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Cranberry Mojito – a Holiday Cocktail

November 12, 2024
Cranberry Mojito | Holiday Cocktail Recipe | Bjorn Bites & Booze

Cranberry Mojito

Cheers to the holiday season with this festive Cranberry Mojito! The star of the show is a rosemary simple syrup, adding an earthy, delicious twist to the tart cranberry flavor. Grab your favorite white rum, cranberry juice, and top it off with sparkling water. Want a mocktail? Just skip the rum, and it's just as refreshing. Garnish with a fresh sprig of rosemary and cranberries for that holiday touch, and try freezing mint in your ice cubes to bring out extra minty vibes. Let's toast to the holidays with this perfect blend of seasonal flavors.
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Prep Time 20 minutes
Course Drinks
Servings 2

Ingredients
  

Rosemary Simple Syrup

  • ½ cup honey
  • ½ cup water
  • 3 sprigs fresh rosemary

Cocktail

  • 16 large mint leaves
  • ½ cup lime juice
  • ½ cup cranberry juice
  • 6 oz white rum
  • ice
  • sparkling water
  • Fresh cranberries and rosemary sprigs for garnish

Instructions
 

Rosemary Simple Syrup

  • Add honey, water and rosemary sprigs in sauce pot and bring to a boil. Simmer for 10 minutes, remove from heat, and set aside to cool.

Cocktail

  • Add mint leaves and lime juice in a shaker, muddle mint leaves and lime juice together.
  • Add rosemary simple syrup, cranberry juice, and rum to shaker, fill with ice, and shake for 20-30 seconds until well combined.
  • Fill glasses with ice (with your mint ice if prepared), strain mixture equally into glasses and top off with sparkling water.
  • Garnish with cranberries and rosemary sprigs. Skål and enjoy!
Keyword Cocktail recipes, Cranberry Mojito, Holiday Cocktails, Mojito
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Midori Margarita | BRAT Cocktail | Bjorn Bites & Booze
Drinks, Recipes

Midori Margarita aka BRAT Cocktail

September 3, 2024
Midori Margarita | Brat Cocktail | Bjorn Bites & Booze

Midori Margarita – aka BRAT Cocktail

It’s a brat summer while sipping this Midori Margarita! Just three simple ingredients to get your brat on: Midori Liqueur, your favorite tequila (I used Lalo) and fresh lime juice. Shake it all up in a cocktail shaker with some ice, strain, garnish and serve with a little bit of bratitude! Skål and cheers!
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Prep Time 5 minutes
Course Drinks

Ingredients
  

  • 1 ½ oz Tequila (I used Lalo)
  • 1 oz Midori Liqueur
  • 1 oz lime juice, freshly squeezed
  • tajin for tim
  • lime wedge for garnish

Instructions
 

  • Moisten the rim of the glass with a lime wedge and roll in tajin
  • Add tequila, Midori and lime juice to cocktail shaker, add ice and shake until well chilled
  • Strain into margarita glass and garnish with a lime wedge
Keyword Brat, Brat Cocktail, Margarita Recipes, Margaritas, Midori Margarita
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Watermelon French 75 | Bjorn Bites & Booze
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Watermelon French 75

August 24, 2024
Watermelon French 75 | Bjorn Bites & Booze

Watermelon French 75

Enjoy summer's sweetest fruit with this Watermelon French 75! This refreshing cocktail blends the sweetness of watermelon with the sparkle of Champagne, making it the perfect sipper for hot summer days! I chose Empress Elderflower Rose Gin for its delicate floral notes that perfectly complement the fresh watermelon juice. It's light, bubbly, and just as delightful as the class French 75. Cheers to summer in a glass! Skål and cheers!
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Prep Time 10 minutes
Course Drinks
Servings 4 cocktails

Ingredients
  

  • 2 cups watermelon, cubed
  • 1 ½ oz Gin (I used Empress Elderflower Rose Gin)
  • ½ oz lemon juice, freshly squeezed
  • ½ oz simple syrup
  • 2 oz Champagne (or Prosecco)
  • Fresh slice of watermelon for ganish

Instructions
 

Watermelon Juice

  • Place cubed watermelon in a blender and blend until smooth (30 seconds)
  • Strain watermelon mixture in a fine mesh strainer, discard solids
  • Place watermelon mixture in a pitcher.

Make Cocktail

  • Add ice to a cocktail shaker, then add ingredients. Add 1 ½ oz of the fresh watermelon juice, gin, lemon juice, simple syrup, and shake for 10-15 seconds.

Assemble Cocktail

  • Strain mixture from cocktail shaker into a chilled champagne flute. Fill about halfway with watermelon mixture.
  • Top off with Champagne/Prosecco.
  • Add watermelon garnish, and serve!
Keyword Cocktail recipes, Cocktails, Summer Cocktails, Watermelon French 75
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Cactus Prickly Pear Margarita | Bjorn Bites & Booze
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Cactus Prickly Pear Margarita

February 22, 2023
Cactus Prickly Pear Margarita | Bjorn Bites & Booze

Cactus Prickly Pear Margarita

The flavors in this margarita are like a fiesta in your mouth! This Margarita is such a beautiful and festive cocktail! The shocking pink color in this recipe are all natural from the sweet prickly pear syrup. Combined with your favorite silver tequila, Cointreau, fresh lime juice and serve in a salt rimmed margarita glass! Now you are all ready to celebrate with this amazing margarita!
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Prep Time 10 minutes
Course Drinks
Servings 1

Ingredients
  

  • 2 oz Tequila (Silver)
  • 1 oz Cointreau
  • 1 oz Lime juice, fresh squeezed
  • 1 oz Prickly Pear syrup
  • Kosher salt, lime juice for rim
  • Ice
  • Lime wedges for garnish

Instructions
 

  • Prepare your margarita glass. Using a lime wedge, run it around the edge of the glass, and dip it in some kosher salt
  • Add all ingredients to a shaker with ice. Stir or shake to mix. Strain mixture into margarita glass with ice, and serve! Enjoy!
Keyword Blackberry Margarita, Cactus Prickly Pear, Margarita Recipes, National Margarita Day, Prickly Pear Margarita, tequila pork belly burnt ends, Tequila recipes
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Smoky Maple Old Fashioned | Bjorn Bites & Booze
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Smoky Maple Old Fashioned

October 28, 2022
Smoky Maple Old Fashioned | Bjorn Bites & Booze

Smoky Maple Old Fashioned

This Old Fashioned is made with Barrel Proof’s new Bourbon Dust!
As if Barrel Proof didn’t already bring us enough with their amazing Smoking Bourbon Chips – now they bring us, Bourbon Dust! What’s more perfect with bourbon than more bourbon!! This cocktail brings sweetness from the maple syrup, a medley of bitters, an amazingly smooth bourbon from Woodford Reserve, and then the Bourbon Dust! Bring it!! Skål and enjoy!
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Prep Time 5 minutes
Course Drinks
Servings 1 cocktail

Ingredients
  

  • 1 tsp Pure maple syrup
  • 3-4 drops Angostura
  • 2-3 drops Orange Bitters
  • 2 oz Bourbon (I used Woodford Reserve)
  • 2 orange zests
  • 2 bourbon cherries

Instructions
 

  • Add maple syrup to the whiskey glass, and add bitters, and bourbon. Add 1 large ice cube, and stir to mix for 30-60 seconds.
  • If you have a smoker for cocktails, use this now to add smoke flavor to the glass.
  • Express orange zest into glass, and rim the glass with the orange.
  • Garnish with orange zest and 2 bourbon cherries.
Keyword Barrel Proof, Bourbon Chicken, Bourbon Cocktails, Bourbon Dust, Old Fashioned, Smoke Your Bourbon, Smoked Cocktails
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Pear Vanilla Gin Fizz | Bjorn Bites & Booze
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Pear Vanilla Gin Fizz

October 21, 2022
Pear Vanilla Gin Fizz | Bjorn Bites & Booze

Pear Vanilla Gin Fizz

Heading into Autumn with this fall cocktail! Homemade pear vanilla simple syrup, Kendrick's Lunar Gin, topped off with club soda and garnish with a thinly sliced pear. This is the way to welcome Fall! Skål and enjoy!
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Prep Time 20 minutes
Course Drinks

Ingredients
  

Pear Vanilla Simple Syrup

  • 1 Bartlett pear, finely chopped
  • ½ cup sugar
  • ½ cup water
  • ¼ cup Vanilla Syrup (I used Torani)

Assemble Cocktail

  • 2 oz Kendrick Lunar Gin
  • 2 tbsp Pear Vanilla Simple Syrup
  • ¾ cup Club Soda
  • Crushed Ice
  • turbinado sugar to rim glass, and thinly sliced pear for garnish

Instructions
 

Pear Vanilla Syrup

  • Combine water and sugar in a sucepan, heat to boil, add chopped pears and vanilla syrup. Simmer for 5-6 minutes. Remove from heat.
  • Strain syrup from pears into separate bowl. Let syrup cool to room temperature.

Assemble cocktail

  • Add gin, pear vanilla syrup, and ice into cocktail shaker. Shake until well combined and cool. Strain into sugar-rimmed glass glass with ice, top with club soda. and add a thinly slice of pear.
Keyword Fall Cocktails, Gin cocktails, Gin Fizz, Gin recipes
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Smoky Blackberry Rosemary Margarita

October 18, 2022
Blackberry-Rosemary-Margarita

Smoky Blackberry Rosemary Margarita

I'm giving you all the spookilicious vibes heading into this Halloween season. A concoction of tequila, lemon juice, orange bitters and honey, mixed in with muddled fresh blackberries and rosemary leaves, smoked for that eerie look, giving off a subtle smoky flavor. Skål and enjoy!
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Servings 1 drink

Ingredients
  

  • 4 oz tequila
  • 1 oz lemon juice
  • 2 tsp honey
  • 3-4 dash orange bitters
  • 2 tsp fresh rosemary leaves, plus sprig for garnish
  • 11 blackberries

Instructions
 

  • Muddle 8 blackberries, and 2 tsp rosemary leaves together in a cocktail shaker until broken down and fragrant
  • Pour tequila, lemon juice, bitter and honey into cocktail shaker with ice. Give it a good shake. Strain and pour into glass with ice.
  • Use your favorite cocktail smoker. Smoke into glass, and garnish with fresh blackberries and a sprig of rosemary.
Keyword Blackberry Margarita, Halloween Cocktails, Halloween Drinks, Margarita Recipes
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Nordic Summer Cocktail | Bjorn Bites & Booze | Wild West Viking
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Nordic Summer Cocktail

June 28, 2022
Nordic Summer Cocktail | Bjorn Bites & Booze | Wild West Viking

Nordic Summer

The Nordic Summer cocktail is exactly the drink you want to enjoy during Sankt Hans, a Danish Midsummer tradition, or really, at any point during the summer! This cocktail is an elegant trifecta with a combination of Aquavit, Aperol and fresh lime juice. This unexpectedly refreshing cocktail has notes of crispy fruit, and unique herbal flavors. This cocktail is enjoyed around the bonfire as we bake the "snobrød" or Twisty Bread, baked over hot coals. The bonfires are lit all over Denmark on Sank Hans evening, where hygge and songs are enjoyed with family and friends.
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Prep Time 5 minutes
Course Drinks
Servings 2 people

Ingredients
  

  • 4 oz Aperol
  • 2 oz Aquavit
  • 2 oz Lime Juice

Instructions
 

Directions

  • Add all ingredients into a shaker filled with ice. Shake for 20 seconds or until well combined. Strain into champagne coupe or martini glasses. Serve with a fancy orange garnish.
Keyword Aperol, Aperol recipes, Aquavit, Aquavit recipes, Cocktail recipes, Cocktails, Nordic Summer, Sankt Hans
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Pineapple Elderflower Martini | Bjorn Bites & Booze | Wild West Viking
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Pineapple Elderflower Martini

May 12, 2022
Pineapple Elderflower Martini | Bjorn Bites & Booze | Wild West Viking
Pineapple Elderflower Martini | Bjorn Bites & Booze | Wild West Viking

Pineapple Elderflower Martini

Three simple ingredients to create this amazing cocktail. Homemade pineapple infused vodka, St. Germaine Liqueur and pineapple juice, shaken vigorously until chilled and frothy, then strained in a martini glass! A refreshing, sweet, and delicious cocktail for any night of the week!
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Prep Time 5 minutes
Course Drinks

Ingredients
  

  • 2 oz Pineapple Infused Vodka (purchased or homemade)
  • 1 oz St. Germaine Liqueur (elderflower liqueur)
  • 3 oz Pineapple juice
  • Pineapple wedge, mint for garnish

Instructions
 

  • Add all ingredients in a shaker filled with ice. Shake vigorously until chilled and frothy (for 30 seconds at least). Strain into martini glasses, garnish with pineapple wedge and mint and serve!
Keyword Cocktail recipes, Martini, Martini Recipes, Pineapple Cocktails, Pineapple Elderflower Martini
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Pineapple & Mango Raspberry Swirl Frozen Margarita

May 9, 2022
Raspberry Swirled Pineapple & Mango Frozen Margarita | Bjorn Bites & Booze | Wild West Viking

Pineapple Mango Raspberry Swirl Frozen Margarita

Cinco de Mayo is celebrated in full style with this delicious, sweet and tangy frozen margarita. The frozen cocktails are perfect for casual parties or lazy Sunday afternoons! Making them with frozen fruit is even easier!
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Ingredients
  

Margaritas

  • 2 cups frozen mango chunks
  • 2 cups frozen pineapple chunks
  • ⅔ cup orange juice
  • ⅓ cup simple syrup
  • ¼ cup lime juice
  • 8 oz Tequila (or more if you like your margaritas stronger)
  • 2 cups crushed ice
  • 2 tbsp raspberry sauce

Raspberry Sauce

  • 3 cups fresh raspberries
  • ½ cup sugar
  • ½ lemon, juiced

Instructions
 

Make Raspberry Sauce

  • Clean and dry raspberries. Add to a food processor and blend until completely smooth.
  • Strain mixture through a sieve into a sauce pot.
  • Place sauce pot over medium heat, and add sugar and lemon juice. Bring to a low boil, and cook for about 15 minutes, until mixture has reduced about half and thickened.
  • Cool completely, and store in fridge until ready to use.

Assemble Margaritas

  • Add frozen fruit, orange and lime juices, simple syrup and tequila to blender. Blend until smooth.
  • Add ice, and blend until smooth and frothy.
  • Take raspberry syrup and swirl the inside of margarita glasses.
  • Fill margarita glasses with the pineapple-mango mixture. Top with pineapple wedge and a fresh raspberry.
Keyword Cinco de Mayo, Frozen Margaritas, Mango Cocktails, Margarita Recipes, Margaritas, Pineapple Cocktails, Pineapple Mango Margarita, Raspberry Swirl Pineapple Mango Frozen Margarita
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