Verbena Buzz Button Cocktail Recipe

This tequila and yuzu juice cocktail has some very interesting citrus ingredients and uses edible cone shaped flowers. Calamansi juice and ginger syrup provide additional layers of flavor to the Verbena cocktail.

It’s topped off with an edible flower known as a buzz button, electric daisy, Jambú, or Szechwan flower, which creates a pop rocks like sensation in your mouth! I first learned about them in Las Vegas in a bar at the Cosmopolitan. The Chandelier bar in Las Vegas has introduced this unique sensation to many people through their Verbena cocktail, which I have tried to replicate with this cocktail recipe.

These edible flowers originated in Brazil and are known as Jambú and are used to make Cachaça de Jambú. They are very easy to grow at home! Check out the product links below to order your own buzz button seeds.

In addition to being used in cocktails, these flowers have many culinary and medicinal uses. They have been used to treat toothaches, causing the plant to sometimes be referred to as the toothache plant.