Persian Spiced Espresso Martini

There’s just something about caffeine and drinking that really gets you off your rocket. Reminiscing from the weekend I’m going to share with you an awesome espresso martini recipe using my Persian spice brew.

What you will need:

• 1 chilled martini glass
• 1 cocktail shaker and strainer
• Ice
• 15mls sugar syrup (3/4 sugar, 1/4 boiling water)
• 30mls Belle's Brews Persian Spice brew
• 30mls Vodka
• 15mls Kahlua
• 15mls Frangelico
• 3 coffee beans

What you need to do:

• First up fill the martini glass with ice, this will keep it super cool so that your glass doesn’t warm the ingredients when it is filled.
• Measure all your ingredients into the cocktail shaker but hold up on the ice until the end. So once all your ingredients are in the shaker, fill it with ice, pop the lid on and give it a shake.
• The trick with espresso martinis is in the shake, you don’t want to shake for too long otherwise the flavour will become too diluted. Shake it too softly and you won’t get that delicious cream that’s on the top (which is from the sugar syrup). Make you sure you shake it hard and short.
• Tip the ice out of your martini glass and strain in the mixture. Don’t fill it all the way to the top, no one likes their drink spilling over the edges, you want at least a gap of 1cm. After the mixture has settled in the glass you should have a creamy foam on the top about the same size (1cm). If it’s significantly bigger then you have put too much sugar syrup in your concoction.
• Final touches, put your 3 coffee beans on top and wvolah, you have your drink.

 

Enjoy irresponsibly ;)

Love Belle x