Hen Night Cocktail Recipes

Ingredients:

1/2 wine glass sparkling wine

1 shot white rum

1/2 shot creme de framboise

1 wineglass raspberries

A squeeze of lemon

Ice

Making this bridal cocktail

Pour out the ingredients into a blender and blend together. It can even be served without blending, although the cocktail tastes infinitely better with the latter.

This cocktail is exceedingly alcoholic (there's no fruit juice or soft drink in it at all!) and easy to make.

Ingredients

1 1/2 oz Vodka

3/4 oz Dry Vermouth

1 Olive

How to make this cocktail

Add the vodka and vermouth together and shake with a number of ice cubes. Strain into a cocktail glass, add the olive and serve.

Daiquiri did not always enjoy the status of a light cocktail it has at present. Believe it or not, it was said to have been developed in the late 19th century in Cuba and that too as a probable treatment for curing malaria.

Ingredients

1 1/2 oz light rum

3/4 oz lime juice

1/4 oz sugar syrup

Making this cocktail

Pour the light rum, lime juice and sugar syrup into a shaker with ice cubes.
Shake well.
Strain into a chilled cocktail glass.

The Mojito is a highly popular tropical cocktail, very fashionable right now and great for hen nights. The signature cocktail of Havana, Cuba, the traditional Mojito calls for five must-have ingredients of mint, rum, powdered sugar, lime, and club soda.

Ingredients

4 mint leaves

1 lime (for juicing)

1 teaspoon powdered sugar

2 ounces white rum

2 ounces club soda

1 sprig of mint (for garnishing)

Crushed ice

Making a Mojito cocktail

Put the mint leaves into a Collins glass and squeeze the lime juice over them.
Add the powdered sugar and then muddle the mint, lime juice and sugar together. Add crushed ice.
Stir in the rum and top off with the club soda.
Garnish with a mint sprig.

Now, you can have your Sex on the Beach in a special glass. This martini cocktail glass is called Sex on the Beach!

Cocktail ingredients

1 shot vodka

1 shot peach schnapps (archers)

200ml orange juice

200ml cranberry juice

2 shots raspberry syrup

Making this cocktail

First fill the glass with ice and then pour in the shot of vodka. Add peach schnapps and mix with orange and cranberry juices. Finally, add the raspberry syrup.

Ingredients

2 oz rye whiskey

1/2 oz sweet vermouth

2-3 dashes Angostura bitters

Maraschino cherry for garnish

Making a Manhatan cocktail

Pour the ingredients into a mixing glass with ice cubes.
Stir well.
Strain into a chilled cocktail glass.
Garnish with the cherry.

The Harvey Wallbanger is a classic and popular cocktail, whose origins are steeped in several interesting rumours.

Ingredients

3/4 oz vodka

1 1/2 oz orange juice

1/4 oz Galliano

Orange slice for garnish

Maraschino cherry for garnish

Making this cocktail

Fill a Collins glass with ice cubes and pour the vodka and orange juice into it
Add the Galliano, preferably from the back of a spoon
Garnish with the orange slice and maraschino cherry

Not the naughty 1980s film about the sexual awakening of a shipwrecked boy and girl starring Brooke Shields, but the equally naughty drink!

Ingredients

1 oz. vodka

1 oz. Blue Curacao

Lemonade

1 cherry for garnishing

Making a Blue Lagoon cocktail

Pour vodka and the Blue Curacao over ice in a highball glass. Fill with lemonade, top with the cherry, and serve.

Why this is called a 'tea' one will never know -- it's chocked full of the falling down stuff!

1 oz Vodka

1 oz Gin

1 oz White Rum

1 oz Silver Tequila

1 oz Triple sec

1.5 oz Angostura bitters

Splash of Coke

8 Ice cubes of ice

Making (the hen fall down with) this cocktail

In a Highball glass, pour the vodka and gin. Add the rum, tequila and triple sec.
Add the sweet and sour mix. Add the ice cubes. Shake it several times. Fill a highball glass till the top with ice. Strain the cocktail into this glass. Add the coke, and serve it, garnished with a lemon wedge.

This is touted as being one of the world's most famous cocktails - not far behind 007s Martini (shaken not stirred!). Well, it certainly is very popular, especially with women. It's one of those cocktails everyone should try just to say they have, so it's especially apt for a hen's last excesses!

The Original Singapore Sling Recipe has the following ingredients

1 oz Benedictine

1 oz Gin

1 oz Cherry Brandy

4 oz Club Soda

Making this cocktail

Fill half of a mixing glass with ice cubes. Combine the gin, benedictine, and cherry brandy. Stir well, and strain into a Collins glass which is almost filled with ice cubes. Top with the club soda and stir again.

To truly enjoy her hen night cocktails, then hen needs a truly appropriate glass to drink out of. None could be more so than these Designs by Lolita Martini glasses in their funky, irreverent and saucy designs! What a great hen night gift one would make?

Former fashion industry pro turned female entrepreneur 'Lolita' designs cocktail glasses, wine glasses and shot glasses that speak to our insatiable appetite for celebrity culture, parties and fun!

The fabulous Lolita cocktail glass arose out of a girls' night out -- one typified by more than a little laughter and fun! After reading her first Martini menu, Lolita was inspired to cerate glasses for the recipes. Her creative imagination made her see the glass differently; a bit more dressed up with a pattern, with flair and a fabulous recipe on the bottom. Hence in 2001 Designs by Lolita was born and she's been wowing us with her glasses ever since.

With names like Sex On The Beach, Flirtini, Love Potion #9, Girl's Best Friend and Who Needs a Man, it's no surprise that Lolita's glasses have struck a chord with wild young things across the globe. After all, there's a Lolita glass for every girl out threre -- just check out the fantastic designs below.