Lilikoi Passion Fruit Simple Syrup + Cocktail

Passion fruit, or lilikoi, is a tart exotic fruit that is great on yogurt or ice cream, or even better made into passionfruit simple syrup for cocktails!

I think a lot of people who read blogs wonder what the life of a blogger is like behind-the-scenes. We share small snippets of our personal life on the blog and on our social media channels (Instagram!), but most of that is very stylized and selectively shared.

Recently, I’ve started using Snapchat as another way to connect with all of you and I absolutely love it. It’s impossible to filter Snapchat – you can only post real time and there is no way edit photos or post ‘latergrams’. What you see is what you get.

I’ve also started to share how I set up the shoots for photos like this passionfruit cocktail. I take short videos sharing step-by-step everything I think about and all the equipment I need when I am shooting a recipe. I’ve had a really great response from people who follow me on Snapchat about these little shares – from both people who blog and people who don’t.
Here’s how I styled and photographed this cocktail from start to finish. I originally shared this on Snapchat but I put it on my Youtube channel to share it here:

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As for the recipe, passionfruit is a really special thing. I didn’t know this until this year, but it’s actually grown locally in California in a handful of farms. Getting it from my local farmer’s market was an unexpected treat. It’s growing season is about November to February, so don’t wait too long!

Passion fruit is great fresh on ice cream or yogurt, but today I made it into an easy passionfruit simple syrup. You can mix it with sparkling water for a great mocktail or add a splash of vodka for a more grown-up version. I love waiting until the passion fruit gets all wrinkly as that is when they taste their best. They are pretty hardy and can be stored in the fridge for a week or two before you use them.

If you’re in the San Francisco area, I got my passion fruit from Stepladder Ranch using Good Eggs (an online farmer’s market that delivers to your door!). I just talked to Jack from Saddle Ranch (as in cold-called him on his cell phone which I found on the internet) to get all of this information on passion fruit and it sounds like they just dropped off a huge order to Good Eggs so you should be able to get some right now!

 

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