Raspberry Mint Martini

This raspberry mint martini is a fun and colorful spin on a classic martini. Homemade raspberry simple syrup is muddled with fresh mint leaves to bring color and flavor to a martini base.

This is an elegant drink, the perfect cocktail to serve on valentine’s day, at a cocktail party or at a dinner party.

When serving a martini, be sure to chill the martini glass. Fill the martini glass with ice whilst you make up the cocktail. Once the cocktail is ready, tip out the ice in the glass and pour in the martini. A refreshing cold martini is lovely in the hot summer months.

Ingredients

This delicious raspberry martini recipe uses vodka as the base, though you can swap this for gin too. Find the ingredient amounts written in the printable recipe card at the bottom of this post.

• Raspberry simple syrup. It’s very easy to make your own raspberry simple syrup. Just make it ahead of time so it has time to cool. It gives the most beautiful pink color.
• Vodka.
• Fresh mint leaves.
• Lemon juice or lime juice.
• Ice cubes
• Fresh raspberries for garnish (and mint leaf for garnish)

Equipment

A cocktail shaker or a tall jar, plus a long-handled spoon or stirrer.

Martini glasses.

Toothpicks to assemble the fresh raspberry garnish.

Assembling the martini

Before you begin this raspberry cocktail recipe, make the raspberry syrup first as written in the linked post, so it is cool before use.

Fill a martini glass with ice.

Add in a handful of ice. Stir the mixture vigorously for around 10 seconds with a stirrer. Tip the ice out of the martini glass. Strain the drink into the chilled martini glass.

Garnish the glass with a mint sprig and a few fresh raspberries speared on a tooth pick.

Variations

You can swap out the vodka for gin if you like, and add some extra or different flavors.

• Lemon syrup. Swap the raspberry syrup for a tangy lemon syrup.
• Other berries. The same method for raspberry syrup can be used with other berries too.
• Add a sugar rim. The rim of the glass can be coated in sugar for a little something extra. Run a lemon or lime wedge along the edge of the glass, then dip the glass in a little plate of sugar.
• Cranberry Gin Martini. Add cranberry juice instead of raspberry.

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