Cocktail Hour

COSMOPOLITAN (The classic)
1 1/2 oz vodka
1/2 oz Cointreau
1/4 oz fresh lime juice
1 oz cranberry juice
orange peel for garnish
Shake all the ingredients with ice in a shaker.
Strain into a chilled cocktail glass.
Garnish with an orange peel.

SILK STOCKINGS:
1 1/2 oz tequila
1/2 oz dark creme de cacao
1 oz heavy cream
1/2 tsp Chambord® raspberry liqueur
Pour tequila, dark creme de cacao, heavy cream and Chambord into a cocktail shaker half-filled with ice cubes. Shake, strain into a cocktail glass, and serve.

AFRICAN RUMBLE
1 TBLSP (15 ml) Coffee Liqueur
1 TBLSP (15 ml) Cream
1 TBLSP (15 ml) Irish Cream
1 TBLSP (15 ml) Tia Maria
Mix all liqueurs together in a shaker. Fill a highball glass of crushed ice to the shaker and top with cream. Shake. Pour back into the Highball Glass. Sprinkle Cinnamon on top.

BLACKBERRY MOJITO
6 Fresh Blackberries
1 ounce simple syrup
2-3 ounces premium White Rum (or Vodka)
1 lime squeezed for the fresh juice
6 leaves of fresh mint
ice
Muddle the blackberries in a shaker, add simple syrup, and juice from the lime.
Add Rum (or Vodka) and ice
Stir well
Pour into a glass.
Garnish with fresh mint, sugar cane and a blackberry

WATERMELON BREEZE
1 ½ oz Beleza Pura Super Premium Cachaça
4 1" cubes watermelon
1 tbsp sugar
splash vanilla vodka
splash grenadine
* splash guava juice
Muddle watermelon and sugar in a mixing glass, add Beleza Pura, vodka, grenadine, juice and ice. Shake well, strain into martini glass.

THE ORIGINAL MANHATTAN
* 1/4 ounce rye or bourbon whiskey
3/4 ounce sweet vermouth
1 dash Angostura bitters
1 Maraschino cherry
Lemon peel
Fill a mix glass with ice. Add the whiskey, sweet vermouth, and bitters. Stir vigorously until the glass is extremely cold. Put a maraschino cherry in a cocktail glass. Twist the lemon peel over the glass and drop it in or leave it out depending on your preference. Strain the drink over the cherry and serve immediately.

CLASSIC MARGARITA
1 ounce of tequila
1/2 ounce of Cointreau or Triple Sec
1 ounce of lime juice
Rub lime around rim of margarita or martini glass and dip in Kosher salt. Knock off excess by lightly hitting glass against the heel of your hand. Put all ingredients in a shaker filled with ice. Shake hard for 30 seconds. Strain into the glass.

MINT JULEP
4 fresh mint sprigs
2 1/2 oz bourbon whiskey
1 tsp powdered sugar
2 tsp water
Muddle 3 mint leaves, powdered sugar, and water. Fill a collins glass with

THE VERY VERSATILE MARTINI
2 ounces of London dry gin
1 ounce of French vermouth
garnish with olive

Adding a bit of the liquid in the olive jar makes it a "dirty martini". Use an onion instead of an olive and it becomes a "gibson". For different martini flavors, garnish with a slice or twist of orange or a cherry. Use vodka instead of gin and you have a vodkatini.

FIRE AND ICE
3/4 can(s) Natural Ice Beer
2 oz McGillicutty's Fireball Whiskey

MEXICAN FLAG
1 part Grenadine
1 part Creme de Menthe
1 part Bacardi 151 Rum
In a shot glass layer Grenadine, Creme de Menthe, and Rum. Do not mix. Light the top with a match for 3 seconds blow out and shoot it.

BEACHCOMBER
1 1/2 oz Rum
1/2 oz Triple Sec
1/2 oz Lime Juice

Rim the glass with sugar. Shake ingredients well with ice and strain into glass. Cherry Garnish optional.

MINT JULEP
4 fresh mint sprigs
2 1/2 oz bourbon whiskey
1 tsp powdered sugar
2 tsp water

Muddle mint leaves, powdered sugar, and water in a collins glass. Fill the glass with shaved or crushed ice and add bourbon. Top with more ice and garnish with a mint sprig. Serve with a straw.

CARRIBEAN SUNSET
1 part Vodka
1 part Coconut rum
2 parts Lemonade
A splash of Blue Curacao

Fill a highball glass with ice and add 1 part vodka and 1 part Malibu rum. Fill with lemonade. Splash Blue Curacao. Garnish with pineapple leaf and lemon wheel.

LONG ISLAND ICED TEA
1 part vodka
1 part tequila
1 part rum
1 part gin
1 part triple sec
1 1/2 parts sweet and sour mix
1 splash Cola

Mix ingredients together over ice in a shaker and give one brisk shake. Pour into tall glass. Garnish with lemon.

STRAWBERRY DAIQUIRI
2 parts Rum
2 pulped strawberries
1 part sugar solution
1/2 lime

Combine ingredients and shake

FLAMING B55
Kahlua, Baileys and a layer of Absinth on the top. light the absinthe.

ROSEMARY SALTY DOG
1 grapefruit wedge
kosher salt
1/2 teaspoon sugar
2 ounces fresh red grapefruit juice
1 1/2 ounces gin
Rosemary

Moisten the outer rim of a martini glass with the grapefruit wedge and coat lightly with salt. In a cocktail shaker, muddle the 1-inch rosemary sprig with the sugar. Add the grapefruit juice, gin and ice and shake vigorously. Strain into the martini glass and garnish with the rosemary sprig.

RAMOS FIZZ
1 1/2 oz gin
2 tbsp cream
1/2 oz fresh lemon juice
1 fresh egg white
1/4 oz club soda
1 tbsp powdered sugar
3-4 drops orange flower water
1/2 oz fresh lime juice

Add the ingredients except club soda to a chilled mixer and shake for at least one minute. Strain into a thin goblet and top off with chilled club soda, to taste.

MIDORI MELONBALL
2 parts Vodka
2 parts Midori melon liqueur
3 parts pineapple juice

Shake vodka and pineapple (or orange) juice. Strain over midori for a layered look.

BLOODY MARY
1 1/2 oz vodka
3 oz tomato juice
1 dash lemon juice
1/2 tsp Worcestershire sauce
2 - 3 drops Tabasco® sauce

Shake ingredients with ice and strain into an old-fashioned glass over ice cubes. Add salt, pepper and or celery seed to taste. Garnish with a wedge of lime or stalk of celery.

FRENCH MARTINI
2 parts vodka
half shot of Chambord
a few raspberries
splash of pineapple juice.

Shaken with ice and strained in to a cocktail glass with a twist of lemon.

SQUASHED FROG
Baileys
Midori
Grenadine

Layer in shot glass.

POMEGRANITE COCKTAIL (Oprah's Favorite)
1 oz vodka
1/2 oz orange liqueur
3 oz pomegranate juice

Combine ingredients in a cocktail shaker 1/4 filled with chopped ice. Shake and strain into a cocktail glass. Serve with a squeeze of lemon.

UPTON
5 parts Cognac
1 part Egg Yolk
Sugar

Carefully place an egg in the bottom of a chilled cocktail glass, sprinkle sugar over it and pour the cognac or brandy over it.

RED BLOSSOM
1 1/2 oz Gin
1/2 oz peach liqueur
3 Tbsp pureed or mashed raspberries
1/2 oz lemon juice
1/2 oz simple syrup
Raspberry garnish

Fill a shaker with ice. Add all ingredients except the garnish.Shake vigorously, then strain into a chilled martini glass.Garnish with a fresh raspberry.

BLUE LAGOON
1 shot Gin
1 shot Vodka
1 shot Blue Curacao
1 shot fresh lime juice
1 shot simple syrup

Mix in tall glass filled with ice. Very good for a blue drink, though still a little sweet for my taste.

BLACKBERRY BLIMEY
8 fresh blackberries
2 shots vodka or lime vodka
1 shot fresh lime juice
3/4 shot Creme de Cassis
1/8 shot simple syrup

Muddle blackberries in old fashioned glass. Fill glass with crushed ice and other ingredients, stir.

EMERALD SPARKLER
1 measure of Midori
topped up with champagne

Garnish with a small slice of melon.

GREEN FANTASY
1 part Midori
1 part Vodka
1 part Vermouth

Shake with ice, strain into martini glass, garnish with a melon ball.

PINA COLADA
3 oz light rum
3 tbsp coconut milk
3 tbsp crushed pineapples

Put all ingredients into an electric blender with 2 cups of crushed ice. Blend at high speed for a short time. Strain into a collins glass and serve with a straw.

MOFO COCKTAIL
1/4 oz vodka
1/4 oz cranberry juice
1/4 oz peach schnapps
1 1/2 oz milk

Layer ingredients in a cocktail glass, and serve.

FRENCH MARTINI
2 parts vodka
1/2 shot of Chambord
Raspberries
Splash of pineapple juice
Lemon Twist

Shake with ice and strain into a cocktail glass with a twist of lemon.

HARVEY WALLBANGER
1 ounce Vodka
1/2 ounce Galliano
4 ounces Orange Juice

Pour vodka and orange juice into a collins glass over ice cubes and stir. Float Galliano on top and serve.

BUTTERY NIPPLES
1 ounce Butterscotch Schnapps
1 ounce Irish Cream

Pour schnapps into an old-fashioned glass then slowly pour Irish Cream against side of glass. Sip or shoot. Can also be served hot.

CACTUS BITE
2 oz tequila
2 oz lemon juice
2 tsp triple sec
2 tsp Drambuie® Scotch whisky
1/2 tsp superfine sugar
1 dash bitters

In a shaker half-filled with ice, combine all of the ingredients. Shake well. Strain into a cocktail glass.

WHISKEY SOUR
Fill a rocks glass with ice, add...

1 oz. Whiskey
2 oz. Sweet & Sour
Marachino Cherry

Add a stir straw and a lemon twist

SILVER BULLET
2 oz vodka
2 oz sambuca

Shake ingredients over ice, strain into old-fashioned glass.

WHITE RUSSIAN
2 oz vodka
1 oz coffee liqueur
light cream

Pour vodka and coffee liqueur over ice in an old-fashioned glass. Fill with light cream.

Home-made SANGRIA
(Found this on Flickr - sounds good!)
1 bottle of red wine (Merlot 1 L)
1 cup of Chemineau Brandy
1/2 cup of orange juice
1/2 cup of apple juice
1/2 cup of pineapple juice
Add Ginger Ale in each glass.

MEXICANA
1 1/2 oz tequila
1 oz lemon juice
1 tbsp pineapple juice
1 tsp grenadine syrup

Shake with ice and strain into a cocktail glass. Can also serve over ice.

GODFATHER
1 oz bourbon whiskey
1 oz amaretto

Build over ice cubes in a rock glass or stir and strain into a cocktail glass. Top with a couple of lime weges and some crushed ice.

DEEP SEA DIVER
2 oz overproof rum
2 oz dark rum
3/4 oz white rum
3/4 oz triple sec
1/2 tsp powdered sugar
1/4 oz lime syrup
1 oz lime juice

In a shaker over crushed ice shake well. Strain into a large highball glass over crushed ice.

TEQUILA SUNRISE
2 oz Tequila
3/4 oz Grenadine
4 oz Orange Juice

Stir orange juice and tequila with ice and strain into a glass. Add ice, pour in grenadine slowly. Stir before drinking.

TEQUILA FIZZ
2 oz tequila
1 tbsp lemon juice
3/4 oz grenadine syrup
1 egg white
ginger ale

Shake all ingredients (except ginger ale) with ice, strain into a collins glass over ice. Fill with ginger ale, stir, serve.

BRAIN DAMAGE (SOUTHERN)
2/3 shot peach liqueur
1/3 shot coffee liqueur
2 - 3 drops grenadine syrup

Fill 2/3 shot with peach liqueur and then add the 1/3 left coffee liqueur. Don't mix. Add a couple drops of grenadine for effect and sweetness.

NEGRONI
1 oz gin
1 oz sweet vermouth
1 oz Campari® bitters

Stir together with ice. Strain into chilled cocktail glass 3/4 full with cracked ice. Add a splash of soda water if desired. Garnish with slice of orange.

DEMPSEY
1 oz apple brandy
1 oz gin
1 tsp anise liqueur
1/2 tsp grenadine syrup

Stir all ingredients with ice and strain into a cocktail glass.

GIN FIZZ
2 oz gin
juice of 1/2 lemons
1 tsp powdered sugar
carbonated water

Shake gin, juice of lemon, and powdered sugar with ice and strain into a glass over ice. Fill with carbonated water, stir, and serve.

ELECTRIC LEMONADE
3/4 oz vodka
3/4 oz blue curacao
1 oz prepared sweet-and-sour mix
7up or Sprite

Fill a glass with ice. Add vodka, blue curacao, and sweet and sour mix. Fill glass with 7up or Sprite. Mix gently.

AFRICAN BANANA SPLIT
1/4 oz grenadine
1/2 oz dark Creme de Cacao
1/2 oz Amarula cream liqueur
1/2 oz banana liqueur
1/4 oz whipping cream or cream

Add ingredients above as listed by slowly pouring one over the other achieving a layered appearance.

BOURBONNAISE
1 1/2 oz Bourbon
1/2 oz Dry Vermouth
1/2 oz Creme De Cassis
1/4 oz Lemon Juice

Add above ingredients in a mixing glass with ice. Stir and strain into a rocks glass. Garnish with a lemon twist.

PINK LADY
1 1/2 oz gin
1 tsp grenadine syrup
1 tsp light cream
1 egg white

Shake ingredients with ice, strain into a cocktail glass, serve.

FRENCH 75
1 1/2 oz gin
2 tsp superfine sugar
1 1/2 oz lemon juice
4 oz chilled Champagne
1 slice orange
1 maraschino cherry

Shake well in shaker half-filled with ice, add gin, sugar, lemon juice. Strain into a collins glass (or as pictured is okay, too). Top with the champagne. Stir and garnish with orange slice and cherry.

BOURBON LANCER
1 1/2 oz. Bourbon
1 sugar cube (or 1/2 tsp)
Dash of Angostura Bitters
Champagne

Add sugar to a tall glass and wet with Bourbon and bitters. Add ice and fill with Champagne. Garnish with spiral lemon peel.

ST TROPEZ
Dubonnet
Orange Juice or Cranberry Juice

Mix Dubonnet with ice and cranberry or orange juice to desired taste.

MIDORI SOUR
1 oz Midori® melon liqueur
1 oz whiskey sour mix
2 oz Sprite® soda
2 cherries

Fill a highball glass with ice. Add midori, sour mix and sprite, stir, add cherries.

VANILLA MARTINI
1 oz Stoli Vanilla Vodka
1/2 oz Triple Sec
1/2 oz Sweet & Sour Mix
Dash Grenadine
Dash Vanilla Extract
1 Cherry

Pour ingredients over ice in a mixing glass and shake. Strain ice. Serve in Cocktail Glass.

SUNSET MARTINI
1 1/2 oz Bacardi® orange rum
3 oz lemonade

Shake with ice and strain into a sugar-rimmed martini glass.

FROZEN DAIQUIRI
2 oz light rum
1 1/2 oz fresh lime juice
3/4 oz sugar syrup
lime wedge for garnish

Mix light rum, lime juice, and sugar syrup with approximately 2 cups of ice. Pour into a chilled collins glass. Garnish with the lime wedge.

ABSINTHE
1 oz Deva® absinthe
3 dashes benedictine herbal liqueur
2 dashes bitters
1 oz water

Shake well with cracked ice. Strain into cocktail glass.

MINTY AMARULA SHAKE
2 oz creme de menthe
3 oz Amarula cream liqueur
1 cup vanilla ice cream
1 1/2 oz cream
1 1/2 oz milk

Combine in a blender with 1/4 cup crushed ice and blend until smooth. Garnish with a cookie or chocolate shavings.

ELECTRIC BLUE KOOLAID
1 Part Coconut Rum
3 parts Electric Blue Koolaid

Mix rum and koolaid. Pour over ice or blend for a frozen drink.

ORANGE BLOSSOM
2 oz gin
1 oz orange juice
1 tsp superfine sugar

Combine gin, orange juice, and sugar in a shaker half-filled with ice cubes. Shake well and strain into a cocktail glass. Garnish with orange slice.

SATAN'S WHISKERS
1 oz gin
1 oz vermouth
1 oz dry vermouth
1/2 oz orange liqueur
1 tsp triple sec
1 oz orange juice

Shake, strain into a cocktail glass. Garnish with orange slice.

ORANGE MARGARITA
1 oz tequila
1/2 oz triple sec
4-6 oz orange juice
1 splash lime juice

Combine tequila, triple sec and orange juice over ice in a margarita glass. Stir, top with lime juice or sour mix, serve.

SEX IN THE CITY
Curacao, blue 2 oz.
Schnapps, peach 1 1/2 oz.
Vodka 1 1/2 oz.
Pineapple Juice 2 oz.
Raspberry Juice 2 oz.

Mix all together in a cocktail glass.

JAMAICAN COSMO
2 parts Aged Rum (Cuban Type)
6 parts Cranberry Juice
1 part Triple Sec
Cherry

Pour rum, cranberry juice and triple sec into a shaker filled with ice cubes. Shake until very cold. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with a cherry.

PUMPKIN PIE COCKTAIL
1/2 oz coffee liqueur
1/2 oz Bailey's® Irish cream
1/4 oz cinnamon schnapps

Slowly layer the ingredients in the order listed above into a large shot glass.

IRISH FLAG
1 part green creme de menthe
1 part Bailey's® Irish cream
1 part Grand Marnier® orange liqueur

In a cordial or shot glass, carefully pour each ingredient in order so they float in layers.

GOOMBAY SMASH
1 oz spiced rum
1 oz Malibu® (or other coconut rum)
1/4 oz apricot brandy
2 oz pineapple juice
2 oz orange juice

Mix all in a highball glass with ice and shake. Garnish with an orange slice and A cherry.

PEANUT BUTTER CUP
1 oz coffee liqueur
1 oz hazelnut liqueur
1 oz Irish cream
5 oz milk

Pour the coffee liqueur, hazelnut liqueur and irish cream into a hurricane glass filled with ice cubes. Fill with milk, stir well, and serve.

NATIONAL AQUARIUM COCKTAIL
1/2 oz rum
1/2 oz vodka
1/2 oz gin
1/2 oz Blue Curacao liqueur
2 oz sweet and sour mix
1 splash lemon-lime soda

Pour ingredients into a shaker filled with ice. Shake well. Serve on the rocks in a highball glass.

BETWEEN THE SHEETS
1 oz Cognac or Brandy
1 oz Cointreau or Triple Sec
1 oz Light Rum
1 oz Lemon or Lime Juice

Combine ingredients in a shaker with cracked ice. Shake well and strain into a cocktail glass. Garnish with a lemon twist.

TOM COLLINS
2 ounces Gin
1 ounce Lemon Juice
1 teaspoon Superfine Sugar
3 ounces Club Soda

Combine gin, lemon juice, and sugar in a shaker half-filled with ice cubes and shake well. Strain into a collins glass with ice. Add Club Soda. Stir. Garnish with cherry and orange slice.

SINGAPORE SLING
1/2 oz grenadine syrup
1 oz gin
sweet and sour mix
club soda
1/2 oz cherry brandy

Pour grenadine into the bottom of a collins glass and fill with ice. Add gin, add about 1/3 glass sweet and sour and another 1/3 glass of chilled soda. Top with cherry brandy. Don't stir, garnish with a cherry, and serve.

PLANTER'S PUNCH
1½ fl oz (37 ml) dark rum
1 fl oz (25 ml) light rum
1 fl oz (25 ml) lime juice
1 fl oz (25 ml) orange juice
1 fl oz (25 ml) pineapple juice
1 tablespoon(s) superfine sugar (or substitute with 1/2 oz. Grenadine)
ice cubes as required
3 fl oz (75 ml) club soda
1 wedge(s) of pineapple
2 cherries

Pour ingredients except club soda and fruits into a shaker with ice and shake well. Strain into a collins glass. Add the club soda and stir. Garnish with pineapple wedge and cherries.