Lilac Drop Cocktail

It’s LILAC  season, so this pretty perennial garden favorite is a thing right now.

Lilacs are putting on quite a show and they

  can be intoxicating  in more ways than one!

Sure, the icy violet, deep purple and white blossoms are gorge

and the fragrance is divine, duh…which is why I scatter casual arrangements throughout our home BUT

featured in a COCKTAIL…well, the lovely lilac is downright heavenly!

This Lilac Drop  is the very essence of spring. It’s beautiful, aromatic and

 so simple too…just combine a little lilac simple syrup {yes, lilac!}…

fresh citrus, vodka and a lilac hued liqueur and you have one crazy gorgeous cocktail!

Here’s my Lilac Drop How To:

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Lilac Simple Syrup ~

1 cup sugar to 1 cup H2o 

Add 1 cup of lilac blossoms { rinsed } and simmer on the stove top for 5 minutes, cool, strain, bottle and chill!

{Keeps in the fridge for a week!}

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Lilac Drop ~

1 shot of good vodka

3/4 shot lilac simple syrup

1/2 shot of lavender hued liqueur  {I used Parfait Amour but you can also used violet liqueur}

1/2 shot of freshly squeezed lemon juice

Rim the cocktail glass with fresh lemon juice and then dip it in lilac flavored sugar.

{Just a few blossoms mixed with granulated sugar!}

Place all of the ingredients into a cocktail shaker filled with ice, shake and

pour the ethereal elixir  into a vintage stemmed glass.

{This glass was handed down from my grandmother! Sigh}

Top it all off with a few scattered fresh lilac petals for a swoon worthy garnish and sip away on spring!

This just may be the prettiest cocktail  EVER!

Cheers,