Stirrings makes some tasty cocktail mixers, but who knew they also make a line of cocktail sodas created specifically to be paired with spirits? Me neither. I’ve always loved the design of their bottles and like how they really let the product speak louder than anything else. But I’m a little in love with the soda packaging and candy-like colors. How sweet would a row of these look adorning your “bar”?
I’ve been craving citrus everything lately. (Isn’t that a sign of scurvy??) What better way to get your daily dose than with these Lemonade Caipirinhas? Exactly… there isn’t one.
Ingredients:
– 2 large limes, cut into 16 wedges each
– ½ cup sugar
– 2 cups cachaca [Brazilian brandy made from sugar cane]
– 6 cups crushed ice
– 1 cup store-bought lemonade
– Lemon slices, optional for garnish
– Lime slices, optional for garnish
Using a muddler, crush lime wedges and sugar in a large glass measuring cup until juices are released; pour in cachaca. Transfer cachaca mixture to a large pitcher and fill with ice. Stir in lemonade. Serve in glasses garnished with lemon and lime slices, makes 4 to 6 cocktails.
:: photo and recipe via In(side) the Loop
Posted In cocktails
I thought I’d stick with the theme on The Daily Eat for this week’s edition of On the Rocks with these tasty looking Cherry Mojitos. The combination of sweet cherries and tart lime juice is making my mouth water!
Ingredients:
– 1 1/4 cups sugar
– 1 1/4 cups fresh lime juice (about 9 limes)
– 3 pounds dark cherries, such as Bing or Burlat, pitted
– 2 1/4 cups best-quality black cherry or plain vodka
– 1 (750 ml) bottle sparkling water
Bring sugar and 1 1/4 cups water to a boil in a small saucepan, stirring until sugar has dissolved. Remove from heat; let cool completely. (Makes about 2 cups syrup.) Syrup can be refrigerated in an airtight container up to 1 month. Put lime juice into a medium nonreactive bowl. Halve 2/3 of the cherries; add all cherries to lime juice. Stir in syrup. Refrigerate at least 1 hour (up to overnight). Stir cherry mixture and vodka in a large serving bowl. Fill 12 glasses with ice. Spoon 1/2 cup cherry-vodka mixture into each glass. Top with sparkling water; serve immediately.
:: recipe and photo via Laura Loves via Martha Stewart
Posted In cocktails
Negroni Punch seems like it might just be the perfect July 4th cocktail. Light and fruity for the hot weather most us will be experiencing and crisp enough for watching fireworks under the stars. Take advantage of all the fruit that’s currently in season and mix up a batch of your own!
Ingredients:
– 4 cups assorted fresh fruit (such as berries, pitted cherries, and pitted sliced apricots and peaches)
– 2 to 4 tablespoons sugar (optional)
– 1 cup Campari
– 1 cup sweet vermouth
– 1 cup gin
– 2 750-ml bottles chilled Prosecco
– Ice cubes
Place fruit in large punch bowl. Sprinkle with sugar to taste, if desired; stir and let stand 10 minutes for sugar to dissolve and juices to form. Add all remaining ingredients except ice cubes. Divide punch among 8 tall ice-filled glasses and serve.
:: photo and cocktail via Epicurious
Posted In cocktails
I first met the Blueberry Smash at a rooftop bar last summer and was instantly hooked. It’s the perfect blend of bubbles and subtle sweetness. (Although I don’t think the champagne in mine was pink!)
Ingredients:
– 1/4-1/3 c. blueberries
– 1 oz. (pony) lemon juice
– 1 oz. simple syrup
– 1 1/2 oz. (jigger) Stoli Blueberi Vodka
– Pink champagne
– Several blueberries, for garnish.
Fill a tall glass with ice cubes. In a separate glass, muddle the blueberries. Add lemon juice and simple syrup. Stir. Pour into ice-filled glass. Add blueberry vodka. Stir. Fill glass to top with pink champagne. Mix. Top with several blueberries. Serve with a straw.
:: photo and cocktail via Loulies
Posted In cocktails
I love the regular red vino version of sangria, but sometimes life calls for something a little lighter. This Saturday my parents are hosting a summer get together at their place and I’m thinking of making a batch of this white sangria. We’ll be outside under the blazing Oklahoma sun all afternoon and well into the evening, so this should be light and refreshing. Pretty, too.
Ingredients:
– 1 lemon, 1 lime, 1 orange and 4 strawberries
– 1-2 tbsp triple sec
– 1 bottle of white wine
– 8 oz. 7-up, diet or regular (see note)
Cut the ends off the lemon, lime and orange. Squeeze the juice from the ends into a pitcher. Slice the fruit thinly. Add to pitcher with triple sec. Pour over wine. Just before serving add the 7-up.
Note: If you prefer not to use 7-up, add seltzer instead, but then you need to add a bit of sugar to the fruit, about 3 -4 teaspoons.
:: photo and cocktail recipe via Food Network Musings
Posted In cocktails
Oh, tequila. How I love thee. Shots, margaritas and, um, cocktails? Yup.
Ingredients:
– 1 cup chopped fresh pineapple
– 1/4 cup chopped fresh mint
– 10 ounces white tequila
– 12 ounces fresh pineapple juice
– 12 ounces lemon-lime soda
– crushed ice
Combine pineapple and mint in a pitcher, muddle. Add the tequila, pineapple juice, and lemon lime soda.
Serve over crushed ice and garnish with fresh mint leaves. Serves 4-6.
:: photo and cocktail recipe via YumSugar
Posted In cocktails
The Mulberry Bramble – or basically whatever berry you decide on using really – looks like something that could get me in trouble. I can just picture myself have a few too many of these and paying for it the next day. Yikes.
Ingredients:
– 1½ oz gin
– ¾ oz fresh lemon juice
– ½ oz simple syrup
– ¾ oz créme de framboise
– 4 mulberries
Muddle the four mulberries and créme de framboise well in a mixing glass and set aside.
Build the gin, lemon juice and simple syrup in an old-fashioned glass filled with crushed ice. Pour the muddled berries and liqueur over the ice and serve.
:: photo and cocktail recipe via Sloshed
Posted In cocktails
This pineapple martini with a hint of raspberry is not only the yummiest, but the easiest summery cocktail I’ve seen yet.
Ingredients:
– 1 oz. Pineapple Juice
– 1.5 oz. Vodka
– .5 oz. Chambord
Shake ingredients with ice and strain into a martini glass.
Garnish with a wedge of pineapple or a pineapple leaf.
:: photo and cocktail recipe via Hostess with the Mostess
Posted In cocktails
Gun Club Punch just sounds summery from the ingredients, dontcha think? I’d suggest cutting down on the ice a bit to keep the flavor and potency a part of this one, folks.
Ingredients:
– 1½ oz light Puerto Rican rum
– ½ oz 151 Demerara rum
– dash curaçao
– dash simple syrup
– 1½ oz unsweetened grapefruit juice
– juice of 1 lime
Blend with one scoop shaved ice and pour into a glass filled with ice. Decorate with a sprig of mint and a fruit stick.
:: photo and cocktail recipe via Sloshed!
Posted In cocktails