Happy Sunday, friends! I hope you are well and enjoying a restful day.
I happened upon this recipe in an e-mail from one of my favorite magazines, Garden and Gun. It sounded like the perfect summer cocktail and since I had all the fixins’ in-house, I whipped it up. Wow! I was right, this is the perfect summer cocktail - delicious, icy, pretty, and just boozy enough! I give you the La Flordita Daiquiri!
Recipe makes one fabulous cocktail:
Ingredients:
2 oz Cuban rum
1 oz fresh lime juice
1/2 oz Luxardo maraschino liqueur*
2 TB refined sugar
1-1/2 C crushed ice
1 slice lime
1 Luxardo maraschino cherry
Directions:
Place the first five ingredients in a blender. Blend at high speed for 20 seconds. Pour into a coupe or short highball glass. Garnish with lime slice and Luxardo cherry.
*Do NOT confuse Luxardo cherries with the horrible red dye maraschino cherries of the 60s and 70s. No, no - these are made in Italy and are a dream, especially after your drink is gone and you eat the alcohol-soaked cherry - deluxe! If you are a serious cocktail maven, Luxardo cherries should be on your bar cart (they are terrific, by the way, in a classic whiskey sour).
