The best cocktails. mayo 2012 ~ Cocktails and Mixes
The best cocktails
The best cocktails
The best cocktails

Classification of Cocktails

We can meet with cocktails: Appetizers (citrus), Gastrointestinal (sweet and short), Restorative (nutrients), In the afternoon, drinks (alcoholic fruit juices).

The ornament

The ornament is the detail with which presents a cocktail, despite being edible no influence on the taste thereof. Such as the slice of lemon on the edge of a glass of Caipirinha.

Preparation

The cocktails can be prepared by different processes: Built (direct), Effervescence, Flambé, Smoothies, Mixeología, macerated, Frozzen, Removed.

Decoration

The decoration of the cocktails should be stimulating and engaging, never extravagant. In general, refreshing cocktails based on fruits allow more decorative than other types of drinks. The decor is a non-edible ornament which does not affect the flavor of the cocktail

Do the cocktails without haste.

Remember to make cocktails with care and without haste, the results will be better.

Virgin Strawberry Daiquiri



Ingredients

  • 2 large strawberries, hulled
  • 1/4 cup white sugar
  • 1 tablespoon lemon juice
  • 3/4 cup chilled lemon-lime soda
  • 4 cubes ice

Directions

  1. In the container of a blender, combine the strawberries, sugar, lemon juice and lemon-lime soda. Add the ice and blend until smooth. Pour into a fancy glass to serve.

Strawberrylicious Daiquiris




Ingredients

  • 1 (1 pound) strawberries, halved
  • 1/2 cup white sugar
  • 1 tablespoon lime juice
  • 1/3 cup unsweetened pineapple juice
  • 3/4 cup spiced rum
  • ice

Directions

  1. Combine strawberries and sugar in blender; blend until smooth. Pour in pineapple juice, lime juice, and rum. Pulse until combined. Serve over ice.

Strawberry Daiquiri II




Ingredients

  • 1/2 cup frozen strawberries
  • 4 ice cubes
  • 1/8 teaspoon salt
  • 1 teaspoon white sugar
  • 1 (1.5 fluid ounce) jigger rum

Directions

  1. Place the strawberries, ice cubes, salt, sugar, and rum into a blender. Cover and puree until smooth.

Strawberry Daiquiri by Request

Ingredients

  • 1/2 cup rum
  • 2 tablespoons sweetened lime juice (such as Rose's®)
  • 2 tablespoons grenadine syrup (such as Rose's®)
  • 1/2 cup confectioners' sugar
  • 2 cups ice cubes
  • 1/2 (16 ounce) package frozen strawberries
  • 1 tablespoon whipped cream, divided (optional)

Directions

  1. Place the rum, lime juice, grenadine, confectioners' sugar, ice cubes, and strawberries into a blender. Cover, and puree until smooth. Pour into glasses and top each with a dollop of whipped cream, if desired.

My Father's Lime Daiquiri

Ingredients

  • 3 limes, juiced
  • 1/2 cup white sugar
  • 10 fluid ounces white rum
  • 4 maraschino cherries
  • 6 cups ice cubes

Directions

  1. In a blender combine lime juice, sugar and rum. Blend and add ice one cube at a time until mixture is thick and smooth. Pour into 4 glasses and garnish with maraschino cherries.

Lime Daiquiri

Ingredients

  • 1 cup ice
  • 1 cup light rum
  • 1/2 (6 ounce) can frozen limeade concentrate
  • 1 cup carbonated water

Directions

  1. In a blender, combine ice, rum, limeade concentrate and carbonated water. Blend until smooth. Pour into glasses and serve.

Frozen Lime Daiquiri


Ingredients

  • 1 (12 fluid ounce) can frozen limeade concentrate
  • 12 fluid ounces rum
  • 1 tray ice cubes

Directions

  1. In a blender, combine limeade concentrate, rum and ice cubes. Blend until smooth. Pour into glasses and serve immediately.

Daiquiri


Ingredients

  • 1 (6 ounce) can frozen lemonade concentrate
  • 6 fluid ounces chilled lemon-lime soda
  • 6 fluid ounces light rum
  • 1/2 (10 ounce) package frozen sliced strawberries
  • 2 cups ice cubes

Directions

  1. In the container of a blender, combine the lemonade concentrate, lemon-lime soda, rum and strawberries. Cover, and blend until smooth. Add ice and blend to desired thickness.

Bing Cherry Daiquiri


Ingredients

  • 1 1/2 fluid ounces bing cherry infused Cruzan Light Rum
  • 1/2 fresh lime, juiced
  • 2 heaping bar spoons powdered sugar
  • 1 lime wheel

Directions

  1. Shake all ingredients until well chilled, strain into a cocktail glass, garnish with a lime wheel.

Best Strawberry Daiquiri


Ingredients

  • 6 cups ice
  • 1/2 cup white sugar
  • 4 ounces frozen strawberries
  • 1/8 cup lime juice
  • 1/2 cup lemon juice
  • 3/4 cup rum
  • 1/4 cup lemon-lime flavored carbonated beverage

Directions

In a blender, combine ice, sugar and strawberries. Pour in lime juice, lemon juice, rum and lemon-lime soda. Blend until smooth. Pour into glasses and serve

Basic Daiquiri

Ingredients

  • 3 fluid ounces light rum
  • 1 1/2 tablespoons lime juice
  • 1 tablespoon white sugar
  • 2 cups cracked ice

Directions

  1. Pour the rum, lime juice, sugar and ice into the container of a blender. Blend for 10 seconds, or until ice is fine. Pour into two daiquiri glasses.

The Real Mojito

Ingredients

  • 10 fresh mint leaves
  • 1/2 lime, cut into 4 wedges
  • 2 tablespoons white sugar, or to taste
  • 1 cup ice cubes
  • 1 1/2 fluid ounces white rum
  • 1/2 cup club soda

Directions

  1. Place mint leaves and 1 lime wedge into a sturdy glass. Use a muddler to crush the mint and lime to release the mint oils and lime juice. Add 2 more lime wedges and the sugar, and muddle again to release the lime juice. Do not strain the mixture. Fill the glass almost to the top with ice. Pour the rum over the ice, and fill the glass with carbonated water. Stir, taste, and add more sugar if desired. Garnish with the remaining lime wedge.

Sugar-Free Mojito Punch

Ingredients

  • 1/2 cup lime juice
  • 1/2 cup fresh mint leaves
  • 1/4 cup granular sucralose sweetener (such as Splenda®)
  • 4 1/4 cups diet lemon-lime soda
  • 4 cups crushed ice

Directions

  1. Stir lime juice, mint leaves, and sweetener together in a pitcher; gently crush and bruise mint leaves with a wooden spoon.
  2. Pour diet lemon-lime soda into juice mixture and stir until sweetener has dissolved.
  3. Mix in crushed ice to serve.

Nutritional Information 

Amount Per Serving  Calories: 9 | Total Fat: 0g | Cholesterol: 0mg

Strawberry Mojito

Ingredients

  • white sugar, for rimming
  • 2 large limes, quartered
  • 1/2 bunch mint leaves
  • 7 strawberries, quartered
  • 1 cup white sugar
  • 1 cup white rum
  • 2 cups club soda
  • 8 cups ice cubes

Directions

  1. Pour 1/4 to 1/2 inch of sugar onto a small, shallow plate. Run one of the lime quarters around the rim of each cocktail glass, then dip the glasses into the sugar to rim; set aside.
  2. Squeeze all of the lime quarters into a sturdy glass pitcher. Toss the juiced limes into the pitcher along with the mint, strawberries, and 1 cup of sugar. Crush the fruits together with a muddler to release the juices from the strawberries and the oil from the mint leaves. Stir in the rum and club soda until the sugar has dissolved. Pour into the sugared glasses over ice cubes to serve.

Mojito Cocktail

Ingredients

  • 2 leaves fresh mint
  • 1 tablespoon simple syrup
  • 2 cubes ice
  • 1 1/4 fluid ounces rum
  • 1 fluid ounce carbonated water
  • 1 sprig fresh mint

Directions

  1. In a cocktail glass, muddle (crush) mint leaves with simple syrup. Add ice and rum. Top with carbonated water. Garnish with a sprig of fresh mint.

Mint-Cucumber Mojitos




Ingredients

  • 1 lime, quartered
  • 2 sprigs fresh mint leaves
  • 1 tablespoon white sugar
  • 2 slices cucumber
  • 6 cubes ice, or as needed
  • 2 ounces white rum (such as Bacardi®)
  • 4 fluid ounces club soda

Directions

  1. Squeeze the lime quarters into a highball glass, and drop the limes into the glass. Add the mint leaves and sugar. Muddle well with the back of a spoon or with a muddler. Place the cucumber slices into the glass, and fill with ice cubes. Pour in the rum, then top off with club soda. Stir gently and serve.

J-Lo's Asian Mojito

Ingredients

  • 5 fresh mint leaves
  • 3 lime wedges
  • 1 fluid ounce sour apple schnapps
  • 1 1/2 fluid ounces limon flavored rum
  • 1/2 fluid ounce pineapple juice
  • 6 cubes ice
  • 1 fluid ounce club soda

Directions

  1. Muddle (crush) together the mint leaves, lime wedges and sour apple schnapps in a glass using the handle of a wooden spoon. Add lemon rum and pineapple juice; shake well and pour over ice. Top with club soda.

Good Mojito

Ingredients

  • 1/2 lime, juiced
  • 1 tablespoon white sugar
  • 5 mint leaves
  • ice cubes
  • 2 fluid ounces white rum
  • 4 fluid ounces soda water
  • 1 lime wedge

Directions

  1. Muddle the lime juice, sugar, and mint leaves together in the bottom of a cocktail glass until the mint has broken down a bit, about 1 minute. Fill the glass with ice cubes. Add the rum and soda water over the ice. Pour the mixture back and forth from from the glass to another glass to mix. Garnish with the lime wedge and enjoy.

Nutritional Information 

Amount Per Serving  Calories: 188 | Total Fat: 0.1g | Cholesterol: 0mg

Cuban Mojito

Ingredients

  • 2 teaspoons white sugar
  • 1 lime, cut into 4 wedges
  • 4 sprigs fresh mint
  • 1/2 cup white rum
  • 2 cups club soda
  • 2 cups crushed ice
  • 2 wedges lime, as garnish

Directions

  1. Place 1 teaspoon of sugar into each of two 12 ounce glasses. Squeeze the juice from a lime wedge into each glass, drop in the wedge, and add 2 sprigs of mint. Use a spoon or muddler to mash the sugar, lime juice, and mint together in the bottom of the glasses. Fill each glass about half full with crushed ice. Pour 1/4 cup rum into each glass. Fill the glasses with club soda, stir, and garnish with additional lime wedges.

Cocojito (Frozen Mojito)




Ingredients

  • 4 cups ice cubes
  • 2 1/2 limes, rind removed
  • 7 fluid ounces sweetened cream of coconut (such as Coco Lopez®)
  • 2 1/2 (1.5 fluid ounce) jiggers white rum (such as Bacardi®)
  • 5 sprigs fresh mint leaves
  • 2 mint sprigs, for garnish (optional)
  • 2 lime wedges, for garnish (optional)

Directions

  1. Blend the ice, limes, cream of coconut, rum, and mint leaves together in a blender until smooth. Pour into two glasses and garnish each with a mint sprig and lime wedge as desired.

Nutritional Information 

Amount Per Serving  Calories: 586 | Total Fat: 20.1g | Cholesterol: 0mg

Alcohol-Free Mojitos




Ingredients

  • 2 cups water
  • 1 1/2 cups white sugar
  • 2 cups mint leaves, chopped
  • 2 cups lime sherbet, softened
  • 1 cup lime juice
  • 1 cup water
  • 8 cups club soda
  • lime slices for garnish

Directions

  1. Combine 2 cups water and the sugar in a microwave-safe bowl; heat in microwave on High for 5 minutes. Stir the mint into the water; let stand for 5 minutes. Strain and discard the mint leaves from the syrup; set aside.
  2. Stir the lime sherbet, lime juice, and 1 cup water together in a large pitcher until well combined. Pour the mint-infused syrup into the mixture. Add club soda and stir. Serve over ice. Garnish with lime slices.

Chocolate Hazelnut Raspberry Goodness




Ingredients

  • 1 fluid ounce Chambord (raspberry liqueur)
  • 1 fluid ounce Frangelico (hazelnut liqueur)
  • 1 fluid ounce chocolate vodka
  • 1 teaspoon chocolate shavings, for garnish

Directions

  1. Pour the Chambord, Frangelico and vodka into a cocktail shaker over ice. Cover, and shake until the outside of the shaker has frosted. Strain into a chilled martini glass, and garnish with chocolate shavings to serve.

Chocolate Martini a la Laren




Ingredients

  • 4 fluid ounces chocolate liqueur
  • 3 fluid ounces vodka
  • 1 (1 ounce) square semisweet chocolate, grated

Directions

  1. In a cocktail mixer full of ice, combine chocolate liqueur and vodka. Shake vigorously and strain into 2 chilled martini glasses. Garnish with chocolate shavings.

Chocolate Cake Shot




Ingredients

  • 1 fluid ounce hazelnut liqueur
  • 1/2 fluid ounce vodka
  • 1 lemon, cut into wedges
  • white sugar

Directions

  1. In a shot glass, combine 1 part hazelnut liqueur and 1 part vodka. Coat a wedge of lemon with sugar. Suck the lemon wedge, and with the juice still in your mouth, drink the shot.

Chi Chi




Ingredients

  • 1 cup crushed ice
  • 1 (1.5 fluid ounce) jigger vodka
  • 4 fluid ounces pineapple juice
  • 1 fluid ounce cream of coconut
  • 1 slice fresh pineapple
  • 1 maraschino cherry

Directions

  1. In a blender, combine ice, vodka, pineapple juice and cream of coconut. Blend until smooth. Pour into a glass and garnish with a slice of pineapple and a cherry.

Cherry Vodka Sour

Ingredients

  • 3 fluid ounces vodka
  • 3 fluid ounces sweet and sour mix
  • 1 tablespoon cherry grenadine syrup

Directions

  1. Stir together vodka, sweet and sour mix, and grenadine in an 8 ounce glass. Fill with ice.

Bushwacker




Ingredients

  • 2 fluid ounces coffee flavored liqueur
  • 2 fluid ounces coconut rum
  • 2 fluid ounces Irish cream liqueur
  • 2 fluid ounces vodka
  • 2 fluid ounces amaretto liqueur
  • 2 fluid ounces cream of coconut
  • 1 pinch ground nutmeg

Directions

  1. In a one-quart blender half filled with ice, combine coffee liqueur, rum, Irish cream, vodka, amaretto and coconut cream. Blend until smooth. Pour into cup and sprinkle a little nutmeg on top and enjoy a little taste of the Islands.

Buttery Nipple




Ingredients

  • 1 (1.5 fluid ounce) jigger vodka
  • 1 (1.5 fluid ounce) jigger Irish cream liqueur
  • 1 (1.5 fluid ounce) jigger butterscotch schnapps
  • 1 (1.5 fluid ounce) jigger coffee flavored liqueur

Directions

  1. Fill a cocktail shaker with ice. Pour in the vodka, Irish cream, butterscotch schnapps and coffee liqueur. Shake well. Strain into shot glasses and serve.

Candy Apple Martini




Ingredients

  • 1 fluid ounce vanilla vodka
  • 1 fluid ounce sour apple schnapps
  • 1 fluid ounce butterscotch schnapps
  • 1 fluid ounce cranberry juice
  • 1 maraschino cherry

Directions

  1. Pour the vodka, apple schnapps, butterscotch schnapps, and cranberry juice into a cocktail shaker over ice. Cover, and shake until the outside of the shaker has frosted. Strain into a chilled martini glass, and garnish with a maraschino cherry to serve.

Candy Red Apple Martini




Ingredients

  • 1/2 fluid ounce butterscotch schnapps
  • 2 fluid ounces vodka
  • 2 fluid ounces sour apple schnapps (such as DeKuyper® Sour Apple Pucker)
  • 2 fluid ounces cranberry juice

Directions

  1. Pour the butterscotch schnapps, vodka, apple schnapps, and cranberry juice into a cocktail shaker over ice. Cover, and shake until the outside of the shaker has frosted. Strain into a chilled martini glass to serve.

Caramel Martini




Ingredients

  • 1/4 cup vanilla flavored vodka
  • 2 tablespoons butterscotch schnapps
  • 1 tablespoon iced tea
  • 1 cup ice cubes
  • 1 tablespoon caramel ice cream topping

Directions

  1. Place the vodka, butterscotch schnapps, and iced tea into a shaker with the ice. Shake until the shaker has a coating of frost on the outside. Use a squeeze bottle to coat the inside of a martini glass with a spiral of caramel. Strain the liquid from the shaker into the glass and serve.

Carmel Apple Martini




Ingredients

  • 2 fluid ounces best-quality vodka
  • 1 fluid ounce sour apple schnapps
  • 1/2 fluid ounce butterscotch schnapps
  • 1 cup crushed ice
  • 1 slice dried apple

Directions

  1. Combine vodka, schnapps, and crushed ice in a shaker. Shake vigorously to chill. Pour into martini glass, garnish with dried apple, and serve.

Cedarwood




Ingredients

  • 1 fluid ounce lemon juice
  • 2 fluid ounces vodka
  • 4 fluid ounces cranberry juice
  • 3 1/2 fluid ounces ginger ale

Directions

  1. In a tall glass over ice combine lemon juice, vodka, cranberry juice and ginger ale. Stir and serve.

Chai Martini




Ingredients

  • 2 fluid ounces vodka
  • 2 fluid ounces cold chai tea

Directions

  1. Pour the vodka and chai into a cocktail shaker over ice. Cover, and shake until the outside of the shaker has frosted. Strain into a chilled martini glass to serve.

Boston Creme Pie Martini




Ingredients

  • 1 (1.5 fluid ounce) jigger vanilla vodka
  • 1 (1.5 fluid ounce) jigger chocolate liqueur
  • 1 (1.5 fluid ounce) jigger Irish cream liqueur
  • 1 cup crushed ice
  • 1 (4 ounce) jar maraschino cherry

Directions

  1. Combine vodka, chocolate liqueur, Irish cream liqueur, and crushed ice in a cocktail shaker. Shake vigorously to chill. Pour into a martini glass, garnish with a maraschino cherry, and serve.

Brown Lady Drink




Ingredients

  • 2 tablespoons vodka
  • 2 tablespoons Irish cream liqueur
  • 2 tablespoons rum cream liqueur
  • 2 tablespoons coffee flavored liqueur
  • 1/4 cup coconut cream
  • 1 1/2 cups ice cubes

Directions

  1. In a blender, combine the vodka, Irish cream liqueur, rum cream liqueur, coconut cream and ice cubes. Cover, and blend for about 1 minute. Pour into two glasses.

Brownie Martini




Ingredients

  • 2 fluid ounces vanilla-flavored vodka
  • 3/4 fluid ounce Irish cream liqueur
  • 3/4 fluid ounce creme de cacao
  • 1 fluid ounce coffee-flavored liqueur
  • 1/2 fluid ounce butterscotch schnapps

Directions

  1. Fill a cocktail shaker with ice; pour the vodka, Irish cream, creme de cacao, coffee-flavored liqueur, and butterscotch schnapps over the ice; cover and shake. Strain into a chilled martini glass to serve. 
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Bunko Punch

Ingredients

  • 1 cup brewed tea
  • 7 cups water
  • 4 cups vodka
  • 1 (6 ounce) can frozen orange juice concentrate, thawed
  • 1 (6 ounce) can frozen pink lemonade concentrate, thawed
  • 1 (2 liter) bottle grapefruit flavored soda, chilled

Directions

  1. Mix together the tea, water, vodka, orange juice concentrate, and pink lemonade concentrate in a large freezer-proof bowl, such as glass or stainless steel, and freeze overnight or several days ahead. With a fork, scrape the frozen mixture into a slush; pour the grapefruit soda into the slushy mixture, and stir. Keep cold in an ice chest.

Budget Jungle Juice for a Crowd




Ingredients

  • 2 gallons orange-flavored drink
  • 2 (46 fluid ounce) cans fruit punch
  • 4 quarts pink lemonade
  • 4 quarts pineapple and orange juice blend
  • 4 (750 milliliter) bottles vodka
  • 2 (750 milliliter) bottles white rum

Directions

  1. Stir together orange drink, fruit punch, lemonade, pineapple-orange juice blend, vodka, and rum in a large container.

Bloody Mary Deluxe




Ingredients

  • 1 (11.5 fl oz) can spicy vegetable juice cocktail
  • 1/2 lime, juiced
  • 1 stalk celery
  • 4 dashes pepper sauce (such as Frank's Red Hot®)
  • 2 dashes Worcestershire sauce
  • 1 teaspoon prepared horseradish
  • 4 (1.5 fluid ounce) jiggers vodka, or to taste
  • 1/2 cup crushed ice
  • salt and ground black pepper to taste
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  • 1 cup ice cubes
  • 4 marinated cocktail onions
  • 1/2 carrot (optional)
  • 2 short stalks of celery with leaves
  • 2 stuffed green olives
  • 1/2 lime, cut into wedges
  • 2 thin strips of green bell pepper (optional)
  • 2 small sprigs of mint (optional)

Directions

  1. In a blender, combine the vegetable juice, lime juice, 1 celery stalk, hot pepper sauce, Worcestershire sauce, horseradish, vodka, and crushed ice. Season with salt and pepper. Cover, and blend until smooth.
  2. Use two large frozen beer mugs, highball or pint glasses. Place one cocktail onion at the bottom of each glass. Put 1/2 cup of ice cubes into each glass. Use a vegetable peeler to pull a few strips off of the carrot for each glass. Put in a slice of green pepper. Divide the blended mixture evenly between the two glasses.
  3. On cocktail toothpicks, place a green olive, a cocktail onion, and a lime wedge. Attach each one to a celery stalk so that when inserted, this garnish is on the top of the drink. Sprinkle on a few more carrot strips, and garnish each drink with a sprig of mint.

Blue Motorcycle




Ingredients

  • 2 cups ice cubes
  • 1/2 (1.5 fluid ounce) jigger vodka
  • 1/2 (1.5 fluid ounce) jigger tequila
  • 1/2 (1.5 fluid ounce) jigger rum
  • 1/2 (1.5 fluid ounce) jigger gin
  • 1/2 (1.5 fluid ounce) jigger Blue Curacao
  • 1 dash sour mix
  • 2 fluid ounces lemon-lime flavored carbonated beverage
  • 1 slice fresh lemon

Directions

  1. In a cocktail shaker filled with ice, combine the vodka, tequila, rum, gin, Blue Curacao, sour mix and lemon-lime soda. Shake vigorously to get a frothy head on the drink. Pour the contents of the shaker, including ice, into tall bar glass and garnish with a slice of lemon.

Blue Sky Martini

Ingredients

  • 1 fluid ounce vodka
  • 1/4 fluid ounce sweet vermouth
  • 1/4 fluid ounce Blue Curacao
  • 3 stuffed green olives

Directions

  1. Fill a mixing glass with ice. Pour in vodka and sweet vermouth. Stir (or shake) and strain into a martini glass. Splash with blue curacao. Garnish with 3 green olives.

Blueberry Liquor




Ingredients

  • 1 (12 ounce) package frozen blueberries, thawed
  • 1/2 lemon, zested
  • 3 whole cloves
  • 1 1/2 cups vodka
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  • 3/4 cup simple syrup

Directions

  1. Mash thawed blueberries with a fork in a bowl, then place into a 1-quart canning jar. Add the lemon zest, cloves, and vodka.
  2. Seal the jar tightly with its lid and place in a cool, dark place. Allow the vodka to stand for 3 months, shaking the jar gently every few days.
  3. After 3 months, strain out the blueberries, and filter the vodka through cheesecloth into another 1-quart jar. Pour in the simple syrup, seal the jar tightly with its lid, and shake until the syrup has dissolved.
  4. Again place into a cool, dark place, and age for at least a month. When ready to bottle, filter again through cheesecloth, then pour into a decorative bottle of your choice.

Blueberry Vodka Martinis



Ingredients

  • 1 liter vodka
  • 1 pint blueberries, rinsed and dried
  • 1 cup raspberry flavored liqueur
  • 1 lime, juiced
  • 1 twist lime zest, garnish

Directions

  1. To make the blueberry vodka: Pour out approximately 1/3 of the bottle of vodka into a holding container; set aside. Score each blueberry with a small nick and place into vodka bottle. With the vodka previously set aside, fill the vodka bottle until just below the neck. Add just enough raspberry liqueur to top off the bottle. Let sit in a dark place for 2 weeks.
  2. To make martinis: In a cocktail shaker filled with ice, combine 2 parts blueberry vodka, 1 part raspberry liqueur, and a dash of lime juice. Shake vigorously and strain into glass. Garnish with twist of lime zest.

Best Screwdriver




Ingredients

  • 1 (1.5 fluid ounce) jigger good quality vodka
  • 6 fluid ounces pulp-free pure premium orange juice
  • ice cubes

Directions

  1. Pour the orange juice into a glass with ice, then pour in the shot of vodka. Stir and serve.

Big Kev's Texas Style Long Island Iced Tea


Ingredients

  • 1 fluid ounce vodka
  • 1 fluid ounce dry gin
  • 1 fluid ounce triple sec (orange-flavored liqueur)
  • 1 fluid ounce rum
  • 1 fluid ounce tequila
  • 1 (12 fluid ounce) can or bottle cola-flavored carbonated beverage
  • 1 wedge lemon
  • 1 wedge lime

Directions

  1. Pour vodka, gin, triple sec, rum, and tequila into a tall glass with ice. Top off with cola. Stir gently. Garnish with lemon and lime wedges. 
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Big Apple Martini







Ingredients

  • 1 cup crushed ice
  • 6 fluid ounces vodka
  • 1 fluid ounce apple jack
  • 1 dash Calvados

Directions

  1. In a mixing glass, combine crushed ice, vodka and applejack brandy. Stir and strain into 2 chilled cocktail glasses. Top with a splash of Calvados, garnish with a lady apple and serve.

Bikini Martini



Ingredients

  • 1 fluid ounce coconut rum
  • 3/4 fluid ounce vodka
  • 1 fluid ounce pineapple juice
  • 1 dash grenadine syrup

Directions

  1. Combine rum, vodka and pineapple juice in a drink shaker. Shake firmly until frothy. Pour in a martini glass, add a touch of grenadine in the middle. Garnish with an orange wheel.

AMAJO's Creamsicle® Martini

Ingredients

  • 1 fluid ounce vodka
  • 1 fluid ounce triple sec
  • 1 fluid ounce orange juice
  • 1 fluid ounce fat free half-and-half
  • 1 slice orange

Directions

  1. Fill a cocktail shaker with ice cubes. Pour in the vodka, triple sec, orange juice, and half-and-half. Shake until frosty, about 15 seconds; strain into a martini glass, and garnish with an orange slice.

Amaretto

Ingredients

  • 1 cup water
  • 1 cup white sugar
  • 1/2 cup brown sugar
  • 2 cups vodka
  • 2 tablespoons almond extract
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla extract

Directions

  1. Combine water and sugars in a saucepan over medium heat. Heat until the mixture is boiling, and all of the sugar is dissolved. Remove the pan from the heat and let the mixture cool for 10 minutes.
  2. Stir vodka, almond extract and vanilla extract into the mixture. Store in a sealed bottle.