Directions
Black Mamba Kiss: to be honest, we had thought before the cocktail’s name.
But it finally arrived: a fragrant, dark, and lascivious cocktail that starts from a base of blackberries juice and gin: two creatures of the woods, characterized by indomitable, primordial, pure flavors.
Making real blackberry juice at home is a nightmare. You’ll need at least a couple of dozen blackberries for each cocktail, and you have to crush them and then strain them through a fine sieve, but it’s worth it.
So much that you need to add a few ingredients to the mix, and the lysergic flavor of the blackberries will do the rest.
The Black Mamba Kiss is a classic after-dinner cocktail: dense, silky, and a nice load of alcohol and intensity. As an aperitif, it would be “too much.”
Ingredients of the Black Mamba Kiss cocktail
- 12 blackberries
- 3 cl of gin
- 2 cl of Grand Marnier
- 1 cl of cordial
- 2 cl of sugar syrup flavored with star anise
- 2 mint leaves
How to prepare the Black Mamba Kiss cocktail
Wash the blackberries well, put them in a fine-mesh strainer placed over a bowl, and start to crush them with a spoon. Push and push and strain and then again…
When you have finished putting all the ingredients in a shaker filled with ice, shake it with ardor for 20 seconds and strain it in a Martini glass, which you will have previously cooled with ice.
Decorate with a slice of apple and a mint leaf or berries to taste.
To prepare the star anise-flavored sugar syrup, take a bottle, fill it with 1 liter of sugar syrup, drop in 3 stars (the fruits), seal, and let rest for at least three days.
After that, you can strain and bottle it again and use it to flavor your cocktails with a beautiful touch, especially the berries, which with anise has a spiritual bond.
Great Gin Cocktail you should try
If you like cocktails made with gin, you could also make Gin Tonic, Paradise, Tom Collins, Heidi, Bramble, Negroni, Gin Fizz, French 75, Tuxedo, Dry Martini.
