Valentines day cocktails

The Lover Recipe
Channel the erotic spirit, passion and lust of Casanova with an amorous aperitif from the coast of Amalfi.

Ingredients:

1 bottle chilled Prosecco
1/2 oz. Limoncello
1/2 oz. vodka
1/2 oz. Cointreau
Dash of grenadine, for color
Maraschino cherry

Preparation:

In a shaker of ice, pour Limoncello, vodka and Cointreau and shake for 20 seconds. Pour this medley into a tall fluted glass. Fill the rest of the glass with Prosecco. Add a touch of grenadine and stir gently.

Drop a maraschino cherry into the glass, serve and repeat:

"Love sought is good, but given unsought is better." — Shakespeare, Twelfth Night




Chocolate-Covered-Cherry Cocktail



Ingredients:

1 oz. Baileys Irish Cream
1 oz. Kahlúa
Dashes maraschino syrup
Chocolate-covered cherry

Tools:

Rocks glass
Shaker
Strainer

Fill a shaker half full of ice. Add 1 oz. Bailey's, 1 oz. Kahlúa and a few dashes maraschino syrup. Shake and strain over new ice in a rocks glass. Garnish with a chocolate-covered cherry.




Almond Joy Martini



Almond Joy Martini
This adults-only drink tastes like an Almond Joy candy bar, with a mixture of chocolate vodka, hazelnut liqueur and coconut rum.

Ingredients:

1 oz. chocolate vodka
1 oz. Frangelico
1 oz. coconut rum

Preparation:

Combine all ingredients with ice in a cocktail shaker. Shake until well blended, then strain into a chilled martini glass.