So when a friend of mine in Adelaide found out I was making customised cocktails at people’s requests, naturally she pestered me into making one for her… pretty much on the fly.

Now, when you make a drink for someone, you generally have some idea of what you’re doing. They tell you the things they like, and you work with that, add some interesting touches, put it all together, and you make something they love and love you for… or they curse your name forever and secretly hope you die in a fire, going to lengths such as setting half of a south-eastern state ablaze in the hope you’ll be caught in the midst of the maelstrom.

The instructions I got were that it needed to be a “frozen fruit puppy”, be “bubblegum” blue in colour, and have red bits floating in it but they couldn’t be watermelon. I face palmed and then got to work making one.

Glass: Brandy ballon (pictured) or Hurricane glass

Ingredients:

• Crushed mint (Not pictured… but I decided the drink needed some menthol)
• 5ml Southern Comfort
• 15ml Strawberry Liqueur
• 15ml Banana Liqueur
• 15ml Vanilla Liqueur
• 30ml Blue Curacao
• 30ml Apple Liqueur
• 100ml Soda water
• Raspberries

Method: Crush the ice & mint together, pouring it into the glass. You can place the rasberries on top of, or underneath the ice, depending on the effect you’re after. Then shake & strain all the alcoholic ingredient, pouring in the soda water at the end, and giving a gentle stir.

Garnish: Rasberries & mint are garnish enough, damn you! But maybe a little something to skewer them if you prefer the drink to look neater.

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3 Comments »

1. 

   Avi! It’s called a ‘Frosted Fruit Puppy’!
   And for your next trick, glow-in-the-dark fluro green drink that tastes like sparkly. I shall call it ‘I Can’t Believe It’s Not Nuclear Apple’.

   Comment by Sonja — January 26, 2010 @ 1:37 am

2. 

   Slight problem with that last bit: There are no glow in the dark food dyes approved for use in Australia, and the one supplier I do know of (yeah, I’ve already looked into this, believe it or not) in the US can’t export it here in any quantity for that reason.
   Apparently it’s an extract of certain deep sea jelly fish – http://www.biolume.net

   Comment by Egofreaky — January 26, 2010 @ 5:38 am

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