Bourbon & Peach Smash Cocktail Recipe - Debbi Peek

• 1⁄4 cup fresh diced ginger
• 1⁄4 cup sugar
• 1⁄2 large white peach, peeled, pitted and diced
• 8 to 10 mint leaves
• 1 ounce simple syrup
• 1 ounce fresh-squeezed lemon juice
• 2 ounces Maker's Mark
• Ice
• Peach slice (for garnish)

• Mint blossoms (for garnish, optional)

1. Make the ginger purée: In a blender, purée the ginger, sugar and 1⁄4 cup water until smooth.
2. Make the cocktail: In the bottom of a cocktail shaker, muddle the peach, mint leaves and 3⁄4 ounce of the ginger purée until it has the consistency of a rough purée. Add the simple syrup, lemon juice and bourbon, fill with ice and shake vigorously. Strain into a rocks glass filled with ice, garnish with a peach slice and mint blossoms (if using), and serve.