Sunday 7 July 2013

Celebrating the start of the summer with Pom Wonderful Cocktails !


Earlier in the week, a couple of bottles of Pom Wonderful arrived at The Madhouse, which has been the source of some unexpected hilarity. First, the shape of the bottle totally wowed everyone. Sophie thought it looked like a totem pole, Juliette said it reminded her of The Very Hungry Caterpillar and Pierre raised a giggle by saying it looked like a load of balls. Ahem ! Then our bilingual upbringing caused a bit of confusion. Juliette took a sip, pulled a funny face and said it didn't taste at all like apple ! After explaining that it was pom for pomegranate and not pomme, we were all ready to get busy with the fab cocktail kit that we had received along with the vouchers for the bottles of Pom Wonderful !


Just look at this little lot : glasses, a shaker and stirrers, even a funky heart-shaped ice cube tray. Not to mention the all important recipe ideas. I thought I'd share a few here so that you can try them too.


Pink Lady

Ingredients

20ml POM Wonderful 100% Pomegranate Juice
50ml Gin
10ml POM Syrup*
20ml Lemon Juice
1 Egg White

Glassware: Martini
Garnish: Pomegranate arils

Preparation

- Crack an egg and separate the egg white into a glass
- Add the pomegranate juice, gin, POM syrup, lemon juice and shake with ice
- Strain into a chilled martini glass
- Garnish with a couple of pomegranate arils

This recipe is perfect for… impressing friends and family, summer dinner parties, summer events!

*For the POM Syrup recipe and more delicious cocktails visit www.pomcocktails.co.uk.


POM Bramble

Ingredients

POM Wonderful Pomegranate Blueberry 100% Juice
50ml Gin
12.5ml POM Syrup*
A drizzle of Cassis
25ml Lemon Juice

Glassware: Rocks glass
Garnish: Pomegranate arils and blueberries

Preparation

- Fill a glass with ice (this is not the serving glass so a Collins or highball glass will be fine)
- Add the Pomegranate and Blueberry Juice, Gin, POM syrup, lemon juice and shake
- Fill your rocks glass with ice and strain in the liquid
- Top with crushed ice and drizzle Cassis over the top
- Garnish with pomegranate arils and blueberries

This cocktail is perfect to cool you down on a hot day!


POM Royale

Ingredients

20ml POM Wonderful Pomegranate Blueberry 100% juice
Chilled Non-alcoholic Cider (or sparkling apple juice) to top
10ml Lemon Juice
10ml Elderflower Cordial

Glassware: Champagne Flute
Garnish: Pomegranate arils and blueberries

Preparation

- Add the Pomegranate and blueberry juice, lemon juice, elderflower cordial and ice to a glass and shake
- Double strain into a champagne flute and top with cider
- Garnish with pomegranate arils and a blueberry

This recipe is also great with champagne, prosecco or a high quality apple cider.

This recipe is perfect for summer celebrations!!


One for the kids : Apple and Ginger POM (Non-Alcoholic)

Ingredients

50ml POM Wonderful 100% Pomegranate Juice
50ml ginger ale
Quarter fresh apple
1 nail of ginger
2 lime wedges

Glassware: Collins or highball
Garnish: Apple Fan

Preparation

- Muddle the ginger, apple and lime in a shaker
- Add POM Wonderful 100% Pomegranate Juice and shake with ice
- Double strain into an ice-filled glass and top with ginger ale
- Garnish with an apple fan

For an alcoholic version this recipe works great with Whiskey.

This cocktail is the perfect summer refresher!



Well, I tried the Pink Lady which was very nice indeed - although I must admit I wimped out and didn't use the egg white because I didn't fancy having that floating about in my glass !

Fancy having a go yourself? Look out for my giveaway coming right up where you can win some vouchers to try out Pom Wonderful and maybe sample a few of the cocktails !

For more delicious cocktails visit www.pomcocktails.co.uk

Disclosure : I received a cocktail kit and some vouchers for Pom Wonderful in order to try out the cocktail recipes.

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5 comments:

  1. They all look fantastic! Lucky you! Enjoy

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  2. Looks like you had fun making the cocktails and getting merry!
    Love the bottle shape.

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  4. Some gorgeous summer cocktail recipes! Love the sound of the Pom Royale - bet it tastes delicious x

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  5. They all sounds pretty good, but I must admit I think I would wimp out on the egg white as well! lol

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