cheekydrinks: girls' night in cocktails

i love cocktails with cava (or prosecco), they are especially perfect for a girls' night in!

ruby red sparkler

• 4 oz of bourbon
• 2 oz of freshly squeezed grapefruit juice
• 2 tablespoons of vanilla sugar
• grapefruit bitters
• rose cava (i used brut)

dissolve the vanilla sugar in the bourbon and grapefruit juice, add a few dashes of grapefruit bitters. pour 1-2 oz of the mixture into a champagne flute. top with cava and garnish with a thin slice of grapefruit. 

blackberry bourbon sparkler

• 4 oz of bourbon
• 2 oz of freshly squeezed lemon
• 2 tablespoons of vanilla sugar
• fresh blackberries
• extra dry cava 

muddle the blackberries and vanilla sugar. add the bourbon and lemon juice and stir gently. pour 1-2 oz in each glass. top with cava and garnish with fresh blackberries.