Recipe Friday: Cheers to Peeps!Recipe Friday: Cheers to Peeps!

Peeptini embodies spring with the most floral of spirits—gin. Gin liquor, red raspberry purée and lavender syrup enhance the drink's fruity, floral notes. A measure of Cointreau provides sweet citrus flavor. Foamy aquafaba makes it light and airy like a spring day. Creator Daniel Trujillo of Quecho Cantina in New York says: "Easter marks the end of the cold weather and the start of spring. To celebrate, we made a cocktail that invokes the thought of flowers and berries. We created a beautiful pink color, added a touch of refreshing citrus, and brought it all together with Peeps to make the perfect Peeptini."

Photo by Daniel Trujillo (Quecho Cantina) and photo courtesy of The Perfect Purée

Peeptini

Yield: 1 cocktail

Recipe courtesy Daniel Trujillo / Owner, Quecho Cantina, NYC; Photo Credit: Quecho Cantina

Ingredients

1 ½ oz gin

½ oz Cointreau

¼ oz Pomp & Whimsy gin liquor

½ oz The Perfect Purée Red Raspberry Puree, thawed.

¾ oz lavender syrup

½ oz lime juice

½ oz aquafaba

Method

Combine all the ingredients into a cocktail shaker and give a dry shake (Shake all the ingredients without ice for 7 seconds. This will allow the aquafaba to expand and make the cocktail creamy with a nice, delicious foam). Add ice and shake for another 10 seconds and double strain into a large coupe or martini glass. Garnish with peeps bunny and flower petals.