A B C of Cocktails

Absinthe Minded

2 shots vodka
1 shot absinthe
1/2 shot cranberry juice
1/2 shot blue curacao

Combine all of the ingredients into a cocktail shaker with ice and shake well. Strain into a cocktail glass to serve.

After Eight Martini

1 1/2 shots vodka
1 1/2 shots chocolate liqueur
3/4 shot peppermint liqueur

Put all the ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice and shake well. Strain into a cocktail glass and enjoy!

Alternatini

6 parts vodka
1/2 tsp sweet vermouth
1/2 tsp dry vermouth
1 tsp white creme de cacao
sweetened cocoa powder
hershey's kiss

Rim a chilled martini glass with the sweetened cocoa powder. Place all of the liquid ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice. Shake and then strain into a martini glass and garnish with the hershey's kiss.

Anouchka

This delicious cocktail was invented by Salvatore Calabrese, barman of the Lanesborough Hotel, London and named after a Russian guest.

2 1/2 shots vodka
1/3 shot blackberry liqueur

Stir together in a mixing glass with ice. To serve strain and pout into a cocktail glass

Appetizer

A very easy to make cocktail based on the underused apperitif dubonnet: -

6 parts dubonnet
juice of 1 orange (freshly squeezed)

Shake in a shaker with ice, then strain and serve in a Martini glass.

Appletini's or Apple Martini's

3 parts vodka
1 part apple schnapps
1 part cointreau

This martini can be mixed or shaken with ice and then strained into a cocktail glass to serve.

Asian Pear Martini

2 shots sake rice wine
1/2 shot pear liqueur
1/2 shot Poire William
1 1/2 shots freshly pressed pear juice
1/4 shot freshly squeezed lemon juice

Shake all of the ingredients together with ice. Next strain into a cocktail glass and enjoy!

Atomic Orange

1 shot vodka
1 1/2 shots Midori
2 shots freshly squeezed orange juice

Shake all of the ingredients together with ice and strain into a cocktail glass to serve.

Aurora Borealis

1 measure iced vodka
1 measure iced green Chartreuse
1/2 measure iced orange curacao
few drops iced cassis

Pour the vodka slowly round one side of a well-chilled shot glass. Carefully pour the Charteuse round the other side. Pour the curacao gently into the middle and add a few drops of cassis. Do not stir, leave the spirits to swirl around the glass.

Baby Bellini

chilled sparkling cider
4 parts peach nectar
2 parts fresh lemon juice

Pour the fruit juices into a chilled champagne flute. Stir well and add cider to the rim, stir carefully and serve.

Black Ice Martini

2 shots vodka
2 shots black sambuca
1/4 shot creme de menthe

Place all of the ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice. Shake well and then strain into a cocktail glass to serve.

Black Russian

Black Velvet

½ pint Champagne
½ pint Stout

Make sure both ingredients are chilled and pour them both into a highball glass at the same time. Do not stir.

Blenheim

Blue Hawaiian

Blue Lagoon

A really refreshing cocktail made from:-

2 parts vodka
1 part blue curacao
lemonade

Fill a tall glass with ice, add vodka, blue curacao and top with lemonade, give it a quick stir with a straw and serve.

Brandy Alexander

3 parts brandy
3 parts dark crème de cacao
3 parts half-and-half

Shake all of the ingredients along with ice in a cocktail shaker. Strain into a snifter glass to serve.

Brandy Daisy

4 parts brandy
1 part fresh lemon juice
1 tsp Grenadine
½ tsp bar sugar
maraschino cherry

Combine all the ingredients (except the cherry) in a cocktail shaker with ice and shake well. Strain and pour into an old fashioned glass, garnish with the cherry to serve.

Brandy Vermouth Cocktail

6 parts brandy
1 part sweet vermouth
dash angostura bitters

Shake all of the ingredients together, with ice, in a shaker and strain into a martini glass to serve.

Brass Monkey

Bronx

This cocktail is said to have been created by Johnny Solon in 1906 while he was working at the Waldorf-Astoria

2 shots gin
1 shot dry vermouth
1 shot sweet vermouth
juice from 1/2 orange

Shake all of the ingredients together with ice. To serve strain into a cocktail glass.

Café Romano

2 parts white sambuca
2 parts kahlua
2 parts cream

Combine all the ingredients in a shaker with ice, then strain and serve in a Martini glass.

Capri

2 parts white creme de cacao
2 parts creme de bananes
2 parts half'n'half

Shake all of the ingredients, along with ice, together in a cocktail shaker. Strain into an old fashioned glass over ice cubes.

Capucine

More a shooter than a true cocktail, it looks and tastes divine:-

crushed ice
1 part iced blue curacao
1 part iced parfait amour

Pack a shooter glass with crushed ice and then carefully pour in the blue curacao, next slowly top up with the parfait amour.

Champagne Cocktail

1 sugar cube
angostura bitters
chilled champagne
lemon twist

Place the sugar cube in the bottom of a champagne flute and put a few dashes of angostura bitters onto it. Next fill with champagne, stir and garnish with the lemon twist.

Champagne Cooler

3 parts brandy
2 parts triple sec
Champagne
fresh mint

For this cocktail you simple put the brandy and triple sec in a red wine glass top up with Champagne and stir. Garnish it with a sprig of fresh mint to serve.

Choco-Coconutini

1 shot vodka
1 shot Malibu
1 shot chocolate liqueur

Shake all of the ingredients together with ice and strain into a cocktail glass to serve.

Chocolate Soldier

Cosmopolitan

Cupid's Cosmo

1 1/2 shots vodka
1 shot Grand Marnier
2 shots cranberry juice
1/2 shot freshly squeezed lime juice

Shake all of the ingredients together with ice. Strain into a cocktail glass to serve.

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