#cocktail recipes

The elegant elderflower liqueur is back in style these days. Mix ½ oz. St. Germain with 4 oz. champagne and garnish with an orange slice or a strawberry.

Mmmm, Mojitos! Check out different recipes of your favorite rum cocktail:http://www.cocktailpros.com/cocktails/mojito

Cool down with this fruity, citrus & sweet Watermelon Mojito.

Get the recipe: http://www.cocktailpros.com/watermelon-mojito

Attention, pyromaniacs! Your cocktails are ready

Learn how to make Flaming Dr. Pepper Shot:http://www.cocktailpros.com/flaming-dr-pepper-shot

It’s not traditional, but it is tropical and tasty. Get the recipe for Pineapple Vanilla Mojito: http://www.cocktailpros.com/pineapple-vanilla-mojito

The‪#‎Bijou‬ is a robust, spirit-forward gem from the pre-Prohibition era. Get the recipe: http://www.cocktailpros.com/classic-bijou

Celebrate National Daiquiri Day with the classic. Discover the perfect rum cocktail, Daiquiri: http://www.cocktailpros.com/daiquiri

It’s hot outside. Time to blend your booze with ice

Get inspired at http://www.cocktailpros.com/cocktails/frozen-blended

John Collins Cocktail !

Ingredients:
1.5oz Genever or Gin
.75oz Lemon Juice
.75oz Simple Syrup
6oz Soda

Instructions:
Build all ingredients in a glass with ice, stir gently to combine. Garnish with lemon wheel and cherry.

Matcha Frappe !

Ingredients:

1 ½ Cups Almond Milk, vanilla, unsweetened – or other milk/milk alternative
2 Tablespoons Agave Nectar
2 Teaspoons Matcha Green Tea Powder
2 Cups Ice

Directions:

1 Add ingredients to a blender in the order listed and blend until smooth.

2 Enjoy!

Courtesy of Nutri Bullet

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Sakura Martini !

1 servings

Ingredients:

• 1 salted cherry blossom
• Ice
• 2 ½ ounces dry sake
• 1 ounce gin
• ¼ teaspoon maraschino liqueur

Directions:

A few hours before you plan to serve the drink, soak the salted cherry blossom in hot water to remove any excess salt, then transfer to cold water until you’re ready to serve the drink. You may want to use tweezers to avoid damaging the flower.

About 5 minutes before serving, chill a cocktail glass in the freezer.

Fill a mixing glass with ice. Add the sake, gin and maraschino liqueur, and stir to chill and dilute.

Strain the drink into the chilled glass and garnish with the cherry blossom.

Courtesy: Bar Goto, New York / Scott Suchman for The Washington Post; food styling by Lisa Cherkasky for The Washington Post.

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In the Name of the Moon !

Serving: 1

• 3 tang yuan (sesame rice balls)
• 3 ounces hot ginger broth (see Editor’s Note)
• 1 ounce brandy or whiskey
• 2 dashes Chinese licorice root tincture (see Editor’s Note)

Garnish: edible flowers, toasted black and white sesame seeds (optional)

Directions:

1. Heat tang yuan in boiling water until they float. Transfer to a small bowl.
2. In a separate container, combine hot ginger broth, brandy or whiskey, and licorice root tincture. Stir briefly, then pour over tang yuan.
3. Garnish with edible flowers and, if desired, toasted sesame seeds.

Editor’s Note:

Chinese Licorice Root Tincture:
Infuse 4 ounces neutral grain spirit with ½ cup sliced Chinese licorice root for at least 24 hours. Strain and decant into a dropper bottle.

Hot Ginger Broth:
Heat 2 cups of water with 1 ½ ounces brown slab sugar cane (half of one piece), ¼ cup sliced ginger, and a pinch of salt. Stir over medium-high heat until sugar dissolves. Strain out the ginger. Yeung notes the finished broth should be “nice and spicy” from the ginger, but feel free to adjust the amount of ginger to taste.

Courtesy of Sharon Yeung | Seattle

Photo: Lizzie Munro

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Gin Smash !

Ingredients:

• 50ml Dingle  Gin
• 15ml sugar syrup
• Handful of mint leaves

Method:

1. Add the ingredients to a lowball glass and muddle them together.
2. Add crushed ice while stirring and garnish with a wedge of lime.

Recipe courtesy of Dingle Distillery

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Prohibition of Titles !

Ingredients:

• 40 ml Method and Madness gin
• 20ml apple sherbet
• 20ml lime juice
• 10ml green chartreuse

Method:

1. Add all the ingredients into a shaker.
2. Shake for 10 seconds and double strain into a coupe glass.
3. Then top up with apple sherbet foam.

Recipe courtesy of The Shelbourne

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Silks Apple Bee !

Ingredients:

• 50ml Silks Irish Dry Gin
• 25ml lemon juice
• 25ml apple juice
• 25ml honey syrup
• Apple slice and sage to garnish
  
  

Method:

1. Fill a cocktail shaker with ice.
2. Add the gin, lemon juice, apple juice and honey syrup. Shake to combine and strain into a glass.
3. Garnish with an apple slice and sage leaf.
4. To make the honey syrup: dissolve honey in a 1:1 ratio with warm water

Courtesy: Silks Irish Gin 

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Quick Fix !

• 1 oz. pisco
• 1 oz. St. Germain Elderflower Liqueur
• 1 oz. grapefruit juice
• 0.5 oz. lime juice

Add liquid ingredients to a cocktail shaker with a handful of crushed ice. Give a quick shake to integrate the ingredients and chill it down a touch and empty the contents into a rocks glass. Top with more crushed ice and garnish with a grapefruit peel or a sprig of fresh mint.

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Hurricane !

• 2 oz. aged rum
• 0.5 oz. passion fruit puree or syrup
• 0.5 oz. grenadine
• 0.5 oz. Cointreau
• 0.5 oz. lemon juice

Add all ingredients to a cocktail shaker with crushed ice. Shake briefly to whip, then empty contents into a curved “Hurricane” glass and garnish with an orange slice and a cherry.

Courtesy: Pat O’Brien

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Swiss Kiss !

Ingredients:

Serving: 1

• 1 ½ ounces gin
• ½ ounce génépy
• ¾ ounce lemon juice
• ½ ounce simple syrup
• 1 dash Peychaud’s bitters
• absinthe, to float

Garnish: mint sprig

Directions:

1. Combine all ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice and shake until chilled.
2. Strain into a rocks glass over a large ice cube.
3. Garnish with a mint sprig.

Courtesy: Zac Sorensen, Chicago

Photo: Lizzie Munro

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I.B.F. Pick-Me-Up !

Ingredients:

Serving: 1

• 1 ½ ounces Cognac,
• ½ ounce Cointreau
• ¼ ounce Fernet-Branca
• crémant de Loire, to top

Garnish: orange twist

Directions:

1. Combine all the ingredients, except for the sparkling wine, in a mixing glass with ice and stir until chilled.
2. Strain into a chilled Nick & Nora glass and top with approximately 1 ounce of crémant de Loire.
3. Garnish with an orange twist.

Courtesy: Zac Overman, Seattle

Photo: Amber Fouts

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The Dreamsicle !

Ingredients:

1½ oz. Whipped Cream Vodka

½ oz. Triple Sec

2 oz. Orange Juice

Fill Lemon-Lime Soda

Orange Slice for Garnish

Method:

Shake all ingredients with ice except for soda. Strain into glass with fresh ice. Top with lemon-lime soda and garnish with an orange slice.

This heavenly recipe is perfect as a desert or a simple go-to when out on the town.

Courtesy: Empire Mixology

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Blueberry Gin & Tonic !

Ingredients:

• 3oz Blueberry gin
• 3 oz tonic water
• A pinch of salt (optional)

Instructions:

1. Fill a glass halfway with ice
2. Add gin
3. Slowly add tonic water
4. Stir
5. Enjoy!

Courtesy: The Cocktail Snob

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Two Mustard Seed Cocktail !

Ingredients:

For the mustard-infused gin:

• 12 ounces gin
• 50 grams yellow mustard seeds

For 1 cocktail:

• 2 ounces mustard-infused gin
• 5–6 1-inch cucumber cubes
• .75 ounce agave syrup
• .5 ounce fresh lime juice
• Thyme sprig (for garnish)
• Candied ginger (for garnish)

Instructions:

Make the mustard-infused gin a week in advance of your mustard cocktail event. Simply add mustard seeds to your gin bottle and let the mixture macerate.

To make the cocktail, muddle the cucumber cubes in a cocktail shaker. Add the mustard-infused gin, agave syrup, fresh lime juice, and ice. Shake vigorously for 10 to 15 seconds and strain over ice into a tall glass.

Using a blowtorch, caramelize a piece of candied ginger over the cocktail and then stir it into the drink to release the ginger flavor. Garnish with a thyme sprig. (Since you have your blowtorch out, you can toast the thyme if you want a smoke effect.)

Courtesy: Mustard Madness,

Photo by Judy Doherty

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Long Island Iced Tea Cocktail !

Ingredients:

• ¾ ounce vodka
• ¾ ounce white rum
• ¾ ounce silver tequila
• ¾ ounce gin
• ¾ ounce triple sec
• ¾ ounce simple syrup
• ¾ ounce lemon juice, freshly squeezed
• Cola, to top
• Garnish: lemon wedge

Method:

1. Add the vodka, rum, tequila, gin, triple sec, simple syrup and lemon juice to a Collins glass filled with ice.
2. Top with a splash of the cola and stir briefly.
3. Garnish with a lemon wedge.
4. Serve with a straw.

Courtesy: The Bottle Club

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THE RHUBARB 75 !

Ingredients:

• 1.5 oz gin
• .75 oz fresh squeezed/strained lemon juice
• .5 oz rhubarb syrup (recipe below)
• Chilled Champagne or Cava to top

Instructions:

1. For the syrup: Combine ¾ lb chopped rhubarb in a saucepan with 1 cup water, 1 cup cane sugar, and 1 vanilla bean, split lengthwise. Bring to a boil over medium-high heat, stirring occasionally, then lower heat and cover. Let simmer gently for 5 minutes, then remove from heat. Stir in ¼ tsp orange blossom water, replace lid, and let cool to room temp. Refrigerate overnight, then strain with a nut milk bag or a cheesecloth-covered sieve. Reserve the strained, broken down rhubarb for use as a compote, and store both syrup and compote in the fridge. [TIP: you can make the syrup without the vanilla bean or orange blossom water in a pinch. You won’t get the same depth of flavor, but it will be nearly as good.]
2. For the cocktail: Combine all but the Champagne in a cocktail shaker filled with ice.
3. Shake hard for 5 seconds.
4. Pour into a Champagne flute and top with chilled Champagne to taste.
5. Garnish with rhubarb ribbons or a lemon twist.

Courtesy: Colleen Jeffers

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Lavender French Gimlet !

Ingredients:

• ▢2 ounces gin
• ▢1 ounce St. Germain
• ▢½ ounce fresh lime juice
• ▢3-5 drops of ‘Cocktail lavender’*

Instructions:

• Add ice to a cocktail shaker, and add all of your ingredients. Shake vigorously and serve.

* Cocktail lavender:

Ingredients:

• ▢½ cup organic, food-grade lavender
• ▢Vodka or Everclear
• ▢Natural purple food dye

Instructions:

• Pour ½ cup of dry lavender flowers into a sealable jar and add 1 cup of vodka. Seal, and let it refrigerate for 2 days.
• Remove the jar, and squeeze your liqueur out of the flowers with cheese cloth. It will be a pretty golden brown color. If you want it to add a lavender hue to your drinks, add a few drops of natural purple food dye and mix.

Courtesy: Genevieve Morrison

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Just Beet It From Heartbeet !

Ingredients:

• 1.5 OZ. Beet-Infused Tequila
• 2 OZ. Ginger Beer

• Glass: Double Rock Glass
• Garnish: Lemon Wheel

Preparation:

Pour the beet-infused tequila into an ice-filled glass. Top with ginger beer.

Beet-Infused Tequila:
Peel and chop 4 medium-sized beets into ¼-inch cubes and add to a 750 ml. bottle of silver tequila. Infuse for 3 days then discard the beets. The infusion should be a deep red color. 

Add 1 cup of ginger juice, 2 cups of fresh lemon juice, and 2 cups of simple syrup. 

Shake together to combine. 

This mixture will keep for one week refrigerated.

Courtesy:  Sue Nowamooz and Nousha Nowamooz, Heartbeet, Houston,

Photography by Julie Soefer

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St. Germain !

Ingredients:

• 1 1⁄2 fl oz dry gin, or vodka
• 1 fl oz St. Germain liqueur
• 3⁄4 fl oz lemon juice, freshly squeezed
• 3 fl oz brut champagne, or prosecco, or other dry sparkling wine
• lemon twist, or peel, for serving
• ice, for cocktail shaker

Instructions:

Combine the gin or vodka, St. Germain, and lemon juice in a cocktail shaker.

Fill the shaker with ice, cover, and shake vigorously until the outside of the shaker is very cold about 20 seconds.

Strain into a champagne glass and top with champagne. Garnish with a lemon twist and enjoy!

Recipe Notes:

Rub the inside of the lemon peel around the rim of the glass first. It gives the drink an extra burst of citrusy freshness and flavor.

Courtesy: Recipes.net

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Aquavit Thyme Gimlet !

Ingredients:

Cocktail glass
2oz. Aquavit (or gin if you prefer)
½ oz. fresh lime juice
¼ oz. simple syrup
2 blasts* Thyme Cocktail Spice 
Ice
Lime Garnish

Instructions:

Fill a shaker with ice
Add 2oz. Aquavit
Add ½ oz. fresh lime juice
Add ¼ oz. simple syrup
Add 2 blasts* Thyme Cocktail Spice
Shake and strain into your chilled cocktail glass
Garnish with a lime wheel

Enjoy!

* a blast is a measurement describing one eyedropper of Cocktail Spice – approx 25 drops

Courtesy: Drink Addiction

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