Although there are relatively few ingredients in this Valentine’s Day floradora cocktail, there are a variety of ways in which this recipe can be adapted to suit your needs or preferences. If you do not have raspberry gin, this floradora cocktail can similarly be made with a mixture of straight gin and raspberry syrup. Or, for a more alcoholic kick, why not use a mixture of gin and Chambord? To make this a virgin cocktail, you can omit the gin entirely and simply mix up the drink using raspberry syrup, rose water, lime juice, and ginger ale.
While the floradora is classically a raspberry-based drink, if raspberry isn’t your thing or you don’t have any raspberry-based ingredients, it is possible to use different flavored gins to add different finishes to the drink. To give this drink more of a kick, you can swap out the ginger ale for a more fiery ginger beer. Finally, if you get back from the supermarket and realize you forgot the limes, don’t worry — lemon juice makes a good replacement and adds that citrusy zing.
