Cocktail flavoured sweets to be rolled out in pubs

Alcoholic confectionary company Smith & Sinclair is to work with a selection of pubs to offer its new range of cocktail flavoured pastilles.

The sweets, which come in six different cocktail flavours, including gin & tonic, mixed berry daiquiri and whisky sour, were launched at Harvey Nichols earlier this month. Now the company has said it is looking to work directly with pubs.

Melanie Goldsmith, director and co-founder of Smith & Sinclair, said: "We plan to work with cherry picked pubs across the UK over the next 6 months. We would like to offer our pastilles as an aperitif with coffee, a garnish for a cocktail and even as a desert option as part of a menu."

The sweets have been specially made using a cooking process designed to ensure that only minimal amounts of alcohol are burnt off.

As a result, eating a whole box would put you over the drink driving limit, as they would total 2.6 alcohol units for all six.