Bloody Valentine

Manifesting heartbreak just to spend Valentine’s Day with your girlfriends this year? The kind that makes you listen to Red (Taylor’s Version)  so much, you make her top 1% of listeners for the 5th year in a row?

This cocktail is perfect to share with your somebody and incorporates our favorite late in the season citrus we have been dying to make use of. I was lucky enough to have oranges in my backyard to use for this recipe. Please make sure you #OvenBakedbyBianca to show me how you made this!

Makes 1 drink

Ingredients

8 oz. can of blood orange soda or flavored citrus soda of choice

1.5 oz vodka

.5 oz Cointreau (substitute: Triple Sec)

.25 oz simple syrup

Squeeze of half an orange (blood orange if you have!), slice the other half for garnish

Squeeze of half a lime

1 teaspoon of grenadine

¼ cup of cranberries

3 tablespoons of sugar

How to Make It

Garnish Prep

Take orange slices and dry out with a paper towel for 15 minutes.

Pour three tablespoons of sugar across the slices.

Using a kitchen torch, brulee the slices until desired color is achieved.

If you do not have a kitchen torch, simple orange slice garnish works just fine.

The Drink

Chill a coupe or highball glass in the freezer.

Muddle cranberries in a cocktail shaker or tall glass

Add vodka, Cointreau, simple syrup, orange juice, and lime juice to the cocktail shaker.

Add ice and shake.

Use a cocktail strainer to pour drink into the glass.

Top off drink with the soda and a dash of grenadine.

Lastly, add your orange slide and a couple cranberries for floating on the top.