Cocktail Ideas

For a winter wonderland-theme party, New York-based Peter Callahan used actual snowballs to serve cocktails. The tray was laid with shaved ice to hold the snowballs in place, and the team carefully measured the amount of the drink to commensurate with the time the guest could comfortably hold the snowball—no gloves required.

Also part of Eatertainment's Enchanted Forest set-up were pre-batched cocktails served in glass suspension funnels. The "Tropical Twisted Vodka Cocktail" (left) featured Asian apple vodka, tropical fruit juice, grenadine, and red edible shimmer powder, while the "Pineapple Gin Cooler" (right) included gin, fresh pineapple juice, fresh lime juice, and gold edible shimmer powder.

The entire dinner was designed to encourage social sharing, with a visually striking pineapple-infused "fountain of youth" cocktail made with liquid nitrogen.

"Rainbow in Pear-adise" cocktails were garnished with sour rainbow candy strips.