Ingredients
You will need (per drink):
37.5ml damson (or sloe) gin
1 lychee from a can plus 3 tsp of the syrup
Champagne to top up
Method
It’s not particularly complicated but who can be bothered with all that exuberant shaking when you’ve just eaten a disgraceful amount of roast potatoes?
Pour the gin into a glass; over ice if you’d like. Plonk the lychee in with the syrup then top it up with Champagne.
You might want to play around with this recipe a little; if your gin is particularly sweet or sharp you may need a little more or less lychee syrup.
I think this would be lovely with normal gin too but the damson gin does give it a nice colour. It looks a little like you’ve put a ping pong ball in the glass but by the time you’ve drunk this wonderful drink you are left with an alcohol soaked, soft mouthful of fruit to get your teeth around. It tastes like a sophisticated, time consuming cocktail but it takes barely a minute to make. Perfect to knock up quickly and enjoy slowly; ideally with a mince pie and a log fire.
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i love an action shot! the hue of this drink is lovely. 🙂
Simple and nice cocktail. Lychees are abundant over here, so trying out shouldn’t be an issue, except maybe a different brand of gin.
Lychee anything is great!
I need a gallon of this right now! LOL Love the action photos!!
Lovely drink! I know all sorts of cocktails that use Champagne, but using sloe gin in one is new to me. Love this! Terrific color, and I’ll bet the flavor is awesome. Thanks.
Gorgeous festive tipple! Wish I’d made more sloe gin now but definitely want to give this a try.
I love cocktail and counting down to Christmas… Cheers!
We need more lychee cocktail now…
I love lychee…and this cocktail sure looks awesome, like the color as well.
Thanks for the recipe and hope you are having a wonderful week Caroline 😀
BOOOOOOZE! The surefire way to make sure everyone has a good time at christmas parties, forget the food 😉 Good one caroline, recipe looks a stunner!
So easy to make! Lychee gives it an amazing flavour!