Ice cubes and TikTok go together like Vegemite and toast and while there are plenty of #aesthetic re-stocks featuring rose petals, orange slices, and every other ice cube you can think of – sometimes one hits the mark of practicality, beauty, and downright deliciousness.

Introducing: our new favourite martini garnish, the olive brine cubes.

The account responsible for this so-simple-we’re-mad-we-didn’t-think-of-it-first drinks hack is the appropriately named @cocktails – a veritable haven for inspired tipples. Using a ball silicone ice mould, you just add a pimento-stuffed olive into each pocket, top with olive brine, and freeze. 

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Et voila! You’ve just created the perfect addition to your dirty martini or even a Bloody Mary if you’re in need of some electrolytes at brunch. You could even try it with tomato juice for a super-chilled hangover cure.

Honestly, people are so clever.

How to make a martini

Ingredients

• 15ml extra dry vermouth
• 75ml good quality gin
• Green olive or twist of lemon, to garnish

Method

1. Fill the martini glass with ice and leave to chill. Half-fill a cocktail shaker with ice.
2. Pour the dry vermouth over the ice and use a long handled spoon to stir around the inside edge of the shaker 2-3 times. Strain, discarding any excess vermouth (this leaves a coating of vermouth on the ice).
3. Pour the gin over the vermouth-coated ice and use the long handle spoon to stir the inside edge (this is to avoid bruising or diluting the gin) of the shaker for a further 2-3 times.
4. Remove and discard ice from the glass and pour martini into the chilled glass. To garnish, pop two or three olive cubes into your glass and serve.

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