Bee’s Knees Lavender Lemonade
A botanically inspired lemonade cocktail for summertime sipping with notes of lavender.
Servings: 2 cocktails
Ingredients
- 1/4 cup hot water
- 1 teaspoon dried culinary lavender buds
- 1/4 cup honey
- 4 ounces Hendrick's gin or gin of choice 2 oz. per cocktail, adjust to taste
- Lemonade of choice
- lemon slices
- lavender sprig for garnishing if desired
Instructions
- Mix hot water and dried lavender blossoms in bowl; let steep 5 minutes.
- Strain lavender blossoms and whisk in 1/4 cup honey.
- Add honey syrup and gin into cocktail shaker with ice.
- Shake well and strain into 2 glasses over ice; fill glasses with lemonade of your choice. Garnish with lemon slice and sprigs of lavender if desired.
Notes
- To avoid a medicinal or bitter flavor from lavender, use a culinary / food grade lavender.
- You can make up a batch of honey syrup and store in a jar in the refrigerator up to a week.
- Not a fan of gin, substitute vodka or omit the alchohol to make a mocktail.