Hot Cross Bun Cocktails
Tammi Kwok
If you like your hot cross buns, why not try them in cocktail form! These involve a simple spice-infused alcohol, and some fruit juice, and served in a fun hollow chocolate egg. Because chocolate makes everything better!
- For the spiced vodka infusion
- 350 ml good quality vodka I used Fair Quinoa Vodka*
- 1 stick cinnamon quill
- 1 tsp grated nutmeg
- 5 cloves
- 1 vanilla bean scraped**
- 2 tsp Sultanas
- 2 tsp Dried Cranberries
- 4 pieces crystallised ginger
For the cocktail
- 700 ml orange juice
- 700 ml cloudy apple juice
- 24 Hollow Chocolate Eggs
To make the cocktail
Add one part infused vodka (or more if you like a stronger spice flavour), with two parts orange juice and two parts cloudy apple juice.
Shake or stir to combine.
Using a knife warmed in hot water, carefully cut the tops off your hollow eggs, and pour the cocktail into the egg. Do whatever you'd like with the removed tops - I ate all of mine!
*Dan Murphy's very generously provided Fair Quinoa Vodka, which is also the first fair trade vodka to hit Australian stores. I also like it for it's slight nutty notes, and a clean finish. It's important that the spices shine in this cocktail, and a good quality vodka is really the way to go! This vodka is exclusively available in Australia at Dan Murphy's.
**The vanilla pods provide plenty of flavour, so no point wasting the precious seeds that are in them! Scrape them out and save them to use in another recipe.