Recipes

Our favorite recipes to use with our products.  We love to see what you are doing with our products!  Tag us on social media #makeandmuddle and show us what delicious things you are creating!

 

Recipes for Spiced Cherry Vanilla Syrup

Cherry Bomb

1.5 oz rum or bourbon
.5 oz vanilla vodka
.5 oz Make & Muddle Spiced Cherry Vanilla Cocktail Mixer Syrup
Squeeze of fresh lemon juice
Dash of aromatic bitters

Build in a mixing glass. Strain onto fresh ice. Garnish with cherry.

Cherry Old Fashioned

2 oz bourbon
.75 oz Make & Muddle Spiced Cherry Vanilla Cocktail Mixer Syrup
Dash of aromatic bitters
Dash of orange bitters

Build in a mixing glass with ice. Strain onto fresh ice. Garnish with an orange peel and a cherry.

Cherry Soda (mocktail)

1.5 oz Cherry Syrup
Squeeze of fresh lime
Top with soda water

Sacrificial Virgin (Tiki)

1.5 oz rum
2 oz pineapple juice
¾ oz lime juice
½ oz Make & Muddle Spiced Cherry Vanilla Cocktail Mixer Syrup
Molasses Bitters

Add all ingredients to a cocktail shaker with ice. Shake until very cold. Strain into an old fashioned glass or your favorite Tiki glass with fresh ice. Garnish with a cherry and wheel of citrus of your choice.

 

 

Recipes for Strawberry Basil Solution

Strawberry Letter 23

1.5 oz gin
1 oz Make & Muddle Strawberry Basil Solution Cocktail Mixer
Squeeze of lime

Shake in a shaker with ice. Strain into a coupe glass or flute and top with dry bubbles.

Bossa Nova Witcha Baby

2 oz Reposado tequila
1.5 oz Make & Muddle Strawberry Basil Solution Cocktail Mixer
0.5 oz lime juice
2 fresh strawberries
Fresh basil for garnish

Muddle strawberries in a cocktailshaker. Add all of the ingredients to the shaker with ice and shake
until very cold. Double strain into a margarita glass with fresh ice. Garnish with fresh basil.

Stormy Strawberry

1.5 oz dark rum
1.5 oz Make & Muddle Strawberry Basil Solution Cocktail Mixer
Squeeze of fresh lime
Top with Ginger Beer

Add the dark rum and strawberry solution to a rocks glass with a squeeze of fresh lime. Add ice and top with ginger beer. Stir gently. Garnish with a fresh lime.

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Recipes for Honey Lavender Elixir

The Queen Bee

1.5 oz vodka
1.5 oz Elixir
1.5 oz lemon juice

Add ingredients to a cocktail shaker with ice. Strain into a rocks glass with ice and top with either prosecco, seltzer, or still water.

Small Town Girl

1.5 oz vodka
1.5 oz Make & Muddle Honey Lavender Elixir Cocktail Mixer
1.5 oz grapefruit juice
5 oz lemon juice

Add ingredients to a cocktail shaker with ice. Strain into a rocks glass with ice and top with either prosecco, seltzer, or still water.

Gin Toddy

1.5 oz gin
1 oz grapefruit juice
Squirt lemon
1 oz Make & Muddle Honey Lavender Elixir Cocktail Mixer

In a coffee mug, mix all ingredients.  Top with hot water.  Garnish with a grapefruit peel.

Make & Muddle Lemon Drop

3 oz vodka
.75 oz Fresh lemon juice
.75 oz Make & Muddle Honey Lavender Elixir Cocktail Mixer

Chill a martini or coupe glass as you mix this cocktail. Add ingredients to a cocktail shaker with ice. Shake until very cold. Strain into chilled martini glass. Garnish with a lemon twist.

Inebriated Evangelist (Tiki)

3 oz Coconut water
1 ½ oz London Dry gin
1/2 oz fresh lemon juice
1/2 oz orange juice
½ oz Make & Muddle Honey Lavender Elixir Cocktail Mixer
1 oz seltzer
1 dash orange bitters

Place all ingredients in a cocktail shaker with crushed ice.  Shake until very cold.  Strain into a Tiki glass with fresh crushed ice.  Garnish with lime zest grated over cocktail.

 

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Recipes for 7 Syrup

Make & Muddle Old Fashioned

1.5 oz Buffalo Trace Bourbon or similar
.5-.75 oz Make & Muddle 7 Syrup Cocktail Mixer
Dash of orange bitters
Dash of aromatic bitters
Orange and Cherry for garnish

In a mixing glass with ice, add the first four ingredients and stir until cold. Strain contents from mixing glass into an old fashioned glass with ice. Garnish with orange peel, expressing oils over the drink and around the rim of the glass.

Rose Island Punch (Tiki)

1 oz citrus mix
1 oz Make & Muddle 7 Syrup Cocktail Mixer
1.5 oz Blended dark Rum
1.5 oz brandy
2 shakes Aromatic Bitters or Tiki Bitters
Orange Cherry flag garnish

Place all ingredients in a cocktail shaker with crushed ice.  Shake until very cold.  Strain into a Tiki glass with fresh crushed ice.  Garnish with a slice of orange and cherry flag.

Decorative Gourd Season

2 oz Bourbon
1 oz Apple Cider Reduction
.75 oz Fresh lemon juice
.75 oz Cynar
.5 oz. Make & Muddle 7 Syrup Cocktail Mixer
Dash Aromatic Bitters

In a cocktail shaker with ice, add first six
ingredients and shake until cold. Strain contents
from shaker into an old fashioned glass with ice.
Garnish with lightly salted apple slice.

Make & Muddle Sangria

6 oz full bodied red wine
.5 oz brandy
.5 oz Make & Muddle 7 Syrup Cocktail Mixer
Splash of lemon

Mix all ingredients in a large wine glass. Add ice and diced seasonal fruit.

Sweater Weather

.75 oz apple cider reduction
.75 oz Make & Muddle 7 Syrup Cocktail Mixer
.75 orange vodka or other spirit of choice
Sparkling wine

Mix first three ingredients in a mixing glass with ice. Stain into a champagne flute or chilled coupe. Top with a dry sparkling white wine.

Recipes for 2 Pepper Agave Syrup

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Relationship Juice

1.5 oz G4 blanco tequila
1 oz Dolin dry vermouth
1 oz lemon juice
½ oz Make & Muddle 2 Pepper Agave Cocktail Mixer Syrup
⅛ to ¼ tsp Sweetie Salty Spicy rim mix*

Rim ½ of coupe with sweetie salty spicy rim. Add all ingredients to shaker full of ice. If more heat is desired, add a little more rim mix to cocktail. Shake and strain into prepared coupe glass.  *Sweetie Salty Spicy Rim Mix is available online at our Etsy shop.

Bitter Blood

1 oz blanco or reposado tequila
3/4 oz Amara Amaro d’Arancia
1 oz blood orange juice
1/2 oz Make & Muddle 2 Pepper Agave Cocktail Mixer Syrup

Rim half of a rocks glass with salt or sweetie, slaty, spicy rim mix. Add all ingredients to a cocktail shaker with ice and shake until cold. Strain into prepared rock glass with fresh ice.

Mondo Trasho

¾ oz Dark Rum
¾ oz Coconut Rum
1 ½ oz Pineapple juice
½ oz Make & Muddle 2 Pepper Agave Cocktail Mixer Syrup
½ oz lime juice

Place all ingredients in a cocktail shaker with crushed ice.  Shake until very cold.  Rim rocks or Tiki glass with Tajin.  Strain into glass with fresh crushed ice.

Recipes for Orange Ginger Cranberry Shrub

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The Griswold

1 ½ oz gin
1 ½ oz Make & Muddle Orange Ginger Cranberry Shrub Cocktail Mixer
Prosecco
Sparkling Lemonade
Grapefruit bitters

Add bitters, gin, and shrub to an old fashioned glass. Add ice and
stir. Top with 50/50 prosecco and sparkling lemonade. Gently
stir.  Garnish with lemon twist.

Urbane Equinox (Make & Muddle Cosmo)

1.5 oz vodka
1 oz Make & Muddle Orange Ginger Cranberry Shrub Cocktail Mixer
Squirt of lime juice

In a cocktail shaker with ice, combine all ingredients and shake until very cold.  Strain into a chilled coupe or martini glass. Garnish with lime twist.

 

Recipes for Blueberry Lavender Shrub:

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Behave Yourself

1.5 oz botanical gin
.75 oz Make & Muddle Blueberry Lavender Shrub Cocktail Mixer
Squeeze of fresh lemon juice
Dash of grapefruit bitters

In a cocktail shaker with ice, shake all ingredients and strain into a chilled coupe glass. Top with prosecco or sparkling wine and garnish with fresh blueberries.

Lub Dub

1.5 oz Rum
1/2 oz Licor 43
1/2 oz Make & Muddle Blueberry Lavender Shrub Cocktail Mixer
3/4 oz lime juice

Rim Rocks glass with Tajin (Chili lime seasoning). Shake and strain into prepared glass with fresh ice.

Garnish with fresh blueberry pick.

Blue Bells

2 oz bourbon
1 oz Make & Muddle Blueberry Lavender Shrub Cocktail Mixer
Seltzer water

Mix first two ingredients in a glass with ice. Top with seltzer and garnish with a lemon twist.

Recipes for Citrus Cucumber Mint Mixer

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Citrus Cucumber Mint Slush

1 16 oz bottle Make & Muddle Citrus Cucumber Mint Cocktail Mixer
¾ C G4 Blanco tequila
½ c mezcal *

Mix all ingredients in a freezer safe container and freeze until solid. Rim a glass with Tajin. Scoop slush into prepared glass. *This recipe can also be made using all tequila.  Simply add 1.25 cups tequila to the bottle and mix.

Cucumber Mule

1.5 oz bourbon or vodka
.75 oz Make & Muddle Citrus Cucumber Mint Cocktail Mixer
.25 oz fresh lime juice

Mix all ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice and shake until cold. Strain into a rocks glass with fresh ice. Top with ginger beer and stir gently. Garnish with fresh mint and wedge of lime.

Cucumber Collins

1.5 oz gin
1.5 oz Make & Muddle Citrus Cucumber Mint Cocktail Mixer
Seltzer

In a tall Collins glass, mix first two ingredients with ice. Top with seltzer and garnish with fresh mint and lime.

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