Happy Valentine's Day 2010

Time to snuggle up to that someone special and enjoy a romantic day of fun. Here are some great recipes to help you make a very special drink for your Valentine.

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Cherub's Cup Cocktail Photo

Cherub's Cup

Ingredients

2 part(s) Hendrick's Gin - (more)
1 part(s) St-Germain Elderflower Liqueur - (more)
1 Strawberry - (more)
3/4 part(s) Lemon Juice - (more)
1/4 part(s) Simple Syrup - (more)
Champagne (Brut Rose) - (more)

Instructions

Muddle the strawberry in a shaker. Add the Gin, Lemon Juice and Simple Syrup. Shake and strain over fresh rocks in a collins glass. Top with Brut Rose or Brut Champagne. Garnish with a strawberry.

Frisky Whisky Cocktail Photo

Frisky Whisky

Ingredients

2 dash(es) Angostura Bitters - (more)
1 part(s) Barenjager Honey Liqueur - (more)
1 part(s) Michael Collins Single Malt Irish Whiskey - (more)
1 part(s) Orange Juice - (more)
1/4 part(s) Simple Syrup - (more)

Instructions

Mix in a cocktail glass over ice.

Tommy’s Valen-Tini Cocktail Photo

Tommy's Valen-Tini

Ingredients

2 1/2 part(s) Tommy Bahama White Sand Rum - (more)
3/4 part(s) Orange Liqueur - (more)
3/4 part(s) Raspberry Liqueur - (more)
3/4 part(s) Sour Mix - (more)
Sugar - (more)

Instructions

Mix the rum, orange liqueur and sour mix. Shake 20 times. Pour into a sugar in the raw rimmed martini glass. Slowly pour in raspberry liqueur so that it sinks to the bottom of the glass. Garnish with a lime twist.

Between the Sheets #3 Martini Photo

Between the Sheets #3

Ingredients

2 part(s) Jacques Cardin VSOP Jasmin Cognac - (more)
1/2 part(s) Cointreau - (more)
1/2 oz. Lemon Juice - (more)
1/2 part(s) Tommy Bahama White Sand Rum - (more)

Instructions

Garnish with an orange twist in a chilled martini glass.

L’Amour en Rose Martini Photo

L'Amour en Rose

Ingredients

2 part(s) SENCE Traditional Rose Nectar - (more)
1 1/2 part(s) Tommy Bahama White Sand Rum - (more)
1/2 part(s) Triple Sec - (more)

Instructions

Shake all with ice and strain in a martini glass.

Burning Love Cocktail Photo

Burning Love

Ingredients

2 oz. Mekhong Thai Spirit - (more)
1 oz. Simple Syrup - (more)
1/2 oz. Drambuie Liqueur (Burnt) - (more)
1/2 oz. Lemon Juice - (more)
1/2 oz. Lime Juice - (more)
Fee Brothers Aztec Chocolate Bitters - (more)
Peychaud Bitters - (more)

Instructions

Combine all ingredients in a tall mixing tin, including the bitters, excluding the Drambuie, shake vigorously and set aside. Pour 1/2 oz Drambuie in a doubled mini tin and ignite with a match or lighter. (A match is preferable to avoid gas expose. A doubled mini tin is important to protect the hands against heat.) Pour ignited Drambuie directly from the mini tins into a coup or cocktail glass. The spirit should remain aflame inside the glass. Briefly re-shake and Hawthorn strain cold mixture on top of flaming Drambuie, dousing the flames. Garnish with a saddled red tulip bulb or lime slice.

Red Light District Cocktail Photo

Red Light District

Ingredients

1 1/2 oz. Mekhong Thai Spirit - (more)
1 Pepper (Red Chili) - (more)
1 oz. Simple Syrup - (more)
1 Strawberry - (more)
1 oz. Strawberry Liqueur - (more)
1/2 oz. Lemon Juice - (more)

Instructions

Muddle fresh strawberry and red chili pepper. Combine in shaker with Mekhong, strawberry liquor, lemon juice and simple syrup and shake vigorously. Pour over large ice cubes in teacup or short glass. Option to garnish with a fresh strawberry.

Fruitie Tootie Kiss a Cutie Cocktail Photo

Fruitie Tootie Kiss a Cutie

Ingredients

3 oz. Honest Tea's Honest Ade Superfruit Punch - (more)
1 oz. Stolichnaya ( Stoli ) Vodka - (more)

Instructions

Mix in a champagne flute and garnish with a strawberry.

Honest Kiss-tini Martini Photo

Honest Kiss-tini

Ingredients

3 oz. Honest Tea's Honest Ade Cranberry Lemonade - (more)
1 dash(es) Lime Juice - (more)
1 oz. Stolichnaya ( Stoli ) Vodka - (more)

Instructions

Shake with ice and strain into a martini glass.

La Rosette Cocktail Photo

La Rosette

Ingredients

1/2 oz. St-Germain Elderflower Liqueur - (more)
Champagne - (more)

Instructions

Pour ingredients into a chilled fluted glass and stir lightly. Float half a strawberry, a few raspberries or garnish with a lemon twist. Drink a toast to the elegance of simplicity and the divinity of fraises fraiches.

Bois de Rose Cocktail Photo

Bois de Rose

Ingredients

1 part(s) Gin - (more)
3/4 part(s) St-Germain Elderflower Liqueur - (more)
1/4 part(s) Aperol Orange Liqueur - (more)
1/4 part(s) Lemon Juice - (more)
Champagne (Brut Rose) - (more)

Instructions

Shake first four ingredients with ice and strain into a Champagne flute. Top with Brut Rose Sparking Wine, and garnish with an orange peel or twist.

Dia Del Amor Cocktail Photo

Dia Del Amor

Ingredients

2 dash(es) Hot Sauce - (more)
1 1/2 part(s) Tequila (Reposado) - (more)
1 part(s) St-Germain Elderflower Liqueur - (more)
3/4 part(s) Lime Juice - (more)

Instructions

Shake and strain into chili salt rimmed rocks glass. Garnish with a lime wheel.

Chocolate Covered Cherry Martini Photo

Chocolate Covered Cherry

Ingredients

1 Cherry (Chocolate Covered) - (more)
1 tbsp. Chocolate Sauce - (more)
1 part(s) Pinky Vodka - (more)
3/4 part(s) Creme de Cacao - (more)
1/2 part(s) Maraschino Liqueur - (more)

Instructions

Swirl chocolate sauce around the inside of a martini glass and set aside. Pour Pinky, maraschino liqueur and creme de cacao into a cocktail shaker. Add ice, shake well and strain into chocolate swirled glass. Add a chocolate covered cherry, on a cocktail pick, for garnish.

Recipe created by Natalie Bovis-Nelsen, aka The Liquid Muse

Valentine Vixen Cocktail Photo

Valentine Vixen

Ingredients

1 oz. Ketel One Citroen - (more)
1 splash(es) Passion Fruit Nectar - (more)
1 splash(es) Pomegranate Juice - (more)
1 oz. TY KU Premuim Liqueur - (more)
Prosecco - (more)

Instructions

In an ice filled cocktail shaker combine all ingredients except the prosecco and shake vigorously. Pour contents of the shaker into the flute first and top with prosecco.

Sip the Valentine Vixen exclusively at:
Olives (at the W Union Square)
201 Park Ave. South
New York, NY 10003

Bitter X Martini Photo

Bitter X

Ingredients

1 1/2 oz. X-Rated Fusion Liqueur - (more)
3/4 oz. Orange Juice (Blood Orange) - (more)
1/2 oz. Campari - (more)
1/2 oz. Lemon Juice - (more)

Instructions

Pour ingredients into a mixing pint over ice. Shake vigorously and strain into a martini glass. Garnish with a blood orange slice.

Burning Love Martini Photo

Burning Love

Ingredients

3 oz. TY KU Sake - (more)

Instructions

Shake with ice and strain into a martini glass. Garnish with cinnamon heart candies.

Ty Ginger Crush Martini Photo

Ty Ginger Crush

Ingredients

4 Ginger Ale - (more)
2 oz. TY KU Sake - (more)

Instructions

Stir in a martini glass. Garnish with a heart shaped ginger snap cookie.

Ty-Kiss Martini Photo

Ty-Kiss

Ingredients

1 oz. TY KU Sake - (more)
1 oz. TY KU Soju - (more)
1 oz. White Chocolate Liqueur - (more)

Instructions

Shake with ice and strain into a martini glass.

Single Ladies Martini Photo

Single Ladies

Ingredients

4 oz. Cranberry Juice (White) - (more)
1 oz. Domaine de Canton Ginger Liqueur - (more)
1 oz. TY KU Premuim Liqueur - (more)

Instructions

Shake with ice and strain into a martini glass.

Anejo Kiss Martini Photo

Anejo Kiss

Ingredients

1 1/2 oz. Partida Anejo Tequila - (more)
1 oz. Amarula Cream Liqueur - (more)
1/2 oz. White Creme de Cacao - (more)

Instructions

Shake and strain into a martini glass. Andre Cassagne, Ortinaque on the Mile, Miami

Love EliXir Cocktail Photo

Love EliXir

Ingredients

1 1/2 oz. Skyy Vodka - (more)
1 oz. Orange Juice - (more)
1 oz. Pineapple Juice - (more)
1 oz. X-Rated Fusion Liqueur - (more)
1/2 oz. Grenadine - (more)

Instructions

Serve on the rocks and garnish with an orange peel spiral.

X-Rated Passion Cocktail Photo

X-Rated Passion

Ingredients

2 oz. Skyy Infusions Passion Fruit Vodka - (more)
2 oz. X-Rated Fusion Liqueur - (more)
1 splash(es) Club Soda - (more)

Instructions

Serve on the rocks and garnish with a lime.

Hopeless RomantiX Cocktail Photo

Hopeless RomantiX

Ingredients

2 oz. Prosecco - (more)
1 1/2 oz. X-Rated Fusion Liqueur - (more)
1/4 oz. Lemon Juice - (more)
1/4 oz. Orange Juice - (more)
1/4 oz. Pineapple Juice - (more)

Instructions

Muddle pineapple, orange and lemon. Add prosecco and X-Rated Fusion Liqueur. Strain and serve in a highball glass and garnish with a pineapple slice.

Tongue Tied Martini Photo

Tongue Tied

Ingredients

1 1/2 oz. Skyy Infusions Cherry Vodka - (more)
1 1/2 oz. X-Rated Fusion Liqueur - (more)
1 splash(es) Grenadine - (more)

Instructions

Shake X-Rated and SKYY Infusions Cherry over ice. Strain into a martini glass. Slowly add a dash of Grenadine so that it sinks to the bottom. Garnish with a cherry with a knotted stem.

Dolce Amaro Cocktail Photo

Dolce Amaro

Ingredients

1 1/2 oz. Averna Bitters - Amaro - (more)
1 oz. Expresso - (more)
1 oz. Orange Liqueur - (more)
1 dash(es) Simple Syrup - (more)

Instructions

Combine all ingredients and shake vigorously over ice. Strain and serve in a cocktail glass garnished with a lemon twist.

Tanqueray Rouge Martini Photo

Tanqueray Rouge

Ingredients

1 1/4 oz. Tanqueray Gin - (more)
1 oz. Pomegranate Juice - (more)
1 oz. Simple Syrup - (more)
3/4 oz. Lemon Juice - (more)

Instructions

Add Tanqueray London Dry, simple syrup, fresh lemon juice, and pomegranate juice. Shake with ice and strain into martini glass. Garnish with lemon peel spiral.

Gin Strawberry Crush Cocktail Photo

Gin Strawberry Crush

Ingredients

1 1/4 oz. Lemon Lime Soda - (more)
1 1/4 oz. Tanqueray Gin - (more)

Instructions

Prepare strawberries in a highball glass. Add crushed ice and Tanqueray London Dry. Top with lemon-lime soda.

Cupid's Kiss Martini Photo

Cupid's Kiss

Ingredients

1/2 oz. Chambord Raspberry Liqueur - (more)
1/2 oz. Godiva White Chocolate Liqueur - (more)
1/2 oz. Smirnoff Vanilla Twist - (more)

Instructions

Shake with ice and strain into a white chocolate rimmed martini glass.

Jose's Valentine's Kiss Cocktail Photo

Jose's Valentine's Kiss

Ingredients

2 oz. Apple Juice - (more)
2 oz. Cranberry Juice - (more)
1 1/2 oz. Jose Cuervo Especial Tequila - (more)
Club Soda - (more)

Instructions

Fill a glass with ice. Add tequila, cranberry juice, and apple juice. Top off with soda.

Circo Truffletini Martini Photo

Ciroc Truffletini

Ingredients

1 oz. Godiva White Chocolate Liqueur - (more)
1/2 oz. Ciroc Vodka - (more)
1/2 oz. Godiva Chocolate Liqueur - (more)

Instructions

Shake and strain into a chilled martini glass. Garnish with Godiva Milk Chocolate Truffle or White Chocolate Shavings.

Circo Carmeltini Martini Photo

Ciroc Carmeltini

Ingredients

2 oz. Godiva Caramel Milk Chocolate Liqueur - (more)
1/2 oz. Ciroc Vodka - (more)

Instructions

Shake and strain into a martini glass.

901 Bloody Rita Cocktail Photo

901 Bloody Rita

Ingredients

2 oz. 901 Silver Tequila - (more)
1 oz. Lime Juice - (more)
1 oz. Orange Juice (Blood Orange) - (more)
3/4 oz. Agave Nectar - (more)

Instructions

In a tall rocks glass, pour all ingredients over ice. Shake. Strain into a martini glass and garnish with a blood orange slice.

Courtesy of Alain Allegretti - Allegretti, NYC

Cherry Vanilla Love Cocktail Photo

Cherry Vanilla Love

Ingredients

3 oz. Vanilla Vodka - (more)
1 1/2 oz. Travis Hasse's Cherry Pie Liqueur - (more)

Instructions

Shake over ice and pour with ice into a martini glass. Garnish with three cherries.

Mystic Chocolate Cocktail Photo

Mystic Chocolate

Ingredients

2 dash(es) Butterscotch Schnapps - (more)
1/3 part(s) Creme de Cacao - (more)
1/3 part(s) Irish Cream - (more)
1/4 part(s) Pernod Absinthe - (more)

Instructions

Add absinthe first into a cordial size glass, then layer remaining ingredients beginning with Irish Cream.

Chrysanthemum Cocktail Photo

Chrysanthemum

Ingredients

5 part(s) Dry Vermouth - (more)
2 part(s) Brandy - (more)
1 part(s) Pernod Absinthe - (more)

Instructions

In a cocktail shaker, stir together absinthe, Brandy Liqueur and vermouth. Add ice and stir for one minute, then strain into a martini glass. Squeeze an orange peel over the drink, making sure the oils fall into the glass, then drop the peel in and serve.

Sandeman Sparkler Cocktail Photo

Sandeman Sparkler

Ingredients

3 part(s) Champagne - (more)
1 part(s) Sandeman 10 Year Old Porto - (more)

Instructions

Pour into a champagne glass.

This Valentine's Day, in lieu of a bunch of long stem roses for her, make your date a sexy cocktail to start out the night. Sandeman's Sweetheart Sparkler is an ideal drink of choice. Combining the new trend of port cocktails with the classic tradition of celebratory bubbles, the Sweetheart Sparkler is a sophisticated yet simple drink that is perfect for a fun, sexy celebration.

Hot Honey Crisp

Ingredients

3 oz. Barenjager Honey Liqueur - (more)
2 1/2 cup(s) Water (hot) - (more)
2 oz. Jacques Cardin VSOP Apple Cognac - (more)
1 package(s) Apple Cider (mix) - (more)

Instructions

Mix in a Monte Cristo glass. Garnish with a cinnamon stick and whipped cream. Makes 2 servings.

ZA ZA Zoom

Ingredients

4 Raspberries - (more)
1 1/2 oz. Jacques Cardin VSOP Apple Cognac - (more)
3/4 oz. Pineapple Juice - (more)
1/2 oz. Chambord Raspberry Liqueur - (more)

Instructions

Muddle the Chambord and raspberries. Add the Jacques Cardin Cognac and Pineapple juice and shake with ice. Strain into a chilled martini glass and garnish with fresh raspberries.

JC Rose Nectar

Ingredients

1 1/2 part(s) Jacques Cardin VSOP Cognac - (more)
1 1/2 part(s) SENCE Traditional Rose Nectar - (more)
Champagne (Rose) - (more)

Instructions

Shake Jacques Cardin and SENCE with ice. Strain and serve in a martini glass. Fill with chilled Rose Champagne.