Valentine’s Day Cocktails for your Home Mini Bar

FOR THE STRAWBERRY SOUR CANDY COCKTAIL:  

• ice  
• 6 Ounces cranberry juice pink 
• 4 Ounces rum strawberry, such as Malibu Strawberry Rum 
• 4 Ounces schnapps sour strawberry or strawberry pucker, such as DeKuyper  
• 1 Ounce lemon juice 
• 1 Ounce grenadine 
• sour candy strawberry flavor for garnish, optional  

Pour a small amount of simple syrup onto a plate then roll the edge of an empty glass in the syrup to coat. Then dip the edge of the glass into red sugar. 

Fill the glass with ice and add raspberry lemonade and vodka, stir to combine. Garnish with a skewer of fresh raspberries. 

1. Fill cup with ice and then pour in the white cranberry juice, vodka, lemon lime soda, and grenadine. 
2. Serve immediately. 

1. Place scoops of sorbet in large wine glass.
2. Pour champagne over the sorbet.
3. Top with raspberries.
4. Allow to melt while you sip or eat with a spoon, either way works!

1. Add three fresh raspberries into a cocktail tin and mash them with a muddler.
2. Pour in the white rum, gourmet raspberry syrup, RumChata, and pina colada mix. 
3. Toss in four ice cubes, secure the lid and shake vigorously for 30-seconds.
4. Strain through a fine-mesh sieve into a serving glass. 
5. Garnish with a heart marshmallow threaded through a cocktail stick. 
   

1. Combine vodka, ginger beer, lime juice, and crushed ice in a cocktail shaker into a glass filled with ice, or add the ingredients into a cocktail shaker and shake for 30 seconds. 
2. Pour into a chilled rocks glass filled with fresh ice . 
3. Add sliced strawberries and a lime wheel. 
4. Serve with conversation hearts. 

1. In a shaker, add ice and all of the ingredients above.  
2. Shake your mixture up well and strain it into your martini glass. 

1. Fill a cocktail shaker (or mason jar with lid) with ice about 2/3 full.
2. Pour in bourbon, cranberry juice, freshly squeezed lemon juice and simple syrup.
3. Place lid on shaker, vigorously shake 20-30 times. The longer you shake the more diluted it will become, which for me is a good thing.
4. In an old fashioned glass, fill with ice, whiskey stones or an ice ball. Pour cocktail over ice. Garnish with slice of lemon, fresh or frozen raspberries or cranberries, enjoy immediately.

Simple Syrup:

1. Pour water and sugar into small heavy saucepan. Over medium heat stir until sugar dissolves, bring mixture to simmer BUT DO NOT BOIL.
2. Store in mason jar in refrigerator, lasts indefinitely. 

1. In a cocktail shaker add Maraschino cherry juice, strawberry syrup, vodka, and ice.
2. Secure the lid on the cocktail shaker and shake vigorously for 30 seconds.
3. Strain into a cocktail glass filled with ice. 
4. Add soda. 
5. Garnish with a fresh strawberry and a stemmed cherry. 

1. Dip the edge of your glass into chocolate syrup and add some candy rimmer, decorative sprinkles or crushed candy of choice. 
2. Place your rimmed glass in the freezer to chill. Once chilled, add your chocolate syrup to the inside of the glass and immediately return it to the freezer to help your chocolate drizzle firm up. 
3. For a 6 ounce glass, add 1 1/2 ounces Godiva White Chocolate Liqueur and 1 1/2 ounces of Chocolate Vodka to a cocktail shaker with ice. Add 2 1/2 ounces of half and half, shake well and pour into your chilled glass. 
4. Cheers & Happy Valentine’s Day! 

1. Using two separate platesb add a small amount of honey to one and sprinkles to the other. 
2. Coat the rim of a martini glass in the honey first, then the sprinkles. Set aside. 
3. In a cocktail shaker filled with ice, add the remaining ingredients. Shake vigorously. 
4. Strain into your rimmed martini glass. Sip and enjoy!