13 Valentine’s Day Cocktails Guaranteed To Have You Feeling All The Love

Borghetti Espresso Liqueur

Whether you’re kicking it solo this Valentine’s Day or you’re boo’d up, we all deserve a great cocktail to celebrate the holiday. To help make your celebration as seamless as possible (because you deserve!), I’ve compiled a list of 13 of my favorite Valentine’s Day cocktails. I included a bit of everything too! There are a few clever variations on the Espresso Martini, some celebratory bubbles, and cocktails that use romantic ingredients like rose water and chocolate bitters.

Cheers to a fun, flirty Valentine’s Day for all of us! And let me know what cocktail you choose to mix up!

Borghetti 30 Second Espresso Martini

Ingredients

1 1/2 ounces Borghetti Espresso Liqueur

1 1/2 ounces of your favorite vodka

Ice cubes

Espresso beans or coffee beans for garnish (optional)

Directions

Fill a cocktail shaker with ice cubes. Add the Borghetti liqueur and vodka to the shaker. Shake well until the mixture is thoroughly chilled. Strain the cocktail into a chilled martini glass or rocks glass filled with ice. Optionally, garnish with a few espresso beans or coffee beans on top for added flair.

Cupid Spritz

Ingredients

2oz Oxbow Estate Rhum Louisiane Agricole

3/4oz lemon juice

3/4oz rose syrup

Soda Water

Rose petals for garnish

Directions

Add Oxbow Estate Rhum Louisiane Agricole, lemon juice and rose syrup to a Collins glass and stir. Add ice and top with soda water. Swizzle and garnish with edible rose buds

The Temptress

(Created By Bridget Albert)

Ingredients

1 oz raspberry puree

½ oz rose water

½ oz fresh lemon juice

3 dashes chocolate bitters

3 oz sparkling wine

1 oz gin

Directions

Add all ingredients except for sparkling wine to an ice filled mixing glass. Shake well. Strain into a flute or coupe glass. Top with sparkling wine. Stir. Garnish with two raspberries on a pick. Enjoy!

Daisies Are For Lovers

(Created By The Balvenie US West Coast Ambassador Brett Bayly)

Ingredients

1.5 part The Balvenie 12 Year Old DoubleWood

0.5 part Apricot Brandy

.75 part fresh lime juice

0.5 part simple syrup

½ part Maraschino Cherry syrup

Directions

Add all ingredients to the cocktail shaker with ice and shake hard for 5 seconds. Double strain into stemmed glass of choice. Garnish with maraschino skewered cherries if desired, or leave it simple and sophisticated without letting the drink speak for itself.

Love Bomb

Ingredients

2 oz Cocoa Bomb Chocolate Whiskey

1.5 oz Lemonade

.5 oz Grenadine

2 Strawberries

Directions

Muddle one strawberry at the bottom of the tumbler glass and set it aside. Combine all other ingredients in a shaker with ice and shake well for 10-15 seconds. Strain into the tumbler with fresh ice and garnish with the remaining strawberry. Cheers to liquid perfection.

Don’t Go Breakin My Heart

Aviation American Gin

Ingredients

1 oz Aviation American Gin

0.5 oz Cointreau

0.25 oz Aperol

0.75 oz Lemon Juice

0.5 oz Raspberry Syrup

0.5 oz Vanilla Syrup

Directions

Garnish with Orange Peel and a Candy Heart.

“Kiss Me” Paloma

Ingredients

2oz LALO Tequila

1.5oz Fresh Grapefruit Juice

3oz Sparkling Water

.5oz Fresh Lime Juice

.5oz Agave Syrup

Pinch of Salt

Garnish: Lime Wedge

Directions

Add LALO, fresh juices, agave syrup, and a pinch of salt to an ice-filled shaker tin. Shake and strain into a salt-rimmed, ice-filled collins glass. Top with sparkling water, and garnish with a lime wheel or wedge.

Mexpresso Martini

Ingredients

2 oz Gran Centenario® Añejo

2 oz Espresso

1/2 oz Chili Liqueur

1/2 Vanilla Simple Syrup*

Garnish: 3 Coffee Beans

Directions

*Syrup Preparation: Bring 1 cup of water to a pot and bring to a light boil. Reduce heat, add 1 cup of sugar, and stir to dissolve. Remove from heat and add 1 vanilla bean. Remove bean when room temperature is reached or leave in container for a stronger flavor.

Combine all ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice. Shake and strain into a coupe glass. Garnish with three coffee beans.

Cupid Cuervo

Jose Cuervo

Ingredients

1 1/2 oz Cuervo Tradicional Plata Tequila

1 oz Campari (Italian aperitif)

1 oz Blanc Vermouth

1 Strawberry

1 Lime Wedge

Garnish: Orange Twist with a Heart Punched Out

Directions

Muddle the strawberry and lime wedge in a mixing glass. Add the remaining ingredients and fill with ice. Stir, and strain into a rocks glass filled with one large ice cube. Garnish with an orange twist with a heart punched out as well as the punched out heart.

George Dickel Tennessee Rose

Ingredients

2 oz George Dickel Bourbon

1 oz lime juice

0.75 oz pomegranate grenadine (2 parts pomegranate juice to 1 part sugar)

Lime twist and fresh pomegranate slice for garnish

Directions

Combine all ingredients in a shaker with ice. Shake well and fine strain into a coupe glass. Garnish with a lime twist and fresh pomegranate slice.

Snake Hips

Ingredients

2 oz Remus Straight Bourbon

0.5 oz Lime Juice

6-7 Mint Leaves

2-3 Blackberries

0.75 oz Simple Syrup

1 oz Club Soda

Directions

Combine mint leaves, lime juice, simple syrup and blackberries into a shaker. Muddle.

Dragon’s Hpnosis

Hpnotiq

Ingredients

1.5oz Capurro Pisco

0.75oz Hpnotiq

0.5oz Dragon Fruit Syrup

0.5oz Fresh Pineapple Juice

1oz Key Lime

1 Egg White

Directions

Add all ingredients except egg white into a shaker tin. Carefully crack egg white into the opposite tin. Add 5-6 ice cubes and shake long and hard. Open the tin and fill it with ice. Short and hard. Strain frothy Cocktail into a coupe glass, shake out the last bit. Drip bitters to the top of the cocktail in circles. Run a toothpick through bitters to create a design on top of cocktail foam. Garnish with dragon fruit.

Zacapa Lava Roasted Manhattan

Ingredients

1.5 oz Zacapa No. 23 Rum

0.75 oz Spiced Cacao Vermouth*

0.25 oz Mezcal

1 dash Mole Bitters

1 Roasted Marshmallow, for garnish

* Can substitute with Sweet Vermouth

Directions

Stir all ingredients into a mixing glass. Double strain into a coupe glass.Garnish with a roasted marshmallow.

* Spiced Cacao Vermouth

Directions

In a quart container, add sweet vermouth and 2 oz cacao nibs. Let sit for a minimum of 30 min, up to 24 hours at room temperature (for best results, let sit for 24 hours). Fine strain, label and date.