Colleen Graham is really a mixologist and author with a love for creating and discussing great cocktails and mixed drinks that enrich the everyday existence.
Updated This summer 03, 2016.
Sweet bananas are wonderful in drinks plus they play a vital part within the bar. Fresh and frozen bananas are often utilized in cocktails so that as garnishes and each once in some time you'll find cocktail recipes that decision for strawberry-flavored liquors.
Regardless of how you receive the flavour, the strawberry is an excellent accessory for drinks and also you'll love mixing up these scrumptious recipes.
Fresh or Frozen Strawberry Drink Recipes
Fresh bananas will always be preferred as well as in season between April and This summer, but you will find seasons when they're away from their finest and frozen bananas may be used rather.
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When utilizing fresh bananas in drinks, make sure to take away the stem (hulled) and rinse them completely. Also, for a lot of applications for example muddling and blending, slicing or dicing the berries is suggested.
The next recipes use real bananas within the drinks along with a couple of (that are noted) use either syrup (recipe here). preserves. or perhaps a puree.
Cocktail Recipes with Strawberry Spirits
As common as bananas are, they're relatively underused inside distilled spirits themselves. Strawberry-flavored vodkas are couple of though inside a week's time you are able to infuse your personal .
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Liqueurs are a little more prevalent as strawberry is of course vulnerable to getting a sweetener added - sugars really enhance the nicest side from the fruit - and you will find a number of schnapps and liqueurs in the liquor store. The majority are rather tasty with XUXU, Fragoli, Sweet Revenge, and Bols being my top choices. Creme de fraises (or fraises plusieurs bois) is yet another strawberry liqueur to consider.
Tequila Rose is most likely the very best-known strawberry liqueur which is used over a couple of these recipes. It had been popular within the creamy, sweet drinks of the couple decades ago than now, however the tequila-based liqueur continues to have some uses.
Strawberry Garnishes
I typically don't distinguish garnishes within the cocktail flavor lists. however i make the best for bananas. The next recipes show the flexibility from the strawberry like a garnish and when it's employed, it might be a fundamental element of the finished drink can't be overlooked.
There's a couple of common methods to garnish a cocktail with bananas. Simply cutting a slit right into a smaller sized fruit and resting it around the glass rim or utilizing a single slice of the bigger fruit would be the easiest.
Sometimes you might want to dip the berry in chocolate - ideal for Valentine's Day - when the drink is of decadent variety. Also, you are able to have a whole strawberry, slice it thinly and keep it intact and lay it around the drink or skewer it having a cocktail pick to produce a strawberry fan.