Pink drinks will fit right in at a little girl's birthday party.
Whether you are planning your daughter's sweet sixteen party or your best friend is turning 50, cater the birthday party drinks to fit the particular milestone. Consider how color, flavor and ingredients can come together as a celebration of your loved one's life. Other factors to consider when choosing drinks for any party is the time of year, and how many people you are serving. Does this Spark an idea?
Girl's Birthdays
Serve drinks to a house full of little girls during your daughter's birthday party that are pink and fuzzy. A punch bowl full of pink punch will be a striking complement to pink party decorations. To make a fruity, pink punch, combine one and a half cups of sugar, one and a half cups of lemon juice, three cups of orange juice and six cups of cranberry juice. Stir the juice until the sugar dissolves, then add half of a gallon of raspberry sherbet or cherry sorbet, and a two liter bottle of ginger ale or lemon-lime soda.
Fifty Plus
For someone turning 50 or older, make cocktails to reflect a more mature time in life. Bourbon, which has a rich history with roots in colonial America, is one of the country's most respected liquors and is a suitable choice for cocktails at a birthday party for someone in their prime. A drink that will exude maturity is an old-fashioned, which is a staple cocktail of over 100 years. To make an old-fashioned, muddle two teaspoons of simple syrup and two teaspoons of Angostura bitters. Pour over ice and add a shot of fine bourbon, an orange slice and a maraschino cherry.
Summer Birthdays
A birthday party during a warm spring or summer day is best held outdoors with barbecue and refreshing cocktails. Balance spicy, grilled foods with homemade lime coolers. Lime coolers are suitable for a birthday party with several guests, as they are fast and easy. To make a lime cooler, place one tablespoon of sugar and one tablespoon of freshly squeezed lime juice. Add one shot of rum and fill the rest of the glass with seltzer. You can easily multiply this recipe to fill a punch bowl for self-serving.
Winter Birthdays
Warm the hearts of guests during a cold fall or winter party with a comfort cocktail. For kids and individuals who don't drink alcohol, hot cider is a common winter party drink as is. You can also use hot cider to spice up a cocktail. To make a hot cider cocktail, add a shot of whiskey to a mug of hot cider and garnish with cloves and a cinnamon stick. This drink would do well beside a cinnamon birthday cake with butter cream frosting. For winter birthday party with a larger number of guests, another option is warm English punch. To make English punch, boil a half gallon of water with two cups of sugar and the peels of three or four lemons. Remove the lemon and combine the mixture in a punch bowl with the juice of three or four lemons, one 750 mL bottle of ruby port and one 750 mL bottle of rum. Garnish the punch with nutmeg and slices of apples and oranges.
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