It's 5 O'Clock Somewhere- Keeping the Love Alive

The research I do for this site. Anyway I went to Webtender and searched 6 thousand plus recipes for cocktail recipes that evoked for me a sense of love and beauty and happiness, or at least had names to that effect. It's pretty remarkable how many drink names are so violent and sexual in nature. If I wasn't such an Aristocrat I might have been offended. Anyway these are the ones that made me happy and I liked so here we go.
A Smile
Ingredients:
* 1 1/2 oz Vodka
* 1 1/2 oz Light rum
* 1 1/2 oz Creme de Cassis
* 6 oz Orange juice
* 6 oz double strength Lemonade
* 1 oz Grenadine
* 1 scoop Whipped cream

Mixing instructions:
With three ice cubes put vodka, light rum, cassis, orange juice, and frozen lemonade made at double strength into a shaker. Shake well. Place half the grenadine in the bottom of each white wine glass, pour in shaken mixture till withine inch of rim. With a large spoon drop whipped cream carefully in glass. Take small spoon spread to all the edges and to look nice.

Beautiful
Ingredients:
* 1 oz Cognac (Hennessy)
* 1 oz Grand Marnier

Mixing instructions:
Pour each ingredient into the snifter and serve.

P.S. I Love You
Ingredients:
* 1/2 shot Bailey's irish cream
* 1/2 shot Grand Marnier
* 1 splash White Creme de Menthe
* Nutmeg
* About 75 ml Cream, single
* Ice

Mixing instructions:
Mix the Baileys, Grand Marnier, and single cream together with some ice in a shaker. Shake thoroughly, and pour into a cocktail glass. Pour a splash (about 1/3 shot) through the mixture to the bottom of the glass. Shake nutmeg over the top of the cocktail

Secret Place
Ingredients:
* 1 1/2 oz Dark rum
* 1/2 oz Cherry brandy
* 2 tsp Dark Creme de Cacao
* 4 oz cold Coffee
* crushed Ice

Mixing instructions:
Pour all of the ingredients into an Irish coffee glass filled with crushed ice. Stir well.

Sunshine Smile
Ingredients:
* 2 oz Vodka
* 2 oz Orange juice
* Fill with Champagne

Mixing instructions:
Shake Vodka and Orange Juice. Top glass with Champagne. Garnish with a slice of orange.

Sweet Heart
Ingredients:
* 2 cl Parfait d'Amour (Bols)
* 1.5 cl Amaretto di Saronno (ILLVA Saronno)
* 1.5 cl Vanilla syrup (Monin)
* 1.5 cl fresh Cream
* 0.5 cl red Curacao (Marie Brizard)

Mixing instructions:
Shake. Garnish with cinamon-powder, cherry, mint, lemon-peel

and the
Warm and Fuzzy
Ingredients:
* 1/3 oz Triple sec
* 1/3 oz Southern Comfort
* 1/3 oz Cherry brandy

Mixing instructions:
Pour southern comfort, triple sec, and then cherry brandy.

If those don't get you into a happy place, this has to:

(ha! it's already stuck in your head isn't it?)

And since Harry's fate will be revealed at midnight (local time) here's a site with a few Potter inspired drinks
Harry Potter
1 oz blackberry liqueur
1 oz DeKuyper® Buttershots liqueur
1 oz Chambord® raspberry liqueur
1 splash cranberry juice

Shake ingredients together in a cocktail shaker half-filled with ice cubes.

and of course here's the recipe for Butterbeer which I'm sure you can Irish up on your own.

Okay you crazy kids, enjoy.

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