Cocktail Lounge - Enchanting Love Potions

Cocktail Lounge – Enchanting Love Potions

Capture the heart of your loved one with the perfect drink for their sign.

 

ARIES: The Purple Passion

  • 1 ½ oz Vodka
  • Grape Juice.

Fill a highball glass with ice cubes. Pour in your vodka and fill your glass with grape juice. Stir with a sexy long stemmed swizzle stick and serve with a garnish of frozen grapes.  Non alcoholic alternative: Replace vodka with club soda or lemonade.

 

TAURUS: The Velvet Kiss

  • 1 oz Gin
  • ½ oz Banana Liqueur
  • ½ oz Pineapple Juice
  • 1 oz Heavy Cream

Fill a mixing glass with finely crushed ice. Add your ingredients and shake the romance into your love potion. Strain into a sexy chilled cocktail glass. Non alcoholic alternative: Replace gin with juniper berry soda and use banana juice for banana liqueur.

 

GEMINI: The Little Devil

  • 1 oz gin
  • 1 oz Gold rum
  • ½ oz Triple Sec
  • ½ oz Lemon Juice

Fill a glass with ice. Add your ingredients and stir in your love. Strain into a glass chilled to perfection. Non alcoholic alternative: Replace gin with juniper berry soda, vanilla extract for gold rum and orange juice for triple sec.

 

CANCER: The Lover’s Delight

  • ¾ oz Cointreau
  • ¾ oz Forbidden Fruit
  • ¾ oz Brandy

Fill a mixing glass with crushed ice cubes. Add your ingredients and shake your love potion until it’s blended to perfection. Strain into a rocks glass filled with ice. Non alcoholic alternative: Replace Cointreau with orange juice or frozen orange concentrate, forbidden fruit with melon juice and raspberry extract for brandy.

 

LEO: The Lion Tamer

  • ¾ oz Southern Comfort
  • ¼ oz Lime Juice

Fill up a mixing glass with ice cubes. Pour in southern comfort and lime juice. Stir your potion and strain into a shot glass. Non alcoholic alternative: Replace southern comfort with peach flavored nectar and a small amount of cider vinegar.

 

VIRGO: The Passion Fruit Martini

  • 1 shot Citrus Vodka
  • 1 shot White Cranberry Juice
  • 1 shot Passion Fruit Juice
  • ½ shot Cointreau.

Pour ingredients in a martini shaker filled with ice, shake it up and strain into a martini glass.  Non alcoholic alternative: Replace citrus vodka with mineral water and cointreau with orange juice.

 

LIBRA: The Snuggler

  • 1 ½ oz Peppermint Schnapps
  • Hot Chocolate

Pour your peppermint schnapps into a heated mug and fill the rest with hot chocolate. Decorate your love potion with whipped cream, chocolate shavings or your topping of choice. Non alcoholic alternative: Replace the peppermint schnapps with mint leaves, peppermint extract or mint Italian soda syrup.

 

SCORPIO:  A Kiss in the Dark

  • ¾ oz Gin
  • ¾ oz Cherry Brandy
  • ¼ oz Dry Vermouth

Fill a mixing glass with ice. Pour in your ingredients and shake. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Non alcoholic alternative: Replace gin with juniper berry soda, cherry syrup for brandy and apple cider for dry vermouth.

 

SAGITTARIUS:  Cupid’s Cosmo

  • 1 ½ shots Vodka
  • 1 shot Grand Marnier
  • 2 shots Cranberry Juice
  • ½ shot freshly squeezed Lime Juice

Shake all of the ingredients, add some ice and serve. Non alcoholic alternative: Replace vodka with mineral water or white grape juice and use orange juice to replace grand marnier.

 

CAPRICORN – The Fluttering Heart

  • 5 ounces Champagne
  • 1 ounce Pallini Raspicello

 

Pour champagne into a flute and top with Pallini Raspiecello. Non alcoholic alternative: Replace champagne with ginger ale, sparkling cranberry juice, sparkling apple cider or white grape fruit juice and use raspberry extract in replacement of pallini raspicello liqueur.

 

AQUARIAN: Sex on the Beach.

  • 1 oz Vodka
  • ½ oz Midori
  • ½ oz Chambord
  • 1 ½ oz Pineapple Juice
  • 1 ½ oz Cranberry Juice

Fill a mixing glass with ice. Add ingredients and shake. Strain into a glass filled with ice. For shooters, mix 1 oz each of juices and strain into shot glasses. Non alcoholic alternative: Replace vodka with orange juice and replace chambord with peach nectar.

 

PISCES: Sweetie Baby

  • 2 oz Amaretto
  • 5 oz Vanilla ice cream
  • ½ oz milk may be added to thin, if desired

In a blender, blend ingredients until smooth at a medium rate of speed. Serve in a large stemmed glass. Garnish with crushed almonds or small oreo cookie crumbles topped with chocolate. Non alcoholic alternative: Replace amaretto with almond extract.