Delicious ways to use freeze dried raspberries in cocktails and beyond

5 Mar

Freeze-dried raspberries can pack a punch of flavor and a touch of elegance to cocktails. They are available year round and with no need to worry about spoilage or storage issues they are a bar must have.

Here are a few ways to up your cocktail game using diced freeze dried raspberry:

1. COCKTAIL GARNISH

Use reeze-dried raspberry as a garnish to top your cocktails. It adds a pop of color and a berry aroma to drinks like martinis, champagne cocktails, or fan favourite gin sour.

2. COCKTAIL RIM

Crush freeze-dried raspberries into a fine powder and use it to rim cocktail glasses. It works especially well with drinks like margaritas or daiquiris, adding a tangy twist to each sip.

3. INFUSED RASPBERRY SPIRIT

Crush freeze-dried raspberries in the bottom of a glass before adding a neutral flavoured alcohol such as vodka and muddle well then leave to infuse. This releases their flavor and color, infusing your drink with raspberry essence. Then use in your favourite cocktail.

4. RASPBERRY SYRUP

Infuse simple syrup with freeze-dried raspberries to create a vibrant raspberry syrup. Use this syrup to sweeten cocktails like mojitos, lemonades, or even iced tea and mocktails. For other flavoured syrup recipes check out our Sweet Sweet Syrup blog.

5. RASPBERRY SUGAR

Whip up an instant sweet hit by creating raspberry sugar. Blitz freeze dried raspberry with coarse white sugar to create raspberry sugar. The beauty of this magical flavoured sugar is that it can pull double duty by not only being a perfect cocktail rim but can also be a quick two in one cocktail syrup. Talk about versatile. If you’re looking for ready to go flavoured sugars try our Fancy Floral Sugar or Zesty Citrus Sugar.

6. BEYOND COCKTAILS

The beauty of freeze dried raspberry is that its use goes way beyond the bar. Our raspberry crumble is perfect for baking…think brownies or even sprinkle over icecream for instant dessert elevation. Another great healthy option is to add diced freeze dried raspberry to granola, smoothies or yoghurt.