SIGNATURE DRINKS
Shelley Waugh

Signature cocktails that include your wedding theme are easy to create and can be served at your showers, bachelor parties, rehearsal dinner, and reception. When creating a special drink, remember to also include a non-alcoholic choice on your menu.

IT'S SO EASY TO BE GREEN
Creating a green signature drink for your wedding is an easy task especially this year. ABSOLUT PEARS has introduced a signature Peartini cocktail. It has a stimulating and full-bodied taste that is soft and ripe with a long and fruity aftertaste. The aroma is natural, containing mellow pears with a hint of sweet almond notes, adding a sensual energy to this otherwise demure fruit. For more recipes visit www.absolutdrinks.com.

ABSOLUT PEARTINI (pictured left)
3 parts ABSOLUT PEARS
2 parts white cranberry juice
1 ½ parts lime cordial
Shake all ingredients with ice and strain into a well-chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with a
pear slice and blueberries as shown. 

THE GOLDEN SNOWBALL 
A MAJESTIC GLOW FOR YOUR PARTIES

Gold on food and drink has long been considered an act of respect to honour the presence of special 
guests at the banquet table. 

Shelley Waugh
Using edible gold and silver to decorate food and beverages that can be added to wedding cakes, desserts, cocktails, 
hors d’oeuvres, lattes or entire entrees can create a glow with little effort. Items like chocolate truffles, 
pictured right, can be completely covered by rolling them in full sheets of edible silver leaf or dust 
chocolate covered strawberries with edible gold sprinkles. Cocktail glasses rimed in edible silver sprinkles 
or edible gold petals on the table create elegance. Embellishing at least one course of food with edible gold at bridal events is a 
centuries-old tradition that originated in Venice, where it served as a symbol of hospitality and celebrations. 

Recipe for The Golden Snowball created by Master Mixologist Francesco LaFranconi on behalf of Easy Leaf Products
Ingredients:
1-1/2 oz. Absolut Vanilla Vodka
1/2 oz. Cointreau
1/2 oz Marie Brizard White Crème de Cocoa
3/4 oz. Heavy Whipping Cream
Easy Leaf Products’ Oro Fino Gold Petals

Method: 
Shake all ingredients with ice. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass.

Garnish:  
23 Kt Gold Petals and shaved white chocolate.

Easy Leaf Products based in Los Angeles, CA, has a uniquely packaged imported FRM line from Italy, ORO FINO (23 Karat 
Genuine Edible Gold) and ARGENTO FINO (Pure Edible Silver), that comes in sprinklers, petals and sheets. Products and 
prices are on the e-commerce web site www.easyleafproducts.com. and through a variety of retailers in the United States. 
For more information visit www.frm.it/food.

HOLLYWOOD CLASSICS
If your theme doesn’t lend itself to a drink that you like, try 
favourite old Hollywood movie classic lines such as in 
The Seven Year Itch when Marilyn Monroe asks Tom Ewell 
if he’d “ever tried dunking a potato chip in champagne?” 
He later told his secretary, “I had two peanut butter sandwiches 
and two Whiskey Sours.” 
  In Pal Joey, Frank Sinatra mixes a Blue Blazer for Kim Novak 
while serenading her with a rendition of The Lady is a Tramp. 
Here are some recipes that are featured in movies from the book 
Hollywood Cocktails by Tobias Steed and Ben Reed. For more ideas to tie 
in theme drinks with the old movies. Visit www.beamglobal.com.

RECIPES

Whiskey Sour (Seven Year Itch, 1955)
 50 ML Knob Creek Bourbon
 40 ML Fresh Lemon Juice
 1 Egg
 Sugar Syrup
 Angostura Bitters
 Stemmed Cherry 


Blue Blazer
(Pal Joey, 1957)
 50 ML Laphroaig Quarter Cask Scotch
 Lemon Zest Large dash of boiling water
 1 Teaspoon powdered sugar

Manhattan (Murder At The Vanities,1934)
 50 ML Maker’s Mark
 25 ML Sweet Vermouth
 Orange Bitters
 Orange Zest




Bourbon Highball 
(DOA - Dead on Arrival, 1949)
 50 ML Basil Hayden’s Bourbon
 Ginger Ale
 Twist of Lemon






Rob Roy 
(Angels Over Broadway, 1940)
 50 ML The Dalmore 21 YO
 40 ML Sweet Vermouth
4 Drops Angostura Bitters
 Orange Zest
 Maraschino Cherry 

Bourbon Sidecar
(Our Modern Maidens, 1929)
 40 ML Booker’s Bourbon
 20 ML Cointreau
 20 ML Fresh Lemon Juice
 Maraschino Cherry 
  

 

www.WeddingsHoneymoons.com | May 1, 2009