Save to BigOven Monster Smash
Ingredients
- Raspberry Simple Syrup
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup fresh raspberries
- 1/2 cup water
- Monster Smash
- 1/8 cup fresh lime juice
- 8 oz tonic water
- 3 oz vodka
- 1 oz Barrow's Intense Ginger Liqueur*
- 1 oz raspberry simple syrup
- 1 tbsp raspberry seeds**
- ice
- fake Dracula fangs, optional
Instructions
- Raspberry Simple Syrup
- Into a small pot add fresh raspberries. Heat on medium heat for 1 minute until begin to release juice.
- Add water to pot and allow to come to a simmer (2-3 minutes).
- Finally add in sugar. Stir & bring to a simmer. Reduce heat to low and cook for 5 minutes until all sugar is completely dissolved.
- Turn off burner & allow syrup to cool.
- Once cool strain out raspberry seeds (**do not throw away you will use these later!).
- Into either a syringe or eye dropper suck up 1 oz worth of syrup & set aside for later use.
- Monster Smash
- Divide 1 tbsp worth of raspberry seeds into 2 glasses.
- Into a cocktail shaker add vodka, lime juice & Barrows Intense Ginger Liqueur*. Add a generous amount of ice into the shaker & shake for 30 seconds.
- Divide your mixture evenly between the 2 glasses. Top each glass with 4oz of tonic water & add a few ice cubes into each glass.
- When ready to serve garnish your drink with Dracula fangs & squirt raspberry syrup into each drink. The syrup will create a fun fake blood look.
- Serve & enjoy!