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Boozy fruit pastilles launched in UK
British confectioner Smith & Sinclair has launched a six-strong range of alcoholic fruit pastilles aiming to mimic the flavours of popular cocktails.
Blurring the lines between food and drink, the sweets are hand made using “high quality spirits, fresh fruit and spices”.
Using rum, gin and whisky as a base, cocktail flavours include the Mixed Berry Daiquiri; Spiced Rum; Spring Clean, featuring gin, elderflower and thyme; and Gin & Tonic, made with violet-infused gin and boasting a lemon sherbet coating.
The Cake Icing meanwhile, features whisky and amaretto, while the Whisky Sour has a grapefruit twist.
Each cocktail recipe has been deconstructed and reconfigured through a cooking process that ensures the minimal alcohol is burnt off, resulting in an alcoholic kick – a box of six pastilles contains 2.6 units of alcohol.
The range of gluten and dairy free pastilles makes its debut tomorrow at Harvey Nichols stores across the UK, with boxes of six pastilles costing £8.95 a pop.
Smith & Sinclair was founded by entrepreneur Melanie Goldsmith and chef Emile Bernard. Prior to Harvey Nichols, the sweets were trialed at Secret Cinema and Taste of London.
I can’t believe ideas like this get past the drawing board.
How can blurring the line between sweets (targeted at children) and drink/cocktails (for adults, hopefully) be anything other than a terrible idea?
Drink (generally) is the new ‘tobacco’, in terms of being a target for politicians and other ne’er do wells, so these sweets are only more ammunition to the anti-drink lobbyists.
Unbelievably bad idea.
I totally agree with Neil Bruce. This is a very bad and irresponsible idea.
What a load of rubbish Neil Bruce and John Lea. Perhaps sweets should stop being targeted at children what with the growing numbers of childhood obesity and leave eating sweets to adults. Don’t tell me, you object to liquor chocolates too because chocolate is targeted to children too – get real!
Would do love to try these I saw these on James martin’s home comforts. How can I purchase them?