Well, Belles Organics has done it again with this Blackberry Thyme Cocktail.  Seriously, these folks are drink geniuses, because they take their already amazing drinks then add different bits and pieces and make a totally separate (and not to mention totally awesome) drink. 

This lovely libation includes their Belle on The Beach which alone is amazing,  that includes vodka, cranberry, and orange, then you throw in some fresh Thyme and blackberries and it is completely elevated to something else. 

This drink is so light and fresh, then the added aromatics of the Thyme make a wonderfully different and flavorful cocktail. 

I don’t know about where y’all are, but it’s been insanely beautiful here in Atlanta the last several days (after what felt like weeks of non-stop rain) and I can’t think of anything else I would rather be doing on my cheat day than sitting on my porch and enjoying one of these.  Y’all have a wonderful weekend and Happy Friday!

Let’s start with some Thyme (I promise no lameness about taking some time to take the leaves off of your Thyme–oops, oh well hehe).

now just a splash of some Belles…

muddle these all together…

now the blackberries…

muddle these little guys up…

all squished…

now the rest of your Belles…

now the club soda and voila!

Sooo good y’all…

Blackberry Thyme Cocktail

2015-04-22 11:09:51

A lovely cocktail filled with fresh blackberries, vodka and fresh Thyme.

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Ingredients

1. 6 Ounces of Belles Organics Belle on the Beach.
2. 5 Large Blackberries.
3. 1 Teaspoon of Thyme Leaves.
4. 3 Ounces of Club Soda.
5. Ice Cubes (Optional).

Instructions

1. Always make sure to shake your bottle of Belles before opening due to organic fruits tend to settle at the bottom.
2. Tear the leaves off of your Thyme and drop into your glass or shaker.
3. Pour a small amount of the Belle on the Beach onto your Thyme, then muddle aka squish your Thyme and Belles together.
4. Now add your blackberries and muddle those into your mix.
5. Now add the rest of your Belle on the Beach and stir.
6. Now time for the club soda and stir all together.
7. Pour into your glasses over ice (if you like) then serve.

By Belle's Organics

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Wow y’all it’s finally Friday, sheesh. This week has been crazy banana pants.  Maybe because everyone (and I mean everyone) has arrived back in town from Spring Break which has made traffic exceptionally terrible (even for Atlanta) and my short don’t you love working Saturday? & busy last weekend has had me looking forward to this weekend basically all work week. 

I started dreaming of having this coconut concoction again (had it last cheat day) probably Tuesday night because as I have mentioned before, coconut is pretty much amazing in anyway I can devour consume it, and I spent almost 3 hours !!!! sitting in traffic on my way home that night—seriously when are teleporters going to be invented???

When I was originally thinking of a drink I wanted, I knew it had to be bursting with coconut flavor, but still have that awesome kick to it y’all know what I’m talking about and this is so it. 

I must admit that while making this I kept singing “you put the lime in the coconut” over and over, I’m telling you it adds something, you should too 🙂  This drink is soo delicious y’all, and definitely boozy hello Tequila so I recommend drinking slowly,  you don’t want to be hungover all weekend haha.  Enjoy y’all! 

Okay, let’s go ahead and make our glasses pretty (you know, if you feel like it), lime juice on the rim of your glasses…

dip into the coconut…

So, now for the real deal…orange liqueur into the pitcher…

now the tequila…

now the lime juice…

and the cream of coconut…

all mixed up…

Now Enjoy!!!

Creamy Coconut Margarita

2015-04-16 07:15:20

A smooth and creamy margarita filled with coconut flavor.

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Ingredients

1. 1 Cup of Orange Liqueur (Triple Sec).
2. 1/2 Cup of Tequila (White or Silver).
3. 3/4 Cup of Lime Juice.
4. 2 Cups of Cream of Coconut.
5. Flaked Coconut (Optional).
6. Fresh Lime Wedges (Optional).

Instructions

1. In a pitcher combine your liqueur, tequila, lime juice and cream of coconut and stir until well combined and chill in the fridge.
2. If you like, you can rub the rims of your glasses with your limes and dip in your flaked coconut for a pretty and festive look.

Notes

1. You could totally squeeze your limes, but I totally didn't feel like it and bought it pre-squeezed 🙂

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It’s Friday y’all, which means one thing other than really bad traffic, it’s cocktail time! 🙂 Today is another one courtesy of my favorite cocktail line Belles Organics, and what’s even better it’s using one of my favorites from their line The Georgia Belle. 

The Georgia Belle is their peaches n’ cream vodka which is so super yummy already by itself, and then they added champagne to it which makes it so bubbly and wonderful. 

I’m just in love with this Georgia Belleini, it’s fruity and sweet (but don’t worry not too sweet) and just perfect for a lazy afternoon.  It doesn’t get much easier to put together a drink than this, so definitely get in on this 🙂 Have a wonderful weekend y’all!  

Fill your glasses 2/3 full with The Georgia Belle…

and fill the rest of the glass with champagne and dunzo!

Delicious!! 🙂

Georgia Belleini

2015-04-07 10:52:48

Yields 3

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Ingredients

1. Belles Organics Georgia Belle Cocktail, Chilled.
2. Champagne, Chilled.
3. Fresh Peaches (Optional).

Instructions

1. Fill your glasses 2/3 of the way full with your Georgia Belle.
2. Fill the rest of your glass with your champagne.
3. You can garnish your glasses with your peaches or cut up your peaches and place in your glasses before serving if you like.

By Belles Organics

HOLLY'S CHEAT DAY https://www.hollyscheatday.com/

This time of year is so great y’all, my fingers and toes are finally thawed out from winter, flowers and trees are blooming, and candy comes in my favorite color…pink. 

I know logically that chocolate doesn’t taste any better when coming from a pink wrapper, but because all of the chocolate bunnies, eggs, and all of the Peeps in bright colors are so cute, it makes it seem like they taste better don’t judge me. 

I had totally planned on making adorable cupcakes in beautiful pastels  with bunnies or something on them for Easter, and being completely honest, I just didn’t feel like it 🙂  I feel like I have run all week and all weekend for weeks and I’m just plum wore out y’all.    Buuuut, I did have enough energy because it didn’t require much to make these super beautiful and delicious drinks.  The idea came from the fact that gin and tonics are always my go-to drink, they’re light and crisp and don’t give me a hangover headache, but I wanted to make them beautifully pink too for Easter, hence the pink lemonade.

Oh my goodness y’all, these turned out absolutely perfect, sweet, but with a tart kick (thank you pink lemonade)…you cannot taste the alcohol at all in these either,  which could be a good or bad thing 🙂  Also, forgive me for using martini glasses for a non martini, but I just love how they look, so whatevs haha, these are easy, delicious and super pretty, a wonderful addition to your brunch…Happy Easter Y’all!

Start with your gin…

Now your tonic water…

Then the pink lemonade, mix, mix, mix…

if you want to make them extra pretty, you can do this…

Enjoy!! 🙂

The Pink Bunny

2015-04-02 07:25:19

A fun and delicious take on a gin and tonic.

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Ingredients

1. 1 Can (12 Ounces) of Frozen Pink Lemonade (I used Minute Maid).
2. 6 Ounces of Gin.
3. 12 Ounces of Tonic Water.
4. Decorating Sugar in Pink (Optional).

Instructions

1. In a pitcher, pour your gin, tonic water and your frozen pink lemonade.
2. Mix all ingredients together and serve.

Notes

1. For the sugar rim on my glasses, I just rubbed water around the edges of the glasses and gently pressed the top of the glasses into the sugar until sufficiently covered.
2. This recipe made almost exactly 3 full martini glasses worth, if you would like more, this recipe can easily be doubled.

By Holly

HOLLY'S CHEAT DAY https://www.hollyscheatday.com/

Happy Friday y’all!! It’s so time to celebrate the upcoming weekend with an awesome cocktail, and this is definitely an awesome cocktail. 

I think I’ve already made it very clear what a huge fan I am of Belles Organics products, so it should be no surprise I’m not only using their drink for this one but also their recipe for this particular drink, thank y’all for letting me borrow it 🙂 

Among my favorite smells in the world, basil is definitely one of them, I mean, it even holds strong  smell-wise with baking cookies and fresh coffee.  Every time I get a big whiff of basil I think of summer time and homemade pizza, so that’s probably why I was so stoked when I saw this recipe on the Belles website.  It takes their Southern Belle,  which is their amazing lemonade vodka, then it is infused with fresh basil, yummmy y’all.  One sip of this drink and I was transported to lazy summer weekends and lounging by the pool, aaahh.  Get your weekend or cheat day started with this fresh, lovely drink too, you’ll be happy you did.

Obviously you can use a shaker, but I used a glass so I could see all the stuff, tear up your basil leaves…

I mean,  look at their cute bottles, make sure to shake it up well…

Pour a little bit of your Southern Belle onto your basil…

Now get in there and muddle your basil…btw you don’t need a fancy tool, a spoon would be sufficient…

nice and smooshed…

now pour the rest of your Belles…

add your club soda and voila! ready to serve over ice…

yummm!!

The Southern Basil

2015-03-24 14:25:14

A delicious lemonade vodka infused with fresh basil.

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Ingredients

1. 6 Ounces of Belles Organics Southern Belle.
2. 3 Large Organic Basil Leaves.
3. 4 Ounces of Club Soda.
4. Crushed Ice.

Instructions

1. Make sure to shake the Belle bottle before opening, it is an organic product so ingredients tend to settle at the bottom.
2. Tear your basil leaves into small pieces and drop into your shaker or glass.
3. Pour 1-2 ounces of the Southern Belle onto the basil.
4. Then muddle, aka squish and press your basil to make sure the flavor infuses into the liquid.
5. Now add the remainder of your Southern Belle into your shaker or glass and stir or shake thoroughly.
6. Add your club soda to your drink, stir and serve.
7. Add ice if desired.

By Belles Organics

HOLLY'S CHEAT DAY https://www.hollyscheatday.com/

I will admit I am not the type of chick to have crummy weeks, if something is bugging me I usually get over it quickly then move on to being happy.  Sitting around dwelling on stuff that makes me mad/sad/irritated is so exhausting and never fixes anything and honestly only makes me want to excessively eat my feelings, which obviously I am not allowed to do anymore. 

Seriously, last week was major blah, just one thing after another, from mean people like really really mean, to having to pay a speeding ticket, and just the everyday stresses in general kept building and made for a super fug week.

Soo, I of course had a bazillion thoughts of eating cupcakes and cheesy dips on my cheat day to cope with the pain but I was waaay more interested in having a cocktail.  Please do not think I am saying alcohol solves problems, because I certainly do not, buuut sometimes that’s what the doctor has ordered Dr. Holly of course.  Because Spring has finally sprung around here bye winter don’t come back I thought something fruity and sparkly would be perfect to help melt away the blah.  Y’all it so was, this Bellini is tart but slightly sweet and best of all fizzy and bubbly from the champagne.  Sitting on the back porch downing in one shot sipping on this lovely Bellini, and enjoying the warm lovely weather was perfection, I recommend you prescribe yourself this too… Also, Happy Friday I’m sure you have earned this  🙂

Let’s start with the champagne, and go ahead and pop this top off…

Now place your mangos in your blender…I love my Ninja btw…

Now the raspberries…

Now the water…

and the sugar…

and lastly, the champagne…

blend it all up…

Take some of this awesomeness and place it in your glass…

now champagne, and ignore how my hand looks super weird for some reason…

yummies…

So good…

Raspberry Mango Bellini

2015-03-18 09:34:17

A tart and fizzy Bellini filled with raspberry and mango flavors.

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Ingredients

1. 1 Cup of Frozen Raspberries.
2. 1 Cup of Frozen Mango.
3. 1 Tablespoon of Sugar.
4. 1/2 Cup of Water.
5. 1 Large Bottle of Champagne.
6. Blender.

Instructions

1. In your blender, place your raspberries, mango, sugar, water and 1/2 cup of champagne, blending all of these ingredients together until smooth.
2. Scoop 2-3 tablespoons (depending on your preference of how fruity you want it-I used 2 Tbsp) of your raspberry mango mixture into your champagne glass, then fill the rest of the glass with champagne, stirring gently with a spoon or straw to fully mix the ingredients.
3. Garnish with fresh or frozen fruit if you want and serve immediately.

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 Merry Christmas Eve y’all!  Since a lot of us have Christmasy things to do today and tomorrow I’m gonna keep this short and sweet kinda like me hehe.  If maybe you need a break from wrapping gifts, cooking, or just need a break from that weird relative that’s in town, I have provided a 5 minute super delicious and creamy drank drink recipe for the adults.  I must give credit for the name of this delectable libation to my sister Lauren, I busted out laughing not that the drink had anything to do with it wink wink when she suggested this name and knew it was perfect.   This drink is kind of like egg nog, you know, except that it tastes really good, juuust kidding kind of 🙂  Merry Christmas y’all!!!

I feel silly even putting this pic, but here are all of the ingredients in a blender weeee!

And now a pic of the cutest, sweetest dog in the world with her Christmas bows in…

The Boozy Blitzen

2014-12-21 19:05:16

Creamy and delicious drink that will definitely have you feeling the Christmas spirit.

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Ingredients

1. 1/4 Cup of Whole Milk.
2. 1 (8 Ounces) Tub of Cool Whip.
3. 1 (1.5 Ounce) Shot of a Chocolate Liqueur.
4. 1 (1.5 Ounce) Shot of Bailey's Irish Cream.

Instructions

1. Place all ingredients in a blender or bowl with a hand held mixer and blend together.
2. Serve with whipped cream on top sprinkled with cocoa powder.
3. Enjoy!

Notes

1. This recipe can be doubled, you know, if you're having one of those weeks 😉

By Holly

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