Valentine’s Day – Houston's Blog https://www.houstons-inc.com/blog Tue, 23 Jan 2024 19:39:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.8.2 Roses Are Red, Violets Are Blue. Celebrate Love With A Cocktail Or Two! Part 2 https://www.houstons-inc.com/blog/2017/02/14/roses-are-red-violets-are-blue-celebrate-love-with-a-cocktail-or-two-part-2/ https://www.houstons-inc.com/blog/2017/02/14/roses-are-red-violets-are-blue-celebrate-love-with-a-cocktail-or-two-part-2/#respond Tue, 14 Feb 2017 15:08:13 +0000 https://www.houstons-inc.com/blog/?p=2537 Last Valentine’s Day, we shared with you delicious cocktail recipes to try with your loved one. This year, we thought we’d carry on the tradition. Capture your Valentine’s heart with these lovely cocktails! Torani® Raspberry Mimosa Ingredients: Torani® Raspberry Syrup ½ Cup Champagne 2 Tbsp. Fresh Orange Juice Preparation: Combine ingredients in a fluted glass…

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Last Valentine’s Day, we shared with you delicious cocktail recipes to try with your loved one. This year, we thought we’d carry on the tradition. Capture your Valentine’s heart with these lovely cocktails!

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Torani® Raspberry Mimosa

Ingredients:

  • Torani® Raspberry Syrup
  • ½ Cup Champagne
  • 2 Tbsp. Fresh Orange Juice

Preparation:

Combine ingredients in a fluted glass and stir gently

 

Sipp Eco Beverage Co® Pomegranate Mojo Lemon-drop

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Ingredients:

  • 6 Blackberries
  • 4 oz. Pomegranate Juice
  • 1 oz. Lemon Juice
  • 1 oz. Vodka
  • Sipp Mojo Berry

Preparation:

Muddle blackberries and place them in a shaker filled with ice, pomegranate juice, lemon juice, and vodka. Shake vigorously, strain the contents into a glass, and top of the cocktail with Sipp Mojo Berry. Garnish with blackberries.

 

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Monin® Love On The Rocks ‘Rita

Ingredients:

  • Ice
  • ½ oz. Monin Strawberry Fruit Puree
  • ¾ oz. Monin Habanero Lime Syrup
  • 1 ½ oz. Silver Tequila
  • ½ oz. Triple Sec
  • 3 oz. Sweet and Sour

Preparation:

Combine all the ingredients in a shaker in the order listed and shake vigorously until the ingredients are mixed. Pour the contents into a serving glass and garnish with a strawberry and lime.

And for those of you who enjoy hot cocktails…

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Oregon Chai® Oregon Chai Glögg

Ingredients:

  • 8 oz. Red Wine
  • 1 ½ oz. Oregon Chai Spiced Chai Tea Latte Concentrate
  • ½ oz. Torani Vanilla Syrup
  • 2 Star Anise Seeds
  • Dash of Cinnamon
  • Cinnamon Stick for garnish

Preparation:

Aside from the cinnamon stick, place all the ingredients into a pot and simmer until the smell permeates the room. Serve warm into a coffee mug or any other temperature safe glassware with the cinnamon stick inside of the cup.

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Love is in the air and not just because it’s almost Valentine’s Day.  We think you’ll LOVE these sweetheart cocktails that happen to be a perfect match for the day.  Grab your Valentine and give them a try!

Torani Raspberry Chocolate Kiss Martini

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Torani Raspberry Chocolate Kiss Martini

¼ cup vodka

½ oz Torani Red Raspberry Syrup + extra for garnish

¼ oz Torani Chocolate Milano Syrup

Fresh mint leaf for garnish, if desired

½ cup crushed chocolate chip cookies

Ice

Rim a martini glass with some Torani raspberry syrup and then dip into cookie crumbs.  Add rest of ingredients to a cocktail shaker filled with ice and shake vigorously.  Strain into martini glass.  Cheers!

 

Monin Rose Valentine G&T

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Monin Rose Valentine G&T

½ oz Monin Rose Syrup

1 3/4 oz gin

Tonic water

Fill glass with ice.  Add syrup and gin, and stir.  Top with tonic water and garnish with cucumber slices, lemon wheel and a rose.

 

 

 

 

Valentine’s Day CrushValentine's Day Crush

2 oz cranberry juice

2 oz spiced rum

3 oz Cock ‘n Bull Ginger Beer

Fill a rocks glass with ice.  Combine cranberry juice and rum in glass, then top with ginger beer.

 

Sipp Posmo Berry Sparkler

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Sipp Posmo Berry Sparkler

2 oz organic vodka

4 oz organic pomegranate juice

1 oz fresh lime

½ oz organic agave nectar

1 oz Sipp Mojo Berry

Add ice, vodka, pomegranate juice, lime juice, and agave nectar to a shaker and shake vigorously.  Strain into glass with ice and top with Sipp.  Garnish with lime.

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