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Love Potions – Ball of Fire

If this cinnamony, spicy cocktail doesn’t set your passions on fire, we don’t know what will.
This spicy, hot Valentine’s Day cocktail is from the chapter “Spicing Things Up” in our new Madtini book Love Potions: 50 Cupid Approved Cocktails For Valentine’s Day available at Amazon.

A mix of cinnamon schnapps, Southern Comfort, Tabasco Sauce and a cinnamon schnapps soaked cherry bring both spicy heat and southern sweet to the Ball of Fire. This will surely start the fires of love.

BALL OF FIRE

Glass: Martini glass
1 oz/30 ml Southern Comfort
3 oz/90 ml Cinnamon Schnapps
1 dash Tabasco Sauce
1 Cherry

Soak cherry in 1 oz of Cinnamon Schnapps in bottom of a martini glass for 5 minutes. Mix remaining ingredients and pour over cherry.

Southside Royale Champagne Cocktail

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Ingredients

1 1/2 oz gin
1/2 oz simple syrup
1/2 oz fresh lime juice
Champagne, or sparkling wine
Sprig of mint

Preparation

Add the gin, simple syrup and lime juice to a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake then strain into a chilled champagne flute. Top with champagne and garnish with a sprig of mint.

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Tex-Mex Sparkler Champagne Cocktail

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Ingredients

1 oz – Blanco Tequila
1/2 oz – simple syrup
Champagne or Sparkling Wine
fresh sliced strawberries

Preparation
Add 1 ounce of tequila and a splash of simple syrup to a champagne flute. Add sparkling wine and fresh sliced strawberries.

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Black Velvet Champagne Cocktail

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Ingredients

Guinness
Champagne or Sparkling Wine

Preparation
Fill a champagne flute halfway with Guinness. Fill the rest of the glass slowly by puring your sparkling wine over the back of the spoon.

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French 75 Champagne Cocktail

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Ingredients

1 1/2 oz – Gin
3/4 oz – Lemon Juice
1/2 oz – Simple Syrup
Champagne or sparkling wine

Preparation
Combine gin, lemon juice and simple syrup in a cocktail shaker half-filled with ice. Shake vigorously then strain into a chilled champagne flute. Top with champagne and serve.

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Scotch Fizz Champagne Cocktail

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Ingredients

1/2 oz – Single Malt Scotch
1/4 oz – Cointreau

Preparation

Combine the scotch and Cointreau in a small cocktail shaker with ice. Shake, then strain into a chilled champagne flute. Top with champagne, add a thick slice of lemon and serve.

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Chocolate Peppermint Stick

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Ingredients

1 1/2 oz – Creme de Cacao
1 1/2 oz – Peppermint Schnapps
3/4 oz – Cream
Peppermint candy cane

Preparation

Combine the cremde de cacao, peppermint schnapps and cream in a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake vigorously and strain into a cocktail glass. Serve with a candy cane.

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Death By Christmas

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Ingredients

1 1/2 oz – Strawberry Liqueur
1 1/2 oz – Absinthe
3/4 oz – Fresh lime juice
Splash of club soda

Preparation

Add the strawberry liqueur, absinthe and lime juice to a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake vigorously and strain into an old-fashioned glass over ice. Add a splash of club soda.

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