Romantic Drink Recipes for Valentine's Day

Next to a chocolate-covered strawberry, a delicious beverage is essential to a Valentine's Day date. With COVID-19 still raging, this year is better than any to try a fun cocktail to celebrate the day of love.

The Besame Mucho not only sounds romantic but its ingredients sing Valentine’s Day. Strawberries, champagne, and LALO tequila – can you imagine a more swoon-worthy drink? But if you're not one for romance, the Galentine's Day Pink Drink is the perfect margarita for you. This margarita uses pink lemonade to give it its iconic Valentine’s pink color. Feeling something a little heavier and decadent than a margarita? The chocolate-covered strawberry martini is Valentine's Day in a glass with a unique twist – Garrison Brothers' bourbon. The Texas-based distillery was not only the first legal bourbon distillery in Texas but also the first legal bourbon distillery in America outside of Kentucky.

So grab a glass, the hand of a loved one, and a box of chocolates while sipping one of these delicious cocktails on your Valentine’s Day.

Besame Mucho

Ingredients:
1 cup fresh strawberries, hulled
3/4 cup champagne
3/4 cup LALO Tequila
1/4 cup fresh lime juice
1/4 cup triple sec

Directions:
Puree strawberries until smooth.

Combine strawberries, champagne, LALO Tequila, lime juice, and triple sec and stir until well combined.

Pour combined margaritas over glasses full of ice

Galentines Day Pink

Ingredients
Twang-A-Rita Citrus Splash
4 oz Strawberry lemonade
1 oz lemon juice
1 oz Dulce Vida Tequila
1 oz triple sec

Directions:
Run a lemon along the edge of a highball glass and rim with Twang-A-Rita Citrus Splash

Add ice, strawberry lemonade, lemon juice, triple sec, and tequila. Stir to combine

Garnish with lemon wedge

Chocolate Covered Strawberry Martini

Ingredients:
2 oz Garrison Brothers Small Batch Bourbon
1.5 oz Godiva White Chocolate Liqueur
1 oz half-and-half
simple syrup to taste (1/2 oz to 1 oz)
2 whole strawberries, washed & stemmed
1 bottle Hershey’s dark chocolate shell

Directions:
Prepare martini glass by dipping the rim in chocolate syrup and allowing it to harden

Swirl chocolate syrup in circular pattern inside the martini glass, place in freezer to chill

Dice one strawberry and place in bottom of mixing tin

Add bourbon, Godiva, half and half

Muddle until strawberry becomes pulp

Add ice and shake

Strain into martini glass

Garnish with upside down strawberry strawberry slice