Last Light

Name: Last Light
Yield: 1 cocktail
Cuisine: Mexican
Ingredients: 2 oz blanco tequila; 1 oz prickly pear syrup; 0.75 oz fresh lime juice; 0.75 oz agave nectar (2:1 agave to water)

Prickly pear does the colour and most of the body; lime and a clean blanco keep it from collapsing into syrup. The name is the colour: that short window when the desert goes magenta.

4 ingredients5 minutesRocksEdible pink orchid

Ingredients

2 oz blanco tequila

1 oz prickly pear syrup

0.75 oz fresh lime juice

0.75 oz agave nectar (2:1 agave to water)

Method

Add all ingredients to a shaker with ice.
Shake until well chilled.
Strain over fresh ice in a rocks glass.
Float an edible pink orchid on the surface.

Panel note

An ounce of prickly pear syrup and three quarters of agave is two sweeteners doing one job. If your syrup is already sweetened rather than a fresh tuna puree, drop the agave to half an ounce and taste before you pour.