Stock the Bar Wedding Shower Recipes

What kind of Stock The Bar Shower would it be without cocktails and fondue? Make your wedding shower a splash with these outstanding recipes that will wow your guests.

Swiss Fondue

Serves 8

This kitchy '70s dish has come back in style full force at cocktail parties and home gatherings. Instead of dunking bread, you can also cut up bits of beef and saute them to dip in the cheese. Whatever tickles your fancy.

Ingredients

2 cloves garlic
2 cups dry white wine
2 lb. Swiss cheese, grated or cubed
1/2 tsp. nutmeg
1/2 tsp. fresh ground pepper
6 Tbsp. kirsch
Salt to taste
2 loaves French bread cut into 1" cubes

Instructions

If you don't have a fondue pot (which are very much in style now and available everywhere), you can use a chafing dish or a heavy earthenware casserole dish over low heat on an asbestos mat to keep the cheese melted.

First rub the dish with the garlic clove after it's been smashed with the side of a kitchen knife or cut in half. Turn the heat on low, then pour the wine into the dish and heat until it simmers. Add cheese bits a few at a time on very low heat, stirring constantly. Once cheese is melted, stir in nutmeg, pepper, kirsch, and salt.

Using long-handled forks or fondue forks, place a chunk of bread on the end of the fork and dip in the cheese. If, after a while, you notice the cheese drying up a bit, add a little more wine.

Cocktails

Each recipe makes one drink.

All of these cocktails we got off of Cocktail UK, a fabulous drink site that has every yummy beverage you could ever imagine, and then some. A measure is used to determine how much liquor to put in the glass. You will need one of those to acheive the proper proportions in the drinks. These were just a few of our favorites.

Perfect Love

Ingredients

2 measures vodka
1 measure marachino liqueur
1 measure parfait amour
5 ice cubes
1 lemon rind

Directions

Place the ice cubes in the glass, then pour vodka over them. Next pour the parfait, then the liqueur. Finish with the lemon rind.

The Red Baron

Ingredients

2 measures gin
dash lemon juice
dash grenadine
dash lime juice
1/2 measure orange juice
dash sugar syrup

Directions

Put all the ingredients in shaker with crushed ice. Shake, and pour without ice into a cocktail glass.

Mojito

Ingredients

2 measures white rum
1 measure lime juice
soda water to top off
10 mint sprigs
1 measure ice cubes
1 slice of lime
1 tsp. sugar

Directions

Using a highball glass, place ice cubes in glass. Mash the mint leaves and sugar together until they are juicy. Add the rum and lime juice, pour mixture into highball glass and top off with soda water. Garnish with slice of lime.

Mimosa

Perfect for a Sunday brunch wedding shower.

Ingredients

1 measure orange juice
dash of orange curacao/li>
champagne to top off

Directions

Fill the bottom of a champagne flute with orange juice, then curacao. Top off the glass with champagne.

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