Swap out the olive for a cute little beet heart and toast your Valentine, or yourself, with this cheerful martini.

Beeting Heart Martini

Ingredients:

1 ounce dry vermouth
4 ounces premium gin
Ice cubes
2 pickled baby beets

Directions:

1. Chill 2 martini glasses in the freezer.

2. Add the vermouth to each glass, dividing evenly then swirl to coat the glasses. Discard the vermouth after swirling.

3. Add gin to a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake vigorously until chilled then divide among the vermouth coated glasses.

4. Cut out a heart from each pickled baby beet, using a small heart shaped cutter.

5. Gently drop a beet heart into each glass and serve immediately.

Serves 2

Recipe from Martha Stewart

I first heard ‘Beating Heart’ in college. Let’s say that was a long time ago!

The original version, from a mixtape my boyfriend at the time made me, is very different from the remix here. This is more techno, but the romantic lyrics are warmly intact.

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Cheers!