Easter Spring Awakening Cocktail Recipe

Anthony Caporale: Welcome to the Art of the Drink, my name is Anthony Caporale and we are working this week with Stephanie for Easter, Happy Easter.

Stephanie: Happy Easter.

Anthony Caporale: Alright, so this week I am going to do a an original drink for Easter. This is actually a drink that one of bartenders named Mike came up with one of my buddies also named Mike and it's such a great spring drink. It's got orange flavors in it. It's nice and light. I am going to go ahead and call it a spring awakening because we work in a theater. It's a hit show right now, excellent show and I thought it would ill be a great drink for Easter.

Right, so we going to build this in a highball glass and I am going to start with ice all the way to the top and the base of this drink is orange-flavored vodka. So I am going to do one ounce of orange-flavored vodka and then a half ounce of amaretto. This is just such a great combination, the orange and the nut of the amaretto, the sweetness and the nuttiest is really, really great. Half of the remaining volume of orange juice and I am going to take this drink and just froth it up a bit, get the ingredients mixed. I don't want to get too much of a head in here because I am going to add something else to it, if I have too much of a head it's going to overflow. I just want to get the ingredients a little bit chilled and mixed. This goes back in, you can see it's still nice and flat and I am going to top this with lemon lime soda, serve it with a straw.

Stephanie: And an orange.

Anthony Caporale: And an orange, exactly, and this is our Easter Spring Awakening. Want to give that a shot?

Stephanie: Well, let's go.

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Stephanie: Let's go. Here is the ice.

Anthony Caporale: Ice all the way to the top. One ounce of orange vodka and --

Stephanie: Half ounce amaretto.

Anthony Caporale: Right, half ounce amaretto.

Stephanie: Orange juice.

Anthony Caporale: Right, and mix it up. Prefect! That's all you need, and top that up with some soda and that's what really lightens a drink up.

Stephanie: Beautiful!

Anthony Caporale: Your cocktail stirring and we are good to go.

Stephanie: Straw.

Anthony Caporale: Straw, that's my girl. Happy Easter.

Stephanie: Happy Easter.

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