These libations are perfect to toast the holiday, no matter how you choose to celebrate!
Whether you’re celebrating with your special someone or toasting Valentine’s Day with friends, you can’t go wrong with these cocktails.
Cruzan® Kiss Kiss
Ingredients:
2 parts Cruzan® Single Barrel Rum
1 part DeKuyper® Triple Sec
1 splash Lemon Juice
Method:
Combine ingredients and shake with ice in a mixing glass until chilled. Stir in and pour over ice into a sugar-rimmed cocktail glass.
Laphroaig® Perfect Gentleman
Ingredients:
1 1⁄2 parts Laphroaig® 10-Year-Old Scotch Whisky
3⁄4 part DeKuyper® Crème de Cacao Dark
1 1⁄2 parts Heavy Cream
2-3 dashes Orange Bitters
Method:
Shake vigorously with ice and strain into a chilled stemless cocktail glass. Garnish with fresh shaved chocolate.
Basil Hayden’s ® Bacon Sour
Ingredients:
1 1/3 part Basil Hayden’s Bourbon
1 part St-Germain® Liqueur Infused with Applewood Smoked Bacon (recipe included below)
1 part Freshly Squeezed and Strained Lemon Juice
1/2 part Diluted Maple Syrup (1:1 ration of Vermont Grade A Medium Amber Syrup to water)
1 dash Peychaud’s® Bitters
1/4 part Pasteurized Egg White
Preparation:
1. Combine Basil Hayden’s Bourbon, bacon-infused St-Germain®, lemon juice, diluted maple syrup, bitters and egg white into a mixing glass and shake vigorously with ice.
2. Stain over fresh ice into a double old-fashioned glass.
3. Garnish with an orange slice and a piece of St-Germain® infused Applewood smoked bacon.
Bacon Infused St-Germain®
Ingredients
9 Thick Slices of Applewood Smoked Bacon
2 750 ml bottles of St-Germain® Liqueur
Preparation:
1. Cook bacon in the oven until it is crispy on the outsides but still chewy in the center.
2. Place bacon on paper towel to remove some of the rendering.
3. Place cooked bacon in a glass jar with two 750 ml bottles of St-Germain® and allow it to infuse for 24 hours at room temperature.
4. Remove bacon.
5. Place liqueur in the freezer so renderings congeal and you can remove them.
6. Strain through a fine mesh strainer and cheese cloth to remove as much rendering as possible.
repeat freezer step if needed and strain again.
7. Refrigerate until ready for use.
Knob Creek® Ginger Twist
Created by Celebrity Chef Michael Symon
Ingredients:
1 ½ Parts Knob Creek® Rye Whiskey
¾ Part Fresh Lemon Juice
¾ Part JDK & SonsTM Fleur Handcrafted Elderflower Liqueur
Ginger Beer
Angostura® Bitters
Preparation:
1. Add Knob Creek® Rye, fresh lemon juice and elderflower liqueur into a cocktail shaker with ice.
2. Shake ingredients and strain into Collins glass filled with ice.
3. Top with ginger beer and garnish with an Angostura® Bitters Floater.
