Category Archives: Cocktails

I love this ombre berry champagne cocktail. It has champagne for one, plus delicious homemade berry syrup. It also looks super pretty and festive with it’s ombre effect and bubbles. I am planning to make this for NYE and tested it out today to make sure it was what I wanted. You can easily makeContinue reading “Ombre Berry Champagne Cocktail”

This is another fun holiday cocktail you can easily scale up to make a big pitcher for a party. The addition of cranberry to the citrus in the drink adds flavor and also adds festive color. I had some orange syrup left from making candied orange peel, so I used some of that in thisContinue reading “Cranberry Whiskey Sour”

If you are looking for a pretty and festive cocktail to serve for this holiday season, the poinsettia champagne cocktail is delicious and elegant and with only a few ingredients, you can whip them up fast. This is a cranberry based cocktail with champagne and orange liqueur. If you want to make it fancy youContinue reading “Poinsettia Champagne Cocktail”

When I was growing up in Indiana, we had a bunch of rhubarb growing right outside our house. I need to try planting some here in North Carolina and see if it can grow. I love rhubarb but have a really hard time finding it here in the south for some reason. There is aContinue reading “Rhubarb Sour”

The cherry old fashioned is a twist on a classic old fashioned using Heering cherry liqueur. We had a bottle of Heering I wanted to use, so this seemed like a great cocktail to make. It is a very simple mix of whiskey, Heering, and a touch of simple syrup. I had some orange syrupContinue reading “Cherry Old Fashioned”

The dirty martini is one of my very favorite cocktails. There is something about it’s simplicity that I love. I prefer vodka over gin for a martini, as long as it is decent vodka. In my mind you can’t have too many olives, but that is just me. All you need to make a dirtyContinue reading “Dirty Martini”

Hope everyone has a great Thanksgiving today and has a lot to be grateful for. I have so much to be grateful for and I’m so thankful to spend today with all 3 of my kids. There is still time to whip up a fun drink to serve to your dinner guests. Here are aContinue reading “Happy Thanksgiving!”

This apple cider bourbon punch is so festive and it is a perfect drink to make a big batch of ahead of time and then just add the club soda/sparkling cider when ready to serve for a party or gathering. I will be serving on Thanksgiving and did a little taste test this week toContinue reading “Apple Cider Bourbon Punch”

I was looking for a drink that I could make a big batch of when our friends came over, and apple sangria seemed like the perfect make ahead drink for a warm fall evening. We’ve had a great stretch of warm fall weather this past week and I love it. The nice thing about thisContinue reading “Apple Sangria”

We tend to have oranges/grapefruit lying around in the winter here. Am I the only one that craves citrus in the winter? I’m not sure what it is, maybe a taste of summer? I had some oranges I needed to use up so we are having agent orange cocktails tonight. The agent orange is aContinue reading “Agent Orange Cocktail”