It’s been a week of blue and orange, and walking like our feet don’t touch the ground. KNICKS IN FIVE, PEOPLE! THEY DID IT!!!!
We are still floating on air like a three-point swoosh.
So when we got a glimpse of One Trick Pony’s Instagram last week with an orange-hued cocktail topped with a blue orchid and the caption, “Our horse’s name is Knickerbocker” we kind of went ‘bocker bonkers. What was this drink and how do we make it?!
Shelly Lynch-Sparks and Candice Huffine, owners of the pretty pony that goes from popular café by day to an even more popular bar at night on the corner of Main Street and Mitchell Road in Westhampton Beach, were kind enough to share the recipe.
During the week of playoffs, they were playfully calling it the Knickerbocker, which resident barman Mike Fehn was shaking up like Spurs’ nerves, but the drink is an homage to the beachy memories of Huffine.
“This drink is inspired by the Orange Crush’s found on the Eastern Shore of Maryland that were the epitome of summer in my young adult life,” she says. “The Crush is a part of the DNA of every Marylander’s summer and is the ultimate seasonal drink, in our humble opinion). Cocktail maestro Mike Fehn knew how I longed to get a Crush of our own on the menu this season and elevated it to new levels.”
A fairly easy but oh-so sunset pretty drink, if you can’t get a seat at the bar at One Trick (pro-trip: Go early!) in order for Fehn to shake one up, he’s been kind of enough to offer up the recipe to make at home so you can toast to the first official weekend of summer, the Crushes of your youth and the best basketball team and fans in the country. Go Knicks!
The Pimlico Crush
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 oz vodka
- 1 oz Cointreau
- 2 oz fresh squeezed orange juice
- 1/2 oz simple syrup
- 2-3 oz blood orange soda
Directions
- In a shaker with ice, combine the first four ingredients.
- Shake until well-chilled, about 10 to 15 seconds.
- Pour into a highball glass filled with ice.
- Top with the blood orange soda and garnish with a dried blood orange wheel — or, if you can find one, an edible blue flower to keep the blue and orange theme going.
