Valentine’s Day is here, and whether you’re spending it with a significant other or crying to a cheesy Nicholas Sparks movie with your girlfriends, we can all get down with a festive drink. Either way, these Valentine’s Day-inspired drinks are for you, and as always, enjoy responsibly.
Dirty Shirley
Ingredients
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1 ¼ cups vodka
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½ cup lime juice
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2 tablespoons grenadine
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1 ½ cups ginger beer
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Optional: maraschino cherries
Instructions
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Place all ingredients (except ginger beer) in a cocktail shaker
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Add chunky ice and shake a few times
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Add ginger beer and lightly stir
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Add more lime if you’d like
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Pour and add maraschino cherries (optional)
Recipe Credits: Noble Pig
Cranberry Vodka Spritzer
Ingredients
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Ice
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2 ½ cups vodka
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2 ½ cups seltzer
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2 cups cranberry juice
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2 tablespoons honey
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Optional: 1 orange, thinly sliced
Instructions
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Add seltzer, cranberry juice, vodka, and ice to a pitcher
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Mix in honey and stir
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Add orange slices and stir again
Recipe Credits: Food Network
Manhattan
Ingredients
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Ice
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2 tablespoons sweet vermouth
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¼ cup whiskey
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Optional: maraschino cherries
Instructions
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Add all ingredients and stir
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Strain and serve
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Optional: add maraschino cherries
Recipe Credits: NYTimes Cooking
Frozé
Ingredients
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Blender
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8 cups ice
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1 bottle of rosé, chilled
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4 cups chopped strawberries
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2 tablespoons lemon juice
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¼ cup vodka
Instructions
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Add half a bottle of rose, 1 cup strawberries, half the vodka, and a tablespoon of lemon juice to a blender
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Add 4 cups of ice and blend until slushy
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If the solution is too watery, add more ice and blend
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Repeat the process with the remaining ingredients
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Serve and add some strawberries as a garnish (optional)
Recipe Credits: Delish
Pomegranate Margarita
Ingredients
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2 cups tequila*
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1 cup triple sec*
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2 cups pomegranate juice*
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½ cup lime juice*
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Club soda
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Salt (optional)
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Lime wedges (optional)
*chilled
Instructions
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Combine tequila, triple sec, pomegranate and lime juice
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Run the lime wedges around the rims of the glasses, then dip the glasses in salt (optional)
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Pour about ½ a cup of the mix into each glass
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Top off with club soda
Recipe Credits: The Redhead Bake