Easy Easter cocktails
Sip sangria, martinis, or even a mocktail
Hop to it! This Easter pour some fun and colorful cocktails like a Bubbly Bunny or white chocolate Peter Cottontail.
“It’s a spin on the traditional chocolate martini,” explained Melissa Gregory, event coordinator at Bourbon Blue in Manayunk. “It’s a little bit lighter flavorwise. It’s not going to be too overly sweet.”
Serve it in a pastel, sugar-rimmed martini glass or break out the bubbly for a twist on a mimosa, featuring champagne and tart cherry juice.
“I like the uniqueness of the cherry because you don’t see the tart cherry in a lot of drinks,” she said. Plus, “it will be nice and pink.”
Also pretty in pink: a Peeps Cocktail with cherry vodka, triple sec, half-andhalf and grenadine.
Prefer something nonalcoholic? Young and old can dive into a Swimming Peeps Mocktini.
“Growing up, Easter was always about chocolate — chocolate and Peeps,” recalled Perry “PJ” Dortone of PJ Bartending in Broomall, whose creamy chocolate martini is more of a “dessert-type treat.”
His berry-rich spring sangria tastes as good as it looks. And if you love jelly beans, try a passion fruit jelly bean martini.
“It’s nice and simple,” Dortone described. “People like it because it tastes like a passion fruit jelly bean.”
Peter Cottontail INGREDIENTS
Simple syrup Colored sugar crystals 2 ounces vanilla vodka ½ ounce light crème de cacao 3 ounces milk or cream Splash grenadine
INSTRUCTIONS
Rim martini glass with simple syrup and colored sugar crystals. Add remaining ingredients to mixing glass, over ice. Shake hard and strain into sugar-coated martini glass. Serves 1.
RECIPE COURTESY OF BOURBON BLUE Bubbly Bunny INGREDIENTS
5 ounces brut champagne ½ ounce tart cherry juice Tart cherry with stem
INSTRUCTIONS
Pour tart cherry juice into flute and top with champagne. Garnish with tart cherry. Serves 1.
RECIPE COURTESY OF BOURBON BLUE