Love Potion No. 9 Cocktail
Cheers to love this Valentine's Day by making this Love Potion No. 9 Cocktail! Bright strawberries, sweet vanilla vodka, tangy pink lemonade, and bubbly Prosecco come together to make the perfect drink to sip on with your sweetheart this holiday.
Servings: 2 cocktails
Ingredients
- 4 oz pink lemonade
- 3 oz vanilla vodka
- 1 oz strawberry simple syrup or strawberry jam
- sparkling wine to top off
- 10-12 strawberries to garnish
Instructions
- Add a sugar rim to each cocktail glass. Cut out your strawberry hearts, then arrange them around the edges of each glasses. Add ice and keep in freezer until use.
- Add lemonade, vodka, syrup or jam, and ice to a cocktail shaker. Shake vigorously for at least 30 seconds to incorporate.
- Evenly pour the cocktail into each glass, then top off with sparkling wine. Add extra strawberry garnish if desired.
Notes
- Utilize mise en place! Make sure you have all of your ingredients prepped and ready before you begin making this recipe - it will help save you time and keep you organized.
- Plan your garnish. I like to set up my cocktail glasses and garnishes ahead of time so they stay as fresh as possible - for this cocktail, I added the sugar rim, then arranged the strawberry hearts in the glass, filled it with ice, and kept the whole glass in the freezer until I was ready to pour the drink in!
- Make the color pop. As mentioned, using jam will produce a milder color while packaged strawberry simple syrup will make this cocktail a brighter pink - but adding a bit of edible pink luster dust or food coloring can really make the color shine!
- Use your favorite sparkling wine. I used a Prosecco rosé, but any champagne or sparkling wine will do - you'll taste it first in every sip, so use your favorite!