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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Christmas season is my family’s favorite season of the year. Officially, we start the 1st of November by decorating the house on the inside and outside. Both my kids and my husband are the biggest Christmas fans I know. Sometimes that enthusiasm is a little overwhelming for me. To settle my racing heart, I like to make me this delicious holiday whiskey drink. Believe me seeing about 20 elves or more, a large snowman family of 5, plus Santa Clause twice as tall as me sitting in front of our house can definitely be overwhelming ?.

Spiced Winter Blizzard: What I love the most about that holiday whiskey drink recipe

• I only need a couple of ingredients.
• The drink is ready to drink in a couple of minutes.
• The recipe is perfect for beginner home bartenders.
• It can be made for a crowd too.
• The recipe is adjustable.
• The flavors are incredible.
• It’s for people who like their drinks a little sweeter.
• Its an icredible whiskey cocktail recipe. One of my favorte holiday drinks.

Spiced Winter Blizzard- What you need for my super simple drink recipe

Jack Daniel’s Honey

• Jack Daniel’s Honey – When you drink that flavored whiskey straight, you will notice that it doesn’t have that artificial flavor many flavored whiskeys have but a light, sweet, honeyed flavor plus a rich taste of Jack Daniel’s signature Whiskey Old No. 7.
• Apple cider and tangerine juice – Fall and winter are the high seasons for delicious apple desserts and eating your fill of tangerines. Because these two fruits are typical for that particular season I wanted to add these flavors to my drink too—the sweetness of non alcoholic apple cider or natural cloudy apple juice and the tangy flavor of tangerines.
• Spiced homemade simple syrup -My simple syrup is easy to make and keeps in the fridge for up to 2 weeks. I added our homemade Pumpkin spice blend to it. This, in my opinion, contains so many warm and delicious spices, which makes it a fabulous addition to the honey, apple, and tangerine flavors.

Simple drink – with lots of flavor

I’m a simple drink recipe lover. I hate when a drink takes me more than 5 minutes to put together. That’s why Im really into this spiced winter Blizzard.

The only thing you need to do is throw all the ingredients into a cocktail shaker or a glass with a lid, take whatever you have at hand, add some ice cubes, shake, strain into to champagne glasses add some decoration and enjoy your delicious holiday drink.

I first encountered Jack Daniel’s Honey a couple of weeks ago, which immediately stoked my interest. The bottle has the signature appearance, of course, but written on the bottle was:”A blend of Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Whiskey and a unique honey liqueur of our own making, for a taste that’s one-of-a-kind and unmistakably Jack. ” Sounds great, right?

Substitution for Jack Daniel’s Honey

If you can’t find a honey-flavored whiskey, add a teaspoon of honey to your spiced simple syrup. No worries here. The drink will still taste great.

Spiced winter whiskey drink for a crowd

I leave you the recipe for a pitcher full of that spiced Winter Blizzard here. In case you would like to make that whiskey drink in a higher quantity ?.

• 300ml Jack Daniel’s Honey
• 200ml apple cider (or clouded apple juice) – or if you like it a little stronger use hard apple cider
• 200ml freshly squeezed tangerine juice
• 50ml or 1/4 cup homemade spiced simple syrup
• 1 1/2 cup ice cubes

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Big warm honey hug Nina

Here is the recipe for our homemade pumpkin spice seasoning.

Spiced Winter Blizzard – a holiday whiskey drinks recipe / 2 glasses

4 from 56 votes

Recipe by Nina Course: cocktails, Drinks, festive drinks, holiday drinksCuisine: American

Servings

2

Prep time

5

minutes

Cooking time

2

minutes

Calories

230

kcal

Total time

7

minutes

The spiced winter blizzard is an easy drinks recipe made with Jack Daniels Whiskey Honey, apple cider, freshly squeezed tangerine juice and homemade spiced simple syrup.

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Ingredients

• Spiced winter blizzard

• 120 ml 120 Jack Daniels Honey about 4 oz

• 90 ml 90 apple cider about 3 oz

• 90 ml 90 tangerine juice freshly squeezed, about 3 oz

• 30 ml 30 spiced simple syrup about 1 oz

• 1/3 cup 1/3 ice cubes

• Homemade spiced simple syrup

• 200 g 200 white sugar

• 200 g 200 water

• 2 tbsp 2 pumpkin spice seasoning

• For Garnish for each glass

• 1 1 apple slice 1/2 inch thick cut 2 times lenght wise but not all the way through.

• 1 1 tangerine zest

• 1 1 star anis

Directions

• Homemade spiced simple syrup
• Whisk all ingredients together in a small pot.
• Bring to a boil for 3-5 min.
• take the pot from the oven and let it cool completely.
• Store in a screwed bottle for up to 2 weeks in the fridge.
• Spiced Winter blizzard
• Put all ingredients for the drink into a shaker or a jar with a screw lid and shake for 1 minute.
• Pour into 2 champagne coupe.
• Garnish with the apple slices, the tangerine zest , 1 star anis each glass

Notes

• Substitution: If you can’t find a honey-flavored whiskey, add a teaspoon of honey to your spiced simple syrup. No worries here. The drink will still taste great.

Nutrition Facts

• Calories: 230kcal
• Carbohydrates: 21g
• Protein: 1g
• Fat: 1g
• Saturated Fat: 1g
• Sodium: 11mg
• Potassium: 126mg
• Sugar: 20g
• Vitamin A: 114IU
• Vitamin C: 14mg
• Calcium: 8mg
• Iron: 1mg

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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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Check out our recipes for “Homemade lilac simple syrup” and our delicious “Summer nights blackberry lavender Mojitos” .

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