Elegant cocktail recipes for entertaining

Elegant cocktail recipes

Rose's Peartini

Serves 1

Get the party started with this pear-y delicious martini. Rose's Cocktail Infusions Pear Mix makes pear flavored martini's a simple yet impressive endeavor.

Ingredients:
1-1/2 ounces Rose's Cocktail Infusions Pear Mix
1-1/2 ounces premium pear vodka
1 mint sprig
Slices of pear

Directions:
1. Pour Rose's and vodka into a shaker with 1 cup crushed ice or small ice cubes.

2. Shake vigorously and strain into a martini glass. Garnish with mint sprig and pear slices.

Sparkling Pom Cocktail

Makes 4 servings

This is a bubbly and festive drink that is especially pretty with it's red hue and pomegranate arils. And since pomegranates are a popular superfruit, this drink is right on target with current cocktail trends.

Ingredients:
8 ounces pomegranate liqueur
6 ounces POM pomegranate juice
1 bottle sparkling wine such as Cava or Asti
Pomegranate seeds for garnish

Directions:
1. Combine pomegranate liqueur and pomegranate juice. Pour into champagne glasses and top with sparkling wine.

2. Drop pomegranate seeds into champagne glasses for garnish.

Clove and Caña

Serves 1

Warm and spicy, this clove-infused cocktail will have your guests licking their lips and asking for the recipe.

Ingredients:
1-1/2 ounces Flor de Caña 7 Year Grand Reserve Rum
1/2 ounce agave clove syrup (infuse agave nectar with whole cloves)
1/2 ounce fresh lime juice
Ginger beer
Lemon peel shaving
Shaved clove

Directions:
1. Shake rum, agave and lime juice in a shaker with ice.

2. Strain into highball glass, top with ginger beer and garnish with a lemon shaving and clove.

Koffie Au Lait

Serves 1

Espresso vodka alone is a dignified drink. Mixing it with a French vanilla creamer and garnishing with good quality ground cinnamon is an easy way to turn it into another elegant sip.

Ingredients:
2-1/2 ounces Van Gogh Double Espresso Vodka
1 ounce French vanilla creamer
Ground cinnamon

Directions:
1. Pour vodka and creamer into a shaker with ice.

2. Shake vigorously and strain into a rocks glass. Sprinkle lightly with ground cinnamon.

Café Caramel Martini

Serves 1

This luscious martini, created by Rene Matos, beverage director at the New York Marriott Marquis, is one to savor. The Cholive makes it all the more impressive.

Ingredients:
2-1/2 ounces Van Gogh Dutch Caramel Vodka
1/2 ounces Van Gogh Double Espresso Vodka
1/4 ounce caramel sauce
1 ounce vanilla ice cream, softened
Garnished with a Cholive*

Directions:
1. Place vodkas, caramel sauce and vanilla ice cream in a shaker and shake vigorously to ensure the caramel is well blended.

2. Pour into a martini glass and garnish with a Cholive.

*A Cholive is an olive-shaped chocolate truffle made with Vermont whole cream ganache nestled inside a 55 percent dark chocolate shell. For more information, visit www.TheCholive.com.