Cocktails

For a month in Bloom, it would be lovely to get some of those beautiful floral notes into a tasty tipple. There are many ways to get florals into your cocktails: rosewater, orange flower water, lavender, or hibiscus, but by far the easiest is with St. Germain liqueur. Without a deft hand, one too many drops of orange flower water or rosewater can quickly result in a soapy tasting drink.

In honor of St Patty's Day, I want to share with you the wonders of making Irish Cream. Homemade Irish Cream is decadent and delicious with a real whiskey kick.  I promise you, Baileys will never taste the same again.  You can put this in your coffee, drink it from a chilled glass, or bottle it and share it with your friends.  It is the very definition of adult chocolate milk.

I have an affinity for Mulled Wine, not only because my father is a certifiable wino (in the fact that he turned my mother's office into a walk-in wine cellar, not that he is homeless and drinks out of a brown paper bag... not that there's anything wrong with that...), but mostly because when I was 16, I spent 2 weeks of winter with a family in Grenoble, France, along the glorious French Alps.

A Lucky Birthday, Champagne Birthday, or... a Golden Birthday is surrounded by symbolism and lore. Said birthday occurs when a person turns the age of their birth day, in this case when someone born on the 27th of the month turned 27. Lucky for me, we here at Move threw a Golden Birthday Party for our Fashion Editor Briana Lane, who turned 27 on the 27th of October. The stars must have aligned for us, because October 27 also followed National Champagne Day! That was all the excuse I needed to make a few golden Champagne cocktails. While Ashley covered a few classics, I wanted to share a few new twists on the champagne cocktail.