DATE NIGHT
Desire
Discover a curated collection of exquisite cocktail recipes to elevate your evenings together.
Americano
1 measure Campari bitter liquor
1 measure sweet vermouth
soda water to top
Serve in a Highball
Garnish: orange slice
How to make: Fill in a highball glass with cubed ice, add first two ingredients stir and top with soda water
Bellini
1/2 ripe white peach
1 dash sugar syrup
chilled prosecco to top
Serve in a champagne flute
Garnish: white peach slice
How to make: add first two ingredients to a blender until smooth pour into a champagne flute and top with prosecco
Clover Club
2 measures gin
3/4 measure sugar syrup
3/4 measure lemon juice
5 raspberries
1 measure egg white
Serve in a coupette glass
Garnish: raspberries
How to make: add all the ingredients to the shaker and vigorously dry shake without ice 10 seconds. Take the shaker apart, add cubed ice and shake vigorously. Strain into a coupette glass
El Diablo
1 1/2 measures gold tequila
3/4 measure lime juice
1/2 measure creme de cassis
Ginger ale to top
Serve in a highball glass
Garnish: lime wheel
How to make: Fill a highball glass with ice and add first three ingredients, stir briefly then top up with ginger ale.
French Kiss #2
1 1/2 measures vodka
1/2 measure raspberry liquor
1/2 measure dutch cacao white creme de cacao
1/2 measure single cream
1/2 measure whole milk
Serve in a chilled martini glass
Garnish: raspberry
How to make: Add all the ingredients to a shaker, shake vigorously and strain into a chilled martini glass
Italian Heather
2 measures Scottish whisky
1 measure galliano
Serve in a martini glass
Garnish: lemon twist
How to make: Add all the ingredients to a shaker and fill with cubed ice. Stir for 30 seconds, and strain into a chilled martini glass.
Jack Rose
2 measures apple brandy, applejack or calvados
3/4 measure lime juice
1/2 measure grenadine
Serve in a martini glass
Garnish: lemon wedge
How to make: Add all the ingredients to a shaker, shake vigorously and double stain into a chilled martini glass
Kiss in the Dark
1 1/2 measures gin
1 measure cherry brandy
1 measure dry vermouth
Serve in a coupette glass
Garnish: naked
How to make: add all the ingredients to the shaker, and fill with cubed ice. Stir 30 seconds, and stain into a chilled coupette glass.
Loving Punch
1/2 measure vodka
2/3 measure raspberry liquor
1/2 lemon juice
4 measures champagne or sparkling wine
Serve in a collins glass
Garnish: raspberries and blueberries
How to make: Add all the ingredients to a collins glass filled with cubed ice, top with champagne.
Orange Blossom
2 measures gin
2 measures link grapefruit juice
2 tsp orgeat
2 dashes angostura bitters
4 orange slices
Serve in a rocks glass
Garnish: orange slice
How to make: Muddle the orange slices and orgeat in a rocks glass with bottom of a rolling pin, add the remaining ingredients, fill with crushed ice and churn.
Pimm's Cup
2 measures Pimm's No.1 cup
Ginger ale to top
Serve in a highball glass
Garnish: sliced strawberry, cucumber slice and mint sprig
How to make: Add all the ingredients to a highball glass filed with cubed ice.
Rossini
4 strawberries
1 tsp sugar syrup
Chilled prosecco to top
Serve in a champagne flute
Garnish: sliced strawberry
How to make: Add all the ingredients to a blender and blend until smooth. Pour into a champagne flute and top with the chilled prosecco.
Valentine Martini
2 measure raspberry vodka
3/4 measure lime juice
1/2 measure sugar syrup
6 raspberries
Serve in a martini glass
Garnish: raspberry
How to make: Add both ingredients to the shaker, shake vigorously and double strain into a chilled martini glass.
Whiskey Sour
2 measures bourbon whiskey
1 measure lemon juice
3/4 measure sugar syrup
1/2 measure egg white
2 dashes angostura bitters
Serve in an old-fashioned glass
Garnish: lemon wedge and cocktail cherry
How to make: Add all the ingredients to the shaker and 'dry shake' without ice for 10 seconds, then take the shaker apart and add cubed ice. Shake vigorously and double strain into and old-fashioned glass filled with cubed ice.
XYZ Cocktail
1 1/2 measure aged rum
1 measure cointreau
1/2 measure lemon juice
Serve in an martini glass
Garnish: naked
How to make: Add all the ingredients to the shaker and shake vigorously and strain into a chilled maritni glass