Cocktail Of The Week: Hidden Groove’s Pumpkin Spice Coupette – Recipe | The Good Mixer

The grown-up, late-night relative of nan pumpkin herb latte: aforesaid seasonal comfort, conscionable a small little innocent.

Pumpkin herb coupette

Serves 1

For nan homemade pumpkin herb syrup (makes 150ml; optional)
75g tinned pumpkin flesh, aliases roast pumpkin flesh
75g sugar
1cm portion caller ginger, peeled and astir chopped
1 pinch crushed nutmeg
1 clove
½ cinnamon stick

For nan drink
50ml vodka – I usage X Muse
15ml pumpkin herb syrup – we make our ain (see supra and method), but a bought-in 1 specified arsenic Monin will do
10ml java liqueur – I usage Fair for its debased sweetener content
10ml Baileys
1 double changeable brewed espresso
1 pinch cinnamon powder, to garnish
1 cinnamon stick, to garnish

To make your ain pumpkin herb syrup, put each nan ingredients successful a mini cookware pinch 75ml water, bring to a simmer, past move disconnected nan power and time off to steep for 30 minutes. Tip into a blender, assistance retired nan cinnamon, blitz arsenic soft arsenic possible, past strain into a jar. The syrup will support successful nan fridge for up to 10 days.

To build nan drink, measurement each nan liquids into a shaker, adhd a large fistful of ice, past shingle hard. Double strain into a chilled coupette. Lay a napkin crossed half nan apical of nan glass, particulate nan exposed broadside pinch cinnamon powder, past assistance disconnected nan napkin. Balance nan cinnamon instrumentality connected nan different half of nan solid (singe 1 extremity somewhat to merchandise that autumnal scent), past serve.

• Michele Gadaleta, adjunct barroom manager, Hidden Grooves, Virgin Hotels London-Shoreditch, London EC2