Want to really up the entertaining ante this holiday season? Feed your love for all things color with vibrantly hued cocktails, like this one from #PaletteForYourPalate, a collaboration between Pantone and Tealeaves. The duo tasked skilled mixologists with creating tea-infused sips that also match a Pantone color – and the result is stunning. Try the Peppermint Tea Margarita for a candy-cane-meets-the-tropics concoction.
PEPPERMINT TEA MARGARITA
Ingredients
2 peppermint tea bags
1 cup water
1 ounce premium tequila
1/2 ounce blue curaçao
1/4 ounce triple sec
1 ounce freshly squeezed lime juice
1/2 ounce sugar cane syrup
3 ounces Hpnotiq liqueur
4 sprigs fresh mint leaves
Kosher salt
Turbinado sugar
Directions
1. Steep tea bags in 1 cup of boiling water for three minutes and let cool.
2. In cocktail shaker, combine 2 ounces of peppermint tea infusion with tequila, blue curaçao, triple sec, lime juice, and sugar cane syrup. Shake vigorously.
3. Rub fresh mint leaves on rim of glass. Rim glass with Kosher salt and turbinado sugar.
4. Pour shaken liquid into rimmed glass with ice.
5. Garnish with crown of mint and Hpnotiq-soaked blueberry skewer.
Get more recipes (or even just look at all the OMG-worthy pics) on #PaletteForYourPalate.
By Susie Kostaras, Content Editor
Image via Tealeaves #PaletteForYourPalate.
