Cocktail Time {Spring Tart}

No Saturday Snack today but I do have a DELICIOUS cocktail recipe for you today!  I made this drink twice in the past month for two different events.  I made it once when I hosted Bunco and once when I went to a craft night.  It was a hit both nights!!

My friend Heidi had a few of us over for a craft night.  We worked on wooden signs and spring wreaths and it was a fun way to spend a Saturday night.  

  I told her I would make a fun drink so I created The Spring Tart using elderflower liquor and rosemary simple sryup.  It was delicious! There are a few elderflower liquors.  St. Germain is the most popular one.  When I was at the Philadelphia flower show in March we sampled a good elderflower liquor called St. Elder,  I bought it there and it was perfect for this cocktail!

I brought all of my stuff to Heidi's in a galvanized organizer I got at Walmart.  It was cute and an easy way to keep things organized. Last summer I went to a fun cocktail party   where my friend Erica who is a bartender taught us to make all kinds of drinks.  One of her suggestions was to put your juices and simple syrup in squeeze bottles to make them easier to work with.  The squeeze bottles fit perfectly in my caddy.  

The rosemary simple syrup was easy to make.  I just made regular simple syrup and added a few sprigs of rosemary in the pan.


Here is the recipe for the Spring Tart

{Spring Tart}
2 oz. vodka
1 oz. elderflower liquor
2 oz. grapefruit juice
1/4 fresh lemon squeezed into class
1 squirt of rosemary simple syrup
splash seltzer

Mix all ingredients with ice in a cocktail shaker and pour into a glass and enjoy!

I served these in my new mason jar drink caddy.  I also got this at Wal-Mart and I absolutely love it!  It is so festive and fun and I can use it to make drinks ahead of time and then take them to go.  I think it will be perfect for summer!!

I made this same drink at our monthly Bunco night that I hosted at the beginning of this month.  For this event I changed the name to Bunco Tart for fun.  I put the recipe in a frame so everyone could make their own drinks.  

Let me know if you try and make the Spring Tart.  Happy Saturday!!

Xoxo

  

Cocktail party

Last Monday my friend Rachael had a cocktail party for her sister Dani  who was in town for the week.  It was a great way for all of Rachael's friends to be able to see Dani. 

  Our friend Erica is a bartender and she is starting a little business where she will come to your cocktail party and teach people how to make drinks.  Her first official party was Rachael's last week!  It was such a fun night!  And I know she is going to have much success in her new business ❤️

Here is Erica in blue with my friend Monica. 

Erica had recipe cards for us with our drink recipes so we could make the drinks she taught us to make at home.  

She also had all of the shakers, stirrers and glasses that we needed to make our drinks.

Here are some of us with our first drink.  A margarita!

Cheers!

I

This was my favorite drink of the evening-the Bonaire

Bonaire recipe

Juice from one lime

Splash simple syrup (to your taste)

1.5 ounces vodka

2 splashes POM juice

Wedge of lime 

Fill glass shaker  with ice, put ingredients into glass shaker  in the order listed above and shake vigorously.  Pour entire contents of shaker into a short glass. Place lime wedge on edge of glass and enjoy!  

Here is a picture of the whole group.   It was a fun night!

Xoxo

Bunco night {watermelon margarita}

Last night was our monthly Bunco night!!   Our friend M and her husband own a campground and they live there full time in the summer.  We had Bunco outside on her deck.  It was a perfect night!

Here is a picture of the pavilion and fire pit at the campground.  It is beautiful!  

 

 

Here's our monthly picture with the selfie stick

 

We even saw the fireworks from the baseball camp next door.  I.love.fireworks!!!

 

I made a fun watermelon margarita to drink

 

Watermelon margarita

1/2 cup watermelon cubed

1 lime

1/4 teaspoon sea salt

1/4 cup Tito's vodka

Poland watermelon margarita seltzer 

Muddle one cut up lime with 1/2 cup of watermelon  chunks and a 1/4 teaspoon sea salt.  Stir in the vodka. Add watermelon margarita seltzer and enjoy!  

Watermelon margarita is a summer flavor from Polar seltzer.  All of their special summer flavors are delicious but watermelon margarita is my favorite!! 

Before Bunco Ava and I stopped at our neighbor's house for N's 6th birthday party!  

Here is Ava and her friends with the birthday boy :-)

 

 

Today Ava and I are headed to a waterpark with friends.  We are trying to enjoy every single day of summer!!

Xoxo