The Bee My Valentine is a Valentine’s Day cocktail that was created by Emma Stokes and was first published in her book Have Yourself a Merry Little Cocktail: 80 Cheerful Tipples to Warm Up Winter. It’s a simple variation of the Bee’s Knees that uses the classic’s template of gin, honey, and lemon, but it adds a bright strawberry syrup for more fruit flavor.
Add gin, lemon juice, strawberry syrup, honey syrup, and rose water to a shaker.
Fill shaker with cubed ice.
Shake for 10-20 seconds.
Using a Hawthorne and fine mesh strainer, strain into a Nick & Nora glass.
Garnish with strawberry.