Recipes
Valentine's Cocktails
Celebrate love this Valentine's Day with HipStirs' specially curated Valentine's Cocktails, featuring our luxurious Blackberry Mint, Cranberry Pie, and Old Fashioned Syrups. Whether you're toasting to a night of romance with our enchanting blends or savoring the sweetness of companionship, each syrup promises to elevate your evening with a burst of flavor and sophistication. Let our Valentine's Cocktails add a dash of elegance to your celebration of love, making every sip a memorable moment shared between hearts.
Barton Springs
1 ½ oz Hendrick’s Gin
¾ oz Lime Juice
¾ oz HipStirs Blackberry Mint Syrup
Cucumber Slices
Slice 3 1/4inch cucumber slices, combine ingredients and 2 cucumber slices in tin, lightly muddle cucumber slices, add ice, shake, double strain into coupe, garnish with remaining cucumber slice
Tools Used: Shaker Tins, Hawthorne Strainer, Tea Strainer, Jigger/Measuring Device, Muddler, Knife, Ice, Coupe, Fresh English (Seedless) Cucumber
Lavender FIzz
¾ oz HipStirs Lavender Haze Syrup
½ oz Lemon Juice
Ginger Ale
Add syrup and lemon juice to a tall glass, stir together. Add ice and top with ginger ale.
Traditional Old Fashioned
2 oz Rye Whiskey
¼ oz Hipstirs Old Fashioned Syrup
Combine ingredients in a glass with a large ice block. Stir for 5-10 seconds to combine and dilute. Express an orange peel over drink and garnish with peel
Cranberry Sour
2 oz Gin
1 oz Lemon Juice
¾ oz Hipstirs Cranberry Pie Syrup
¾ oz Benedictine
4 dash Cranberry Bitters
1 Egg White
Add all ingredients to a cocktail shaker with ice. Shake hard to chill and dilute. Strain ingredients into a fresh cocktail shaker with no ice. Shake a second time hard to add extra air and froth the cocktail. Strain into a chilled coupe glass. Garnish with cranberries on a skewer and add a few drops of cranberry bitters to the foam.
Black Beauty
2 oz Tequila Alternative
1 oz Lime Juice
¾ oz HipStirs Blackberry Mint Syrup
Ginger Beer
Shake all ingredients, except for ginger beer, with ice. Strain over new ice into a glass (copper mug if you have it) and top with ginger beer. Garnish with mint.
Cosmo
1 ½ oz Citrus Vodka
½ oz Cointreau
½ oz Hipstirs Cranberry Pie
½ oz Lime Juice
¾ oz Cranberry Juice
Shake hard with ice and fine strain up into a coupe glass.
Small Favors
1 oz Cocchi Torino or similar sweet vermouth
½ oz Hipstirs Cranberry Pie
½ oz Lemon Juice
3 ½ oz Dry Cider
Stirred and strained over ice into a rocks glass. Garnish with nutmeg.
Lavender Tequila Old Fashioned
2 oz Tequila
¼ oz HipStirs Lavender Haze Syrup
¼ oz HipStirs Old Fashioned Syrup
2 dash Lavender Bitters
1 dash Orange Bitters
Build in glass with ice, stir until cold. Garnish with a lemon & orange twist
Cranberry Paloma
2oz Cranberry Juice
2oz Grapefruit Juice
1oz Lime Juice
2oz HipStirs Cranberry Pie Syrup
2oz Tequila
Soda Water, to top (optional)
Garnish: Dried Grapefruit Slice, Rosemary Sprig, Frozen Cranberries
To a cocktail shaker, add the cranberry juice, grapefruit juice, lime juice, Hipsters Cranberry. Pie Syrup and tequila. Fill the shaker with ice and shake until chilled. Fill a glass with ice and strain the cocktail into the glass. If desired, top with soda water and garnish.
Brown Sugar & Sage Cocktail
3 Fresh Sage Leaves
1 tbsp brown sugar
1oz HipStirs Old Fashioned Syrup
Juice from 1 whole grapefruit
Juice from half a lemon
2oz Gin or Silver tequila
Grapefruit soda, to top
Garnishes: Dehydrated grapefruit slice, fresh sage leaves
Add the sage leaves, brown sugar and syrup to a cocktail glass. Muddle until the sage leaves have released the flavor. Add the grapefruit juice, lemon juice and gin to the cocktail shaker with ice and shake. Strain the cocktail into a glass over ice. Top with grapefruit juice and garnish.
Cranberry Champagne Cocktail
For the ice:
Cranberry juice
Fresh/frozen cranberries
Blood orange slices
For the cocktail:
1oz HipStirs Cranberry Pie Syrup
Champagne or sparkling wine, too top
Garnish: Fresh rosemary sprigs
Add two slices of blood orange to each ice cavity along with 3-5 cranberries. Fill the ice tray with cranberry juice and freeze overnight. Add 1oz of Cranberry Pie Syrup to a coupe glass and add an ice cube. Top with champagne or sparkling wine and garnish.
Cranberry Gin Fizz
2oz HipStirs Cranberry Pie Syrup
1 ½ oz Gin (We used empress gin)
2oz orange juice
½ cup soda or tonic water
Fill a glass with ice. Add the cranberry pie syrup to the glass. Top with orange juice and soda water. Gently pour the gin over the top of the drink. Garnish.