Friday 27 May 2011

Gummi Bear Margarita

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Ingredients:

    * 1 1/2 oz Voodoo Tiki Blue Dragon Tequila
    * 1 oz Watermelon Pucker
    * 1/2 oz triple sec
    * 1 oz sour mix
    * 1 oz cranberry juice
    * dash of grenadine
    * sugar for rimming
    * Gummi Bears for garnish

Method:

   1. Rim a chilled margarita glass with sugar, fill with ice and Gummi Bears.
   2. Pour the ingredients into a cocktail shaker with ice.
   3. Shake well.
   4. Strain into the prepared glass.

Glamour Girl Martini

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Ingredients:

    * 3 oz Folonari Pink Pinot Grigio
    * 1 oz Peach Schnapps
    * splash of cranberry juice
    * maraschino cherry for garnish

Method:

   1. Pour the ingredients into a cocktail shaker filled with ice.
   2. Shake well.
   3. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass.
   4. Drop a cherry in the drink for a garnish.

Distracted Cocktail

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Ingredients:

    * 2 oz bourbon whiskey
    * 3/4 oz Chambord liqueur
    * 1/2 oz cranberry juice
    * dash of lemon bitters or a lemon twist for garnish

Method:

   1. Build the ingredients in a cocktail glass over two ice cubes.
   2. Add a few dashes of lemon bitters or garnish with a lemon twist.

Cosmopolitan

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Ingredients:

    * 1 1/2 oz vodka
    * 1 oz Cointreau
    * 1/2 oz fresh lime juice
    * 1/4 oz cranberry juice
    * orange peel for garnish

Method:

   1. Shake all the ingredients with ice in a cocktail shaker.
   2. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass.
   3. Garnish with an orange peel.

Optionally, use citron vodka in place of unflavored vodka for a fruitier taste.

Cinco Herradura

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Ingredients:

    * 1 1/2 oz Tequila Herradura Silver
    * 2 oz pineapple juice
    * 2 oz cranberry juice
    * splash of lemon-lime soda
    * squeeze of fresh lime wedge (can also be used as garnish)
    * red, green and white super-fine sugar for rimming

Method:

   1. Stir the tequila, fruit juices and soda together in a tall (or mixing) glass filled with ice.
   2. Squeeze in a wedge of fresh lime and stir again.
   3. Rim a third of a tumbler with lime and dip in green sugar.
   4. Rim an adjoining third of the glass with lime and dip in white sugar.
   5. Rim the last third and dip in red sugar.
   6. Pour the drink into the rimmed glass and serve.