What To Drink 1st February 2024 by Aoife CodyKane

4 Delish Cocktails To Make At Home For Valentine’s Day

Mm, mm, mm!

 

Valentine’s Day is right around the corner, so it’s time to say cheers to all things love and romance.

Whether this V day is going to be spent on self care, time with your besties, or cosying up to your boo, we reckon nothing can top off the day like a delicious cocktail!

Here’s six STELLAR approved drinks to mark the occasion.

The best part? They’re easy peasy!

Chocolate Martini

 

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Valentine’s Day is usually punctuated with a box of chocolates, so why not combine the two?

This decadent chocolate martini from BBC Good Food will have you falling head over heels!

Ingredients:

• 1 tsp melted chocolate

• 50ml Irish cream liqueur (we love Baileys!)

• 50ml coffee liqueur

• 1 tbsp chocolate syrup

• 100ml vodka

• handful of ice

Recipe:

  1. Dip a pastry brush into the melted chocolate and brush up the side of two glasses. Chill until set.
  2. Pour the Irish cream liqueur, coffee liqueur, chocolate syrup and vodka into a shaker with a handful of ice and shake hard until the outside of the shaker feels very cold.
  3. Strain into the glasses, and enjoy!

Paloma

This tart and tasty tequila cocktail adapted from Delicious is seriously refreshing and subtly sweet.

It’ll put you in the mood for a groove!

Ingredients:

• 50ml tequila

• 10ml fresh lime juice (about ½ lime), plus an (optional) wedge to wet the glass rim

• 10ml agave syrup

• 200ml Pink Grapefruit Soda (or a mixture of 60ml fresh grapefruit juice and 140ml regular soda water)

• Pink grapefruit slice or wedge to serve

Recipe:

  1. Rim a tumbler with salt (optional) by wetting the rim with a lime wedge, then dip it into a plate of salt.
  2. Fill the tumbler with ice, then add the tequila, lime juice and agave syrup. Stir well.
  3. Top up with your Pink Grapefruit Soda (or a mixture of fresh grapefruit and juice and soda water), then garnish with a slice or wedge of grapefruit
  4. Et voila! A delicious Paloma cocktail.

Pink Bikini Slushie

 

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We particularly love a Pink Bikini Slushie for Galentine’s – it’s just so cute.

Plus, coconut rum and amaretto? We might as well be on our holidays. This one is adapted from BlendJet.

Ingredients:

• 60ml Coconut Rum

• 30ml  Amaretto

• 180ml Pink Lemonade

• Fresh Raspberries

• Ice Cubes

Recipe:

  1. To your Blender, add the coconut rum, amaretto, pink lemonade and a small handful of fresh raspberries.
  2. Blend until desired slushie consistency.
  3. Pour the cocktail mix into a coupe glass and garnish with raspberries. Delish!

Campari Spritz

 

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A Campari Spritz oozes sophistication…it’s super sexy for a Valentine’s date!

This recipe adapted from Campari themselves is seriously easy, and will taste simply divine.

Ingredients:

• 3 parts Prosecco

• 2 parts Campari

• 1 part splash of soda water

Recipe:

  1. Pour the Prosecco, Campari and soda water directly into an ice-filled glass.
  2. Garnish with a slice of fresh orange.
  3. It’s that easy. We’ll take three!
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