Valentines Cocktail Love Potion

Looking for the best love potion Valentine’s Day cocktail recipe? This easy-to-make romantic cocktail is perfect for your Valentine’s Day celebrations.

😊 Why make this cocktail

• This is an easy cocktail with simple ingredients that are typical to keep on hand.
• The pink color makes this cocktail perfect for serving as a Valentine’s Day cocktail recipe.
• This vodka cocktail has all the flavor profiles for a great drink. It’s sweet, with warm spices and a touch of sour from the cranberry and lime juice. 
• Serving a Valentine theme cocktail is a great way to let someone know they are special to you. 

🍹 Cocktail glass deorations

• A good cocktail not only tastes good but is pretty to look at. Make your cocktail fun and pretty with one of these festive drink embellishments.
• Slice fruit such as oranges, pineapple, limes, or lemins into small wedges and place them on the rim of the glass.
• Umbrella Cocktail Drink Picks: Umbrellas are a classic decoration for any cocktail.
• Cupid’s arrow: slide a few pieces of fruit on Cupid’s arrow and place them in your glass.
• Drop a few candy hearts into your cocktail just before you serve.
• Let the sparks fly when you put one of these fireworks cocktail picks in your glass.
• Add springs of fresh herbs such as mint or rosemary.

🛒 Ingredient notes

Simple syrup

This cocktail recipe has a unique spiced infused simple syrup.

• 1/2 cup water
• 1/2 cup sugar
• Cinnamon sticks: You will need 2, four-inch long pieces
• Ginger – peel and cut into slices the size of a quarter. You should have 4 quarter-size pieces of fresh ginger.

Sugar rim

• 1/2 cup white sugar
• 3 drops red food coloring

Cocktail

• Cranberry juice – No sugar added variety is best. You don’t want your cocktail too sweet.
• Spiced simple syrup: This is the key to this delishious cocktail. Be sure to infuse your cinnamon and ginger for 30 minutes.
• lime juice: Use fresh squeezed, not the green bottle kind.
• Vodka: Use your favorite unflavored brand
• Ginger ale: If you want a lower calorie cocktail you could use diet ginger ale
• Lime: you will need one piecs for a wedge and the rest for lime juice

See the recipe card for a complete list and quantities.

🔪 Step by step instructions

Spiced simple syrup

1. First, make your spiced simple syrup. Combine sugar and water in a small saucepan.

2. Cook over medium-high heat, occasionally stirring until the sugar has dissolved. This will take about 5 minutes.

3. Remove from heat and add the cinnamon stick and fresh ginger slices. Allow them to steep in the sugar water for 30 minutes.

4. Remove and discard the cinnamon stick and pieces of ginger. Cool the spiced simple syrup entirely before using.

Sugar rim

1. Pour sugar into a sandwich-size zip lock bag.

2. Add a few drops of red food coloring. Do not use gel foodcoloring. The basic liquid kind work best.

3. Seal the bag well and shake to incorporate the food coloring throughout the sugar. If it is too light, add another drop and repeat until you get a nice pink color. If you want a red sugar rim, add a few more drops of the food coloring and shake.

4. Place sugar in a shallow rimmed plate or bowl.

5. Wet the edge of your cocktail glass with a wedge of lime. Hold the glass perpendicular to the sugar mixture. Dip the rim of the glass into the sugar mixture and then carefully set it aside.

Cocktail

1. Add cranberry juice, spiced sugar syrup, lime juice, and vodka into a cocktail shaker. Shake ingredients well.

2. Carefully pour into your sugar-rimmed glass, being sure to not get the rim wet.

3. Add ginger ale, give it a slite, stir and serve.

⭐ Hint: If you do not have a Stainless Steel Cocktail Shaker then a canning jar with a tight-fitting lid will work also.

✔️Chilling tip

It is best to prechill your cocktail glass in the freezer for an hour before using it. Starting with a chilled cocktail glass will keep your drink cool longer. This is a plus, so you do not have to add ice and water down your cocktail’s flavors.

✔️Tip for party planning

If you are planning a party, you can make a large batch of the spiced simple syrup the day before. After making it, allow to cool and then place in a pitcher with a secure lid and refrigerate. It can be stored for several days in your refrigerator. ** Just change the servings number in the recipe card.

✔️Make it pretty

Make any cocktail a touch more romantic by sprinkling a few dried rose petals on top of your drink. These rose petals are food-grade, organically grown without GMO, and hand-picked daily before sunrise just as the flower blooms and the rose oil content is high. The petals are then left to dry in the sun before packing for distribution.

🔀 Variations

• To make this cocktail lower in sugar, use diet cranberry juice, and diet ginger ale. This will trim off a few calories from the original recipe. 
• If you do not like tart cranberry juice, use sweetened cranberry juice.
• Add a few slices of fresh strawberries or fresh red raspberries to your glass.
• Use lemon-lime soda in place of the ginge ale.
• Switch out the vodka for coconut rum to give your drink a sweeter tropical taste.
• If you want ice in your cocktail, purchase an ice cube tray that makes one large ice cube for your glass. It will melt slower, so your drink does not get water down as quickly.

Ice Ball Trays