Good Friday may get all the Bloody Mary glory, but Easter morning should come with its own set of cocktails to get use through the family dinners and pastel nightmares this holiday can bring. To that end I’m giving you a few links to drinks that would work mighty well when you need a bit more than church wine. The first is my go-to Easter classic, the Ramos Gin Fizz. If you put an egg white in it, what’s to stop it from being breakfast? The second is a recent addition to my cocktail arsenal: the Grasshopper. Think of it as the sweet antithesis to the savory Bloody Mary (Mary’s holier-than-thou cousin perhaps). Third, the Aviation, which is lovely enough to impress for the church set, and potent enough to allow you to put up with them.
The common denominator to the first two options is the cream that lends them a morning-coffee feel. It blunts the edges of the liquor, softening the harshness at such an early hour. It also adds some fatty richness to the whole affair, wrapping everything in gauzy colloidal suspension – the perfect sort of Easter wrap for pastel decadence. As for the Aviation, it’s pretty enough to stand on its own without the cream.
