Valentine’s Day Cocktail
Servings
1cocktail
Servings
1cocktail
Ingredients
For the cocktail
For the homemade grenadine
Instructions
For the grenadine
  1. Add pomegranate juice, sugar, and pomegranate molasses into a small saucepan over very low heat. Stir continuously until sugar dissolves, immediately remove from heat and let cool. Set aside.
For the cocktail
  1. Add the egg white and the lemon juice to your shaker. When making cocktails that contain egg whites it’s always good practice to add the egg whites first. That way, if a little yolk accidentally falls in, you can start over without wasting the other ingredients.
  2. Add your homemade grenadine, Aperol, Amaro Montenegro, and gin.
  3. Then dry-shake (shake without ice) for 10 full seconds. This helps the egg white become super frothy, adding to the creamy texture of the drink. Briefly set aside.
  4. Add ice to a standard old fashioned glass.
  5. Once your glass is prepped, fill your shaker with ice and shake vigorously for a full 30 seconds.
  6. Double strain over ice into your old fashioned glass.
  7. At this point the cocktail is complete. Simply garnish with freshly grated cinnamon over the cocktail, or get festive and make a heart-shaped stencil out of construction paper to use to grate your cinnamon.