Marinas Menu & Lifestyle: Spring Cocktails by Andrea Correale of Elegant Affairs
Now that it feels like spring, check out these great cocktail recipes that you can mix up by celebrity caterer, Andrea Correale. They are real refreshers!
Sparkling Blood Orange Cocktail
Ingredients:
-¼ cup crème de cassis
-1 ½ cups strained fresh blood orange juice
-1 750-ml bottle chilled sparking white wine
-8 blood orange slices
Directions:
-Start with 1 1/2 teaspoons crème de cassis
-Add 3 tablespoons juice to each glass.
-Fill each glass with sparkling white wine, then stir gently. Garnish cocktails with slices of blood orange
Watermelon Cosmo
Ingredients:
-2 oz Fresh Watermelon juice*
-1 oz Watermelon infused Vodka
-1 dash of lime juice
-½ oz Agave Nectar
-1 oz Cranberry Juice
-1 slice of lime
Directions:
-Add ingredients and ice into cocktail shaker.
-Shake and strain into cocktail glass and garnish with lime slice and small pieces of watermelon.
Surfer Sunrise
Ingredients:
-1 oz raspberry vodka
-1 oz tequila
-1 oz orange juice
-1 splash of grenadine
-1 splash of blood orange
-1 blood orange slice for garnish
Directions:
-Pour the tequila, vodka, orange juice and blood orange syrup into a rocks glass with ice.
-Stir.
-Slowly pour the grenadine around the inside edge of the glass, it will sink and slowly rise to mix with the other ingredients naturally.
-Spear a blood orange slice with a toothpick and lay across the top of the glass.
For more information on Andrea Correale and Elegant Affairs, visit their web site at http://elegantaffairscaterers.com/.
Photo Credit: Courtesy of Elegant Affairs
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