Lavender Gimlet
The lavender gimlet is a lavender cocktail made from botanical gin, lime juice, and lavender simple syrup. Perfect for a summer cocktail.
This lavender gimlet is a variation on a classic. Back when it was created, the gimlet was a sweet drink made with equal amounts of gin and lime cordial.
Over the years, cocktails have become less sweet as tastes have changed. And the gimlet is no exception.
Tips and tricks for this lavender cocktail recipe
If you haven’t been harvesting and drying your lavender every year, lavender blossoms are readily available online. Just be sure to purchase blossoms that are intended for culinary use.
You can serve your lavender gimlet neat or on the rocks. Using rocks ice, that big ice cube, is more critical than what glass you use. That’s because the large cube has lower surface area and does not dilute your drink as much.
Garnish your gimlet with a lime wheel. And enjoy!
FAQs about the lavender gimlet
Here’s a good start to understanding gins, from dry to the sweeter botanicals.
It was made with Empress1908 gin, which gets its deep violet color from being infused with butterfly pea blossoms.
Yes, if a lavender gin cocktail isn’t your thing, the gimlet is highly adaptable to vodka or other alcohols.
No, go ahead and shake to whatever song you like. But there a few things you shouldn’t do.
Our good friends at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism inform us that a standard drink for distilled spirits is 1.5 ounces.
Cut off the stems when the flowers have begun to bud, but the flowers have not yet opened.
Lavender gimlet
Equipment
- Cocktail shaker
Ingredients
Lavender simple syrup
- ½ cup granulated sugar
- ½ cup water
- 1 tbsp lavender blossoms
Lavender gimlet
- 3 oz gin, ideally a botanical gin like Uncle Val's
- ½ oz lavender simple syrup
- ½ oz lime juice
- 1 lime wheel for garnish
Instructions
Lavender simple syrup
- Combine the sugar, water, and lavender blossoms in a small pot and bring to a boil. Once the sugar has dissolved, turn off the heat and let the syrup steep for 30 minutes.1/2 cup granulated sugar, 1 tbsp lavender blossoms, 1/2 cup water
- Filter the syrup into a small container using a chinois or as fine a strainer as you have.
- Cool and store in the refrigerator for up to one month.
Lavender gimlet
- Combine all of the ingredients into a cocktail shaker along with ice and shake for ~10-12 seconds.3 oz gin, ideally a botanical gin like Uncle Val's, 1/2 oz lavender simple syrup, 1/2 oz lime juice
- Strain the gimlet into a martini glass or into a lowball (rocks) glass with an ice cube and garnish with a slice of lime.
Notes
Nutrition
What’s next?
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Enjoy some other uglyducklingbakery adult beverages including other tasty cocktails:
“Lady Bridgerton” (an Empress 1908 gin cocktail)
vodka sour with blackberry simple syrup
Jalapeno raspberry bramble
Elderflower Tom Collins
Gin espresso martini
Peanut butter manhattan
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