Photo by Harry Beee.
It may not be the hottest New York summer of all time but damn if it doesn’t feel like it. While everyone may want to stand in the doorway at one of the horrific shops on Broadway blasting AC with the doors open, we’d rather find something to cool us down that’s tasty and involves a little Kanon Organic Vodka.
That’s why we invited some of our favorite people to one of our favorite places, the Soho Grand Hotel, to try out some of our latest thirst quenchers by Stefanie Marco. So keep walking down Broadway no matter how great Best Buy’s central air is, and make one of these yourself.
Deconstructed Mojito (cotton candy topped drink)
Ingredients:
Cotton candy (purchase from here)
2 oz Kanon Organic Vodka
2 oz fresh mint tea (cooled to room temp or chilled)
1/4 oz lime juice
Club soda
Mint leaf
Directions:
Shake vodka, mint tea and lime juice together. Pour 2/3 way full into tall shot glasses and top with a splash of soda. Fill a cocktail glass with cotton candy and a leaf of fresh mint. Serve side by side and instruct guests to pour the shot over the top of the cotton candy. The sugar from the candy melts into the drink, sweetening your mojito from the outside in. Sip and enjoy!
Serves 4.
Reverse Mojito (drink in the spoon)
Add 1 1/2 small packets of Knox Unflavored Gelatin to 1/2 cup cold freshly squeezed lime juice and 1/4 cup of sugar. Stir. Add 1/4 cup of boiling mint tea and dissolve gelatin. Finally, add 1 cup Kanon Organic Vodka. Cover in a square pan or small square tupperware container (the level should measure about 1.5 inches in depth). Place into the freezer or refrigerator. This should be gelled in about 30 minutes in a freezer and in about an hour with refrigeration.
When firm, slice into small 1 inch squares. Makes about 24 servings. Carefully remove each square and place onto amuse bouche spoons. Using granulated sugar, cover the top of the gelee. Take a sodium bicarbonate powder or crushed unflavored Alka Seltzer powder and sprinkle just under a dime-sized amount on top of the sugared square.
Serve on spoons with a slice of lime on the side. Instruct your guests to activate the fizz by squeezing the lime juice over the top.
We call this the "reverse mojito" because instead of tasting the liquor first followed by mint, soda and lime, we will taste the soda first followed by lime, mint and the long sweet finish of Kanon Organic Vodka.
