Valentine's Cocktails

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                      The Simplest Pairings Are Often The Best Ones!

Do you like chocolate?  Do you like rum?  Then treat yourself to one of the simplest, yet most enjoyable pairings imaginable!

Try pairing a high-cocoa chocolate with a rum aged in French oak or a rum aged in an ex-whiskey barrel with chocolate-covered almonds!

The sky is the limit!

           Watermelon Mojitos

Ingredients (per serving):

  • 1 oz. Mint-flavored Simple Syrup
  • 1 oz. freshly squeezed Lime Juice
  • Small pieces of watermelon, seeded and cut into bite-sized cubes
  • 3 oz. White Rum
  • Club Soda or Lemon-Lime Soda
  • Thinly-sliced Lime Wheels for garnish

Directions:

Pour lime juice and rum into the serving glass. Gently stir until combined.Add ice cubes and watermelon cubes.  Add Club Soda or Lemon-Lime Soda taste and top with lime wheels.

          Cranberry Rum Martini

Ingredients (per serving):

  • l oz. Lime Juice
  • 2 oz. Cranberry Juice
  • 1 tsp. Sugar
  • ½ oz. White Rum
  • ½ oz. Golden Rum
  • ½ oz. Dark Rum

Directions:

Pour lime juice, cranberry juice, sugar, white, golden and dark rums into a cocktail shaker filled with ice.Shake well and strain into a Martini glass.Garnish with a strawberry and/or red sugar.

Source: www.thekitchenmagpie.com

    Jamaican Coffee /Rum Coffee

Ingredients:

  • ¾ oz. Dark Rum
  • ¾ oz. Coffee-Flavored Liqueur
  • 1 C. Freshly Brewed Coffee 
  • 2 Tbsp. Whipped Cream as garnish (optional)
  • 1 Chocolate Covered Coffee Bean (optional)

Directions:

Pour rum and coffee liqueur into a fancy coffee cup. Fill the cup with the hot coffee. Optional: Top with a dollop of whipped cream and garnish with a coffee bean.

       Here’s to Fighting, Cheating, Stealing and Drinking!

                                     If you Fight, may you fight for a friend.

                                         If you Cheat, may you cheat death.

                                    If you Steal, may you steal a lover’s heart.

                                   And if you Drink, may you drink with me!

                                                                                           — Anonymous

                       “To every lovely lady bright, I wish a gallant faithful knight;

                             To every faithful lover, too, I wish a trusting lady true.”

                                                                                      — Sir Walter Scott