This Desert Sunrise Cocktail is light, sweet and refreshing – a beautiful blend of vodka, orange juice, pineapple juice and a splash of Grenadine. A simple, beautiful, romantic drink when adorned with an orange wedge and topped with a sweet maraschino cherry. Perfect for your ♥ Valentine! ♥
With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, it’s never to early to plan for a romantic holiday. Dinner, drinks, watching the sunset and the sunrise. Can you imagine it?
This Desert Sunrise Cocktail is perfect for celebrating Valentine’s Day or a romantic evening with your sweetheart. It’s colorful, light, sweet and the taste is an amazing blend of pineapple and orange juice with a shot of Vodka and a float of Grenadine. How can you not love that? 🙂
If you’ve never used Grenadine before, it’s a commonly used, non-alcoholic bar syrup, made from pomegranate juice, sugar and water. It’s flavor profile is both tart and sweet, and it has a deep, rich red color.
Because of it’s flavor and color, it’s popular as an ingredient in many types of cocktails {more recipe ideas below!} – and it’s a great way to get that reddish/pink tint in your mixed drinks.
♥♥♥ Hello Valentine’s Day – here’s your red right here! ♥♥♥
This layered drink is really fast to throw together, and it’s a fun drink to prepare together. The Grenadine, which is added last, naturally floats to the bottom of the glass and makes a gorgeous streaked display on it’s way down – it’s so pretty! And when it finally reaches the bottom – it settles into a gorgeous red and peach ombre effect! ♥ ROMANTIC! ♥
Because this recipe uses Grenadine, I have one word of caution when making this luscious drink – use the Grenadine sparingly! Grenadine is very, very sweet and can overpower this already delectable cocktail. You want just enough Grenadine to add a bit of tartness and sweetness, but you want to maintain the integrity of the orange juice and pineapple juice which gives it it’s mouth-watering pop of bright citrus flavor!
Bam! ♥♥♥ Pucker up your kisser – for both this drink, and your Valentine. 🙂 ♥♥♥
Tips:
- use chilled highball glasses filled with ice for a super crisp and chilled cocktail
- use Grenadine sparingly, so the sweetness doesn’t overpower the rest of the drink
- layer the drink, by adding the Grenadine last {do not shake or stir ingredients in the glass}
Other Drink Ideas with Grenadine:
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Enjoy!
Desert Sunrise Cocktail
Ingredients
- 2 ounces Raspberry flavored vodka
- 2 and 1/2 ounces orange juice
- 2 and 1/2 ounces pineapple juice
- Float a splash of grenadine syrup
Top With
- orange wedge
- maraschino cherry
Instructions
- Fill a highball glass with ice. Layer vodka, then orange juice, then pineapple juice. Slowly pour grenadine over the drink for a sunrise effect. Do not stir. Garnish the drink with an orange wedge and top with a maraschino cherry.
Notes
Desert Sunrise Cocktail
Modified recipe from here.
Nikki says
so beautiful! thanks for including my Grapefruit Moscow Mule as a suggestion too! xx
Kristi says
You are welcome Nikki! I loved your drink! 🙂
Kelly says
I love this drink it is so refreshing with the sweet in it.