lavender lemonade cocktail

ingredients

• 1 ½ oz. Empress 1908 Gin
• 1 oz Limoncello
• 1 oz lavender simple syrup (see recipe below) 
• 1 ½ oz lemonade
• splash of tonic water

instructions

1. Fill a cocktail shaker with ice. Add the gin, limoncello, simple syrup and lemonade and shake for 30 seconds.
2. Fill an 8 0z. glass with ice. Pour cocktail over ice and top with tonic. 
3. Stir and garnish with a lemon wedge dipped in organic lavender flowers, or other edible flowers of your choice
4. Rim glass with purple sugar, which is made by dropping 2 drops of purple food gel into a ½ C sugar and mix for 2 minutes until well combined.

how to make lavender simple syrup:

1. Mix ½ cup sugar and 1 cup water in a sauce pan along over medium heat for 3-4 minutes (until sugar has dissolved and liquid has reduced by ¼). 
2. Remove from heat and drop 1 tablespoon organic lavender flowers into the mixture.
3. Allow mixture to cool in refrigerator for 30 minutes. 
4. You can either strain the flowers from the mixture or they can be incorporated into the drink.