Easter and Passover are fast approaching and with them come all the brunches, lunches and dinners. Do you want an easy and delicious cocktail to serve at your springtime soiree? Our Blackberry French 75 cocktail is just the one!

Blackberry simple syrup along freshly squeezed lemon juice make this a refreshing sip. Our cocktail can be served in a champagne flute or a coupe glass with a garnish that makes it both beautiful and delicious.

Whatever you may be celebrating this weekend, we hope you have a wonderful time.

Cheers!

All the ingredients for a perfect spring cocktail!

Simmer the blackberries, water and sugar until sugar is dissolved.

Break up the blackberries and then strain out the solids.

Blackberry French 75

• 1 ½ oz gin
• ¾ oz blackberry simple syrup (recipe below)
• ¾ oz fresh squeezed Meyer lemon juice (or whatever lemons you have on hand)
• 1 oz champagne
• Lemon peel and/or blackberry for garnish

Measure first 3 ingredients and place in a cocktail shaker. Fill the shaker with ice and shake vigorously for 45 to 60 seconds.

Strain cocktail into a champagne flute. Top with the champagne and garnish with lemon peel and/or a blackberry.

Makes 1 cocktail

Blackberry Simple Syrup

• 1 heaping cup of whole blackberries
• ¾ cup granulated sugar
• 1 cup water

Combine all ingredients in a small sauce pan. Bring to a boil and stir constantly until sugar is dissolved. Reduce heat and simmer for 10 minutes. Remove the pan from heat and crush the blackberries using a potato masher. Let steep in the pan until cool. Strain through a fine-mesh strainer, gently pressing the blackberry solids with a rubber spatula to extract as much syrup as possible.

Syrup can be stored in the refrigerator for up to 3 weeks.