The Pink Elephant Cocktail Recipe | Tasting Table
Prep Time:
5 minutes
Cook Time:
Servings:
1 cocktail
Ingredients
  • 1½ ounces Fords Gin
  • ½ ounce fresh lemon juice
  • ½ ounce pineapple syrup (2 parts sugar to 1 part pineapple juice, boiled to dissolve the sugar)
  • ½ ounce Bianco vermouth
  • 3 dashes orange bitters
  • Absinthe, as needed
  • Orange peel, for garnish
Directions
  1. Combine the gin, lemon juice, pineapple gum syrup, vermouth and orange bitters in a shaker and add ice.
  2. Pour a little bit of absinthe into a rocks glass.
  3. Shake the cocktail for about ten seconds.
  4. Using a match, light the absinthe in the glass and rotate it to coat the inside.
  5. Double strain the cocktail into the glass and garnish with the orange peel.