Pennywise Cocktail with an Edible Image Recipe
Pennywise Cocktail with an Edible Image Ingredients
2 oz / 60 ml Gin (I used Beefeater)
.5 oz / 15 ml Orange liqueur (I used Cointreau)
.5 oz / 15 ml Lemon juice, fresh
.5 oz / 15 ml Simple syrup
1 Egg white
1 Printed edible image, sized to your glass
How to make a Pennywise Cocktail with an Edible Image
Add the gin, orange liqueur, lemon juice, simple syrup, and egg white to a shaker with no ice. Dry shake hard to build the foam.
Add ice and shake again until cold.
Double strain into a chilled coupe and let it sit a moment for the foam to set and separate.
Fill the glass close to the rim before you place the image. The shorter the drop, the cleaner it lands.
Peel the edible image off its plastic backing, hold it flat, and lower it onto the foam in one motion with every edge level with the surface.
Underneath the clown, this is a White Lady: gin, orange liqueur, lemon, and an egg white. It belongs to the daisy family, where a liqueur does the sweetening instead of syrup, which puts it alongside the sidecar and the margarita. The one change from the buzz button version is half an ounce of simple syrup. That version tasted thin, and the syrup gives the foam something to hold onto. Credit to Anders Erickson, who adds it to his.
The Halloween part is a printed edible image sitting on the foam. It is sugar paper printed with edible ink, the same thing cake decorators use. You can buy the paper and cartridges and print at home, but a local cake supply shop will print a sheet for around thirteen dollars and save you the trouble. Ours came from Sugarbaker's Supplies here in Knoxville. Measure your glass first and have the images printed to match. A few things learned the hard way: lower the disc evenly and flat, because a corner that dips below the surface dissolves before the rest lands. Fill the glass to the very top so there is no distance to drop it. Darker inks can bleed a faint halo at the edges, and photographs that run all the way to the edge hide that better than line art on white. The image holds up for several sips before it gives way where your mouth touches it.
