Toast to Your Besties

Toast to Your Besties 💕🍓

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Galentine's recipes everyone will love

Pink Senoritas

Pink Senoritas

Ingredients:

Directions:

Serves 4:

Rub a lemon wedge around the rim of four glasses, then dip rims into salt. To each glass, add ice, pink lemonade, lemon juice, triple sec, and tequila. Stir. Garnish each glass with a lemon slice and serve.

Bourbon Figgy Stardust

Bourbon Figgy Stardust

Ingredients:

  • 2 oz Maker's Mark Bourbon
  • 1 oz Simple Syrup
  • 2 oz Lemon Juice
  • 1 tbs Fig Jam
  • dash Bitters
  • 1 splash Grapefruit Juice
  • 1-2 Figs (for garnish)

Directions:

Mix all ingredients except for fresh figs in a shaker. Pour into a glass and garnish with figs.

Rose Petal

Rose Petal

Ingredients:

  • 2 oz Hendrick's Gin
  • 0.5 cup Water
  • 1 cup Sugar
  • 1 cup Rose Water
  • 1 oz Grapefruit Juice
  • 1 oz Lemon Juice
  • 0.5 oz Simple Syrup
  • 2 dashes Bitters
  • 1 Cardamom pod
  • Some Edible Rose Petals (for garnish)

Directions:

Rose Simple Syrup Instructions:

Combine the water and sugar and place in a small saucepan. Bring to a simmer for 2 minutes, or until clear and sugar is dissolved. Remove from heat and cool. Add the rose water and refrigerate until needed.

Cocktail Instructions:

Warm a small pan on the stove, on medium heat. Add the cardamom pod and toast for 2 minutes, or until fragrant. Place the pod in a cocktail shaker and muddle. Crush with just enough pressure to crack the shell. Add the remaining ingredients with ice and shake until chilled.

Pour over into a chilled coupe glass and garnish with edible rose petals.

a pink cocktail garnished with raspberries

Galentine's Spritz

Ingredients:

  • 4 oz vodka
  • 1 oz grenadine
  • 8 fresh raspberries
  • ½ oz simple syrup
  • 1 oz lemon juice
  • Top with sparkling water
  • Garnish with a raspberry pick

Directions:

Yields: 2 cocktails

Add raspberries to a shaker and muddle. Add vodka, grenadine, simple syrup, lemon juice, and ice. Shake briefly to chill. Strain into two glasses with ice. Top both with sparkling water and stir gently. Garnish with a raspberry pick.