Bon Appétea: Halloween Recipe

Get the Halloween party started early this October with our Spooky Berry Daiquiri and surprise your guests with this glass of fizzy fun that’s gotten a creepy lil upgrade – yummy eyeballs anyone?

Featuring one of teapasar’s bestsellers, The 1872 Clipper Tea Co.’s Blissful Berries, this cocktail packs a punch of tangy sweetness from the tea, complementing beautifully with the intoxicating rum and zesty taste of the lemon sparkling water. To incorporate a generous dash of good ol’ Halloween spirit in this cocktail, squash some strawberries and make it extra “bloody” before adding those cute lychee-berry eyeballs as the final touch.

For all the mummies and dad-culas, feel free to substitute rum with soda and let the little monsters have their go at making this berry delicious drink; perhaps their destructive talents may just increase the (mess) scare factor of the finished products!

Spooky Berry Daiquiri

(makes 4 glasses)

Ingredients

Cocktail

• 2 The 1872 Clipper Tea Co. Blissful Berries teabags
• 200ml white rum
• 330ml San Pellegrino Limonata 
• 150ml sugar syrup, from lychee can
• 200g strawberries
• 2 cup ice cubes

Garnish

• 4 cocktail picks
• 4 canned lychees, drained
• 4 blueberries
• 4 tsp berry jam

Method

1. Pour rum into glass jar and add teabags. Infuse overnight in fridge.
2. Fill the lychees with 1 tsp berry jam each and gently ease in one blueberry into each lychee.
3. Skewer the filled lychees gently onto cocktail picks and set aside.
4. In a small bowl, use a muddler to crush the strawberries and set aside.
5. Remove tea infused rum from fridge. Remove teabags and pour in sugar syrup. Screw tight and shake well.
6. Divide muddled strawberries equally into glasses, then pour in rum mixture. Top with ice and Limonata.
7. Garnish with cocktail picks and serve. 

Tips: For the young ones, substitute rum with soda of choice or simply plain water.