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.
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.