Happy Cocktail Friday everybody!! Y’all I totally can’t believe I didn’t notice that Wednesday’s post was my 200th post, so we’re going to celebrate my 201st post instead today with some shots haha!!!
You guys, I’m loving these lemon drop shots, they’re darn tart because they’re full of fresh lemon juice, the mint adds serious freshness, the edge is taken off by the sugar, and you don’t even taste the vodka if that’s a concern of yours haha.
Speaking of sugar, I originally made these with regular granulated sugar, but soon realized that the sugar would not at all dissolve, so instead I used some simple syrup, which you can see how to make here…The simple syrup made all the difference in the world let me tell you, because these naughty little shots were making me pucker big time without the right amount of sugar added.
These would be so much fun to serve for the Super Bowl this Sunday, and this recipe can easily be doubled or tripled depending on how many you need. Have a wonderful weekend everybody and go whatever team you’re rooting for on Sunday–the Falcons aren’t in the game so I’m all whatevs haha.
Get all of that fresh lemon juice out…
place your lemon juice into your shaker or glass…
now your mint…
and your sugar (ignore that it’s not simple syrup, I used that later)…
now your vodka…
shake, shake, shake and enjoy!!!
- 6 Lemons, Juiced.
- 5 Tablespoons of Simple Syrup or Granulated Sugar.
- 6 Mint Leaves.
- 2 Shots of Vodka.
- White & Yellow Decorative Sugar For Rims (Optional).
- 5 Shot Glasses or 2 Martini Glasses.
- Using a handheld juicer, juice all of your lemons and set your juice aside.
- With a large glass or shaker, place your lemon juice, mint leaves, vodka and simple syrup and mix thoroughly, remove the mint leaves.
- If you are going to garnish your glass rims, place honey around the edges and dip the top of your glasses into your sugar and place your drink into your shot glasses and enjoy!!
- You can totally use lemon juice that's been pre-juiced, but the fresh juice really did taste wonderful and fresh