Tom Collins Cocktail
This Tom Collins recipe is the best! Tom Collins cocktails are made with gin, lemon, club soda and simple syrup. They're delightfully fizzy, delicious and refreshing. Recipe yields 1 cocktail, so multiply as needed (you can mix several at once in a cocktail shaker).
Foto: Cookie and Kate — Cookie and KateIngredients
- Ice
- 2 ounces gin*
- 1 ounce lemon juice
- ½ ounce simple syrup, recipe below
- Club soda or sparkling water (I like Topo Chico)
- 1 lemon round or ½ orange round, for garnish
- 1 Luxardo cherry or other cocktail cherry, for garnish
- ¼ cup sugar (traditional) or honey (my favorite)
- ¼ cup water
Steps
To make the simple syrup: Combine the sugar (or honey) and water in a small saucepan. Warm over medium heat, whisking occasionally, just until the sweetener has fully dissolved into the water. Remove the pot from the heat and set it aside to cool.
To make a cocktail: Fill a cocktail shaker with ice. Pour in the gin, lemon juice and simple syrup. Shake for 20 to 30 seconds, until the outside of the shaker is really cold.
Fill a Collins (tall) glass with ice. Strain the contents of the shaker into the glass. Fill the rest of the glass with club soda, and give it a gentle stir with a spoon.
Garnish with a lemon round or ½ of an orange round, plus a cocktail cherry. Enjoy.
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