Black Orchid
I discovered this recipe in a digital list of drinks over 40,000 entries long. Admittedly, the name alone caught my eye, but it doesn't look half bad. I haven't attempted this yet, but I'm writing it down because I want to remember to try it.
Ingredients
Glassware: Cocktail Glass
1 oz. Light Rum
1 oz. Blue Curacao
1/2 oz. Cranberry Juice
1/2 oz. Grenadine
Splash 7up/Sprite
Instructions
Fill a shaker with ice and pour rum and curacao
Pour grenadine and cranberry juice
Splash 7up/Sprite
Shake at strain into a Cocktail Glass
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I tried this. I was pretty disappointed. It tastes like medicine.
But it is really pretty to make. I don't know about you, but I like to make my shaker drinks in a pint glass, and then throw the shaker over the top. I made this cocktail starting with the cranberry and grenadine. Then I poured the curacao and rum. Since alcohol is less dense than water, and since the pint glass was full of ice to break the impact of the second pour, I ended up with a nicely layered effect, bright red on the bottom and deep blue on the top. Shaking it made, as expected, a light purple.
It was a real shame that the end result was crap, since it turned out to be such a cool performer. I tried it with gin as well, but I think the problem is the cranberry/curucao mix. Oh well. Lesson learned.