We love a cocktail at Devon Distillery and we thought we would pop some of our favourite recipes using Dappa here so that you can have a go at making your own Dappa Cocktails.
Name: DAPPA Espresso
Ingredients:
10ml *vanilla & raisin syrup
1/4 of cinnamon stick
1 orange zest
1 shot of strong espresso (good quality coffee)
50ml DAPPA Devon Spirit
Method: Muddle first 3 ingredients, add coffee and DAPPA and shake hard with ice, fine strain into a martini glass. Serve
Garnish: Coffee Bean
Name: Christmas Spirit
Ingredients:
50ml DAPPA Devon Spirit
5ml of *Christmas syrup
fresh squeeze of clementine juice(2.5ml)
dash of each fee bros orange & aromatic bitters
Method: Stir with crystal clear blocks of ice until the right dilution its achieved. Serve in a small 100ml bottle with cork, alongside a rocks glass filled with a block of ice.
Garnish: Orange zest
Name: Citrus Twist
Ingredients:
15ml Clementine juice
10ml lemon juice
10ml Cointreau
1 egg white
1 spoon of sweet mince meat
50ml of DAPPA Devon Spirit
Method: Add all ingredients in shaker with ice and shake hard, strain everything back to your shaker and shake for a second time to break down the proteins in the egg white. Fine strain into a chilled flute.
Garnish: 3 orange rinds thinly cut
Name: Sweet Cinnamon
Ingredients:
4 wedges of clementine
4 wedges of lime
15ml of *cinnamon honey syrup
50ml DAPPA Devon Spirit
Method: Muddle first 3 ingredients, add crushed ice and pour the DAPPA, stir well and top up with more crushed ice.
Garnish:N/A sometimes cinnamon shavings will be served on top
*Vanilla & Raisin Syrup
2 cups of sugar
1 cup of water
1 vanilla pod
3 teaspoons of chopped raisins
Add sugar and water in the pan, until almost dissolved, split vanilla in half and add to the syrup, add raisins, bring to the boil and take of the heat, leave to cool and infuse for a further hour. Fine strain and bottled, keep in the fridge.
*Cinnamon Honey Syrup
1btls of honey
1/2 a cup of hot water
1 cinnamon stick
Add the honey and water in the pan, start stirring, break the cinnamon stick and add it in, bring to the boil, take of the hear and leave to infuse for an hour.
*Christmas Syrup
2 cloves
1 cinnamon stick
peel of an orange
peel of a clementine
1 teaspoon of chopped raisins
pinch of nutmeg
2 cups of sugar
1 cup of water
Dissolve sugar in water over a pan, add all rest ingredients and simmer on a low heat for 10 mins, bring to the boil, take of the heat and leave to infuse for an hour. Bottle and keep in fridge.
Have fun making your Dappa Cocktails and let us know your favourite!
