How To Make Persian Love Cake Into A Cocktail

I'm going to show you how to make Persian Love Cake into a cocktail and also show you how to make pistachio orgeat.

The Persian Love Cake is such a beautiful combination of aromatic flavors, it was just begging to be turned into a cocktail. Spoiler Alert- it tuned out amazing- likely due to this silky smooth Pistachio, Rose and cardamom orgeat. I used Dave Arnold’s any nut orgeat recipe with a few substitutions to create this orgeat.

Pistachio, Rose and Cardamom Orgeat:
50g pistachios- shelled with skins removed
195g hot water
2 cardamom pods
40 drops of rose water
.4g gum arabic
.09g xanthan gum
165g sugar

Soak the pistachios in cold water for 5 minutes.
Drain and soak for another 5 minutes in hot water.
Once skins easily slip off, drain pistachios and remove the skins one by one.
Add the pistachios to a blender with hot water with the seeds from 2 cardamom pods and blend on high for one minute.
Pour mixture into nut milk bad and squeeze out the liquid.
While the pistachio cardamom mil is still hot, add to a clean blender with rose water, and sugar and blend on medium. Add gums while blender is running and let it run for a minute and a half.
Pour orgeat into a jar and label it. This should keep for around 3 weeks in the refrigerator

Persian love cocktail:
1.5 oz Pistachio Rose and Cardamom orgeat
1.25 oz Dorothy Parker Gin - or any floral gin of your choosing
.5 oz Disaronno or almond liqueur of your choosing
.5 lemon juice
5 drops saline

Shake without ice to combine.
Dust your frozen serving glass with dehydrated pomegranate power using rose water to help power adhere.
Pour cocktail into dusted glass filled with crushed ice.

Timestamps:

0:00 - Intro
1:48 - How To Make Pistachio Orgeat
4:25 - Pomegranate Powdering the Glass
5:10 - Building the Cocktail
6:12 - Tasting Notes

My Cocktail Gear:

Shaker Tins, Jigger & Spoon

Rose Water

Bamboo straw

Snifter Glass

Manual Juicer

Copper Strainer

Ice Crusher

Pomegranate Powder

Atomizer

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[TheWeePearl]

I'm going to make a channel just for cake-tails

[kazushi]

As a Persian, I'm really proud of you making this cocktail. Our regime has almost blown away our true heritage and roots. I'll be making this cocktail as soon as i can :). How this video only has 783 views is just shocking. Lets keep liking and subscribing people!

[قناةماماوشذى]

Good momjng شكرا جزيلا ربنا يوفقك ويسعدك يارب ويوفقنا جميعا يارب

[boozeontherocks]

i would love one of those cakes, ad your cocktail recipe looks great.

[persiancocktaildrinksrecip]

Wow, I love the story, makes the drink interesting 👏 👏

[johnbelew]

One of your best food to cocktail videos yet, in my opinion. Great creativity!

[brendancurtin]

I’d prob put a little bit of ice in the shaker just to help aerate the citrus. A quick whip shake would be enough. Other than that it looks freaking amazing. I’m definitely going to make that pistachio orgeat. Then I’ll have to try out this drink. I may not decorate the glass like you did, but it looks pretty sweet, I’ll give you that. I’d say that was definitely a cocktail made with love (or at least a ton of work!!)

[yasmeenjones]

I would love to see a zero proof version. Your videos are awesome. Thanks for sharing. 👍

[EllySpace]

Top production! I loved your recipe. That looks so yummy! Best wishes from Elly ❤️❤️❤️

[CoachVinoLLC]

First I’d like to try a Persian Love Cake. It’s looks absolutely delicious. Second, the cocktail looks and sounds so incredibly elegant. Pistachio Orgeat has my Spidey senses going off. Fantastic job as usual!!

[yummyreadygo]

very detail prep, and presentation. great show.
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[RobsHomeBar]

That cake looks amazing! ...and so does the drink!! I love the glass garnish! 😍

[TheSpiritoftheCocktail]

OMG!!!! This is gorgeous!! Pomegranate powder, that's genuis. This looks so tasty!!!

[FlourEggsYeast]

Absolutely love the care you took to craft the glass as well. Gorgeous. I think you could do a similar technique with a coconut cocktail because the glass reminds me of a real coconut. Great job as always. Super impressed. Theresa & Cam

[carl_busch]

Riley and I love Boston Cream Pie and we did a video on that but we would love to see your take on it.

[SaMiWi]

This is excellent! Been meaning to make different flavoured orgeats recently so here’s my excuse! Need to make that cake first though!

[carl_busch]

Oh I am 100% going to make that pistachio orgeat. Great recipe

[rzasha]

Another spectacular cake-tail!! Only thing that might make it better would be using real pistachios from Iran, the stuff from California just doesn't compare :)

[gabriellahsdancingheart]

Made your Orgeat tonight! I used 3 mini drops (from a mini pipette) of rose EO instead of rose water. That's how many it took for me to smell a hint of rose over the awesome cardamom!

I can hardly wait to make this complete drink for my hubs on our anniversary this week.
I'm having a hard time finding the Dorothy Parker. Is there another floral gin you'd recommend?

[BlackMoonGaming]

I tried this One, loved It, and being a cake made cocktail makes sense that Is :) but I think next time I'll try to up the gin to 1.5 ounces, drop the Orgeat to 1 ounce and increase the Lemon to 0.75 or 1 ounce Just to see how It changes the flavor changing the balance a bit :) .. anyway, your pistacchio Orgeat recepy Is fantastic :)