7 Brunch Cocktails to Make This Easter

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Who doesn't love brunch! And more importantly who doesn't love brunch cocktails? It is the perfect meal in my opinion, you can order a breakfast dish or a lunch dish, it's acceptable to order a cocktail at 10am, and it's a great excuse to gather with friends.

Well if you are a fan of brunch like I am you'll be happy to know April is National Brunch Month (who knew?) and I will certainly be celebrating.

I like brunch so much, this year I am shifting away from Easter dinner and hosting Easter brunch for my family which of course will include a mimosa and bloody Mary bar, plus one or two of these brunch cocktails.

Thanks to our friends at Cantera Negra Tequila, Bib & Tucker Small Batch Bourbon and Gray Whale Gin, for sending us recipes for the perfect brunch cocktails.

Take a look at 7 different cocktails you could make for your Easter brunch or any brunch you're hosting:

Cantera Negra Blood Orange Mimosa

Ingredients:

1oz Cantera Negra Reposado Tequila
1oz Aperol
2oz freshly squeezed blood orange juice
Champagne or sparkling wine

Instructions:

Shake all ingredients (minus champagne).
Strain into highball glass over ice.
Slowly add champagne to fill.
Garnish with a blood orange wheel

Cantera Negra Tequila Lime Mojito

Ingredients:

2oz Cantera Negra Silver Tequila
1oz lime juice
1oz simple syrup
2 to 4oz soda water
6 mint leaves, plus additional for garnish

Instructions:

In a cocktail shaker, muddle the mint leaves.
Add the lime juice, syrup and tequila and fill the cocktail shaker with ice and shake until cold.
Place ice into a glass, and strain in the drink.
Top off the glass with soda water.
Garnish with additional mint leaves

Whiskey Crusta

Ingredients:

1.5oz Bib & Tucker Small Batch Bourbon
.5oz 1883 Maison Routin Apple Syrup
.25oz Luxardo Maraschino
.25 lemon
2 dashes Fee Brothers Old Fashioned Bitters

Instructions:

Shake ingredients with ice & strain into glass with sugar crusted rim.
Garnish with long lemon peel.

Golden Fizz

Ingredients:

2oz Bib & Tucker Small Batch Bourbon
3/4 tbsp caster sugar
1/4 tsp lemon juice
1 medium egg yolk
4oz soda water

Instructions:

Dry shake all ingredients (minus soda water) in a cocktail shaker.
Add ice and shake again.
Strain into a good sized fizz glass, and fill up the glass with seltzer. Mix well with a spoon and serve.

Gray Whale Mimosa

Ingredients:

2oz Gray Whale Gin
1.5oz fresh orange juice
.5oz fresh lemon juice
.5oz Pavan
.5oz velvet falernum
Golden Road Mango Cart Ale

Instructions:

Combine all ingredients, except beer, into a shaking tin.
Shake hard, then fine strain neat into rocks glass that is rimmed with Tajin Clasico seasoning.
Top with Golden Road Mango Cart Ale.

Whale Flower

Ingredients:

2oz Gray Whale Gin
.5oz elderflower liqueur
2oz grapefruit juice
Soda water

Instructions:

Combine Gray Whale Gin, elderflower liqueur and grapefruit juice into a shaker with ice and shake.
Fine strain into a glass over fresh ice and add a splash of soda water.
Garnish with grapefruit wedge and lavender sprig