Tonka Sour

Recipe by Timo Wessels | Updated on 25. December 2022

The Tonka Sour combines everything that fits for a dessert. Tonka meets Vanilla and Lemon. The sour strawberry dust let it taste like a piece of cake!

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Ingredients

  • 40ml Tonka Gin (gin)
  • 10ml Giffard Vanille De Madagascar (vanilla liqueur)
  • 3drop Ms Betters Orange Tree Bitters (orange bitters)
  • 20ml Simple Syrup (sugar syrup)
  • 30ml (citrus juice)
  • 30ml Egg White Pasteurized (egg white)
Glassware:
Rocks
Technique:
Garnish:

1x strawberry dust

Mixing Instructions

  1. Combine all ingredients in the shaker tin or spindle mixer tin.
  2. Dry blend the ingredients in the blender for about 10 seconds. If you want to dry shake instead, do it for roughly 20 seconds.
  3. Add ice cubes.
  4. Strain into the prepared old-fashioned glass filled with ice cubes.
  5. Add your garnish.

Detailed Recipe Instructions

  1. Prepare your Mise en Place.
  2. Prepare your bottle setup.
  3. Chill the serving glass with either crushed ice or ice cubes. Or place it in a fridge or freezer.
  4. Prepare your garnish.
  5. Add all the ingredients (except the egg white !) into the taller part of the Tin-in-Tin shaker.
  6. Add the egg white into the mixer tin.
  7. Set the speed of the spindle mixer to the lowest setting. Othwerwise it might spill over very quick!
  8. Dry blend the ingredients in the blender for about 10 seconds. If you want to dry shake instead, do it for roughly 20 seconds.
  9. Add ice cubes into the shaker
  10. Shake for about 10 seconds.
  11. Take the chilled glass out of the fridge/freezer. If you used ice to chill the serving glass, remove everything from the glass.
  12. Add around 5 to 6 ice cubes into the serving glass.
  13. Strain into the serving glass.
  14. Add your garnish.
  15. Clean up your working station.

how to garnish

  • 1x strawberry dust, Sprinkle the dust over half a side of the glass.
Categories:
Dessert, Digestif, Modern
Ice:
ice cubes for shaking
ice cubes for the serving glass
Bar Equipment:
Tin Tin Shaker, Jigger, Spindle Mixer, Zest Peeler

Tin Tin Shaker
Jigger
Spindle Mixer
Zest Peeler

Flavour and Texture

Aroma:

strawberry, tonka bean, vanilla

Flavour:

lemon, tonka bean, vanilla

Texture:

clean, elegant, fresh

Table Of Contents

  • 5 min
140 ml = 1 potion