Cocktails

This is my absolute favorite craft cocktail to make! It is always a crowd pleaser and is perfect for smaller dinner parties, so you can customize the spice level to each person’s liking. The strawberry basil infused vodka paired with the muddled jalapeños create a delicious sweetness with a little kick that is sure to get everyone asking for more!

I particularly like making these for date nights at home. They are the perfect cocktail to enjoy while sitting on the patio enjoying the Dallas skyline or just enjoying the cool breeze.

The base of this cocktail is jalapeño and lime, however, you can sweeten it up by using a strawberry basil infused vodka (my personal favorite!) rather than plain vodka. Or if you really want to bring an extra kick to your cocktail, you can use a jalapeño infused vodka!

My boyfriend and I recently discovered a spicy jalapeño vodka drink at a local restaurant, and we have been determined to learn how to recreate it so we can serve it at our own dinner parties. It has been so much fun experimenting with different types of ingredients and really transforming this cocktail into our own. We messed around with different jalapeño muddling techniques and adding different types of peppers, but what finally really made the difference was infusing the vodka with jalapeños.

Since this little experiment, we have been infusing vodka with all different types of fruits, peppers, and spices to give our own unique spin to some of our favorite cocktails.

We used to go to cocktail bars and read the cocktail menus and think there was no way that we could reconfigure these drinks at home since most of them involved self-infused vodkas. Infusing liquor seemed so formal and fancy to me that I didn’t think it was something we could easily do…but boy was I wrong! Infusing vodka is seriously so simple and just involves 5-10 minute prep time and a few days of infusion…then voila…you have your own personally infused vodka that will last for years! (or minutes since it’s so tasty!)

Infusing vodka involves just a few easy steps:

Strawberry Basil and Jalapeño Infused Vodka Cocktail

How to Infuse Vodka!