Quick and Easy Cocktails for Valentine’s Day

Regardless if you’re planning a party for 15 or just 2 this Valentine’s Day, these cocktails are sure to be a hit.

The Chocolate-Lovers Margarita (source: Cosmopolitan.com)

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– 3 parts chocolate milk (store bought or homemade)
– 1 part Sauza Silver Tequila
– 1 part strawberry puree or daiquiri mix
– Chocolate covered strawberry

Combine chilled chocolate milk, Sauza and strawberry puree in a tall glass. Stir vigorously to combine.

Pour into a glass and garnish with a chocolate covered strawberry.

Raspberry Chocolate Kiss Cocktail (source: Martha Stewart.com)

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1/4 cup Mint-Infused Simple Syrup, plus more for rim

3 chocolate cookies, finely crushed, such as Nabisco Famous Wafers

10 raspberries

1/4 cup vodka

2 tablespoons cranberry juice

Ice cubes

Fill a shallow dish with enough simple syrup to just cover the bottom. Place crushed cookies into another shallow dish. Invert a martini glass into simple syrup and then immediately into crushed cookies to coat the rim of the glass.

Place raspberries in a cocktail shaker; crush with a muddler. Add simple syrup and muddle again. Add vodka and cranberry juice; fill shaker with ice. Shake well until chilled. Strain into prepared martini glass. Serve immediately.

White Strawberry Sangria(source: food.com)

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(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
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1 whole strawberry (optional)Stir wine, schnapps and sugar together in a 2-quart pitcher’til sugar dissolves.Add sliced strawberries and chill 1 to 4 hours.Serve over ice, and garnish with whole strawberries, if you want.

SKYY Infusions Wild Strawberry Saint Valentine (source: refinery29.c0m)

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2 oz SKYY Infusions Vodka Wild Strawberry
1 oz fresh lemon juice
1 oz apple juice
1/2 oz honey solution
2 medium basil leaves
2 medium strawberriesMuddle basil, strawberries, and lemon juice. Add remaining ingredients.

Shake and double strain into coupe glass.
Cupid’s Bow (source: idiva.com)
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50 ml / 2 oz Belvedere Vodka
15 ml / ¼ oz Simple Syrup
20 ml / ½ oz Lemon Juice
6 Raspberries
Dash Egg WhiteShake vigorously and strain into a chilled Martini glass.
Garnish with a raspberry.
Happy Valentines everyone!
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2 Comments Add yours

  1. Brian Webb says:

    Great cocktail choices Mary.

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    1. Mary Sheridan says:

      Thanks B! Huge compliment coming from you :)

      Like

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