What are you serving at your True Blood season two conclusion watching party?
Try these cocktails made with HBO’s own Tru Blood beverage, a carbonated soda concocted with blood orange flavoring:
The Fangbanger
Ingredients:
Tru Blood
vodka
Directions:
Make sure that your vodka is ice cold and mix this two parts Tru Blood to one part vodka. Serve over ice.
Death on the Beach
Ingredients
Tru Blood
Peach Schnapps
Pineapple juice
vodka
Directions:
Build this in a glass with ice using 2 oz of vodka and a 1/2 oz of peach schnapps then do equal parts pineapple juice and Tru Blood to fill your Rocks glass.
Plasmapolitan
Ingredients:
Tru Blood
Citron vodka
Cointreau
fresh lime juice
Directions:
Serve in a martini glass. Fill your glass with ice and set aside. Fill your cocktail shaker half full with ice and add 2 oz Citron, 1/2 oz Cointreau and the juice from one lime. Shake until cold. Dump the ice from your martini glass and strain your liquid from the shaker. Top with Tru Blood.
Tru:Blood Bondi
Ingredients:
Tru:Blood
Vodka
Directions:
Fill a pint glass with ice. Pour the vodka into the glass, counting to 7 or 8 as you do, then top off with Tru:Blood.
Tru:Blood Orange Margarita
Ingredients:
Tru:Blood
Margarita salt
Tequila — preferably a silver or blanco
Triple Sec
Fresh lime juice
Directions:
Fill an old-fashioned glass with ice and toss the ice into a shaker. Pour in the tequila, counting to 4 as you pour. Give it a splash of triple-sec. Squeeze the juice of half a lime in, then pour in about half of an old-fashioned glass worth of Tru:Blood into the shaker.
Shake like crazy, then pour into an an old-fashioned glass rimmed with salt.
Tru:Blood Pimm’s Cups
Ingredients:
Tru:Blood
Pimm’s
Directions:
If you can mix Pimm’s with lemonade or Sprite, or Ginger Ale, why not Tru:Blood?
Grab a highball glass and fill it with ice. Pour in the Pimm’s, counting to 4-6 as you pour. You should fill up about a 1/3 of the glass. Top it off with the Tru:Blood and stir.
Tru:Blood Red
Ingredients:
Tru:Blood
Campari
Directions:
Here’s another drink that adds a bit of the bitter back into the blood orange. The red in the Campari liquor deepens the red of the drink. Fill a high-ball with ice. Count to 4-6 as you pour. Again, you should fill up about a 1/3 of the glass. Top off with Tru:Blood, and then stir. If you’ve got a slice of orange, toss it in.
Tru Blood is available to purchase in stores now.
[Source] SookieBonTemps, EveryJoe
