Gin Cocktails
Breakfast Martini
Breakfast Martini Ingredients
2 oz. Tanqueray Gin
0.5 oz. Cointreau
0.5 oz. Fresh lemon juice
1 barspoon Orange marmalade
Garnish
Orange slice
Breakfast Martini Preparation
Combine all ingredients in a shaker and add ice. Shake hard. Fine strain into a coupe or stemmed cocktail glass. Garnish with an orange twist or orange wheel.
Breakfast Martini Cocktail Story
Falling into the unofficial genre of things that go into Martini glasses that are not Martinis, the Breakfast Martini deservedly stands out from many other fruity concoctions that find their way into oversized v-shaped glasses. Created around 1996 by veteran bartender Salvatore Calabrese at the Library Bar in London, the Breakfast Martini revolves around the bright, bitter, and jammy qualities of an orange marmalade you might have over toast for breakfast. By incorporating a citrus-forward dry gin and Cointreau along with fresh lemon juice, Calabrese created a modern eye opener: a widely appealing, balanced cocktail that was meant to be imbibed with breakfast.