Earl Grey Martini with Lavender Simple Syrup | Easy Craft Cocktail Recipe at Home

Hi favorites, welcome back to Second Bites with Sarah. Today I'm gonna show you an Earl Grey Martini. Okay. The first thing I did, favorites, was I took about a cup of gin, you could totally use vodka, and a tablespoon of my favorite Earl Grey tea. Fair minimum, they need to hang out for about two hours together, but you could also do it overnight. What we have here is essentially Earl Grey gin. Give it a smell. If you are an Earl Grey friend, this drink is for you. It smells frickin' delicious. So we're gonna let that completely strain, and let's get some ice in the shaker. All right, going in the shaker. We need 3 fourths of an ounce of fresh lemon juice. If you don't have fresh, figure it out, you'll be okay, but you all know fresh is gonna taste better. We are gonna strain this when it's time to put it in our glass, so don't worry about the pulp. Lemon juice going in. Then, secret weapon, we need about an ounce of my lavender vanilla simple syrup. If you're like, what's that, Sarah? Go back and find it a few episodes back with Tea Fabulous. Again, about an ounce. You can back off if you don't want it that sweet. All right, now for a little bit of a party trick. We need an egg white, sorry to my vegans. I have this nice contraption that's gonna help me separate the yolk from the white. You can also use the shell. You can also use your clean hands, too, favorites, okay? But we need to get the white. We need to get just the white. All right, one whole egg white going in. Our gin and tea party has strained. We're gonna do one and a half ounces of our perfumed gin in as well. All right, we need to shake for at least 30 seconds, and let me tell you why. 30 seconds guarantees, A, that this actually gets cooled all the way throughout. It gives it plenty of time to chill. Two, the ice cubes are supposed to dilute slightly. For the most part, this is pure alcohol. So you're gonna want some of your ice to dilute to thin it out and help it be a little bit more drinkable, a little bit more palatable. And the third reason is so that you are guaranteed that it is fully incorporated, especially since you have an egg white in there, okay? So here we go, 30 seconds. All right, that was 30 seconds, a little bit of an arm workout. But she is thoroughly chilled, as you can tell, which is good. What I am expecting is frothy, herbal, floral martini that's gonna make me very, very happy. I am gonna strain because of that pulp we mentioned, okay? Get yourself a pretty glass. It smells so fantastic, guys. So for a garnish, I'm just gonna do the tiniest sliver of lemon. You could do a twist, you could do a dried lemon, whatever makes you happy. But we like to show someone what they're about to get into, right? Before you sip something or bite something, you get a visual first and you're like, oh, that probably has lemon in it, right? And then you use your nose and then you use your mouth. This cocktail visually and smells fantastic. Lemon's going in and it's time for my taste test. Oh, that smells so good. Yes, yes, you guys. It's bright, it's florally, it's sweet, but it's strong. She is fun. Bet you'd pay a lot of money for her at a cocktail bar. What do you think, 17, 18 bucks? And a pro tip, if you're a London fog kinda girly, you could put a splash of cream in this before you shake it to make it extra frothy and extra creamy and call it a London fog martini. Hey favorites, thanks for watching. We'll see you next time on Second Bites with Sarah.