Cocktail Hour
What better way to kick off the weekend than with an ice cold cocktail? Whether you're looking to cheers to the weekend or secure the perfect recipe for your wedding, these 5 Pinterest-worthy recipes won't disappoint!
Rose Water Gin Cocktail
Ingredients
1 oz fresh squeezed lemon juice
1 oz rose water simple syrup
2 oz gin
Splash club soda
Directions
Add 1 cup water and 1 cup sugar in a small pot and simmer until sugar is dissolved. Let it cool and add in 1 teaspoon rose water extract. Store the simple syrup in the refrigerator. If you’re serving right away add rose petals to the simple syrup for a beautiful presentation. In a cocktail shaker filled with ice, pour in the gin, lemon juice and simple syrup and shake for more than 20 seconds so the ice can melt and dilute the ingredients. Add a splash of club soda if you prefer! Strain over a large ice cube and garnish with a lemon twist and rose petal.
Grapefruit Rosemary Sparkler
Ingredients
9 oz fino sherry
6 oz grapefruit juice
1 1/2 oz lemon juice
1 1/2 oz simple syrup
12 dashes angostura bitters
Directions:
Add first 6 ingredients into a pitcher. Stir well and chill. Just before serving, top with Brut. To serve, pour into flutes. Garnish with grapefruit slice and rosemary sprig.
Sparkling Strawberry Sangria
Ingredients
1 cup orange vodka
15 strawberries, hulled and sliced
⅓ cup superfine sugar
1 bottle (750 oz) sparkling rosé wine
2 cups lemon-lime sodarosemary for garnish (optional)
Directions
In a large container combine vodka, strawberries, and sugar. Stir well and refrigerate at least 2 hours. Just prior to serving add in the sparkling wine and soda. Serve over ice with rosemary garnish if desired.
Plum and thyme Prosecco Smash
Ingredients
2 Plums
6 Thyme Sprigs
Juice from one Lemon
4 Tbsp. Thyme Simple Syrup
1 Bottle of Prosecco or your favorite bubbly
Directions
Peel and chop 2 plums. Muddle the plums with the thyme simple syrup and lemon juice until all of the plum juices have been released. Shake with ice in a cocktail shaker. Pour over crushed ice evenly between two glasses. Top off with prosecco and garnish with extra plum slices and thyme sprigs.
Sparkling Rose Smash
Ingredients
Your favorite Sparkling Rose
Fizzy lemonade
Freshly sliced lemon.
Directions
Mix 2/3 Rose and 1/3 sparkling lemonade. Garnish as desired.
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