This is the perfect summer drink for delicious blackberry lavender mojitos! It’s an easy drink recipe with all the classic key ingredients but with an added unique floral lavender flavour and sweet juicy blackberries. This will become your favourite cocktail to quench your thirst and cool you down during all the hot summer nights ;-).

Since our summer is almost over I’m longing for things which give me that vacation vibe back like Italian food, pina colada desserts and of course alcoholic drinks with that special something. I’m not a big drinker but I like my glas of wine from time to time or when the nights are hot a fruity refreshing cocktail with loooots of ice.

Hot Summer Nights call for ice-cold Blackberry Lavender Mojito .

Since I have kids, I can’t enjoy an adult drink whenever I feel like it, and oh boy, believe me, I often feel the need for something stronger. Especially when the kids are quarreling all day long ;-). Nah joke. I enjoy my drinks with my hubby by my site and my kids sleeping. Most of the time, I’m too tired to mix up anything fancy, so I like those blackberry lavender mojitos so much.

Blackberry Lavender Mojitos recipe: 6 good reasons why blackberries and lavender are the perfect match for mojitos

• The Mojito recipe is made in under 5 minutes.
• The homemade lavender syrup is easily made in advance and can be kept in the fridge for up to 4 weeks
• The blackberries and lavender syrup add that special something to these otherwise classic cocktails
• It’s a super refreshing easy drink recipe
• Blackberries stand for summer
• This drink will be the star at every summer party

Homemade Lavender syrup adds a beautiful unique floral flavour.

I love lavender! It smells fantastic and’s easy to grow, and that’s very important for me since I live a little bit higher up on a small mountain. Lavender is perfect for making your own chicken seasoning and brewing a better sleep. Lavender tea, lavender sugar, and lavender syrup, of course.

This summer drink is super easy to make, and you only need five ingredients:

• sugar
• honey
• water
• flowering lavender twigs
• blueberries, just 3 pieces for a light lilac colouring

You bring all ingredients to a boil and let it simmer for 5 minutes. Push with a spoon lightly on top of the blueberries so that they burst open and release their juice. Take the pot from the stove and let it cool completely. Strain the liquid through a fine sieve or a chess clothe and fill it into a medium sized bottle. Voilá! Homemade lavender syrup ready to use. Please keep the syrup refrigerated in the fridge up to 4 weeks.

8 Ingrediens and our Summer Nights Blackberry Lavender Mojito are ready to enjoy.

First I start with 2 glasses which can hold a capacity of 350-400ml and a muddler. Put the brown sugar, thinly sliced lime wedges, mint leaves and blackberries into the glasses and muddle gently. The flavours should burst open and combine but the mint leaves shouldn’t be shredded to small pieces.

Add the white rum, you can use any white rum you like but I prefer a 3 year old Havana Club Rum.

In the next step I add the ice in form of cubes or crushed and add some more mint leaves, lime wedges and blackberries for garnish. Fill the glasses up with club soda and add at last some homemade lavender syrup.

Please enjoy this mojito drink only in good company. Bad company should go home before drinking and partying through the night with these delicious cocktails .My hubby and I had a total blast picking fresh blackberries from my garden and mixing up a couple of glasses for us. It felt like vacation and as if the summer would never end. Sometimes all you need is another adult who totally gets you and a couple of drinks to stay up all night long ;-). Blackberry Lavender Mojito!!!

Some thoughts on that drink.

If you don’t have blackberries at hand, red currents, raspberries and even blueberries do the job just fine . No rum at hand? Try it with vodka or gin, maybe that was your flavour anyway. You NEED ice otherwise this is not a drink but a warm runny sweet soup with booze . The most important thing though is to take your time, don’t do a drink between one door and the next.

You should enjoy a good drink as you would enjoy a decadent rich slice of cake: You saviour every single bite or in our case swallow.

Cheers to you and all the beautiful bittersweet late summer nights <3

Bittersweet hugs Nina

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Summer Nights Balckberry- Lavender Mojito

This is a super refreshing and delightful recipe for a hot summer nights blackberry mojito. This drink has all the main key flavours of a classic mojito but gets a unique floral note and fruity taste through the added homemade lavender syrup and the fresh blackberries.

Summer Nights Blackberry-Lavender Mojito

• 2 tsp brown sugar
• 1 lime (cut into thin slices)
• 10 blackberries (fresh or frozen)
• 1,5 cups crushed ice
• 80 ml havana rum (or any other white rum)
• 8 mint leaves
• 1,5 tsp homemade lavender syrup

Homemade Lavender Syrup

• 200 ml sugar
• 200 ml water
• 3 lavender twigs (flouring)

Homemade Lavender syrup

1. In a small pot mix together with a whisk sugar and water

   whisk until sugar is dissolved and the the lavender twigs

   Heat everything over medium high heat ant let everything simmer for 5 minutes.

   Take the pot from the heat and let it cool to room temperature.

   Sift the liquid through a sieve and fill it into a small glass botle.

   Refrigerate the syrup until used.

   
   
   

Summer Nights Blackberry-Lavender Mojito

1. You need 2 glass(high ball glasses or the ones I use ) that can contain 300-400ml

   divide the sugar onto 2 glasses and add 3 mint leaves, 3 blackberries and 1 quarter of the lime wedges into every glass.

   Muddle the ingredients gently so that the flavours get combined. Blackberries and limes should release their juice and everything including the mint leaves and sugar should get combined.

   Divide the rest of the mint leaves and lime wedges equally to the glasses.

   Fill the glasses with ice and pour 40ml white rum of your joice into every glass .

   Fill the glasses with club soda.

   At last pour you homemade lavender syrup on top and garnish with the blackberries and another lavender twig.

   Enjoy!

   
   
   

In need of another delicious summer recipe? You may also like our flavourful recipe for our tomato galette filled with cream cheese and pesto!

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I’m fairly new to the world of mixing cocktails. Sure I do enjoy a sweet floral cocktail when going to a fancy bar but never have been one to enjoy or mix a cocktail at home. But since a couple of years I love trying and creating new cocktails and mocktails at home. My home bar went from a bottle of cointreau which I used for flavouring my baked goods to some different gins, rums and tequilas and some other standards which are needed in a well stocked home bar.

Lilac blossom margarita – tequila cocktail recipe with a floral flavour kick

One of my latest creations is my lilac blossom margarita. Its a simple approach on the classic tequila cocktail but my homemade lilac simple syrup gives it that special something in flavour and coloring that will impress you and your guests for sure. If you can’t make your own lilac blossom syrup don’t fred yourself use violet simple syrup from brands like Monin or make my homemade lavender syrup. All 3 syrups are great choices for that lilac blossom margarita.

Lilac blossom margarita – the origin of the classic one

Nobody knows who invented the margarita. It’s a mystery cocktail. But it’s very likely that it involves a beautiful woman.

One story goes that the drink was first concocted by Mexican restaurant owner Carlos (Danny) Herrera in 1938 for gorgeous Ziegfeld showgirl Marjorie King. King was allergic to all forms of alcohol except tequila, but didn’t like to drink the stuff straight. Herrera supposedly solve the problem by adding salt and lime and creating the world’s first margarita.

Another claims that it was the brainchild of Texas socialite Margaret (a.k.a. Margarita) Sames, who first mixed one up at a house party in Acapulco in 1948. Or it may have been named for actress Rita Hayworth, who was offered one by an admiring bartender during a theater gig in Tijuana in the 1940s. (Hayworth’s real name was Margarita Cansino.) Or it was first served up in Galveston, Texas, to singer Peggy Lee. (Her real name was Norma Egstrom. Peggy, however, is a traditional nickname for Margaret, hence margarita.) (source: National geographic)

The key to the best margarita

However this great tequila cocktail recipe came about, one thing remains true: the key to the best Margarita is to adhere to the basic ingredients. Using freshly squeezed lime juice combined with 100 percent agave tequila and a premium orange liqueur and adding instead of sweet agave syrup my homemade lilac blossom syrup. Promised that margarita will be the star on every brunch or party.

Recipe

• lime wedges for rim
• lilac blossom or violets or lavender for decoration
• salt or sugar for rim
• 60ml (about 2 ounces) silver tequila
• 60ml (2 ounces) fresh lime juice
• 30ml (1 ounce) cointreau
• 20ml (0,5 ounce) or a little more lilac syrup (violet or lavender syrup works great too)

Instruction

Rub a wedge of lime around the rim of a chilled margarita glass and sugar or salt the rim. Fill the prepared glass with ice. Shake the liquid ingredients vigorously with ice and strain into the prepared glass. Garnish with lilac blossoms or a wedge of lime.

My favorite thing about that cocktail recipe is that its simple but with that special homemade syrup it evolves to something special in taste and appearance.

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Looking for a delicious and warming winter beverage? Try your hand at this traditional Austrian Glühwein recipe. This classic concoction is perfect for filling mugs on chilly winter nights, complete with the right blend of fragrant spices and robust flavors. Perfect for cold winter days and prepared in under 10 minutes.

I love the winter and Christmas season. Nothing makes me more happy than that special season. In Austria the Christmas time is famous for their Christmas markets and their varieties of delicious Glühwein and Punch.

Glühwein recipes and their history

A Glühwein is the Austrian version of a mulled wine or glögg. Traditionally a Glühwein is a red wine infused with spices like cloves, cinnamon sticks, cardamom, ginger, nutmeg or anise and sometimes contains raisins too. Sometimes you’ll get it with a “Schuss” (a shot) which means that rum or some other liquor has been added. But today there are a lot of different flavoured mulled wine recipes available and the creativity knows no end.

Heated spiced wine was first recorded in Rome during the 2nd century.

A Glühwein is roughly translated as “glowing wine” ( from the temperature the wine is heated to)and is very popular in German-speaking countries and in the region of Alsace in France. It is a traditional beverage offered during the Christmas holidays and is exclusively served on Christmas markets.

Gather the Ingredients.

Begin by gathering the ingredients needed to make this Glühwein. Once you have gathered all of the necessary ingredients, you are ready to begin.

Ingredients

• 1 bottle of quality red wine, you don’t want to get a headache, right?!?
• 250ml Remy Cointreau or any other orange flavoured tripple sec
• 500ml cranberry juice
• 150g fresh cranberries
• 3 star anise
• 3 cinnamon sticks
• 1 vanilla pod
• 5 gloves
• 100ml orange juice
• 100g brown sugar
• 3 tangerines cut into slices

Preparing that delicious holiday drink recipe

Put all the ingredients into a medium sized pot and heat it up to a simmer. let everything steep for about 20 minutes on low heat or until the cranberries are tender and burst.

Serve hot in a mug or mugs with a handle 😊

One of the best things about Glühwein is that it can be served hot in a mug or mugs with handle and lid. And even if you don’t own any special mugs, it still tastes amazing when served in a simple glass or ceramic container. But to truly capture the warm rustic atmosphere that comes along with this traditional Austrian wine, find yourself some sturdy mugs or steins to serve it in. Whether they have fancy handles and seals, or simply two holes for easy sipping – your guests will love how special their hot Glühwein experience will become!

Happy holidays everyone and enjoy that delightful warming drink with people you love and care <3

Warm spicy hugs Nina

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Cranberry Cointreau mulled wine recipe – an easy Austrian Glühwein recipe

4 from 14 votes

Recipe by Nina Course: Drinks, holiday drinks, hot alcoholic drinksCuisine: American, austrian, norwegian, worldly

Servings

8

Prep time

10

minutes

Cooking time

30

minutes

Calories

307

kcal

This is an delicious recipe for an easy mulled wine. Its made up wit red wine some delicious spices, fresh cranberries and Cointreau, a yummy orange flavoured triple sec. perfect to get warm on cold winter days.

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Ingredients

• 1 bottle 1 red wine quality wine, you don't want a headache the next day

• 250 ml 250 cointreau or another orange flavoured tripple sec

• 3 3 star anis

• 3 3 cinnamon sticks

• 5 5 cloves whole

• 1 1 vanilla pod or 1 tsp vanilla extract

• 500 ml 500 cranberry juice

• 100 ml 100 fresh orange juice

• 3 3 clementines cut into slices or 2 oranges cut into slices

• 100 g 100 brown sugar or more

• 150 g 150 fresh cranberries

Directions

• Put all ingredients in a medium sized pot and heat it up to a simmer.Important: No boiling!Let the mulled wine simmer for about 30 minutes on low temperature so that the spices release their flavour.Enjoy!

Nutrition Facts

• Calories: 307kcal
• Carbohydrates: 46g
• Protein: 1g
• Fat: 1g
• Saturated Fat: 1g
• Sodium: 14mg
• Potassium: 312mg
• Fiber: 1g
• Sugar: 41g
• Vitamin A: 78IU
• Vitamin C: 32mg
• Calcium: 55mg
• Iron: 1mg

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