Cocktails That Will Impress Your Valentine

Impress your Valentine this year with one of our delicious Valentine Cocktails.

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Let’s face it, life is hectic! Sometimes it’s all you can do to get dinner on the table for your loved ones, let alone make a nice romantic dinner for you and your significant other. Well whip up one of these yummy Valentine’s Day cocktails, sit down with your Valentine and take at least a few moments to have a drink together. We promise you will impress your Valentine with one of these.

Make it a great day, you deserve it!

Tracey

White Strawberry Sangria

Ingredients:

1 (750 ml) bottle dry white wine, such as pinot grigio or sauvignon blanc
1/2 cup strawberry schnapps
1/4 cup sugar
2 cups sliced fresh strawberries
ice
1 whole strawberry (optional)

Directions:

1 Stir wine, schnapps and sugar together in a 2-quart pitcher’til sugar dissolves. 2 Add sliced strawberries and chill 1 to 4 hours.

3 Serve over ice, and garnish with whole strawberries, if you want.

 Cosmopolitan Raspberry Twist

Ingredients:

4 fluid ounces smirnoff raspberry vodka, chilled in freezer
1 fluid ounce triple sec
1 fresh lime juice
3 fluid ounces cranberry juice
2 frozen raspberries
2 slices fresh limes

Directions:

1 Put all ingredients into a shaker add as much ice as you can and give a good shake.

2 Pour straight up or over ice.

3 Garnish with lime slices and frozen raspberries which helps keep it chilled.

Amore Vietato (Forbidden Love)

Ingredients:

– 2 oz.  gin
– 1 oz. blood orange juice
– Dash simple syrup, 2 strawberries
– 4 slices of cucumber

Directions:

1  Muddle fruit with simple syrup  

2  Add gin and blood orange juice.  

3  Shake and strain into a martini glass.  

4  Garnish with strawberry, cucumber spiral and orange peel hearts.

Bailey’s Cool Raspberry

Ingredients:

2 ounces Baileys Original Irish Cream

8-9 raspberries

Crushed Ice

Directions:

1  Place 4-5 raspberries at the bottom of a rocks glass and lightly muddle them.

2  Top with crushed ice.

3  Add Baileys Irish Cream.

4  Garnish with three speared raspberries.

*Image courtesy of Bailey’s

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