Valentine’s Day Cocktails, Valentine’s Day Drink Recipes

Valentine’s day is a great day to have a few cocktails. This year show that special some how much you love them by making them a few of these sexy Valentine’s Day Cocktails. Or if you are like most people who hate Valentine’s Day, just slam a few of these down and toast to your loneliness!  Either way, these drinks are pretty damn good, so drink up… and stop bitching about how you hate Valentine’s day, and enjoy another reason to have a great cocktail!!

Valentine’s Champagne Cocktail #1
Champagne
.5 ounce Framboise, or Black Berry Brandi, or Creme De Cassis
Fresh Raspberries, or Black Berries

Fill a Champagne Flute with Champagne, pour in a little Framboise, or Creme de cassis, and put a couple raspberries or black berries in the flute.

Valentine’s Champagne Cocktail #2
1 sugar cube
2-3 dashes Angostura bitters
Champagne
1 oz brandy
orange slice for garnish
maraschino cherry for garnish

Pour champagne into a champagne flute, then add other ingredients, and garnish with a orange slice and or cherry.

Chocolate Martini Drink Recipe
2 oz vodka
1 .5 oz creme de cacao, white
Hershey Hug or Kiss for garnish
powdered cocoa for rim if glass

Pour all ingredients into a shaker with ice and shake it up. Strain into a martini glass rimmed with powdered cocoa. This is a great drink for after dinner to enjoy for or with desert.

Love Potion Drink Recipe
1 oz strawberry, vanilla or clear vodka
.5 oz white crème de cacao
.5 cup fresh or frozen strawberries
Scoop of vanilla ice cream
.5 cup ice
Strawberry for garnish

Put all ingredients into a blender, and blend. Add more ice if consistency needs to be a little thicker. Serve into a chilled martini glass.

Rosy Rum Red Cosmos
1.5 oz Bacardi Limon
.5 oz triple sec
1 Tbsp lime juice
.5 Tbsp cranberry juice
fresh mint leaves for garnish

Pour all ingredients into shaker with ice. Strain into a chilled martini glass and garnish with mint.

Strawberry Kiss Drink Recipe
.25 oz Brandy
.5 oz Cranberry juice
2 oz Orange juice
.75 oz Light Rum
.75 oz Strawberry schnapps

Mix all ingredients into a glass with crushed ice and garnish with mint leaves and a strawberry. Or blend with ice and pour into a chilled martini glass and garnish with a strawberry.

French Kiss
.75 oz Chambord
.75 oz peach schnapps
.75 oz vodka
splash orange juice
splash pineapple juice
splash cranberry juice

Mix all ingrediants together gently and Serve in a chilled martini glass.

Valentini – Martini Drink Recipe
Currant-flavored vodka ( any of these – Absolut Kurant Vodka, Kremly Black Currant, Cristall Black Currant, Georgieskaya Black Currant Vodka, Danzka Currant Vodka)
Champagne
Raspberry schnapps
Lime juice.

Pour all ingredients into a shaker filled with chipped ice, combine 2.25 cups of currant-flavored vodka, and add 1.25 cups of champagne. Makes 12 servings

Broken Heart Drink Recipe
1 splash of Grenadine
2 oz. Orange juice
1 oz. Vodka
1 oz. Chambord

Pour ingredients over ice, shake in a shaker and strain into a champagne flute and serve.

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