The Espresso Martino

Serves 1

— 50ml Seedlip Spice 94 — 50ml Sandows Cold Brew

Concentrate

— 15ml sugar syrup (equal parts hot water and caster sugar, heated until dissolved, then left to cool) —ice

— 3 coffee beans

Place the Seedlip, cold-brew coffee concentrate and sugar syrup in a cocktail shaker, add ice and shake.

Double strain into a coupe glass, and top with the coffee beans.

Rudolph’s Martini (opposite)

Serves 1

For the Red Nose Shrub (makes enough for approximately 5 servings) — 1 punnet raspberries

(about 250g)

— 10 thyme sprigs

— 250g caster sugar — 250ml apple-cider vinegar

For the cold camomile tea (makes enough for

6-8 servings)

— 2 camomile teabags

To serve

—ice

— 15ml cherry cordial — cranberry, to garnish

Place the shrub ingredients in a one-litre Mason jar and muddle with a cocktail muddler or rolling pin (press down and give a few gentle twists). Screw on the lid, give it a shake and leave overnight. Strain through a fine strainer the next day.

Cover the teabags with hot water in a mug and stir well. Leave in the fridge for two hours, then strain.

To serve, add ice to a mixing jug or glass, pour in 60ml of the shrub, 10ml of the cold camomile tea and the cherry cordial, and stir. Strain into a vintage cocktail glass and garnish with a cranberry on a cocktail stick.

Sober Santa

Makes 5

A Christmas Eve shrub to serve with a mince pie.

— 1 orange

— 2 tbsp maple syrup — 50ml ginger juice

— 1 tsp loose-leaf lapsang

souchong tea

— 1 tsp ground coffee

— ½ tsp vanilla extract — 100g caster sugar — 100ml white-wine vinegar — ice, to serve

Remove the peel from the orange and place the peel and the whole orange in a 500ml mason jar with all the rest of the ingredients except the ice. Muddle them together (pressing down and giving a few gentle twists) using a cocktail muddler or rolling pin.

Screw on the lid and shake well, then leave overnight. Strain through a fine strainer the next day.to serve, pour 50ml per person over ice in a rocks glass.

Stocking Vanilla

Serves 1

—ice

— 50ml Seedlip Spice 94 — 10ml vanilla syrup — Fever Tree soda water — slice of green apple

Fill a highball glass with ice, add the Seedlip and vanilla syrup, then top up with soda water.

Garnish with a slice of green apple.