Easter is Sunday, April 20, and we've rounded up some sweet and colorful concoctions for your Easter cocktail menus! 

 

cadbury cocktail
Photo & recipe: Nicholas DiCristina, Legal Sea Foods Chicago

Cadbury Egg Surprise

Ingredients:

2 ounces Vanilla vodka

1 oz Disaronno Velvet Cream Liqueur 

1/2 ounce Yellow Chartreuse 

1/2 ounce White crème de cacao

1 ounce Heavy cream 

1 ounce Semisweet or dark chocolate

Directions:

  1. Chill your martini glass and rim with chocolate
  2. Pour 2 oz. vanilla vodka into a shaker.
  3. Add 1 oz of Disaronno Velvet Cream Liqueur, 1/2 oz of yellow chartreuse, 1/2 oz of creme de cacao
  4. Mix all of these spirits up by means of shaking the tin HARD!
  5. Garnish with a bit of vanilla flakes or hazelnut zest as well as a Cadbury egg halve spilling over into the coupe.

 

easter cocktail recipe
Photo & Recipe: Lee Corbett for Koloa Rum

 

The Tipsy Bunny

Ingredients:

Honey and shredded coconut for the glass

2 oz carrot juice blend

1 oz pineapple juice

0.5 oz ginger liqueur

1.5 oz Kōloa Kaua’i Dark Rum

Long, thin carrot for garnish

Directions:

Paint one side of a tall, narrow glass with honey, then roll it in shredded coconut. In a cocktail shaker, combine the carrot juice, pineapple juice, and ginger liqueur and shake with ice. Fill the serving glass with ice, then strain the cocktail into the glass. Gently float the dark rum over the cocktail. Garnish with a long, thin carrot for stirring the layers together.

 

easter cocktail recipe
Recipe: Skrewball (Photo: Walking Eagle Photography)

Baa Baa Bramble

Ingredients: 

1½ oz. Skrewball Peanut Butter Whiskey 

½ oz. Green Chartreuse 

½ oz. Lemon Juice 

5 Blackberries 

Mint & Blackberries for Garnish 

Directions: 

Muddle blackberries in a shaker. Add Skrewball, Green Chartreuse and lemon juice. Shake and pour into a glass and top with soda. Garnish with mint and blackberries. 

 

easter cocktail
Recipe: Aphrodise (Photo: Aphrodise)

Aphrodise's Bubbling Bunny

Ingredients:

60mL Aphrodise

30mL Rose Wine

25mL Raspberry Liqueur

15mL Lemon Juice

15mL Coconut Syrup

2 drops of Fee Foam or Egg White Powder

7 drops of Aromatic Bitters

Garnish: Raspberry & Lemon Peel, Coconut Flakes (on the outside of glass)

Directions:

  1. Mix rose wine, raspberry liqueur, lemon juice, coconut syrup, fee foam or egg white powder in a Boston Shaker.
  2. Pour into coupe rimmed with coconut and top with Aphrodise.
  3. Add 7 drops of aromatic bitters on top of foam.
  4. Add garnishes, and enjoy! 

 

easter cocktail recipes
Photo & recipe: Kayla Walker, Craft Bartender, Oak and Eden

Easter Wishes

Ingredients:

4 dashes Coconut Bitters [House distillation]
0.75oz Carrot Liqueur [House distillation]
1.5oz Coconut Oil Fat-Wash Bourbon Base 90 proof (Coconut oil
used: LouAna, Oak & Eden Bourbon)
0.75oz Apricot & Green Cardamom Simple Syrup (See recipe
below)
0.5oz fresh squeezed lemon juice (Pro tip: Clarify your lemon juice
with agar agar first for a higher clarity cocktail)
Lemon Peel Expression


Garnish: Dried Apricot (optional: spiral carrot slice with a mint
sprig to resemble a tiny carrot!)
 

Apricot Simple Syrup: 
250g Distilled Water
125g White Granulated Sugar
150g Apricots, dried and thinly sliced
15g green cardamom pods, split and seeds only
Pinch of Himalayan sea salt
 

Directions:

For the apricot simple syrup:

  1. Heat all ingredients together and allow to simmer until aromatics are clear.
  2. Remove and strain through a fine mesh strainer. Label & Date.

For the cocktail:

  1. Chill your favorite rocks glass and chill a Boston Shaker
  2. Combine all ingredients into the tall side of a Boston tin
  3. Add ice
  4. Hard shake
  5. Pour over a large clear ice cube using a Hawthorne strainer
  6. Express a lemon peel
  7. Garnish and Enjoy!

 

easter cocktail
Photo & recipe: Monin

Easter Fizz Tini

Ingredients:

1 1/2 oz. premium dry gin

1/2 oz. fresh lemon juice

1/2 oz. fresh lime juice

1 1/2 oz. Monin Pure Cane Syrup

2 oz. heavy cream

3/4 oz. pasteurized egg white

2 drop(s) Orange Flower Water

Top with:

2 oz. sparkling water

Directions:
  1. Chill serving glass.
  2. Pour ingredients into mixing glass with 2/3 ice in order listed.
  3. Cap, shake and strain into chilled serving glass.
  4. Add garnish and serve.

 

easter cocktail recipe
Windsor Garden (Photo & Recipe: Empress 1908 Gin)

Windsor Garden

Description: Meet your new favorite cocktail. Between an impressive array of fresh herbs and a delicate hint of lemon, the Windsor Garden is like sipping on spring.

Ingredients: 

2 oz Empress 1908 Indigo Gin 

1⁄2 oz Fresh Lemon Juice

1⁄2 oz Simple Syrup 

Basil, Thyme, Rosemary & Mint Leaves

Directions: 

  1. Lightly muddle herbs and shake ingredients over ice. 

  2. Strain into a stemless wine glass with ice. 

  3. Garnish with a sprig of rosemary.

 

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