A Fantastic Fig and Vodka co*cktail Recipe (2024)

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Fig season is upon us, let's make a Fig and Vodka co*cktail with lemon and honey. Our fig-forward vodka co*cktail isn't cloyingly sweet at all, it's the perfect equation for a refreshing co*cktail when you want to beat the heat.

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The story behind our Fig and Vodka co*cktail recipe.

In all honesty, my eyes tend to be bigger than my stomach during fig season. Which means often times I am holding onto more figs than I know what to do with.

One year, in an effort not to let any figs go to waste I infused fresh figs into vodka. It was a summertime game changer! Now we do this every year so that we can make these beautiful vodka co*cktails with fig.

How to make fresh fig-infused vodka.

Fresh fig-infused vodka is easy to make, becomes the loveliest shade of pink, and tastes less like vodka and more like a bite of fresh fig.

Heavily aromatic with just a subtle sweetness, this simple DIY will most definitely result in you finding yourself a new signature vodka co*cktail this summer!

Click here to make fig-infused vodka at home.

Now that you know how to make fresh fig-infused vodka, you can whip up this delicious fig-laced vodka co*cktail anytime your heart, or taste buds, desire! At least, any time during fresh fig season, that is.

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If you love fresh figs you'll want to make these fig inspired recipes also!

I have created lots of recipes for the California Grown website that showcase figs. Here are a few of my all-time favorites that you have to try during fig season.

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This beautiful sipper is featured on California Grown and is the newest effervescent co*cktail recipe to come out of my kitchen. Honestly, it just might be the G.O.A.T.!

This delightful drink is the perfect recipe for fig season. It’s not overly sweet and is delightfully delicate on the palette.

**Click here to see this fig co*cktail recipe on California Grown!**

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Click here to see this fig recipe on California Grown!

Baked Oatmeal Fig Stuffed Pears

Get ready to really wow your family with this recipe for fig stuffed pears!

These tender baked pears have a surprise hidden underneath the baked oatmeal top, a perfectly roasted fig half! The sweet aromatic flavors of pear and fig are a perfect compliment for each other in this new take on a recipe for baked oatmeal.

Click here for this fresh fig recipe!

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This crème brûlée recipe is rich, decadent, and easy to make! It is reminiscent of the fruit-on-the-bottom yogurt cups you loved as a kid, but with a mature dessert spin for your sophisticated adult palate.

Click here for this fresh fig recipe!

If you’ve made this Fig and Vodka co*cktail I would be so grateful if you wouldrate the recipe and let me know what you think in the comments below!

Fig and Vodka co*cktail Recipe with Lemon and Honey

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This fig forward vodka co*cktail isn't cloyingly sweet at all, its the perfect equation for a refreshing co*cktail when you want to beat the heat.

Ingredients

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2 ounces fig infused vodka

1 tablespoon honey

1 lemon wedge

ice

lemon-lime soda

Garnish with a skewered dried fig half if desired.

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Instructions

Add the fig infused vodka to the bottom of the serving glass. Add the honey then squeeze in the juice of the lemon wedge and add the wedge to the glass as well. Stir to mix the flavors together, the honey will not dissolve completely at this point.

Add ice to the glass. Fill to the top with lemon-lime flavored soda. Stir again, garnish with a skewered half of a dried fig, if desired. Serve immediately.

Nutrition

Serving Size: 1 drink
Calories: 432
Sugar: 70.8 g
Sodium: 15.4 mg
Fat: 0.8 g
Carbohydrates: 78.6 g
Protein: 2.1 g
Cholesterol: 0 mg

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Marsha says
October 05, 2023 at 1:16 am
Hi, Love the idea. And infusing those fresh figs is a great way to have that bright beautiful flavor year round.
However, the honey situation can be easily remedied with making a quick 'syrup' before adding ice. 2 parts honey, 1 part warm water, stir a few times to dissolve. Viola. Now its ready to use in a co*cktail. Make enough for 1 serving, or to make several co*cktails. The 'honey syrup' can now be stored in the fridge for one month.
Why lemon/lime soda with all those chemicals and artificial fake flavored ingredients? Just squeeze a bit of lime with the already incl lemon juice. And use club soda instead.
And the ice from your freezer automatic ice maker is such a let down. For multiple reasons : it tastes gross (any item in your freezer left open absorbs smells and flavors), it melts too quickly because of how it freezes with all those white air pockets watering down drinks, it looks terrible. Notice how craft bars use clear ice, its not just because its pretty.
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