If you’re looking to spice up your Valentine’s Day, then look no further! We have complied some delicious V-Day cocktails that we guarantee will impress your spouse and friends. Some of our options included, Malibu Rum Sparkler, Kahlua, Caliche Rum, and more.
Cali
1 1/2 oz Caliche Rum
3/4 oz St Germaine Elderflower Liquor
1/2 a Lemon cut in quarters
1 oz Chilled Prosseco (or any dry sparkling wine)
In a mixing glass muddle the lemon, Caliche and elderflower liqueur, fill with ice and shake until chilled. Strain into an ice filled flute and top with sparkling wine.
Cali Rose
2oz Caliche
1 oz Dolin Bianco Vermouth.
3/4 oz Combier Pamplemouse Rose (or any grapefruit cordial)
2 dash of Grapefruit Bitters
Combine all ingredients over ice in a mixing glass, stir until well chilled, serve in a chilled cocktail coupe, twist the grapefruit peel over the cocktail, rim the glass and garnish with same grapefruit peel.
Kahlua Red Hot Coffee
2 parts Kahlua
3 parts hot coffee
Serve in a mug. Add milk or cream as desired.
Garnish with whipped cream, cinnamon or chocolate shavings.
Love Bubbles
3 parts Malibu Rum Sparkler
1 part pineapple juice
ยผ part simple syrup
Dash fresh lime juice
Build in a chilled flute glass. No garnish.
Mamaโs Valentine
1oz Mama Walker Maple Bacon
1.5oz JP Wiserโs Rye Whiskey
ยพ fresh lemon juice
1 egg white
Sea Salt
Add the egg white to shaker without any ice and shake very hard, for at least 3 minutes until the egg white become frothy.ย
Add the ice, Maple Bacon, JP Wiserโs and fresh lemon juice to the egg white in the shaker and shake again.ย
Strain into a cocktail coupe and sprinkle sea salt on top.ย
My Bloody Bacontine
2oz Mama Walker Maple Bacon
4oz tomato juice
1.5oz Balsamic Vinegar
4 dashes of hot sauce
Juice of ยฝ of a lemon
Sprinkle of sea salt
Sprinkle of black pepper
1 tsp of Horseradish
1 bacon slice
Add all ingredients to a shaker and roll back and forth.ย
Add ice to a highball glass and pour the drink directly in the glass over ice.ย
Garnish with a bacon slice.
PS I Love You: Hot Chocolate
2 parts Kahlua
4 parts hot chocolate
Whipped cream
Chocolate shavings or chips
1 peppermint stick
Combine all ingredients in a heated mug and top with whipped cream, chocolate shavings and a peppermint stick.
Cherry Bomb Martini
3/4 oz vanilla vodka
3/4 oz White Crรจme de Cacao or Godiva white chocolate liqueur
1/2 shot of Illy espresso
1 oz cherry pucker
1oz half and half
Chocolate syrup
Cocoa powder
Maraschino cherries
Combine vanilla vodka, crรจme de cacao, espresso, cherry pucker, and half and half in a mixing tin with 1 cup of ice. Rim a martini glass with cocoa powder and drizzle chocolate syrup down the sides of the glass. Shake and strain mixing tin ingredients and garnish a pick with 2 maraschino cherries.ย Drizzle 2 drops of chocolate syrup on cherries.
Sparkling Pool Party Romance
3 parts Malibu Peach Sparkler
1 part orange juice
ยผ part simple syrup (optional)
Build in a chilled flute glass. Garnish with an orange zest.
La Rosette
1ยฝ parts St-Germain
Top with Brut Rosรฉ
Method: Serve in a flute glass and garnish with a strawberry.
MARTINI Sparkling Lovers Lemonade
1 ยฝ oz. Lemonade
3 oz. MARTINI Sparkling Rosรฉ
Combine the ingredients in a flute glass and top with MARTINI Sparkling Rosรฉ.
Garnish with a lemon wheel or float fresh raspberries.
Cointreau Berry Rickey
2 oz. Cointreau
1 oz. Fresh lime juice
2 Blackberries
2 Raspberries
5 Mint leaves
3-4 oz. Club Soda or Seltzer
Muddle the berries and mint in the bottom of a glass. ย Build cocktail with remaining ingredients and ice. ย Stir briefly. ย Garnish with raspberry and blackberry on a pick and a mint sprig.
BONUS:
How about a fun food pairing?
Black Truffle Macaroni and Cheeseย | created by Chef Jean-Louis Dumonet | Maรฎtre Cuisinier de Franceย
โข4 oz elbow pasta
โข1 ozย or more!! Truffle, fresh or in tin (use only melanosporum)
โข1.5 oz truffle juice
โข3 oz bacon cut in lardons
โข1/3 cup heavy cream
โข3 oz grated comte cheese
โขSea salt and fresh crushed black peppercorn
*Ingredients for 2 people
โฆpaired with D?Luscious: a Demi-Sec Rosรฉ, the newest release fromย Nicolas Feuillatte (pictured above).
Champagne Nicolas Feuillatte announces the release of its newest champagne, D?Luscious: a Demi-Sec Rosรฉ that will be available in the U.S. nationally as of February 2014, just in time for Valentine?s Day.ย Nicolas Feuillatte, one of France?s youngest, trendiest and, by the numbers, most popular champagne producers, has created this cuvรฉe to embody the bold and daring nature of the brand. D?Luscious is rich, generous and flamboyant, perfect for spontaneous festivities involving complex and exotic foods.
Always remember to drink responsibly!