St Germain Cocktails

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St. Germain Cocktails have notes of floral flavor with Elderflower liqueur, Prosecco or Champagne, tropical tea syrup, and a splash of club soda over crushed ice. Pour these sparkling Spring and Summer cocktails for brunch, Easter, a birthday party, or bridal showers. St Germain spritz drinks are refreshing, delicious, and absolutely gorgeous.

Prep Time5

Total Time5

Course: Drinks & Cocktails

Cuisine: American

Keyword: hibiscus tea, spritzer, St Germain cocktails, St. Germain cocktail, Summer cocktails

Servings:

Calories: 339kcal

Author: Lisa Hatfield

Equipment

Ingredients

St. Germain Cocktail

2 cups water
1 tablespoon hibiscus flower tea bags Tazo tea bags, tea shop or online
1 oz St-Germain liqueur
2 cups Prosecco or Champagne
crushed ice
top with club soda
1 shot chilled hibiscus flower tea
assorted flowers or herbs for garnish

Instructions

Make hibiscus tea. In a saucepan boil 2 cups water. Turn off the heat. Add 2 hibiscus flower tea bags or 4 teaspoons of dried hibiscus flowers into a tea infuser ball. Steep for 5 minutes, and remove the strainer. Chill tea in the fridge until ready to use.
Add crushed ice to each glass, let the glass chill for a few minutes.
In each glass pour ¼ cup or 2 jigger shots of hibiscus tea into each glass, 1 jigger shot of St-Germain, and top with 1 cup Prosecco, with a splash of club soda.
Garnish with small tropical flowers like purple orchids and Madagascar jasmine. Or use herbs you have in your garden, thyme or basil would be lovely. It is best to use edible flowers or herbs grown with no pesticides you have in your garden.

Notes

Batch Cocktails

You can mix the hibiscus tea, Prosecco, St. Germain, and club soda in a pitcher, punch bowl, or beverage container with crushed ice to serve a crowd.

Garnish

Use any small flowers or herbs, you can read more about edible flowers on my post for Spring Garden Crostini.

Spritz Variations

Alcohol Additions: Add different alcohols along with the St Germain floral liqueur like gin, vodka, tequila for a hibiscus tequila cocktail, bourbon, or whiskey. You can also try out the different flavored vodkas like strawberry basil or pear vodka for a unique twist for a garden party.

Hugo Spritz: This is an elderflower spritz drink. Muddle mint leaves with St-Germain liqueur, then strain into a glass with a splash of prosecco, and soda water on top of the cocktail over ice.

French Gimlet: Make a sophisticated gimlet. In a cocktail shaker with ice, mix gin, St Germain, fresh lime juice, and simple syrup. Garnish with lime peel.

Sweetness: Simple syrups made from any citrus or summer fruit like peaches, strawberries, blackberries, or raspberries.

Bitters: It is also nice to add a drop or two of bitters, to balance out the sweetness.

Mixers: Add mixers if you use gin try tonic water, or splashes of fresh lemon juice, grapefruit juice, lime juice, cranberry juice, or different fresh orange juices.

Champagne: Make these champagne cocktails, and add a few ounces of French bubbly.

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