French Kiss Cocktail

French Kiss cocktail garnish & serving tips

Serve our starlet in a chilled coupe or cocktail glass, icy cold preferably if you can. Stash it in the freezer for an hour or two or pop a few ice cubes along with a little water to chill the glass quickly before tipping it out to serve. 

For all the garnish glam, cut ever so thin slices of orange in half. Roll it up, poke a cocktail skewer through and balance it over the top of the glass. A cinnamon stick straight into the glass for extra spice 

Customise your Kiss cocktail

Here are a few fun ways in which you can customise the French Kiss drink to suit your own preferences, or those of some adventurous guests:  

Swap out the vodka for gin

Don’t have vodka around the house? Go for a London Dry Gin. We actually love the way the herbaceous notes of a nice gin overlay with the spicy notes from the anise-based liqueur.  

Try a different liqueur

Anise seed is quite a strong flavour, and often an acquired taste, so you might also consider using a different liqueur to build your own cocktail. Something like Grand Marnier will work a treat. Just be sure to taste test the liqueur alongside your other ingredients if you are planning to swap out more than one component to check that the flavours go together.  

Use another kind of juice

If you aren’t all that partial to a citrus-based drink but would still like to give the French Kiss a go, try using a different fruit juice instead. Pineapple juice and apple juice could both work well, especially when freshly squeezed or pressed. In fact, you could even push out the boat and try something novel like kombucha, although this will also impart some fizziness to the drink and change it up even more.