Lava Flow Cocktail

image & recipe @frockfiles.com

Ingredients:

2 ounces coconut cream.
1 small banana
2 oz pineapple juice
1 1/2 cups ice (crushed unless you have an awesome blender)
Optional: 1 ounce rum
4 ounces fresh strawberries (about six medium sized strawberries)

Method:

1. Blend half of the coconut cream (1 ounce) with the fresh strawberries until smooth. Pour into glasses and rinse blender.
2. Blend the remainder of the coconut cream, the banana, pineapple juice, and ice. Pour over strawberry puree.
3. Stir to make swirls, sip, and enjoy!

Bailey's Irish Cream Liqueur

image & recipe @food.com

Ingredients:
Serves 15:

• 1 cup whiskey (inexpensive middle of the road is okay)
• 1 (14 ounce) can sweetened condensed milk
• 1 cup whipping cream
• 4 eggs
• 2 tablespoons chocolate syrup
• 2 teaspoons instant coffee granules
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 1 teaspoon almond extract (Torani brand almond syrup is a wonderful replacement if you can find it in your area)

Directions:

1. In blender, combine all ingredients; blend until smooth.
2. Store tightly covered in refrigerator up to one month. (It won't last that long!) Shake bottle well before serving, and return remaining liqueur to refrigerator.
3. Note: Use only Grade A, uncracked eggs.

Dirty Martini

image & recipe @cocktails.about.com

Ingredients:

• 2 1/2 oz gin
• 1/2 oz dry vermouth
• olive brine to taste
• olive for garnish

Preparation:

1. Pour the gin and dry vermouth into a mixing glass.
2. Slowly add the olive brine.
3. Stir.
4. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass.
5. Garnish with the olive.

Fizzy Lizzy

image & recipe @hdtv.com

Ingredients:

premium tequila 
orange cognac 
black raspberry liqueur 
fresh lime juice 
simple syrup, optional 
raspberry sugar 
raspberries, garnish 
champagne

Method:

The "margarita mix" consists of two parts premium tequila, 1 1/2 ounces orange cognac, 1/2 ounce raspberry liqueur and a splash of fresh lime juice. Add simple syrup, if desired. Mix all of the "margarita mix" ingredients in a thin shaker with ice, a little diluted.

Get a good shake to get a good fizz. One-third of the glass is the "margarita mix" and the rest of the drink is champagne.

A wineglass should be chilled before you pour the drink. Cover the rim with raspberry sugar, but don't get any in the drink. To add fizz, drop a few raspberries in the drink.

Pina Colada

image & recipe @taste.com.au

• 375ml (1 1/2 cups) chilled pineapple juice
• 250ml (1 cup) coconut milk
• 80ml (1/3 cup) Malibu coconut liqueur
• 60ml (1/4 cup) Midori liqueur
• 60ml (1/4 cup) fresh lime juice
• 2 cups crushed ice

Method:

1. Place pineapple juice, coconut milk, Malibu, Midori, lime juice and ice in jug of a blender and blend until combined. Serve in tall glasses.

DIY Peach Liqueur

image & recipe @yummly.com

Ingredients

• 1 cup vodka
• 2 large peaches, pit removed, flesh and skin roughly chopped (about ten ounces)
• About 3 to 4 inches of lemon zest
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 3/4 cup water

Procedures

1. 1
   Place vodka, peach, and lemon zest in a sealable glass jar. Seal and shake. Let mixture steep for 2 days at room temperature away from direct sunlight. Sample before straining to see if the peach flavor is sufficient. If not, let steep for another day. Strain fruit, then filter mixture through a coffee filter or through two layers of cheesecloth, pressing down to extract liquid.
2. 2
   Heat water and sugar in a pot on medium heat until it boils and forms a syrup, about 5 minutes. Let syrup cool.
3. 3
   Once the syrup is cool, combine it with the peach-zest infusion. Seal in bottle or jar, then shake to mix. Let rest for a minimum of one day. Store in the refrigerator for up to two months.

Glacier Cocktail

image and recipe @yummly.com

Ingredients:

• ice cubes
• 1 liqueur (part vanilla, recommended: Liqueur 43)
• 2 liqueur (parts blue-colored tropical fruit, recommended: Hpnotiq)
• lemon-lime soda
• 1 candy (rock, swizzle stick)

Method:

In a glass pitcher or cocktail shaker filled with ice add vanilla liqueur, tropical fruit liqueur, and top with lemon-lime soda. Stir and strain into a martini glass.

Garnish with clear rock candy swizzle stick and serve.

Cliffhanger

image & recipe @agfg.com.au

Ingredients:

• 1/2 oz amaretto
• 1/2 oz rum
• 6 oz hot chocolate

Serve in stemmed mug topped with whipped cream.

Cough Drop Cocktail

recipe @drinknation.com

• 1 part Gin
• 3 parts Rumple Minze

Stir or shake over ice until its well and cold. Strain into shot glass, knock it back, and knock out any sore throat winter may have sprung upon you.

The Blackberry Bramble Cocktail

Servings:1 cocktail

image & recipe @yummly.com

Ingredients

• 1 ounce Bulldog Gin
• 1 ounce apple brandy
• 3/4 ounce fresh lemon juice
• 3/4 ounce simple syrup
• 3 blackberries

Directions: 

1. Combine ingredients in a large shaker tin and muddle blackberries separately in a small shaker tin.
2. Add a small amount of mixture from the large shaker into the small shaker, then pour blackberry mixture into a large rocks glass.
3. Top muddled blackberries with crushed ice, then pour remainder of the mixture from the large shaker over top.
4. Garnish with a blackberry and add a straw.

Clementine Cocktail

Makes 1 cocktail

image & recipe @yummly.com

Ingredients:

• 2 ounces vodka
• 2 ounces fresh-squeezed clementine juice, peels reserved
• 1 ounce simple syrup
• Clementine segments, for garnish

In a cocktail shaker filled with ice, add the vodka, clementine juice and simple syrup. Shake until your shaker has a frosty coating on the outside, indicating your cocktail is nice and chilly.

Rub the clementine peel around the edge of a glass filled with ice, then discard peel. Strain the cocktail into the glass and add a couple of Clementine segments for garnish.

Candy Cane Cocktail

image & recipe@yummly.com

Ingredients

• 1 candy cane (crushed for garnish)
• 2 ozs vodka (strawberry)
• 4 dashes white creme de menthe
• 21/2 ozs cranberry juice
• 1 cube ice

1. Place crushed candy canes on a small plate or saucer. Wet the outside rim of a chilled martini glass with water. Holding the glass by the stem, rotate the rim to coat with candy.
2. In a cocktail shaker, combine vodka, creme de menthe, cranberry juice, and ice; shake until well combined. Strain into prepared glass; serve immediately.

Margarita

image @misselyse.com

• 1 1/2 oz. tequila
• 1 oz. Triple Sec (or Cointreau)
• 1 oz. lime juice

Combine tequila, Triple Sec, and lime juice into a shaker over ice. Shake well. Strain into a martini glass. Garnish with a lime wedge. For a frozen margarita, combine ingredients with ice in a blender and mix to a smooth consistency. If you prefer, rub the glass rim with a lime wedge and dip the glass upside-down into a plate of salt before pouring the drink for a fancier presentation.

Gimlet

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• 2 oz. Vodka (or gin)
• 1 1/4 oz. fresh lime juice

Mix vodka and lime juice in a glass over ice. Str and strain into a martini glass, or serve with ice in a rocks glass. If preferred, you can garnish with a lime wedge. Gimlets can also be made with gin instead of vodka.

Cosmopolitan

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• 2 oz. Vodka
• 1 oz. Cointreau
• 1 oz. cranberry juice
• 1/2 oz lime juice

Combine vodka, cointreau, cranberry juice, and lime juice in a shaker over ice. Shake well. Strain into a martini glass. If preferred, you can garnish with a twist of lime.

Bloody Mary

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• 2 oz. Vodka
• 6 oz. tomato juice
• worcestershire sauce
• Tabasco sauce

Add vodka, tomato juice, and lemon juice into a shaker over ice. Add a dash of Worcestershire and Tabasco sauces. Shake well. Strain into a highball glass. Garnish with a celery stalk and serve chilled.

For a spicier Bloody Mary, use a pepper-flavoured vodka or tomato juice.

Black Cherry Bouquet

image @cosmopolitan.com

Ingredients:

• 2 oz. EFFEN Black Cherry Vodka
• 1 oz. blood orange juice
• 3/4 oz lime juice
• 3/4 oz agave syrup
• 3 strawberries
• 4 mint leaves
• Pinch cayenne pepper
• Garnish: elderflower foam

Method:

To make elderflower foam, mix one egg white with 3/4 oz of elderflower liqueur. Muddle all ingredients except vodka in a cocktail shaker. Add vodka and ice. Shake vigorously and strain into a glass. Garnish with foam, mint sprig, and strawberry.

Kale Margarita

image @cosmopolatin.com

Ingredients:

• 2 oz. Milagro Tequila Reposado
• 1 oz. lime juice
• 3/4 oz. agave nectar
• 2 strips of green capsicums (bell peppers)
• 1 D'Avignon radish
• 1/4 kale leaf
• Garnish: kale lead and lime wheel

Method: 

Combine the capsicum, radish, and kale leaf in the bottom of a cocktail shaker. Add ice and remaining ingredients. Shake vigorously. Strain into a glass filled with ice. Garnish with kale leaf and lime wheel.

Pumpkin Martini

image @cosmopolitan.com

Ingredients:

• 1/2 oz. cream liqueur
• 2 oz. Absolut Vanilla Vodka
• 1 oz. canned pumpkin puree
• 1 tsp. whipped cream
• Garnish: cinnamon stick

Method:

Shake together cream liqueur, vodka, and ice. Add pumpkin puree, and shake again. strain into a glass. Top with whipped cream, and garnish with cinnamon stick.

The Apple-Disiac

image @cosmopolitan.com

Ingredients:

• 1 oz. apple vodka
• 1/2 oz. coffee liqueur
• 1 oz. apple cider
• Splash of cream
• Garnish: apple slice

Method:

Mix all ingredients with ice in a shaker, and shake well. Strain into a glass. Garnish with slice of apple.

Apple Crisp

image @cosmopolitan.com

Ingredients:

• 4 oz. applejack
• 4 oz. fresh lemon juice
• 1 oz. Cointreau or tripple sec
• Garnish: halved crab apple

Method:

Fill a cocktail shaker with ice. Add the ingredients, shake vigorously, and pour into a tall glass with ice. Spear the halved crab apple, and add as garnish.

Cranberry Ginger Martini

image @ cosmopolitan.com

Ingredients:

• 2 tsp. grated ginger
• 8 cranberries (fresh or frozen)
• 4 oz. cranberry vodka
• Splash of lime juice
• Splash of cranberry juice
• Splash of simple syrup (dissolve 1 part sugar in 1 part boiling water; let cool)
• Splash of sprite
• Garnish: lemon twist

Method: 

Muddle ginger and cranberries in a shaker. Add ice, vodka, both juices, and simple syrup.

Shake well. Strain into a martini glass, and add Sprite. Garnish with lemon twist.

Narli Mojito

image @lifestylefood.com.au

Ingredients:

• 45ml. Havana Club Anejo Rum
• 15ml. Pama Pomegranate liqueur
• 5 fresh mint leaves
• 15 pomegranate seeds
• 1/2 lime, cut in to 3 wedges
• 2 Tablespoons caster sugar

Method:

1. Place mint leaves, pomegranate seeds and 1 lime wedge into a glass.
2. Use a muddler to crush in order to release the mint oils and lime and pomegranate juice.
3. Add 2 more lime wedges and the sugar, and muddle again to release the lime juice. Do not strain the mixture.
4. Fill the glass almost to the top with ice.
5. Pour the rum and Pama liqueur over the ice and fill the glass with soda water.
6. Garnish with a mint sprig.

S’mores Pudding Shots

image @yummly.com

Prep time: 15 mins
Total time: 25 mins
Yields 8-10 servings depending on size of shot glasses

Ingredients:

• 1 (3 1/2 oz) package instant chocolate pudding mix
• 3/4 cup 2% milk
• 1/2 cup Fluffed Marshmallow Vodka
• 8 oz extra cool whip
• 1/4 cup graham cracker crumbs
• 1/2 cup Marshmallow Fluff
• 1 Hershey's Milk Chocolate Bar

Directions:

1. In a large bowl, whisk together the chocolate pudding mix and milk until thick and smooth. Add in the vodka, whisking until the mixture is free of lumps and well-combined.
2. Fold in the Cool Whip and mix until no white streaks are visible. Set Aside.
3. Spoon 1 1/2 teaspoons of graham cracker crumbs into the bottom of each mini cordial glass.
4. Place the pudding mixture into a piping bag fitted with a round tip such as the Wilton 1A or simply snip the corner of a zip top bag. Pipe the pudding mixture using a swirl motion into each glass stopping about 1/2 inch from the rim of the glass.
5. Spoon or pipe (using a french tip for the pipe) the Marshmallow Fluff onto the pudding mixture. If desired, use a kitchen torch to carefully brown the Marshmallow Fluff (or place under the grill for a few seconds) and garnish with a piece of the Hershey's Milk Chocolate Bar.

Gianduia (Chocolate-Hazelnut) Shot

image@yummly.com

Ingredients:
Yields 3

• 3 oz liqueur (Frangelico Hazelnut)
• 3 oz liqueur (Godive Chocolate)
• 1 1/2 oz heavy whipping cream
• Nutella (to rim the glasses)

Mix ingredients in a cocktail shaker. Shake for 15-20 seconds. Serve in Nutella rimmed shot glasses.

Grasshopper Shot

image @completecocktails.com

Ingredients:
Yields: 1 Shot

• 1/2 oz Vodka (Stoli)
• 1/4 oz green crème de menthe
• 1/2 oz light cream
• 1/4 oz White crème de cacao
• Garnish: Chocolate, Lime

Method:
Pour the ingredients into a cocktail shaker with ice. Shake well.
Strain into a shot glass and garnish with a single mint leaf. Serve with mint chocolates.

Sapphire Sin

image @http://www.marieclaire.com

Ingredients:

• 1 1/2 oz Gin Bombay Saphire
• 1 oz lemon juice
• 1/2 oz orange juice
• 1/2 oz ginger syrup

Method:

1. Pour all ingredients in a shaker with a lot of ice. Shake well.
2. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass.
3. Garnish with a slice of lemon or lime.

Champagne Cocktail

image @http://www.taste.com.au

Ingredients
Serves: 6

• 6 white sugar cubes
• Angostura bitters, to taste
• 2 Tbs brandy
• 1 x 750ml bottle Champagne or sparkling wine, chilled

Method:

1. Place 1 cube in each Champagne glass. Drizzle with 4-5 drops of bitters and set aside for 5 minutes to soak.
2. Pour brandy evenly among glasses and top with Champagne or sparkling wine. Serve immediately.

Sidecar

image @http://cocktails.about.com

Ingredients:

• 1 1/2 oz Cognac or Armagnac, bourbon will also do
• 1 oz Cointreau or triple sec orange liqueur
• 1/2 oz lemon juice
• Lemon twist for garnish
• sugar for rimming (optional)

1. If desired, rim a chilled cocktail glass with sugar.
2. Pour the ingredients into a cocktail shaker with ice cubes.
3. Shake well.
4. Strain into the prepared cocktail glass.
5. Garnish with a lemon twist

Old Fashioned

image @http://caskstrength.wordpress.com

Ingredients:

• 2 oz bourbon
• 5 oz Simple Syrup (1 cup sugar, 1/2cup water, simmer in pot for 5 minutes before cooling) 
• 2 dashes Angostura Bitters
• Orange zest 
• Cherry

Stir over ice and strain into a chilled glass or over fresh ice.

Garnish with orange zest and a single cherry.

Absinthe Frappe

image @epicurious.com

Ingredients:

• 1 cup crushed or cracked ice
• 2 Tablespoons (1 1/2 oz) absinthe
• 1 Tablespoon (1/2 oz) simple syrup*
• 2-4 Tablespoons ( 1-2 oz) club soda (optional

Method:

1. In an old fashioned glass, combine crushed or cracked ice, absinthe and simple syrup.
2. Stir until most of the ice melts. For a lighter cocktail, add 2-4 Tablespoons of club soda.

*Simple syrup
ingredients:
-1 cup sugar
-1/2 cup water

Method:
1) Bring sugar and water to a simmer in a small saucepan, stirring until sugar is dissolved, then simmer for 5 minutes. Cool syrup completely before use.

Señorita Surprise

Image @http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com

Ingredients:

• Fresh watermelon slices
• 120ml red wine
• 30ml vodka
• 2-3 fresh basil leaves
• 10ml sugar syrup
• Method:

1. Muddle the watermelon with a dash of sugar syrup.
2. Add the basil leaves and lightly mix.
3. Add the wine and shake to combine.
4. Double strain into the chilled margarita or martini glass.
5. Garnish with fresh basil leaves and a small slice of watermelon.

Rum Runner

image @cocktailculture.wordpress

• 2 parts Malibu Tropical Banana
• 1 part Hiram Walker Blackberry Flavoured Brandy
• 2 parts orange juice
• 2 parts pineapple juice
• 1 part cranberry juice

Serve over ice in a tall glass, garnish with fruit.

White chocolate parfait with Kahlua

image @http://www.taste.com.au

Ingredients:
Serves 4

• 50g caster sugar
• 120g good-quality white chocolate, chopped
• 3 egg yolks
• 300ml thick cream
• 80ml (1/3 cup) Kahlua

Method:

1. Place the sugar and 4 tablespoons water in a pan over medium heat and boil for about 4 minutes.
2. Place the chocolate in a food processor and process until finely chopped. Add the syrup and egg yolks and process until smooth. Transfer to a large mixing bowl.
3. In a separate mixing bowl, lightly whip the thick cream, then fold into the chocolate. Divide the mixture between 4 freezer-proof serving dishes, leaving room for the topping. Freeze for at least 4 hours. Remove from fridge 30 minutes before serving. Serve with white chocolate parfaits with about a tablespoon of kahlua poured over the top.

Purple Rain

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Ingredients:

• 1 oz White Rum
• 3 dashes Blue Curaçao
• 1 oz Peach Schnapps
• 1 oz Grenadine
• 2 oz Lemonade

1. Add peach schnapps, white rum and then grenadine to your glass.
2. Top with lemonade to taste, but leave enough room for the next step.
3. Once you have mixed, drizzle a small amount of blue curaçao down the sides of the glass.
4. The blue Curaçao will fall through the red cocktail leaving a trail of purple clouds and a beautiful gradient between red and blue.

Night Train

image @http://www.zimbio.com

Ingredients:

• 3 Parts coffee
• 1 Part vodka
• 1 Part Frangelico
• 1 Tbsp. syrup
• Garnish: coffee beans

Pour into an Irish coffee glass and stir. Garnish with coffee beans.

Mexican Snakebite

image @brothersbrowncooking

Ingredients:

• 1 Shot Añejo tequila
• 8 oz hard apple cider (Naked Flock Pumpkin)
• 1 stick cinnamon
• Ground cinnamon

Method:

1. Pour the cider into your rocks glass then add the tequila.
2. Add a dash of ground cinnamon and give it a light swirl. Drop in a cinnamon stick for garnish. 

Mocha mint

http://www.drinkswap.com

• 1 Part coffee brandy
• 1 part white creme de menthe
• 1 part white creme de cacao

Shake with ice and strain into a cocktail glass.

Frozen Apricot Daiquiri

image @ http://www.hispanickitchen.com

crushed ice

1 part white rum

1 part fresh lemon juice

1/2 part apricot liqueur or brandy

3 ripe apricot, peeled and stoned

TO DECORATE

apricot slice

cocktail cherry

mint sprig

Put some crushed ice into a blender.

Add the rum, lemon juice, apricot liqueur or brandy and the apricot
Blend for 1 minute or until the mixture is smooth
Pour into a chilled cocktail glass

Decorate with an apricot slice, a cocktail cherry and a mint sprig

Frozen Strawberry Daiquiri

image @http://www.gourmet.com

• 2oz rum 1oz lime juice 
• 6 ice cubes 
• 4 strawberries, sliced 
• 2 tsp sugar 

 Blend all together in blender until smooth. Serve and enjoy with a strawberry slice!

Whiskey Sour

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• 2 parts sour mix
• 1 Part whiskey
• Garnish: orange slice and cherry

Shake with ice and strain into a rocks glass.

Garnish with orange slice and cherry

Pumpkin Eater

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• 1 Part light rum
• 1 Part triple sec
• 1 Part orange juice
• Splash of cream
• Garnish: orange slice and cherry.

Shake with ice and strain into a cocktail glass.

Garnish with orange slice and cherry.

Kamikaze

image @http://www.scienceofdrink.com

• 3 Parts vodka
• 1 Part triple sec
• Splash of lime juice
• Garnish: lime wedge

Build on ice in a rocks glass. 

Garnish with lime wedge.

Silver Bullet

image @http://imbibe.com

• 1 Part gin
• Splash of scotch
• Dash of dry vermouth
• Garnish: lemon twist

Stir with ice and strain into a cocktail glass.

Garnish with lemon twist.

Never Again

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• 2 parts bourbon
• Slash of sweet vermouth
• Splash of pastis
• Garnish: Lemon twist

Shake with ice and strain into a cocktail glass.

Garnish with lemon twist.

Ballet Russe

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• 3 Parts vodka
• 1 Part creme de cassis
• Splash of lime juice

Shake with ice and strain into a cocktail glass.

Chrysanthemum

image @http://www.epicurious.com

• 1 teaspoon absinthe
• 2 tablespoons (1 ounce) Benedictine liqueur
• 1/4 cup (2ounces) dry vermouth
• 1 cup ice cubes
• 1 thin strip orange peel

In cocktail shaker, stir together absinthe, Benedictine liqueur, and vermouth.

Add ice and stir for one minute, then strain into martini glass.

Squeeze orange peel over drink, making sure oils fall into glass, then drop peel into drink and serve.

Death in the Afternoon

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• 3 tablespoons (1 1/2 ounces) absinthe
• 1/2 to 3/4 cup (4-6 ounces) cold Champagne or sparkling wine

Pour absinthe into Champagne flute.

Add Champagne until milky cloud appears.

Serve cool.

Baja Margarita

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• 2 Parts tequila
• 2 Parts lemonade
• 1 Part blue curaçao 

Shake with ice and strain into a cocktail glass.

'57 Chevy

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• 1 Part Gin
• 1 Part Vodka
• 1 Part Southern Comfort
• Splash of orange juice
• Splash of pineapple juice
• Splash of grenadine

Shake gin, vodka, Southern Comfort, orange juice, and pineapple juice with ice 

and strain into a cocktail glass.

Top with grenadine.