Rosé Cherry Blossom

Have you ever tried an Angry Orchard Rosé before?  How about mixing it into a cocktail?

Well I just did both and although the Rosé itself is good, this cocktail is delicious!

I was sent a sample of Angry Orchard Rosé to try.  All opinions are my own.  I was not paid for this post.


Apparently Valentine's Day is in 2 days.

I don't know that because we're excited and are counting down until the 14th.

No I know that because our 3 of 4 turns 10 (double digits....aahhhh) on the 13th.

She was born on Friday the 13th and we thought that was pretty darn cool.

I had never tried Angry Orchard's Rosé Cider before.  I will say that pink drinks usually make me think twice before I take a sip.

I guess I associate them with sweet drinks.....which too much sweet scares me.

On it's own this is pretty good.  I'm not sure that I've ever tried anything "Rosé" before, so I gladly report that my first Rosé experience was a success!

Now, let's talk about this cocktail.

It's an easy one to make.

You add all of your ingredients together minus the Angry Orchard Rosé Cider.

Simple enough, right?

Next you just top it off with the Angry Orchard Rosé Cider.

This would be a fun cocktail to enjoy on Valentine's Day!  Or even the newest term I just learned:

Galentine's Day!  How fun is that!  

I had a friend over last night and I made her one of these and she enjoyed it!

Rosé Cherry Blossom

ingredients:

• 5 ounces Angry Orchard Rosé Cider

• 1 ounce brandy

• 3/4 ounce lemon juice

• 1/2 ounce simple syrup

• 1 tsp cherry preserves

instructions:

1. In a shaker with ice, add brandy, lemon juice, simple syrup and cherry preserves.
2. Shake and strain into a cocktail glass.
3. Top off with Angry Orchard Rosé Cider.

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That's it.  Simple enough and the color is a fun reddish pinkish color too!

Enjoy!!  

Angry By The Fire

I was sent a couple bottles of Angry Orchard so that I could make a cocktail or two of theirs to share with you all.  I was not paid and all opinions are my own and completely honest.

I chose Angry By The Fire because of all of the fun ingredients that goes inside!  

From Angry Orchard to Fireball Whisky to heavy cream and more, this cocktail is a delicious fun blend of ingredients topped with cinnamon.  It is definitely one I will make again!

With two day left until Christmas, our kids could not be more excited!

We've had one family Christmas party so far with two to go.

Last night we went over to our friends house and had Christmas Carolers come and sing a few songs to us.  

What a fun experience!  

I've only seen that in the movies and it was so super special to see it live!

Back to today's cocktail!

What a fun cocktail to make with all of these ingredients!  Also, it allowed me to make my very own, very first Homemade Vanilla Simple Syrup!  Here's how I did it in my Vanilla Simply Syrup post in case you want to make it yourself!

Here is how you make this fun cocktail.

Obviously you are going to add some Angry Orchard to your shaker.

Lemon juice adds a nice refreshing taste to this cocktail.

Not to mentions my Homemade Vanilla Simple Syrup!

Top with ground cinnamon, which adds a tasty touch.

Author: The Cocktail Lady

Angry By The Fire

ingredients:

• 4 ounces Angry Orchard Crisp Apple
• 1 1/2 ounces Fireball
• 2 ounces orange juice
• 1 ounce heavy cream
• 1/2 ounce Vanilla Simple Syrup
• 1 teaspoon lemon juice

instructions:

1. Add ice and all ingredients into a shaker.
2. Shake and strain into a cocktail glass with no ice.
3. Top with a splash of Angry Orchard Apple.
4. Sprinkle cinnamon on top.

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There you have it.  Angry By The Fire to enjoy......well.......by the fire or anywhere!

Hornitos LA MAN-ZANA

**I was sent this sample of Hornitos Spiced Honey tequila without any payment.

All opinions in this post are 100% mine**

Spiced honey tequila.  Ever heard of it?  I sure hadn't until I was sent a bottle and a recipe to try it with.  What I haven't done yet (not quite sure why) is try it by itself.  I will have to do that.

When I get a recipe that mixes alcohol and beer together I usually get a little worried.  I LOVE beer.  I love a good cocktail too.  Mixing them together scares me.  

I have made cocktails with beer before and some turned out really good like my Moon-a-rita and my Chavela.  Others.....not so much, like my Peachy Beer Cocktail.

This cocktail falls in between there somewhere.  

It definitely was not my favorite.  

To be honest, I would never order this cocktail at a bar....or make it again here.  I guess what I'm saying is that this cocktail falls closer to the Peachy Beer Cocktail then the others.

To make this cocktail you need to do it in two parts.

You pour in the tequila.

Next add the apple cider.

Then you add the lemon juice.

Shake and strain into an ice filled cocktail glass.

Finally you add the Mexican lager.

Here are the ingredients:

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Hornitos La Man-Zana

November-30-2016

Ingredients

• 1 ounce Hornitos Spiced Honey tequila
• 1 ounce apple cider
• 1/2 ounce lemon juice
• 4 ounces Mexican lager

Instructions

In a shaker, add ice and all of the ingredients above except for the Mexican lager. Shake and strain into a cocktail glass over ice. Pour in Mexican lager.

Unfortunately I can't enjoy every single cocktail I make.  Fortunately I have some more cocktail recipes that I would like to try soon!

Here's to the week being half over already!

Cheers!!

The Cocktail Lady

Fall Orchard Punch

I was sent a couple bottles of Angry Orchard to try in exchange for my open and honest opinion.  I was not paid for my opinions.

There it is!  

I said it.  

The BEST Fall Punch EVER!!  

I was sent a couple bottles of Angry Orchard Crisp Apple and Cinnful Apple along with a few recipes.  

I have already made the Hot & Angry and last weekend I made Fall Orchard Punch.  OH MY GOODNESS, this is a perfect punch for Thanksgiving.....or a Fall/Autumn party.....or whenever really.

There are two parts to creating this punch.  

The first part is to make the Cranberry Syrup.  

I made it a day ahead so that I knew it would be ready in time.  (Wait, I didn't tell you that my youngest turned 6 and we had her family party on Saturday.  

I decided to make this punch and to see how everyone liked it.)  

First you pour cranberry juice into a pot.

Next you add sugar to the pot and cook on low until the sugar is completely dissolved.

Let it sit and cool completely.  I then transferred it to a tupperware and stuck it in the fridge over night.

When you are ready to make this punch, it literally only takes a few minutes and is really really easy to make.  

I whipped it together in a punch bowl and put a few Ice Balls inside to keep it cool.  We poured it into short glasses over ice because it tasted even better the colder it was.

This punch was such a hit, I'm making it again this weekend for the holiday!  Which reminds me that when I went to the store today......that I forgot to get more of the short plastic glasses for the punch........dang it!

Here is the recipe for Fall Orchard Punch:

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Fall Orchard Punch

November-23-2016

Ingredients

• 4 bottles Angry Orchard Crisp Apple Cider
• 8 ounces white rum
• 1 1/2 ounces Grand Marnier
• 3 ounces lemon juice
• 6 ounces cranberry syrup**
• 3 ounces raspberry puree

Instructions

In a punch bowl add all of the ingredients above except for the Angry Orchard Crisp Apple. Stir everything in the bowl together. Top off with the Angry Orchard Crisp Apple.

**To make the cranberry syrup:
- 2 cups cranberry juice
- 1 cup granulated sugar

In a pot, pour in the cranberry juice and sugar. Heat on low until the sugar is all dissolved. Set aside and let it completely cool. Once cooled, pour in a tupperware and stick it in the fridge to chill overnight.

Once our first batch ran out we had no more of the Angry Orchard Crisp Apple.  Luckily a friend had brought the green Angry Orchard cider so we made the second batch with that.  Although it's totally doable, the Crisp one was better because it wasn't as sweet at the green one.

Here are the ingredients:

I hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving!  This year my parents Anniversary lands on Thanksgiving, so we have 2 reasons to celebrate!

Cheers!

The Cocktail Lady

I was sent these bottles of Angry Orchard free of charge.  I was not paid in any way for this post.  All opinions are my own and always will be.

Hockey Stick

Hockey Stick

I have been off on what day of the week it is all day.....well all week to be honest.  

I must have checked the calendar at least 5 times today to make sure that it was Thursday.  

Every time the kids have a day off of school whether it's a holiday or a teacher in service day, I get screwed up all week long of the days.  I had a couple "OH NO!" moments today thinking that I was getting this post out on Friday when I really wanted it to go out on Thursday.  

Jen, it's Thursday.  Tomorrow is pizza and beer Friday!  

I created a cocktail for all 4 of the Ninja Turtles over the past 4 days.  

In reality I totally could have stopped there, but as I mentioned in an earlier post, our family really likes Stephen Amell and since he is playing Casey Jones in the TMNT2 movie I just knew I have to create a cocktail for him too.  

Tonight I did just that, so Stephen Amell if you are reading this (right Jen, like he's a faithful long time reader of your blog.....in your dreams), this cocktail is for you!

In my mind, if Casey Jones was to go to a bar after a long night of being a vigilante and fighting crime, he would order a cocktail that had whiskey in it.  

Once I decided that I was going to use whiskey, I opened up my bar and there it was front and center......Jack Daniels Honey Whiskey!  It's like it knew I needed to use it or something.

So I added Honey Whiskey, orange juice and lemon juice.

I shook it up real good to give everything the perfect chill and strained it into my mason jar.

After that was all said and done my husband called to let me know what channel the Warriors game is on.  

SUPER EXCITED ABOUT HOW WELL THEY ARE DOING AGAIN THIS YEAR!!  

While we were on the phone I was telling him about what I used in tonight's cocktail and he gave me the name Hockey Stick.  

Pretty clever.......but I told him I'll throw it in the pile of names (of which I only had one) and let him know if his won or not.  

It did, but I think I'll make him wait a little longer before I let him know I chose it......see we're very competitive and we're both always right (actually he usually is right 95% of the time, but I like to pretend that I am too) so this would be a "win" in his book and the longer I can go without letting him know he won, the better......it's the small things ya know?

Don't forget toe check out my other turtle cocktail: TMNT Raphael, TMNT Michelangelo, TMNT Leonardo, TMNT Donatello as well as my Ninja Turtle cocktail.

Here is my recipe for a Hockey Stick:

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Hockey Stick

June-2-2016

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 ounces honey whiskey
• 3 ounces orange juice
• 1/2 ounce lemon juice

Instructions

Fill a cocktail glass up half way with ice cubes.In a shaker, add ice and all of the ingredients above. Shake and dump everything into the cocktail glass.

Here is a photo of the ingredients:

Here's to all four Ninja Turtles and Casey Jones!

Cheers!

The Cocktail Lady

Santa's Kiss

Santa's Kiss

I am completely convinced that we lost 3 months this year.  

They didn't happen.....they could not have happened, because Christmas can NOT be in 3 days.  It just can't.......can it?

Once Halloween hit this house it feels like the hands of time went 3x's faster then normal, skipping every other hour.  

Somehow Thanksgiving was here and gone and now Christmas is about to do the same thing.  I'm embarrassed to say.....this is my first Christmas cocktail of the season.

Knowing this was my first (and hopefully not only), I knew I needed to make it AMAZING!  

Mission accomplished!  

I had a good friend over and we were talking cocktails (surprising, I know).  She mentioned lemon drop, I said I have a recipe for that (another surprise, right?).  We wanted to create something with a little bit more then a regular lemon drop.  I said Chambord, she said X-Rated Fusion and then this beauty was born!

You are going to love it!  

It tastes so delicious.  

The lemon juice, Chambord and X-Rated Fusion go beautifully together it's almost a crime!  

I hope you are all enjoying the holiday season.  Let me know if you try any new cocktails over the holidays.  Make sure you get the recipes so I can try them too!

Here is a photo of the end result:

Here is a photo of the ingredients:

Here is my recipe for a Santa's Kiss:

• 2 ounces whipped vodka
• 1 ounce lemon juice
• 1 ounce simple syrup
• 3/4 ounce Chambord
• 1/2 ounce X-Rated Fusion
• superfine sugar for rimming

Rim a martini glass with superfine sugar.  In a shaker, add ice and all of the ingredients above, except the sugar.  Shake and strain into sugar rimmed martini glass.  Sit back and enjoy this amazing cocktail.

I hope you are able to spend time with your family and friends during the holiday season.  Be safe and happy!

The Cocktail Lady

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