Sparkling Sugar Plum Martini Recipe (2024)

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What pairs well with sugar plum? ›

Create a colorful and flavorful fruit salad by combining sugar plums with other fresh fruits such as strawberries, kiwi, and pineapple. This refreshing dish is perfect for a light and healthy dessert or a side dish for any meal. The natural sweetness of the sugar plums will complement the other fruits beautifully.

Serve classically with tonic or lemonade, as part of a co*cktail, simply over ice, or mix with sparkling wine.

Rim a coup glass with a grapefruit wedge and dip into sugar. Fill a co*cktail shaker with ice and add gin, grapefruit juice, and Sparkling Ice Sugar Plum. Strain into a coup glass. Stir and garnish with sugared plum.

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Invented by Bond in Ian Flemming's Casino Royale (1953). It's precisely made from “three measures of Gordon's [gin], one [part] of vodka, half a measure of Kina Lillet. Shake[en] very well until it's ice-cold” and then garnished by adding a large slice of lemon-peel, as told by Bond himself.

Sugar plums are a source of potassium to balance fluid levels within the body, vitamin C to strengthen the immune system while boosting collagen production within the skin, and calcium to build strong bones and teeth.

Well, they're not sugar-coated plums. Instead, a sugar plum is a piece of hard candy made of hardened sugar coating and a seed, nut, or spice, not a plum or another fruit. In fact, part of the name, "plum," refers to its small size and oval shape, not its taste.

Drink neat over ice, mix with your favourite tonic, we like Fever-Tree elderflower, add to a glass of prosecco, mix it up with ginger ale, or even serve warm!

Warm vanilla notes and lingering fruit notes in the finish. Delicious served over ice, topped up with sparkling wine or mixed with soda. It also makes a beautiful addition to a classic sour, the rich sweetness complemented perfectly by zesty lemon.

Tonic water is the quintessential gin mixer and a staple in the world of co*cktails. Its bitter and effervescent taste perfectly complements the botanical flavors of gin. The combination of gin and tonic water creates the classic and timeless drink, the gin and tonic.

Absinthe, is a distilled, anise-flavored spirit. Traditionally, the spirit is green from the inclusion of green anise, and this is where the nickname, "la fée verte" or “The Green Fairy” comes from.

Why is it called Sugar Plum Fairy? ›

Now that we know the sugar plum became an understood symbol for all things sumptuous and saccharine, it's clear why Tchaikovsky appointed the Sugar Plum Fairy as ruler over the Land of Sweets. She is the physical embodiment of joy and compassion – a personification of the sugar plum.

Shaking is also said to dissolve the vermouth better, making it less oily tasting. Properly called a Bradford, a shaken martini also appears cloudier than when stirred. This is caused by the small fragments of ice present in a shaken martini. This also brings into question the movie versions, which are never cloudy.

The martini is a co*cktail made with gin and vermouth, and garnished with an olive or a lemon twist. Over the years, the martini has become one of the best-known mixed alcoholic beverages. A variation, the vodka martini, uses vodka instead of gin for the co*cktail's base spirit.

Plum and green are opposites on the color wheel making them perfect complements of one another. Try pairing plum with sage greens and slate grays for a lush yet understated color palette. Plum also works well with it's two halves, purple and red, for a beautiful berry look.