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Learn how to make Cocktails, Shots, Smoothies along with tips and what equipment to use.Duchess
This ideal pre-dinner drink is small in size, just to wet the lips and appetite!
Ingredients
25ml Pernod
25ml Dry Vermouth
25ml Sweet Vermouth
Lowball/Cocktail Glass
Using a mixing glass fill with a few cubes of cracked ice then pour onto the ice the Pernod, dry vermouth and sweet vermouth stirring well.
Strain into the chilled lowball/cocktail glass.
Margarita
Try making one of the best known cocktails, with many people claiming to have invented it, what is known is that it’s a classic.
Ingredients
75ml White Tequila
50ml Lime Juice
25ml Cointreau or Triple Sec
2 Lime Wedges
Salt
Shake the tequila, lime juice and Cointreau with ice cubes.
Strain into a glass that has had the rim rubbed with a lime wedge and dipped in salt to have a frosted look.
Using the last lime wedge squeeze into the cocktail, then place into the glass.
Take note that its just like taking a shot of tequila, together with the salt and the lime!
Sex On The Beach
This cocktail is another well known one and is associated with being relaxing and refreshing. It brings back memories of good holidays, in the sun!
Ingredients
25ml Vodka
25ml Peach Schnapps
75ml Cranberry & Peach Juice
50ml Fresh Orange Juice
Squeeze of Lemon
Orange Peel
Crushed Ice
Highball Glass
Start by shaking the vodka, peach schnapps, cranberry & peach juice and the orange juice with ice cubes until chilled.
This is then strained into the highball glass filled with crushed ice.
A squeeze of lemon is needed then decorated with the orange peel to finish it off.
Bloody Mary
This is a classic cocktail and is a must to learn! To some, can be a good hangover cure and a way to start a lazy day.
Ingredients
50ml Vodka
100ml Tomato Juice
15ml Lemon Juice
2 splashes/dashes Worcestershire Sauce
1 splash/dash Tabasco Sauce
Celery Salt
Ground Black Pepper
Celery Stalk
Lemon or Lime Wedge
Cracked Ice
Highball Glass
Start by pouring the Vodka, tomato juice and lemon juice over the cracked ice.
Add the Worcester Sauce and Tabasco then shake well and and the celery salt and ground pepper to season.
Strain over ice cubes into the Highball Glass and garnish with the celery stalk and wedge of lemon.
Kim-berry Recipe
Ingredients
- 1/3 oz vodka
1/3 oz Blue Curacao liqueur
1/3 oz banana liqueur
2 – 3 oz cranberry juice
Stir ingredients together in a chilled cocktail glass, and serve.
High Voltage Recipe
Ingredients
- 6 parts tequila
3 parts peach liqueur
1 part lime juice
Shake, strain into a chilled cocktail glass, and serve.
Biffy Cocktail Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 oz gin
1 tbsp Swedish punsch
juice of 1/2 lemons
Shake all ingredients with ice, strain into a cocktail glass, and serve.
Aggie Banana Recipe
Ingredients
- 2 scoops vanilla ice cream
1 cup whole milk
2 sliced bananas
2 oz butterscotch schnapps
Place bananas in an uncovered plastic bowl to freeze. Allow frost to form on them.
Blend ice cream, milk, and frozen bananas until smooth. Add Schnapps, blend, and pour.
Beeraquirilla Recipe
Ingredients
- 5 oz Bud Light lager
1 handful ice
1/2 oz tequila
1/2 oz light rum
3 oz strawberry daiquiri mix
3 oz margarita mix
Pour into a blender in this order: ice – beer – tequila – rum – daquari mix – margarita mix. Blend until frothy, then pour.
Kim Special Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 oz melon liqueur
1 oz banana liqueur
1 oz Kahlua coffee liqueur
fill with cream
Build over ice in a tall glass and serve.
Mexican Titty Recipe
Ingredients 1/2 oz Jose Cuervo Especial gold tequila1/2 oz milk Stir ingredients together in a shot glass, and serve.
Mexican Stand-off Recipe
Ingredients 1 cl Finlandia vodka2 cl Jose Cuervo Especial gold tequila1 cl Passoa liqueur Carefully layer into a shot glass in the above order.
Mexican Rose Recipe
Ingredients 2/3 oz tequila1/3 oz strawberry schnapps1 1/2 oz milk1/2 oz grenadine syrup Shake ingredients and strain into a double-shot glass.
Mexican Prairie Fire Recipe
Ingredients 3/4 oz Jose Cuervo Especial gold tequila1/4 oz Tabasco sauce Pour Cuervo Gold into a shot glass,top with Tabasco Sauce. Shoot the fire!!!!
Lumberjack Recipe
Ingredients 1 part ouzo anise liqueur1 part sambuca1 part tequila1 splash Tabasco sauce Pour into shot glass, no particular order. Add small dash of hot sauce.
Lui Lui Recipe
Ingredients 1 part vodka1 part triple sec1 part DeKuyper Peachtree schnapps1 splash sweet and sour mix1 splash pineapple juice Mix with ice. Strain into shot glass.
Luftwaffe Recipe
Ingredients 1 part chocolate syrup1 part Jagermeister herbal liqueur1 part butterscotch schnapps Put 1/3 chocolate syrup, then 1/3 jagermeister, and then 1/3 butterscotch of the glass.
Lucky Stud Recipe
Ingredients 1/2 oz Metaxa Brandy1/2 oz Galliano herbal liqueur Combine with ice in a mixing glass and pour into shot glasses.
Love Potion #2 Recipe
Ingredients 1 oz Stoli Ohranj vodka1/2 oz Chambord raspberry liqueur1/2 oz cranberry juice Chill all ingredients over ice, strain into a chilled shot glass, serve, and enjoy.
Love Hotel Recipe
Ingredients 1 oz sake rice wine1 oz cranberry juice1 splash grenadine syrup Pour the sake and cranberry juice into a cocktail shaker half-filled with ice cubes. Shake well, and strain into a highball glass. Add the grenadine. Stir very lightly, and serve.