Porn Star Martini Cocktail Recipe - Difford's Guide

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Glass:

Serve in a Coupe glass

Ingredients: [edit]

1 1⁄2 fresh	Passion fruit (fresh)
60 ml	Absolut Vanilia Vodka
15 ml	Passoã passion fruit liqueur
15 ml	Vanilla sugar syrup
15 ml	Lime juice (freshly squeezed)
60 ml	Brut champagne/sparkling wine optional

ml × 1 1 serving Read about cocktail measures and measuring

Prepare:

1. Select and pre-chill a COUPE GLASS.
2. Prepare garnish by washing 2 passion fruits and cutting each in half.

How to make:

3. SCOOP out the seeds and flesh from 3 of the passion fruit halves into your shaker.
4. Add the next 4 ingredients (all but the sparkling wine).
5. SHAKE with ice.
6. FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.

Garnish:

7. Float the remaining passion fruit half for garnish.
8. Optionally, separately POUR the sparkling wine into a chilled shot glass to serve alongside the cocktail.

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

• Brut champagne/sparkling wine - Sulphur Dioxide/Sulphites

Strength & taste guide:

No alcohol Medium Boozy Sweet Medium Dry/sour More cocktails with similar strength and taste profile Cocktail of the day:

6th September 2025 is Porn Star Martini Day

Review:

A passion fruit and vanilla crowd-pleaser that's balanced with zesty lime, often served with sparkling wine on the side.

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Variant:

Gargoyle No. 2 (published 1937)

History:

Adapted from a recipe created in 2002 by Douglas Ankrah at The Townhouse bar in Knightsbridge, London. Douglas also founded London's LAB bar which is perhaps more associated with this cocktail. This cocktail was originally named the Maverick Martini after a nightclub in Cape Town, South Africa which Douglas frequented, a story he recounts in his 2004 book, Shaken & Stirred.

Maverick Martini or Porn Star Martini Named after a louche Cape Town nightclub I frequented while writing this book. The shot of Champagne on the side of the beautifully coloured passionfruit and vanilla Martini makes this a very seductive drink. The first time I made these in Townhouse the whole bar was ordering them by the end of the night. 2 Martini glasses, preferably frozen, and tall shot glasses for Champagne on the side. 80ml Cariel Vanilla Vodka 15ml Passoa (passionfruit liqueur) flesh and seeds of 4 passionfruit 5 teaspoons vanilla sugar 100ml Champagne 1 passionfruit, halved hard ice cubes Method: Shake all the ingredients except the Champagne, the halved passionfruit and 1 teaspoon of vanilla sugar in a Boston shaker, and then strain into glasses. Separately, pour out 2 glasses of Champagne and dust the halved passionfruit with the remaining sugar. Dunk the passionfruit in the martini glasses, with spoons: the idea is to fish out the fruit, eat it with the spoon, drink the Champagne and then enjoy the cocktail at leisure.

Douglas Ankrah, Shaken & Stirred, 2004

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Please log in to make a comment Glenda David 26th October at 22:11 Love this cocktail! I feel the brute champagne sipped after a sip of the sweet cocktail works well. Sip & sip alternating the whole of the drinks - the taste buds love it!! 1 reply ... Henry Tran 21st September at 10:13 This recipe also works well for me. Though I might need to tweak this recipe better 30 ml Vodka 37.5 ml salted caramel / butterscotch liqueur 15 ml Passoã passion fruit liqueur 15 ml Lime juice 1.5 passion fruit 2 reply ... Seppo Mikkonen 3rd August at 10:37 perfect cocktail, to be included in my top 5 list 1 reply ... Fredie Martineau 21st July at 06:25 Often in restaurants and bars, the porn star martini has a fairly thick foam and is velvety to drink. having tried the above recipe i dont get this much foam. I have been using Giffard passion fruit liqueur instead of Passoa. Is that the reason? Can anyone advise on how to make the foam (without using eggs)? 1 reply ... Simon Difford 31st July at 10:57 I recommend Vegg White, a vegan egg white replacement. 1 reply ... Ben Kooi 31st July at 09:44 Hi Fredie, If you don't want to use an egg, you can try aquafaba. Hope it works for you. Succes! 2 reply ... Henry Tran 30th April at 16:09 I don't have vanilla syrup on hand, so I replaced it with vanilla liqueur. Brix and alcohol content are a just a bit higher. Taste quite good! 37.5 ml Vodka 15 ml Passoã passion fruit liqueur 37.5 ml Licor 43 15 ml Lime juice (freshly squeezed) 2 reply ... Simon Sedgley 22nd February at 13:32 Well, we suppose that if you are satisfied with choreographed and tightly scripted passion, then you might find it watching a porn star. In this cocktail, which also strikes us as a bit of a fake, all we can taste is passion fruit...and the barest hint of vanilla and lime. Our advice is that, if you must seriously entertain this drink, simply pour it over a generous serve of vanilla ice cream and add a few slices of banana. Much better. 0 reply ... richard hoppe 10th January at 05:23 Going to make one now. Sounds dangerous! 1 reply ... Vlad Pahomov 29th December 2024 at 19:08 Good afternoon! Can I use Monin Passion Fruit Puree instead of fresh passion fruit? If yes, in what proportion? Thank you in advance 1 reply ... Paloma Difford 29th December 2024 at 20:23 Hi Vlad, try 15ml of Le Fruit de Monin and perhaps cut the vanilla syrup back to 10ml. We haven’t tried this, but hope it works for you 🤞 1 reply ... 1 reply Nidula nomin 28th November 2024 at 21:53 It's verry help full to improve my beverage knowledge thankyou verry much 1 reply ... Robert Holen 26th October 2024 at 16:36 Would love to try the proper cocktail, but for now it worked out very well with: 3 cl vodka, 3 cl Galliano vanilla, 3 cl Passion fruit syrup, 1,5 cl lime juice and 6 cl Champagne. 1 reply ... See discussion in the Forum

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