Murder on the Dancefloor

 Well, it was only a matter of time before we gave this name to one of our home cocktails. Blood-red and made with a remarkable colour-changing gin, it’s now a fixture on our drinks board.\

Serves: 2

Ingredients

 

 100ml good-quality gin – we use Pink Marmalade, for its amazing, colour-changing properties

 Juice of ½ lemon or lime

 100ml cranberry juice

 1 tsp agave syrup – you may need a little more, depending on the sweetness of the cranberry juice

 2 lavender sprigs, to garnish (optional)

Directions

1. Fill a couple of martini glasses with ice and set aside to chill. Put plenty of ice in a cocktail shaker and throw in all the liquids. Pop on the lid and shake vigorously for 20 seconds – give it your all.

2. Throw out the ice from your now very cold glasses and strain the cocktail evenly into them. Top each with a lavender sprig, if you like, and drink immediately.

Recipe extracted from Love. Food. Family: Recipes from the Kitchen Disco, by Sophie Ellis-Bextor and Richard Jones, published yesterday by Octopus at £20. To order a copy for £17.40, go to guardianbookshop.com

Where to buy?

Whitley Neill Grapefruit Roz Gin 0.7L: https://www.finestore.ro/whitley-neill-grapefruit-roz-gin-07l