Last Updated on July 26, 2025
A Special Love Potion for Valentine’s Day – The Cranbellini and More
How does Cranberry and Blood Orange sound to you as a liqueur? It’s that time of year when everyone is making their own Love Potion for Valentine’s Day. And, I tend to prefer cocktails which are not too sweet, so the idea of a liqueur based on two fruits with some ‘zing’ really makes sense to me. Cranes Cranberry & Blood Orange Liqueur comes in a beautiful glass bottle and is quite nice enough to sip on its own (I know, because I’ve tried). It’s made with cranberries from Wisconsin, USA, with blood orange juice and rind, and was developed by one of the UK’s top mixologists.
Over 115 cranberries are used to make the 50cl bottle. A smooth liqueur that is most commonly used to create cocktails, their most popular recipe is the Cranbellini. It’s a twist on the traditional Bellini cocktail, transforming a simple glass of fizz into a beautiful pink drink… perfect for romantic celebrations this Valentine’s Day!
I’ve had my own bottle to review and I’ve been busy cooking up a special Valentine’s Love Potion of my own based on Cranes – I have to say it’s quite lethal but really rather delicious!
Here’s what I did
A simple cocktail for Valentine’s Day
- 45 ml Vodka
- 25 ml Cranes Cranberry and Blood Orange Liqueur
- 5 ml Elderflower Cordial More if you have a sweet tooth)
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Fill a cocktail shaker with ice
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Add all the ingredients and shake well
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Strain and serve in a champagne or martini glass. Garnish with a slice of blood orange if available
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Sip slowly while eating your Valentine’s chocolates
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For a longer drink, serve over ice in a tumbler with a splash of tonic water or soda
Now is your chance to get creative. I’d love you to make your own Love Potion Cocktail, for Valentine’s Day or for any other time of the year! Share your own Valentine’s cocktail recipe in the comments below. 
You can order Cranes online through their website or through various retailers.
White chocolate, strawberries and prosecco 🙂
Baileys x
Rhubarb gin.
Prosecco, strawberries and a dash of soda
Singapore Sling
Prosecco and Strawberries.
supernoods
Raspberry vodka, Chambord, Tonic water with elderflower and a lemon slice.
Cranes Liqueur and Prosecco
prosecco and strawberries
Vodka and raspberry
Chocolate <3
Cranes Cranberry and Blood Orange liqueur, champagne and orange juice, garnished with lemon and lime slices
Mmm I’d have red berries (strawberry, raspberry, cranberry) prosecco for some bubbles and a little honey to sweeten ?
raspberry, cranberry and gin
Chocolate and gin
Gin, strawberries & lots of ice
Lovers kiss
Add 2 shots of Cranes Cranberry and Blood Orange Liqueur into a cocktail shaker. Add one shot of contreu and one shot of white run. Add ice. Shake well. Sugar the edges of a glass and fill with ice cubes. Strain cocktail into glass, top up with prosecco and add a shot of grenadine. Finish with a part sliced strawberry slotted on the edge of the glass.
Mine would definitely involve gin and strawberries.
Elderflower, pink gin and lemonade
I’m not sure what else would go in it, but definitely some Amaretto – love the stuff!
The exact ingredients are a secret, A champagne cocktail with a sprinkling of magic dust ??
I love raspberry liquer prosecco over plenty of ice…keep it simple keep it sweet x
Strawberry gin , champagne , edible glitter and orange juice
Cointreau all the time!
Pink gin & cranberry juice over plenty of ice
Lots of rum!
Champagne & strawberry liqueur (the drink & food of love)
prosecco and strawberries
Gin, lime and soda with elderflower liquer
Gin,Prosecco,elderflower and lots of love
coffee cream and baileys with a touch of gin
chocolate liqueur with caramel and banana syrup with a dash of irish cream scumptiously decadent
Prosecco and raspberries!
Ice wine and strawberries.
Prosecco and strawberries!
Cointreau,Cointreau and Cointreau
strawberry and prosecco x
Cointreau and Prosecco – delicious.
Tia Maria & cherries
Baileys and grand marnier . . . or that Cranes blood orange liqueur
Prosecco and chambord is always my go to 🙂
strawberries and champaigne
Always on the look out for new alcohol to try, this sounds delicious!
Cherries
Cranes Cranberry and Blood Orange Liqueur and ginger ale
Strawberries and champagne xx
I would use either Vodka or Gin with Cranes
gin .. it makes everything special
Gin rhubarb liquer and prosecco xxx
elderflower, tonic water and lemon
rose essence
Coffee, cream and passionfruit would be my ingredients.
Blueberries and vodka
Baileys and starwberries
cherrys
vodka, peach schnapps, vanilla essence and a hint of ylang ylang
Alcohol. Lots of it.
Prosecco and cassis
Prosecco and raspberry liqueur
has to be prosecco strawberry syrup with mint delicious
Strawberries / champagne / Gin
Gin, tonic, raspberry liqueur and sweet frozen berries, with the emphasis on the gin!
Passionfruit, Blood orange and Prosecco..
Champagne and Cranes
Lots of champagne
martini asti.
RASPERRIES, PROSECCO AND TEQUILA!!
Mine would be a some really good vodka in a Black Russian
Strawberries and prosecco xx
I love vodka, passionfruit, and glace cherries to finish
Lots and lots of tequila
strawberries and baileys
mojitio
Strawberries
Baileys and ice!
cava and fruit juice
I think I would like tia maria and this lush liquor
What love potion, it would be poison, lol
Gin and Strawberries would be in my love potion
A sparkle of ice cold wine, a tremor of crushed Scottish raspberries infused with a whisper of romance
parma violets, gin and soda x
Strawberry and prosecco
hope and a dash of inspiration
Brandy and red cola.
I love anything fruity so raspberry liquor with vodka and tonic maybe I’m not very good at making cocktails but I love the sound of Cranes
it would involve raspberry liquor and something chocolatey!
I would love to mix up a gin and Cranes Cranberry & Blood Orange Liqueur cocktail – served with a touch of class
Honey and definitely something floral like hibiscus or orange blossom and a bit of fizz
Prosecco and a strawberry syrup
Roses, pumpkin spice and rum!
gin and strawberries of course 🙂
Anything creamy, boozy and bad for me!
Prosecco & Chambord
Cheese & onion crisps, jam doughnuts & dark chocolate
Would have to be Crème de Cassis and Champagne. Love Kir Royal
For my cocktail using Cranes liqueur I would add my own homemade Redcurrant Shrub( a rum and Redcurrant drink) with a hint of cinnamon , orange zest and a splash of soda water.
Thinks this would be great with prosecco
kir royal
Strawberry & lime
Chocolate and Baileys
champagne and berries
my love potion would include Gin, prosecco and strawberries! yum yum yummy!!
Cointreau,creme de menthe and gin
Ginger and lime
This si such a hard question lol but maybe prosecco and strawberries
This sounds wonderful ❤️
hope
Prosecco and strawberry??
Elderflower gin, elderflower cordial and lemonade.
Not too much alcohol!
the bitter hurt tears of all my exs, or Elderflower!
Vanilla vodka, rhubarb and ginger gin, ginger ale and lots of crushed ice! Made this before and it’s delicious!
Champagne & strawberries for me, although some of these ideas sound good
Wine and chocolate, well it’s definitely what my husband thinks love tastes like (every valentines gift!)
Gin, great tonic and lots of botanicals!
Champagne and strawberries for sure
Good gin, Cranes & Fevertree Naturally Light Tonic garnished with dried blood orange slices and cranberries
Pink Gin, tonic and raspberries
Damson gin and Prosecco
Baileys
a dozen roses sprinkled in my potion x
My perfect love potion would contain one gorgeous husband, a red rose all mixed together with a large spoon of respect.
Strawberries and champagne
Love and prosecco ?
strawberries
Sea Breeze would complement the blood orange perfectly would love to try perfect for my 40th birthday celebrations 🙂
Archers, Vodka and Cola
Prosecco and strawberries
I would definitely want something with cointreau… ☑️
My Love [potion would be Pinksters Gin, Cranes liquer and chilled Prosecco with fresh raspberries and a little sprig of mint. I’d take a photo but I’ve run out of Cranes at the moment!
Strawberry vodka, add Chambord, mix it with pomegranate juice top up with champagne and serve with crushed ice and a few pomegranate seeds.
I’d use arrack from Sri Lanka and passion fruit.
Mine would be blackberry liqueur, fresh lime juice, brandy and red wine.
The recipe you used sounds delish! I’m not very good at creating my own cocktails so I would try yours first xx
Some well aged whiskey, cinnamon and blackberry.
strawberries with prosecco
Love, passion fruit juice, pomegranate juice and gin…
Gin, Fevertree Tonic, Strawberries crushed with crushed ice
Vodka, Crème de cacao. Frozen strawberries and a scoop vanilla ice cream! Its delicious!
Our idea of a perfect Valentine’s cocktail is a Zombie (we’re a bit odd like that):
30ml light rum
30ml dark or Jamaican rum
30ml apricot brandy
30ml lime juice
2 dashes grenadine
Ice
Orange juice
30ml Bacardi 151 rum
Maraschino cherries
4 orange slices
We love these cocktails, there is a fantastic cocktail bar called The Cuban about half a mile from where we live who make the best Zombies we’ve had anywhere. Although – we did go to a cocktail bar on a trip to London last year and had a two person Zombie served in a giant skull glass with a shaved ice mohican – it looked fantastic and is the one and only time I wished I’d taken a photo of my drink/food to post on social media 😀
I forgot to add – I’m curious what our Zombie cocktail would taste like if we substitued the Cranes liqueur for the apricot brandy in the original recipe :o)
That sounds pretty delicious Nikki!
We’re not sure – We’d love to know what it tastes like if you get round to trying it!
Espresso martinis followed by a bottle of Prosecco
vodka and coke
rhubarb gin & cinnamon
rhubarb gin and tonic
Absinthe – go hard or go home! 😉
I’d add chocolate to my love potion to make it irresistible! x
As unoriginal and predictable as this may sound… Prosecco! 🙂
Gin and more gin
Gin and snowberry
Strawberries and Australian Sparkling Moscato
I’d be tempted to throw some lavender in there!
It would have to be a chocolate liqueur!
rose water and vodka 🙂
Peace and quiet!
Amaretto
Champagne, fresh raspberries, and a dash of soda.
Elder-flower and prosecco
A good whisky sour
No lie – I would actually blend this with vodka, crushed ice, grapefruit and prosecco. Sounds divine
Baileys, creme de cacao, ice & brandy
Amaretto, takes the sour out, makes it more sweet!
Crushed ice, Baileys, Brandy and Creme x
Prossecco, Cointreau & Cranberry juice x
Crème de cacao, sparkling rosé wine and a dash of rosewater to make a Turkish Delight Fizz
chocolate, as much as i could get into it!
Has to be vodka with coke and a slice of lemon
Gin, raspberry liqueur and prosecco. YUM!
Obviously the Cranes Liquer, lots of gin, and maybe some angostoura bitters?
Cranberry Juice and Vodka.
Cranberry and blood Orange liqueur with brandy and prosecco I’d call it Cranberry Kisses
A splash of amaretto and a pinch of chilli
I tried two this Christmas and both were winners:
Gin, Cranberry liqueur, frozen cranberries in ice
Cointreau, Cranberry liqueur and Prosecco.
On dry January so no pics 🙂
I would swap the vodka for some rum and add some lime too!
My perfect love potion would just be a black coffee, to be honest!
Strawberries, some chocolate liqueur
I would add grenadine syrup, champagne and slices of strawberries
Definitely be champagne
Lots and lots of cheese!
Champagne and rose syrup shot through with gold flakes.
Amaretto, Baileys & chocolate!
it would have to be something involving vodka
It would have to be strawberries, rum and strawberry liquer- with lots of ice. The ingredients of my favourite cocktail, a strawberry daquiri !
AMARETTO AND LIME
kiwi and lemon
Anything with a nice gin!
Chocolate 🙂
passion fruit juice and gin
Prosecco and Campari certainly the right colour
I’m just a simple girl so champagne and strawberries for me x
Looks amazing
Strawberries and tequila!
I think mine would be cinnamon, numeg and a honey based liqueur
Chocolate,strawberries and amaretto
It would have to feature tea somewhere! Tried a fabulous earl grey martini once that i’ve been struggling to replicate ever since….
pink rhubarb gin lemonade and cherries
Gin, gin, gin with strawberries!
With lemonade and some cherries
It would have to be Bailey’s, Tia maria and chocolate.
Then you can either drink or dribble
my love potion would be brandy based, cherry liquor and have a little cherry floating in it!
lovely shaken not stirred
Looks delicious!!
Would make a great addition to any drinks cabinet/
Coffee. Coffee rules the world.
chocolate mint vodka, tia maria and baileys
Rhubarb vodka and tonic garnished with a cherry ?
Prosecco (or anything with a bit of fizz!) and strawberries x
Pineapple juice, orange juice and coconut rum
Gin, & Raspberry Licquer
prosecco!
Probably amaretto – it’s the sweetest liqueur and so nice
strawberry liqueur & Prosecco
Champagne and Strawberry
Vodka, Tia Maria and Coke.
Southern Comfort and Lemonade
Essence of cherry, sugar syrup and crushed lillies
Strawberries and mint!
My cocktail would be a delicious combination of Cranes, English sparkling wine, blood orange juice with a twist of blood orange zest.
A good chocolate liqueur!
Prosecco and raspberry liqueur
Gin and strawberries
Strawberries and soda
rum, old fashioned cloudy lemonade and some banana liqueur
Strawberries and rosewater x
Aperol Spritz
Strawberries and Champagne
i love a good cocktail with passion fruit in mmm
wine gums and galaxy chocolate 🙂
honey and lemon
prosecco and strawberries
Elderflower, pink gin, sparkling water, pomegranate liqueur
Rosewater, can’t imagine Valentine without roses
Some fruits
prosecco and strawberries
Passion fruit coulis with some vodka I think! 🙂
Gin, prosecco and a dash of Rose Syrup and Fresh Strawberry to garnish
Cointreau
This sounds nearly there actually. I’m not particularly a cranberry fan, but blood oranges and prosecco are definitely my thing. Maybe some disaronno. Whatever, one is plenty.
Love and some alcoholic surprises!
Gin, Dry Vermouth, Maraschino liqueur and ice
Chocolate,strawberries,vanilla and strawberry liqueur.
Gin rhubarb liquer and prosecco
Mine will be with Tia Maria, cherry liqueur and lemonade
Cinnamon, vanilla, honey, brandy, cloves and ginseng root.
I would make a jack rosr cocktail for my love potion which consists of applejack, grenadine, and lemon or lime juice