Valentine’s Day is here and we have the perfect easy-to-make cocktails just for you! Check them out and tell us what you think!
The best way to celebrate a day of love is with a cocktail in hand. HollywoodLife.com has found these cocktails from the hottest venues and brands and your Valentine’s Day will be one to remember.
Valentine’s Day Drink Recipes
Enjoy these delectable delights — there’s so many to choose from!
Crave Nutty Valentine
Ingredients:
-1 part JDK&Sons Crave Chocolate Cherry Liqueur
-1 part DeKuyper Hazelnut Liqueur
-1 part Kamora Coffee Liqueur
Directions:
1. Combine ingredients in a mixing glass over ice and shame.
2. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass.
3. Top with whipped cream.
Crave Steamy Crush
Ingredients
-1 part JDK&Sons Crave Chocolate Mint Liqueur
-3 parts Hot Chocolate
Directions:
1. Build in a glass coffee mug.
2. Top with mini marshmallows.
Crave Wicked Love
Ingredients:
-1 part JDK&Sons Crave Chocolate Chilli Liqueur
-1 part Jim Beam Devil’s Cut Bourbon
-1 part Cream
Directions:
1. Combine ingredients in a mixing glass over ice and shake.
2. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass.
Basil Hayden’s® Apple Bubbly
Ingredients:
1 part Basil Hayden’s® Bourbon
Sparkling Apple Juice
Directions:
1. Add Basil Hayden’s® Bourbon to a champagne flute and fill the remainder with sparkling apple juice.
2. Garnish with a sliced apple.
Basil Hayden’s® Bacon Sour (Created by Patricia Richards)
Ingredients:
-1 1/4 parts Basil Hayden's® Bourbon
-1 part St-Germain® Liqueur Infused with Applewood Smoked Bacon (recipe below)
-1 part Freshly Squeezed and Strained Lemon Juice
-1/2 part Diluted Maple Syrup (1:1 ratio of Vermont Grade A Medium Amber Syrup to water)
-1 dash Peychaud's® Bitters
-1/4 part Pasteurized Egg White
Directions:
1.Combine bourbon, bacon-infused St-Germain®, lemon juice, diluted maple syrup, bitters and egg white into a mixing glass and shake vigorously with ice.
2. Strain over fresh ice into a double-old fashioned glass.
3. Garnish with an orange slice and a piece of the St-Germain® infused Applewood smoked bacon.
BACON-INFUSED ST-GERMAIN
Ingredients:
* 9 Thick Slices of Applewood Smoked Bacon
* 2 750 ml bottle of St-Germain® Liqueur
Directions:
* Cook bacon in the oven until it is crispy on the outsides but still chewy in the center.
* Place bacon on paper towel to remove some of the rendering.
* Place cooked bacon in a glass jar with two 750 ml bottles of St-Germain® and allow it to infuse
for 24 hours at room temperature.
* Remove bacon.
* Place liqueur in the freezer so renderings congeal and you can remove them.
* Strain through a fine mesh strainer and cheese cloth to remove as much rendering as possible.
* Repeat freezer step if needed and strain again.
* Refrigerate until ready for use.
FIERY PASSION
Chili Pepper
Basil & Passion Fruit
1.5 oz Cuca Fresca Gold Cachaca
3 basil leaves
1 thin slice of Serrano pepper
3/4 oz passion fruit puree
3/4 oz simple syrup
1/2 oz fresh lime juice
Combine all ingredients in an ice-filled shaker. Shake well and strain into a martini glass. Garnish with a thin slice of Serrano pepper.
PASSION POTION
Basil & Passion Fruit
1.5 oz Cuca Fresca Gold Cachaca3 basil leaves
3/4 oz passion fruit puree
3/4 oz simple syrup
1/2 oz fresh lime juice
Directions: Combine all ingredients in an ice-filled shaker. Shake well and strain into a martini glass. Garnish with a single basil leaf.
STRAWBERRY BASIL CAIPRINHA
Strawberry & Basil
2 oz Cuca Fresca Silver Cachaça
1 oz fresh lime juice
3 fresh strawberries
3 fresh basil leaves
Directions: The fresh lime juice, strawberries and basil in the bottom of a small shaker and muddle. Fill to the top with ice and add the Cuca Fresca Cachaça. Shake vigorously and pour into a rocks glass. Garnish with a fresh strawberry and fresh basil leaves.
CUCUMBER JALAPENO CAIPIRINHA
Chili Pepper
1.5 oz
Cuca Fresca
Silver Cachaca
1 thin slice of Jalapeno
1 sprig cilantro
1 oz cucumber puree
3/4 oz fresh lime juice
3/4 oz simple syrup
Directions: All ingredients in a shaker and shake well. Pour, without straining, into a rocks glass. Garnish with an additional jalapeno slice and thin cucumber slice.
XOXOXO
1.5 oz Hennessy V.S
.5 oz Antica Formula sweet vermouth
.5 oz Crème Yvette
Splash of simple syrup
1 dash Angostura Bitters
1 dash Fee brothers Aztec chocolate bitters
3 muddled Black Cherries
1/8th of a lemon
Fresh Grated cinnamon
Garnish: Cherry
Directions: Muddle cherries, add all liquid to shaker with ice, shake and strain.
SVEDKA’s Signature Love On The Rocks
1/2 parts SVEDKA Raspberry
1/2 part cinnamon syrup
3/4 part sour mix
Directions:
Build in a shaker. Shake and strain in a rocks glass. Garnish with a raspberries and a cinnamon stick.
The Impossible
By Andrew White, Mixologist at the Brooklyneer in NYC
Ingredients
2 oz. gin (mixologest recommends Beefeater)
½ oz. of lemon juice
1 oz. Moscato Rose
2 Tbsp. pomegranate Seeds
Angostura bitters
Sweet Vermouth
Sparkling Moscato Rose, to top
Directions:
• Muddle pomegranate seeds in a shaker tin with gin, lemon juice and a few dashes of bitters
• Add ice and shake vigorously
• Strain into a chilled martini glass with a sweet vermouth rinse
• Top off the glass with the Jacob’s Creek Sparkling Moscato Rose
Sex Panther
1 ½ ounce tequila
¾ ounce peach schnapps
¾ ounce Chambord
¾ ounce lemon juice
¾ ounce lime juice
Directions: Combine all ingredients with ice and shake. Serve straight up in a martini glass.
Pink Flamingo
2 parts UV Lemonade
2 parts cranberry juice
Splash of triple sec
Shake with ice and strain into a martini glass.
KAPPA Red Rose
Created by Brijette De Berardinis
1 1/2 oz KAPPA Pisco
3/4 oz Lemon Juice
3/4 oz Simple Syrup
5 raspberries, muddled
Chandon Rosé sparkling wine
Directions: Shake first four ingredients, double strain into martini glass or cocktail coupe, and top with Chandon Rosé. Garnish with a lemon twist.
Cupid's Bow
50ml / 2 oz Belvedere Vodka
15ml / ¼ oz Simple Syrup
20ml / ½ oz Lemon Juice
6 Raspberries
Dash Egg White
Directions: Shake vigorously and strain into a chilled martini glass. Garnish with a raspberry.
SKYY Infusions Wild Strawberry Saint Valentine
2 oz SKYY Infusions Wild Strawberry
1 oz Fresh Lemon Juice
1 oz Apple Juice
½ oz Honey Solution
2 Medium Basil Leaves
2 Medium Strawberries
Directions: Muddle basil, strawberries and lemon juice. Add remaining ingredients. Shake and double strain in to coupe glass
Strawberry Sunrise
2 oz. SKYY Infusions Wild Strawberry
1 oz. Orange juice
½ oz. Grapefruit Juice
½ oz. Lime juice
½ oz. Simple Syrup
¼ oz. Grenadine
Directions: Shake all ingredients except grenadine. Pour liquid over ice in a rocks glass. Drizzle grenadine at the end.
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