Girlhood
Girlhood in a glass 🎀
One of my biggest flexes is having best friends of 30+ years, the kind of friendship that has seen every version of you and stayed. From running around as kids to now watching both of my besties happily married and building their beautiful lives in different countries, what a blessing to witness every chapter together.
When I was in high school, Christy once wrote me a letter saying, “Without a boyfriend I might be just fine, but without my best friend, I would literally die.” To this day, I still think that’s the funniest and cutest thing ever written about friendship.
The bond between women, and the quiet knowing that you will always have each other’s back, is one of the most precious things in life to me.
So here’s to girlhood, and to growing old together… but never apart. 🥂
Desolas Mezcal, Nixta liqueur, lime juice, grapefruit soda, Grapefruit oil, Light caramelized sauce, heavy cream, milk, sea salt, rose water, magic foam.
Edible butterfly - Flour, sugar, butter, egg white
Garnish - Edible Butterfly Recipe
00 flour 10g
Powdered sugar 10g
Unsalted butter 10g
Egg white 10g
1 tsp of dragon fruit powder
2 drops of ube extract
2 drops of red food coloring
You should end up with a burgundy colored paste. Use a spreader to apply it onto the butterfly mold, then bake at 310°F for 6 minutes.
When you take it out, it’s super hot, and you only have a short time to mold and bend the butterfly’s shape. I leave it on the hot tray to buy a couple more seconds. Right after you take it out, it’s soft and bendable just place it on any surface that can help maintain the shape.
(early batch when I was trying out lighter color)
Foam - Sweet and Nostalgic - Light caramel rose recipe
Light Caramel Sauce 80g
100g Heavy cream
50g sugar + 12.5g water
Boil the sugar and water until it reaches 115–120°C. Don’t let it reach the hard crack stage, I like to keep the sauce lighter in color, so I stop before it fully turns brown.
Warm up heavy cream, do not let it boil
Pour heavy cream into the sugar pot, make sure to use a deep sauce pan so the sauce doesn’t over spill
The color should look like this
Once the caramel sauce is cooled down a bit, combine 80g of light caramel sauce with the following
50g milk
1.5g sea salt
10g rose water
magic foam 1.1g
Color adjust with dragonfruit powder, I just eyeball it till it turns to pink color and pour over a filter into the whip cream dispenser (filter out the little clumps of dragonfruit powder)
1 N20 charger, yes 1 not 2. This is what it looks like when you use 2 chargers, and I don’t like this texture at all
Bridge - Express grapefruit peel
A easy tip to connect the foam and base.
Lemon oil has a tartness, but grapefruit oil brightens the flavor without it.
Express grapefruit peel over the base before topping with the foam.
Spirit - Brand symbol and flavor profile
I often get asked how I pick the spirit for a drink? It depends, but most of the time the story or feeling comes first then comes the spirit that matches it.
For this drink, while I was wondering what spirit to incorporate, Desolas messaged me at the perfect time. They’re female-owned, and when I looked up what their brand stands for and their flavor profile, I just knew, this is the perfect spirit for Girlhood.
The name Desolas is a word inspired by the sun, positivity, light, warmth and illumination.
This is not your typical Mezcal that’s heavily smoky, it’s botanical and bright, with a fresh floral aroma and just a whisper of smoke.
For me, it’s the perfect spirit for Girlhood.
Thank you Desolas for sending me the bottle :)
Base - Warm and Cozy - Mezcal and Corn recipe
Initially, I thought about making a tea-based mezcal cocktail to mimic the 綠蓋茶 (green tea with cream foam) flavor, which I felt would pair beautifully with the light caramel foam plus it’s nostalgic
But it looked horrendous. No amount of color adjusting could make it look the way I’d envisioned.
Pivot to full on floral ingredients to make it very feminine but it end up tasting like a perfume bottle in a glass.
I’m glad I switch to corn liqueur, it made the base tasted warm and cozy.
Recipe here:
1.5oz Mezcal
0.5oz Nixta corn liqueur
0.25oz lime juice
Shake and then top with 1oz of grapefruit soda
