Valentine’s Day Cocktail Recipes and Entertaining Tips from Celebrity Chef, Travis London

Travis London, weekly contributor to OK! magazine and founder of the popular food and lifestyle website, HealthyChicEats.com, has some celeb-favorite tips and recipes that will help ensure this Valentine’s Day is nothing short of an “X-Rated” experience. With libido boosting cocktails, aphrodisiac foods, and tips on how to upgrade your single girl’s night out or brunch, Travis has a variety of useful tips, including the ones below:

For the love birds:

• Cooking for your loved-one? Ginger not only spices up your food, but can put some extra spice in your love life. It improves blood flow through the body and contains Vitamin C, zinc and magnesium—a sure bet to heat things up between the sheets.

• Cook with coconut as it can act as an aphrodisiac. The smell of coconut triggers certain sensors in our body that alert us of the presence of the opposite sex.

For the single ladies:

• Single this Valentine’s Day? Take your girls out to brunch. Upgrade your Bellini or Mimosa by opting for low-calorie cocktails made with Rose Brut Sparkling Wine. Skipping the beer and sodium-packed Bloody Mary’s will allow you to indulge in a sweet treat for dessert.

• Have your friends over before a ‘girl’s night out’ and mix-up some easy, flirtatious cocktail recipes that will get you ready to hit the town. Add a strawberry to any cocktail as they are incredibly high in anti-oxidants and have the lowest glycemic level of any fruit. This means you can dance all night as they provide sustained energy at the cost of only a few calories.

Check out some of Travis’ favorite Valentine’s Day cocktail recipes:

X-Rated Bellini

1 ½  oz. X-Rated Fusion Liqueur

2 ½  oz. Mango Puree

Top with Rose Brut Sparkling Wine

In a cocktail shaker add X-Rated Fusion Liqueur, mango puree, and ice. Shake vigorously and strain into a champagne flute rimmed with rimming sugar.

Top with sparkling wine.

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 Be Mine Bubbly

1 ½  oz. X-Rated Fusion Liqueur

1 oz. SKYY Infusions Ginger

½  oz. Ginger Simple Syrup

Top with Champagne

In a cocktail shaker add X-Rated Fusion Liqueur, SKYY Infusions Ginger, simple syrup and ice. Shake vigorously and strain into a champagne flute rimmed with sugar. Top with champagne.

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Love Goddess

1 oz. Chocolate Liqueur

1 oz. X-Rated Fusion Liqueur

3 Strawberries

½  oz. SKYY Vodka

In a cocktail shaker, place all ingredients and muddle the strawberries until completely mashed. Add ice, shake vigorously, and strain into a martini glass rimmed with red rimming sugar and garnish with a strawberry slice.