Giada's Limoncello Mint Spritzers

Total Time: 5 mins Preparation Time: 5 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 2 cups limoncello (italian lemon liqueur)
• coarsely crushed ice cube
• 1 cup fresh mint leaves
• 1 cup club soda
• muddle stick (or handle of wooden spoon)
• 1 lime, for garnish (optional)

Recipe

• 1 coarsely crush the ice cubes, then fill 4 tall skinny drink glasses halfway full with the ice.
• 2 add 1/4 cup mint leaves to each glass and, using a muddle stick or the handle of a wooden spoon, crush the mint leaves together with the ice (this is called "muddling").
• 3 add 1/2 cup limoncello to each glass, and stir.
• 4 add 1/4 cup of club soda to the top of each drink, and serve.
• 5 note: on the show, giada made her own limoncello from limes rather than from lemon, vodka, and simple syrup, with a week or marinating; if you can find a lime-based limoncello in the store, wonderful (we've only made it ourselves at home) - but otherwise you can use conventional limoncello.
• 6 also, you could quarter a lime and put each quarter on the edge of the glasses, so that guests could add a squeeze of lime juice into their spritzer.