Not many of us can say that we didn’t enjoy a bit of Friends back in its heyday, whether it was a guilty pleasure or not, so why not sit back, relax and enjoy a glass of this Friends inspired cocktail!
The Yellow Bird cocktail is a must try! You’ll love the bright color and balanced flavor of this drink, with notes of vanilla and licorice.
Here’s a tasty sweet and sour cocktail that’s uniquely delicious: the Yellow Bird cocktail! This bright yellow drink is a sour cocktail with a little extra bling: a nuanced finish with notes of vanilla and licorice. The sophistication comes from Galliano, a bright yellow Italian liqueur that’s worth grabbing for this recipe. Alex and I were extraordinarily impressed with this one, as we were with other cocktails using this fancy liqueur. Here’s how to make the Yellow Bird drink!
The Yellow Bird is a cocktail made with rum, Galliano liqueur, triple sec, and lime juice. There’s very little known about its history. Some people think it was named after a Haitian song called the Yellow Bird, others think it was named for the bright yellow Galliano liqueur. It’s hard to know when it was invented. Our best guess it that it was invented sometime in the 1960s or 70s, when Galliano rose to popularity in the US. The Yellow Bird reminds us of the Golden Dream and Golden Cadillac, Galliano cocktails born in the 1950’s and 60’s.
It” may have been a one-eyed, one-horned flyin’ purple people eater. but the drink that was named after that ugly, terrifying monster is drop-dead gorgeous. It’s a deep, sparkling purple, and the pretty glittery purple sugar around the rim adds even more sass and glamor. It takes only 5 minutes to make and has a sweet, sharply tart flavor that’s hard not to love.
What you’ll need.
30ml sweet and sour mix
30ml blue curacao
45ml vodka
30ml grenadine
30ml Cranberry or grape juice
Purple sugar Gold edible glitter to garnish
How to make it.
Tip the purple sugar onto a small saucer, wet the rim of a glass with water and dip it into the purple sugar,
set the glass on one side.
Combine vodka, blue curacao, sweet and sour mix, grenadine, and cranberry juice in a cocktail shaker filled with ice and shake thoroughly.
Fill the glass half full with ice and Pour in the purple people eater cocktail, sprinkle lightly with the gold edible glitter and serve.
No one likes being cooped up in the house during a snowstorm—or a polar vortex, as the weathermen seem to be calling it these days. That is unless you happen to have all the ingredients on hand to mix up one of these little wintry potions. First cited in the Savoy Cocktail Book in 1930, Damn the Weather is a typical Prohibition style cocktail, complementing gin with vermouth and citrus and rounding the whole thing off with a little bit of triple sec. Orange is the dominant flavor here, but the vermouth adds a certain earthy and herbal note which is accented by the gin. Like many cocktails from the Prohibition era, Damn the Weather contains more than just a little bit of alcohol, but that’s alright. You weren’t planning on going anywhere anyway, were you?
Absolutely perfect for those hot sunny days in the garden.
What you’ll need.
30ml Strawberry Vodka,
30ml White chocolate liqueur,
A splash of milk,
Strawberry ice cream,
Garnish. E.G; whipped cream,
glitter sugar sprinkles.
How to make it.
1. Rim the edge of your glass with frosting and sprinkles, set aside. 2. In a blender, combine ice cream, milk, strawberry vodka and white chocolate liqueur until smooth.
3. Pour it into your garnished glass and top with whipped cream and the glitter sugar sprinkles.
Sit back and enjoy, a very naughty but very nice treat
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