A lanky angelica blossom also makes a good garnish for drinks made with Sambuca or Pernod.
Geraniums are peppery flowers that look great frozen in ice cubes. They make a nice garnish for a martini made with pepper vodka.
Geraniums are peppery flowers that look great frozen in ice cubes. They make a nice garnish for a martini made with pepper vodka.
Apple Blossoms are a really nice interesting garnish and like apples they are edible. They go well perched on the edge of a glass of brandy and of course you can sprinkle them on Apple Brown Betty’s or apple cake.
To give a glass rim an usual “frosting” try dipping the wetting the rim of a glass and dipping it in Jell-O powder.
Threading whole cranberries on a spears or toothpicks makes a nice garnish for a martini. You could also use these as swizzle sticks in crantinis or cosmopolitans.
For an unusual touch try freezing one or two pomegranate seeds in your ice cube trays. The tart seedy taste of pomegranates goes especially well with lime drinks and alcoholic drinks with gin or rum.
To add charm to a drink, alcoholic or not, that has pineapple in it try rimming the glass with finely flaked coconut for a unique effect.
The next time you are garnishing a cocktail or looking for a unique garnish for a punchbowl consider slicing a star fruit in thin slices. These thin star shapes look fantastic floating in a punch bowl. They also look nice perched on the rim of a cocktail glass.
Bee Balm is a pretty red little flower that looks pretty floating on top of a grasshopper or in a snifter of Grand Marnier.
For an unusual garnish for a martini stuff a big black olive with blue cheese and drop it to the bottom of the martini glass. This garnish especially suits drinks made with pepper-flavored vodka.
Carnation petals are one of secret ingredients that has been used to make Chartreuse, a French liqueur, since the 17th century. For this reason, they are the perfect garnish to decorate any drink made with chartreuse
Stop garnishing your drinks with maraschino cherries. For an authentic taste, garnish a Manhattan or martini with a real Queen Ann sour cherry which you can buy in red or white versions and which can still be purchased in specialty stores online.
One of the most glamorous garnishes you can use to garnish a glass of champagne or champagne cocktail is a real orange blossom. Although I don’t recommend eating the waxy petal it gives drinks a very elegant touch.
