Welcome to my Cocktail Lounge
An appreciation of delicious flavors is all that's required to turn you into an amazing mixologist...........oh and a few great recipes, but that's where I come in.
Experiment with what you have or try out some classic recipes, there are no mistakes to be made only new cocktails to discover.
When my mum comes over to stay I like to mix up a cocktail for us to celebrate. She loves creamy and chocolatey cocktails, like me. Last time she was here I made us the following concoction:-Choc Nut Delight
30ml dark creme de cacao
15ml kahlua
15ml frangelico
30ml cream
30ml milk
I placed all of the ingredients into my shaker with ice and shook well. Then I strained it into a cocktail glass and topped it with grated chocolate - delicious.
I added the kahlua because cofee flavors can sometimes help to intensify the chocolate flavor. I only put 15ml of the frangelico because I wanted the nutty flavor to be in the background and not overpowering. Why did I use cream and milk - I was feeling lazy! Obviously you can use half'n'half, I just didn't want to make any - we had gossiping to do!
This illustrates a fun thing with cocktails - if you don't have something, substitute and make up a name for your 'new' cocktail!
My Latest Tipple
These are my most recent cocktail lenses, I hope you enjoy them.-
Hot Chocolate Cocktails
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There’s nothing better in winter than to sit around a fire with a lovely mug of hot chocolate.....unless you count hot chocolate with extras! Yes, adults only hot chocolate is a different type of cocktail that you can serve to...
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1930s Movie Cocktails
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The black and white movies of the 1930s always appeared to be so glamorous. Smoking and drinking weren't taboo in the thirties and it showed in the movies. Stars of the silver screen were often seen drinking champagne and any number of cocktails whil...
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10 Cocktails to Cure the Blues
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What better way to cure the blues than to have a blue cocktail? Blue Curacao is a liqueur that is most commonly used to make striking cocktails and shooters. The blue is absolutely stunning - just what you want a cocktail to look like. Let's look at...
Cocktails by Alphabet!
If you have a particular cocktail you wanted to make then search for it here.....I've made it easy for you and I've listed them in alphabetical order!-
A B C of Cocktails
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Join me as I delve into the world of the mixologist. Let's see how to make cocktails such as the Apple Martini (Appletini), Bellini Cocktail, Cosmopolitan Cocktail and more. I have cocktail recipes for cocktails beginning with A, B or C. We have mu...
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D E F of Cocktails
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I love cocktails, cocktail parties, cocktail dresses, cocktail glassware............you get the idea! There are so many different types of cocktails, in this lens we're just going to focus on those starting with D,E & F. Cocktails su...
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G H I of Cocktails
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I love cocktails, cocktail parties, cocktail dresses, cocktail glassware............you get the idea! There are so many different types of cocktails that on this page I'm just going to focus on those starting with G, H & I. cocktails...
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J K L of Cocktails
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I love cocktails, cocktail parties, cocktail dresses, cocktail glassware............you get the idea! There are so many different types of cocktails, in this lens we're just going to focus on those starting with J, K and L. These include the delicio...
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MNO of Cocktails
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I love cocktails, cocktail parties, cocktail dresses, cocktail glassware............you get the idea!There are so many different types of cocktails, in this lens we're just going to focus on those starting with M,N & O. I have ot...
- Drink recipes: Black Russian
- I walk into the bar at the Hotel Metropole, it's a busy night and some of the patrons are in the middle of the floor displaying their skills at the.....
- Drink recipes: Blue Hawaiian
- "Let's go surfin' now, everybody's learning how, come on and safari with me" I can't think of surfing without thinking of Hawaii and the fantasti.....
- Drink recipes: Blenheim
- The Blenheim is a cocktail that was created by the Savoy Hotel's head barman Joe Gilmore to celebrate Winston Churchill's ninetieth birthday. Win.....
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PQRS of Cocktails
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If you like Pina Coladas then you've come to the right place. I love cocktails, but there are just so many to choose from - where do you start? Here I have brought you a selection of cocktails starting with P, Q, R & S such as Pina Coladas, Q Martin...
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T U V of Cocktails
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I love cocktails, drinking them, having cocktail parties even wearing cocktail dresses (although that's not always compulsory!!). I have made this page to celebrate cocktails that begin with the letters T,U & V - these cocktails include the Tequila...
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W X Y Z of Cocktails
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Join me as I delve into the world of the mixologist. Let's see how to make cocktails such as the Walnut Martini, XYZ Cocktail, Yellow Parrot or Zabaglione Martini. I have cocktail recipes for cocktails beginning with W, X, Y or Z as well as a select...
- Drink recipes: Chocolate soldier
- The traditional recipe for the chocolate soldier is :- 1 oz gin oz dubonnet juice of lime. You take the ingredients and put them in a co.....
- Drink recipes: Cosmopolitan
- "A cheese burger, large fries and a cosmopolitan please?" says Carrie Bradshaw in Sex and the City. Because of this television series women every.....
- Drink Recipes: White Russian
- A good White Russian is similar to an exquisite chocolate truffle, you take that first mouthful and let it sit in your mouth a moment, savouring th.....
Tequila
For all of the tequila lovers out there you can't go past Margaritas, although that isn't the only tequila cocktail available....
I must admit if we're going for a mexican night I usually drink corona's as tequila isn't always nice to me which is why it's important to take note of some hangover remedies!!
- Tequila Cocktails
- When most people think of tequila they think of shots or Margaritas, some may even think of Tequila Sunrises. There are actually a lot more ways of enjoying tequila. Here are ....
- Homemade Cures for a Hangover
- Hangovers are caused by dehydration, it seems strange that the more (alcohol) you drink the more dehydrated you are.....
- How to Avoid a Hangover
- After a big night you wake up and your mouth feels dry, your head pounds and your stomach feels "delicate."......
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Margarita Time
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Summer time is when the Margarita really holds its own. There are not many cocktails that are robust enough to be enjoyed in a frozen form as the Margarita is. A popular cocktail for Mexican parties, pool parties or cocktail parties the Margarita can...
Monster Margarita Glass - $ 14.95
This Monster Margarita Glass holds a quarter-gallon of delicious refreshment! If you're holding this you'll definately become the life of the party!.....seriously though, these glasses can be alot of fun when making cocktails for a table.
I used to go out on a girls night out and we went to a bar that had monster cocktail glasses, we would order one cocktail (between four of us) and sit around a table to finish it before heading back to the dance floor - F A N T A S T I C !
Daiquiri Time
Now to all you daiquiri lovers I have a lens just for you. This delicious rum cocktail is such a classic that it really deserves to stand up by itself!-
Be A Daiquiri Diva
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To become a Daiquiri Diva you need to love the balance of sweet and sour that the lime juice and sugar syrup bring out. The way that these two ingredients mellows out the harshness of the rum and allows you to experience it's background flavors is wo...
- Drink recipes: Daiquiri
- Daiquiri's are a family of cocktails the main ingredients of which are rum, lime juice & sugar. Daiquiri's are named after a beach near Santiago.....
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Comforting Cocktails
- Comforting Cocktails
- Sometimes there are tastes that comfort you like apple pie, jam doughnuts and peanut butter and jam sandwiches. Can you believe that there are drinks that taste just like comfort food?....
Chocolate and Dessert Cocktails
As I've mentioned earlier I LOVE chocolate.If you have a sweet tooth then these cocktails are for you.
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Dessert? Make Mine A Cocktail!
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Delicious, sweet and creamy, who needs dessert when you can have one of these cocktails? They even sound like a dessert with names like macaroon and toffee split. Why don't you host a dinner party with a difference and serve up an alcoholic sweet wit...
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Chocolate Cocktails
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Chocolate and alcohol, what more could you ask for? There are so many alcoholic chocolate delights to sample that I have attempted to wrap some of them up for you in a very select box of chocolate cocktails.
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Berrilicious Martini’s
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Since the popularity of the vodka martini there has been an explosion of different creative martini's on the market. Having been bombarded with how good berries are for you (due mainly to their antioxidant properties) I have hunted down some deliciou...
- Drink Recipes: Dessert cocktails
- You've heard about a liquid lunch, how about a dessert cocktail? Instead of serving pudding, give your guests a dessert cocktail. Here's a few of m.....
Champagne Delights
A collection of delicious Champagne cocktails, there is no need to go back to a simple glass of bubbles anymore!
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Champagne Cocktails
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Champagne is the name given to the bubbly white wine from the Champagne region of France. Moet & Chandon, Dom Perignon and Bollinger are famous brands that are known the world over. Champagne first found favor with the French Royal family which is wh...
- Guide to champagne and wine cocktails
- Although wine affectionados shudder at the thought of wine cocktails they have been around since the 1800s. The trick to a really good wine cockt.....
Celebrity Cocktails
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Lady GaGa Cocktails
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Lady GaGa calls herself a performance artist, we call her New York's pop princess. The girl who wants to out do Madonna enjoys having a few drinks - you only have to listen to the words of her hit song Just Dance to know that. I thought it would be...
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Cary Grant Cocktails
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Cary Grant makes you think of the words handsome and debonair and his movies invoke black and white imagery of a perfect world where the stars of the silver screen drank Champagne and cocktails while looking fabulous! In real life Cary Grant's favor...
Cocktail Party Time
There's nothing better than a cocktail party and it doesn't have to be a big affair to be a GREAT affair.
My last cocktail party was for my xx birthday (somethings are private!) and had only 4 of us + the barman/waiter (hubby). We enjoyed our cocktails just as much as when we're in a large group.
Sometimes you feel you have to have an excuse to throw a cocktail party and that's when Christmas, St Patricks Day, Halloween etc come in very handy!
You can buy these Martini glass cutouts to decorate your party - just click on the one you like for more information - aren't they gorgeous!
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How to throw a fantastic Cocktail Party
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Who doesn't like cocktail parties, you get to dress up in little cocktail dresses and drink all manner of great concoctions culminating in the wearing of little cocktail umbrellas behind your ears while dancing away to Girls Just Want To Have Fun! T...
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St Patrick's Day Party
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St Patrick's Day is a day of celebrating, a day of drinking, eating and wholesome merriment. St Patrick's Day is a day when we don't paint the town red, instead we paint it green! March 17th is St Patrick's Day, the day to celebrate the life of Irel...
- Throwing an easy cocktail party!
- A cocktail party conjures up all kinds of thoughts for different people, from the elegant, cosmopolitan group party, to the loud Hawaiian themed pa.....
- Basic cocktails all bartenders should know
- Every bartender needs to know a yummy, creamy cocktail that the girls will want to try & for that you can't go past a Toblerone. Take 30ml Frange.....
- Buyer's guide to cocktail glassware
- I have a built in bar downstairs in my house and we have seen a few good cocktail parties in that bar. The wall has holes where after a few cockt.....
- Great cocktails
- There are so many great cocktails around it's hard to think which ones to list, so I am going to look at cocktails through the ages and see which o...
Seasonal Cocktails
An excuse for Cocktails all year long!
The first excuse for a cocktail party has to be New Years Eve....what better way to start the year?After that Valentines Day makes a good excuse.....
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Valentine's Day Cocktails
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What better way to celebrate Valentines Day then by sipping cocktails with the person you love? Whether you are sipping a Cupid's Cosmo while listening to music or having a delightful Snuggler while curled up together watching a movie. Where strawber...
March brings St Patrick's Day which brings in so many possibilities in the form of a cocktail party that it is hard to know where to begin.
Don't forget to check out the St Patrick's Day Party lens above.
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Go Green for your St Patrick's Day Cocktails
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On St Patrick's Day it's time to paint the town Green! The green food coloring comes out and you eat foods that nature never intended to be green. You have a couple of choices when it comes to drinking - the ever popular Guinness (although I must adm...
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Guinness Cocktails
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Guinness was first brewed by Arthur Guinness in 1759 at his St James Gate Brewery in Dublin. This means that Guinness is celebrating 250 years of creamy goodness. The creamy dark stout that goes by the name of Guinness must surely be one of Ireland'...
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Baileys Cocktails
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Baileys Irish Cream has been a staple part of bars and many homes since it's inception in 1974. When it was first introduced to the world a cream liqueur was a novel concept and the world took to it immediately. Baileys is a combination of Irish whis...
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Baileys Irish Cream - Shots and Shooters
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The world debut of Baileys Irish Cream in 1974 was to revolutionize the idea of shots and shooters. A shot was traditionally from hard liquor such as Bourbon or Tequila and was drunk for a couple of reasons - to warm you up when you came in from the...
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St Patrick's Day Cocktails
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You really cannot have a St Patricks Day without Guinness, Baileys or Irish Whiskey. St Paddy's Day is also the day to paint the town green. Bearing all this in mind I have tried to come up with a collection of St Patrick's Day Cocktails. I hope you...
- Easter Chocolate Cocktails
- To me Easter means chocolate! I know there are a lot more reasons to celebrate, but all I'm interested in is my chocolate Easter eggs! I have had a bit of a look around at Easter Cocktails on the web and I have come across ones called the ....
- My top Easter Cocktails
- Well it will be Easter in no time at all and with four days off of work this means getting together with friends and family. I find friendly get togethers are a fantastic time to have a few cocktails, so here are my pick for the top Easter Cocktails....
- The perfect springtime cocktails
- For an afternoon springtime cocktail I like a long refreshing drink and for that it is hard to go past the Blue Lagoon of the Fire Engine. Blue .....
- The basics of frozen cocktails
- Frozen cocktails and summer go hand in hand, whether it be with a Sunday barbeque, a pool party or a nice quiet book in the sun with a glass in you.....
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Moving through the year we creep up on October and the hauntingly good time to have a Cocktail Party -
H A L L O W E E N.
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Halloween Cocktails
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Hallow's Eve, the night when the living dead walk among us: a time to celebrate our ghoulish side: a night when witches meet and cackle. What will you be drinking? A witches brew, some slime, demon's blood? I have found some lovely (and not so lovel...
- Drink recipes: Halloween cocktails
- What better way to celebrate Halloween than a cocktail party? Decorate your house in a ghoulish manner, get your friends to dress in their finest.....
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Christmas Cocktails
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Christmas time is a great time to get together with friends and family. christmas is a time of over-indulging whether with food, drink or presents. What better time is there to have a cocktail? Christmas cocktails are a wonderful thing to enjoy. You...
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Lolita Christmas Cocktail Glasses
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Tracy 'Lolita'Healy is the CEO and designer of Lolita Glassware. Her fun cocktail glasses are produced with original, cheerful designs plus a little twist. Lolita's little twist is a recipe written on the bottom of each glass - fantastic. There is a...
- Drink recipes: Egg nog
- E is for Eggs, besides being used in cooking, they are also used in cocktails, such as the Egg Nog, now how did someone come up with that name? I.....
- Berry Delicious Eggnog
- Christmas time is time for making up some Eggnog, but sometimes I feel it's not quite enough. To add a little more flavor to your Eggnog this holiday season why not try adding berries.....
- White Christmas
- "I'm dreaming of a White Christmas
%u2026.." I'd love to have snow this Christmas, but as I now live in Australia it's very unlikely to happen. I will still have a Snowball .....
Be Responsible
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All the fun of a cocktail with none of the alcohol.
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Mocktails
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For those of you who love cocktails, but can't or don't want to have alcohol the answer is mocktails. Colorful and full of flavor, mocktails give you all the fun of a cocktail with none of the bite. I love mocktails almost as much as cocktails.....t...
- I Love Mocktails
- When I'm a designated driver at a cocktail party drinking water, juice or soda just does not 'do it' for me, that is why at my party's I always make sure that there are some Mocktails. What are mocktails? They are basically non-alcoholic cocktails.....
A Couple for the Road??
- Drink recipes: Creative martinis
- Churchill and Hemmingway loved the old fashioned gin martini, but as the twentieth century marched on the vodka martini grew in popularity. Then al.....
- Guide to low-carb alcoholic beverages
- When on a low carb diet it is usually advised that you don't drink alcohol in the first phase. There is a very good reason for this as alcohol is.....
Lou's Guestbook
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- lakern26 lakern26 Aug 20, 2009 @ 12:17 pm
- Awesome lens - I loved it! What a fun niche! I have to admit that I don't drink very often, but that Chocolate Nut Delight sounds delicious. Thanks for sharing! 5*
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- WindyWinters WindyWinters Aug 17, 2009 @ 5:42 pm
- Wow! Lots of delicious cocktails. Excellent work! :)
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- puzzlemaker puzzlemaker Aug 3, 2009 @ 8:26 am
- Oh man, that first one - Choc Nut Delight looks incredible. Everything I'd want to know is right here.
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- Heather426 Heather426 Jul 28, 2009 @ 11:33 am
- Wow, good thing I'm reading this in the morning...if it were after noon I would be running to the blender to start making something yummy...reminds me of one of my favorite jokes: Some people say the glass is half full, others say half empty. I say, "Are you going to drink that?"
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- capriliz capriliz Jul 27, 2009 @ 8:38 pm
- Lots of goodies to be found here!
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