 1 cup tea in the pot and return to the burner. Add 1 cup white sugar and heat over low heat until the sugar is dissolved. There's no need to boil the mixture. Note: this makes enough simple syrup for roughly 8 cocktails. You'll only need 2 Tbsp for a single cocktail.
mystic magic cocktail;
- Assembly is key here--adding any acid (lemon, ginger beer) to the butterfly pea tea or syrup will cause it to immediately change color! First in a serving glass, muddle the mint. Use a muddler or flat end of a wooden spatula. Mash until the oils are released and some of the leaves are broken up.
- In the minty serving glass, combine 1.5oz whiskey (1 shot) and .75 oz honey jack (½ shot). Add the 2 Tbsp butterfly pea simple syrup and 4oz butterfly pea tea, roughly ⅓ cup.
- In a separate small glass or container, combine the juice from ¼ lemon, and 2 oz ginger beer.
- When ready for color changing magic, pour the lemon-ginger beer mixture over the top of the cocktail and watch the color change! Stir to complete the magic.
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