Occasion

Drinks for Birthday.

5 recipes

Poinsettia is made with cranberry juice and orange liqueur topped with Champagne in a flute, chilled for serving.

A Kir combines dry white wine and crème de cassis directly in the glass for a light wine cocktail with blackcurrant sweetness.

Eggs, sugar, cream and spirit, aged in the fridge until it turns silky. Made properly and left alone for a month, it…

Red wine warmed with citrus and spice. Cheap wine made better by heat — which is exactly why the Romans invented it.

Rum, pineapple and cream of coconut. The confusion between cream of coconut and coconut cream ruins more of these than anything else.