Blood Moon Halloween Cocktail | Made with Rock Sugar Syrup

This is a Halloween party drink that changes colour in the glass. It starts jet black and finishes with a band of blood red.

Food-grade bamboo charcoal turns the shaken base black. Hibiscus tea poured in last brings the red.

Made with Ship Brand Rock Sugar Syrup, 380g
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The sugar

Rock Sugar Syrup (冰糖漿) is a clear golden syrup made from rock sugar, ready to pour.

Granulated sugar struggles to dissolve in a cold shaker. A syrup mixes in at once. Rock sugar syrup has a mild, clean sweetness that rounds off the liqueur and the tart lemon without masking the fruit.

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What makes it work

Use only a little charcoal powder. A small amount is enough to turn the drink fully black.

Fill the serving glass with ice before you strain the drink in. Pour the hibiscus tea slowly at the end so it spreads through the top of the glass instead of mixing straight in.

Recipe

Blood Moon Halloween Cocktail

Ingredients

• Orange liqueur 40ml
• Apple juice 30ml
• Ship Brand Rock Sugar Syrup, to taste
• Lemon juice, a squeeze
• Food-grade bamboo charcoal powder, a pinch
• Ice
• Soda water
• Hibiscus (roselle) tea

Method

1. Pour the orange liqueur and apple juice into a shaker.
2. Add rock sugar syrup to taste.
3. Add the lemon juice and a pinch of bamboo charcoal powder.
4. Add ice and shake well.
5. Fill a tall glass with ice.
6. Strain the black mixture into the glass.
7. Top up with soda water.
8. Pour the hibiscus tea in slowly.
9. Add a straw with a paper bat.

Closing

Black at the bottom, red at the top, and a bat on the straw. For adults only; please drink responsibly.

Ship Brand (帆船牌) is the retail line of Yuen Tung Sugar Factory Industrial Company Limited. Sugar refined in Hong Kong since 1987. Shop Rock Sugar Syrup.