I’m always down for anything tropical. Tropical flavoured juice, tropical takes on recipes, the list goes on. So when Barker’s of Geraldine released two new and unique fruit flavour blends to its fruit syrups range, with one of them being Tropical I jumped at the chance to use the syrup in a cocktail. Both of the new Barker’s flavours use the natural sweetness of the stevia plant to sweeten the syrups but give them a not-too-sweet taste.
The new Lite Tropical is a blend of orange, pineapple and passionfruit, and has 46% less sugar than Barker’s Orange & Barley with Passionfruit and half the sugar of most cordials and other ready to drink fruit drinks currently available – great news right? Especially when paring it with alcohol in this case.
// Simple Lite Tropical Cocktail Recipe
1 part Lite Tropical
1 part Pear flavoured Vodka
6 parts Chilled Sparkling Water
Add all ingredients, in order, to a glass, garnish with ice and enjoy.
This cocktail is refreshing and so easy to make – perfect for a weeknight when you want something a little fancier than a glass of wine!
You could easily swap out the Pear Vodka, for your favourite fruit flavoured vodka or even standard vodka would go down a treat.
Laura xx
Oooh this looks so yum – we might have to give this a whirl for our next party!
Yes! I have another flavour of their syrups that I’m trying out this weekend 🙂 Can’t wait to share what I come up with
Yuuuummm! Love me some refreshing cocktails!
Thanks Christel! You should try the syrups out for sure! When I get home from work I usually make up a glass with just syrup+water for a super refreshing drink!
omg this looks SO SO GOOD! I wonder if we can get these syrups in Aussie! So far I’ve only found this Bickfords cloudy apple one which is delicious xx
Thanks Elese – Such an easy recipe for a great, delicious payoff!
You can (and you definitely should!) get these in Australia 🙂
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