Sure, dinner and a movie is super fun, but this Valentine’s Day, grab your partner, and use it as an excuse to drink rich, sexy cocktails. You won’t regret it. With chocolate, strawberries, cognac, gin, oranges, and more, these drinks run the gamut and offer a little something for everyone. Whether topping off your night, or as a sensual nightcap, these drinks are sure to impress. So scrap the champagne, lock elbows, look into each other’s eyes, and enjoy.
Chocolate Strawberry Martini
Ingredients:
3 strawberries, sliced
1 oz milk
4 oz top shelf vodka
2 oz chocolate liqueur
In a shaker, muddle the strawberries and milk. Add the remaining ingredients and fill with ice. Shake, and strain into an over-sized martini glass.
Romance
Ingredients:
3/4 oz Kahlua
3/4 oz Irish cream
3/4 oz brown creme de cacao
1 oz heavy cream
Shake the ingredients with ice and strain them into a martini glass.
The Jack Rose
Ingredients:
2 oz applejack
1 oz fresh lime juice
1 oz grenadine
Add all the ingredients to a shaker and fill with ice. Shake, and strain into a chilled coupe cocktail glass. Garnish with a lime wheel.
Between the Sheets
Ingredients:
1 oz Cognac
1 oz Triple sec
1 oz Light rum
1/4 oz Fresh lemon juice
Add all the ingredients to a shaker and fill with ice. Shake, and strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Flame an orange peel over the glass and discard before serving.
The Scarlett O’Hara
Ingredients:
2 oz Southern Comfort
Dash of lime juice
6 oz cranberry juice
Pour the Southern Comfort, lime juice and cranberry juice into a shaker with ice, and shake well. Strain into a Collins glass. Garnish with a lime wedge.
Forbidden Love
Ingredients:
2 oz Hendricks gin
1 oz blood orange juice
Dash simple syrup, 2 strawberries
4 slices of cucumber
Muddle fruit with simple syrup, add gin and blood orange juice. Shake and strain into a martini glass. Garnish with strawberry, cucumber spiral and orange peel hearts.