Need a yummy (and easy) cocktail idea to celebrate Mom this weekend? Give this raspberry Gin & Jam a try! It’s a gin forward drink, complemented nicely by lemon juice, sweetened up with a little simple syrup, and kissed with just a hint of raspberry flavor thanks to the jam. The jam is an ingenious cocktail hack, to be honest. Definitely worth shaking one up this weekend!

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Ingredients and Substitutions

Here’s what you’ll need to recreate this Gin and Jam cocktail at home!

Gin – Kind of self explanatory, but gin is the core ingredient of this drink. Be sure to pick one that you enjoy! I have several that I enjoy and they’ll all work great here – Plymouth, Ford’s, St. George’s Botanivore, Barr Hill, The Botanist, Empress…the list goes on!
Lemon juice – Fresh is always best when it comes to cocktails, so grab a few lemons and give them a quick juice. Lime juice could also work if you opt for a jam like raspberry or blackberry.
Simple syrup – You need just a bit of simple syrup to take the edge off the gin and lemon juice and round out the balance of this cocktail without going overboard with the jam.
Jam – Another no-brainer ingredient for this cocktail. I really love this one with raspberry jam, but other flavors like strawberry or blackberry would work too! If the jam you’re using has a lot of seeds, be sure to double strain after shaking it to get them all out using a mesh strainer like this.