Super Bowl LVII: 2023
The Jazz Bath & The Hurts So Good
The Jazz Bath (Kansas City Chiefs)
1 oz limoncello
1/2 oz Aperol
2 oz prosecco
Pomegranate seeds
Edible glitter (optional)
Stir together limoncello and Aperol in a champagne flute. Top with prosecco and stir again lightly. Add a pinch of edible glitter and stir lightly one more time. Drop in a few pomegranate seeds (they will sink to the bottom of the glass at first but eventually float!) Who’s ready for their Jazz Bath?
I will be the first to admit that this wasn’t one of my more inspired cocktail names (dynasties do start to pose a challenge that way…) The name started as a joke, riffing on that dumb State Farm commercial starring Patrick Mahomes that was everywhere that season, and, well, I just never came up with anything I liked more. Plus it amused me, and the more I considered it, I found it led me to some really fun cocktail ideas: a bath bomb in a glass. In other words, a sparkling wine cocktail, which I had never done for the Super Bowl before. I was interested in something fruity and/or floral and equally open to red or yellow (having previously already done one of each for the Chiefs), and I finally landed on a hybrid between a limoncello spritz and an Aperol spritz. I also chose to lean into the bath bomb concept with some fun garnishes: edible glitter along with pomegranate seeds, which floated delightfully in the bubbles. Who’s ready for their jazz bath?
The Hurts So Good (Philadelphia Eagles)
1.5 oz silver tequila
1.5 oz lime juice
3/4 oz midori
1/2 oz blue curaçao
Jalapeño to taste
Very lightly muddle thin round of jalapeño in the bottom of a rocks glass and add ice. Shake liquid ingredients over ice and strain into prepared glass. (Optional garnish of an additional jalapeño round, but proceed with caution based on your tolerance for spice!) Come on baby, make it Hurts So Good!
This ended up becoming basically a spicy Midori margarita on the rocks—but it was delicious! Green was of course the starting off point. I considered options besides Midori, but I got nudged toward tequila by some other cocktails I turned up online in my research (the Bald Eagle and the Screaming Eagle), and once I headed that direction, Midori seemed like a nice complementary choice. The green was a little vivid for the Eagles’ darker shade, but blue curaçao proved a nice color as well as flavor adjustment. And the jalapeño balanced out the sweetness of the Midori and also made it, you know, hurt a little more. Come on baby, make it Hurts So Good!
