Dry January is great and all, but if you’re counting down the days until you can wet your whistle again, these Valentine’s Day cocktails are the move.
These seasonal drinks range from a martini inspired by Red Hots candy to a “love potion” featuring Conversation Hearts, to a smattering of red and pink drinks to put you in the mood. In the mood for what is up to you. Bed time? Sexy time? Pizza time? The world is your liquor-soaked oyster.
We even included a few mocktails on this list for anyone who’s cutting back on vodka and gin, but still wants to imbibe. We’re rooting for you.
27 Romantic Valentine’s Day Cocktails
1. Cinnamon Red Hots White Russian
Cinnamon-flavored vodka, Jack Daniels, Kahlua, and Red Hots-infused cream come together to make a fiery concoction for the ages.
It may not be the easiest cocktail to whip up, but it’s certainly the most exciting. Keep your dry ice, fancy restaurants.
Get the Cinnamon Red Hots White Russian recipe.
2. White Chocolate Martini
White chocolate liqueur and vodka come together with zesty raspberries to create a sweet drink that’s perfect for any pink-themed holiday. Valentine’s Day, we’re looking at you. Greta Gerwig, we’re also looking at you to create a National Barbie Day. Please?
Get the White Chocolate Martini recipe.
3. Pink Gin Sour
Simple and refreshing, this cocktail has just five ingredients – lemon juice, Empress 1908 gin, regular gin, rhubarb ginger liqueur, and simple syrup – and comes together in minutes. Assuming you’re not already three drinks in.
Get the Pink Gin Sour recipe.
4. Cherries and Cream Layered Jello Shots
To create the effect of pink and red layered rum jello shots, you need a measure of patience to ensure each layer fully cools before adding the next. If you fail, you’ll still end up with jello shots, though, so even the worst case scenario is a good one.
Get the Cherries and Cream Layered Jello Shots recipe.
5. Strawberry Vanilla Love Potion
Vodka, lime juice, and strawberry vanilla simple syrup are the recipe for love. According to this recipe, at least. We thought Hinge was part of the equation, but we’re admittedly out of practice.
Get the Strawberry Vanilla Love Potion recipe.
6. Guava Mimosa
In: guava juice. Out: orange juice. The result? These delicious and appropriately pink mimosas.
Get the Guava Mimosa recipe.
7. Strawberry Sour Candy Cocktail
This drink obviously features sour candy hearts, but the drink itself is crafted to taste like them. You’ll need cranberry juice, Malibu Strawberry Rum, Sour Strawberry Schnapps, lemon juice, grenadine, and candy for garnish.
Don’t be salty we forgot to make you one. You can be sour about it, though.
Get the Strawberry Sour Candy Cocktail recipe.
8. Rose Gin and Tonic
Made of simple ingredients, including gin, rose water syrup, tonic water, and lime, this floral cocktail tastes just as good as it looks. And it looks magnificent.
Get the Rose Gin and Tonic recipe.
9. Valentine’s Day Martini
Combining tequila rose and vodka? Groundbreaking. Risky. Exciting. Adding strawberry milk to that concoction? Okay, trust us, it tastes better than it sounds.
Get the Valentine’s Day Martini recipe.
10. Spiked Chocolate Strawberry Nesquik Cocoa
Nesquik is already incredible, and even more so when it’s spiked with white chocolate liqueur, creme de cocoa liqueur, and adult strawberry milk liqueur. You didn’t even know some of those things existed, did you?
Get the Spiked Chocolate Strawberry Nesquik Cocoa recipe.
11. Virgin Strawberry Piña Colada
Here’s one for the sober sisters out there. Made with only three ingredients – coconut milk, frozen pineapple, and frozen strawberries – this is basically just a smoothie. We’re not mad about it.
Get the Virgin Strawberry Piña Colada recipe.
12. Sakura Lychee Fizz
Have you ever seen a drink this pretty? Okay, don’t be that guy. Just say no.
Anyway, this lightly sweet and floral drink brings together cherry blossom syrup, lychee syrup, Soho lychee liqueur, and sparkling water.
Get the Sakura Lychee Fizz recipe.
13. Hibiscus Tea Cosmo
Cosmopolitans are the perfect Valentine’s Day cocktail on their own, as they’re naturally pink, but this version steps it up a notch. Just add vodka, hibiscus tea, triple sec, cherries, and simple syrup and shake what your momma gave ya. You do have hands, right?
Get the Hibiscus Tea Cosmo recipe.
14. Pomegranate Champagne Mimosa
The formula for making a drink Valentine appropriate is to add some sort of red or pink fruit to it, and this drink is no exception to the rule.
Pomegranate juice, champagne, and vodka are all you need. Champagne glasses sold separately. But those hands of yours could work in a pinch.
Get the Pomegranate Champagne Mimosa recipe.
15. Sparkling Tequila Kiss
If you can’t get a real kiss this Valentine’s Day, a tequila one is always there for you. All you need is tequila, Strawberry Daiquiri juice cocktail, fresh strawberries, and mint leaves to recreate this one yourself.
Get the Sparkling Tequila Kiss recipe.
16. Raspberry Martini
If you’re looking for an attractive cocktail, a martini is the way to go. This one, combining lemon juice, raspberry simple syrup, vodka, and fresh raspberries, proves that point in a striking way. We hope you like being right.
Get the Raspberry Martini recipe.
17. Rossini Cocktail
A Rossini Cocktail is otherwise known as a Strawberry Bellini. With champagne, strawberries, simple syrup, and lemon, this sweet and sparkling beverage can be yours. And ours, if you’re offering.
Get the Rossini Cocktail recipe.
18. Guava Margarita
The weather outside isn’t giving summer, but your drinks can. Add sweet guava nectar to a classic Margarita recipe, and just pretend.
Get the Guava Margarita recipe.
19. Pink Champagne Punch
Pink lemonade, club soda, champagne, frozen strawberries, and strawberry frozen yogurt. All in one drink, you ask? Yes. Because why choose when you can have it all.
Get the Pink Champagne Punch recipe.
20. Plum Bellini Cocktail
All you need to make this drink are some plums and some champagne. Seriously. If two ingredients is too much, extra champagne is always okay.
Get the Plum Bellini Cocktail recipe.
21. Hibiscus Sour
Hibiscus is a clutch ingredient when it comes to pink-ifying a drink. Just add Pisco, lime juice, an egg white, and bitters to hibiscus syrup, and you’re a Barbie dream.
Get the Hibiscus Sour recipe.
22. Pickled Beet Dirty Martini
If you’re getting your vegetables, then it balances out the alcohol. Or so we’re told. This drink captures the flavor of a classic dirty martini, but incorporates pickled beets to up the V-Day factor. Hey, don’t knock it ’til you try it.
Get the Pickled Beet Dirty Martini recipe.
23. Pink Shimmy Cocktail
This deliciously sweet drink is practically dessert, with gin, grenadine, half and half, and vanilla ice cream. A recipe for a sweet Valentine’s Day.
Get the Pink Shimmy Cocktail recipe.
24. Blood Orange Cocktail Recipe
A bright, citrusy drink may be more traditional in summer time, but we’re all about being delulu as we shovel snow from our doorsteps. All you need for this one is triple sec, blood orange juice, vodka, simple syrup, and club soda.
Get the Blood Orange Cocktail recipe.
25. Chocolate Covered Cherry Cordial Cocktail
What’s Valentine’s Day without chocolate? This drink includes creme de cocoa, grenadine, cherry vodka, and cherry juice for a classic sweet and tart drink that’s sure to impress your date. Even if your date is just your cat.
Get the Chocolate Covered Cherry Cordial Cocktail recipe.
26. Strawberry Mudslide
This cocktail is basically just a spiked strawberry milkshake, made with Baileys, Kahlua, and vodka. The only thing hard about making these is figuring out when to stop.
Get the Strawberry Mudslide recipe.
27. Pink Mojitos
This classic mojito recipe includes all the ingredients you love in the traditional drink, with the added sweetness of strawberry for a festive touch. Is your mouth watering yet? No? Uhh, maybe you should get that checked.
Get the Pink Mojitos recipe.
When she's not typing away on her laptop, you can find Laura working on her MBA at Boston College, listening to Taylor Swift, or sweating it out at an OrangeTheory class. Follow her on Instagram @LauraKristine21 and LinkedIn.
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