- Margarita
- Ingredients: 2 oz tequila, 1 oz lime juice, 1/2 oz triple sec (Cointreau preferred), salt for rimming, lime wedge for garnish.
- Method: Rim a glass with salt. Shake tequila, lime juice, and triple sec with ice and strain into the glass. Garnish with a lime wedge.
- Mojito
- Ingredients: 1 1/2 oz white rum, 1 oz fresh lime juice, 2 teaspoons sugar, 6 mint leaves, soda water, mint sprig for garnish.
- Method: Muddle mint leaves with sugar and lime juice. Add rum and fill with ice. Top with soda water and stir. Garnish with mint sprig.
- Old Fashioned
- Ingredients: 2 oz bourbon or rye whiskey, few dashes of Angostura bitters, 1 sugar cube, few dashes plain water.
- Method: Muddle the sugar cube, water, and bitters in a glass. Add whiskey and ice. Stir well and garnish with an orange slice and a cocktail cherry.
- Cosmopolitan
- Ingredients: 1 1/2 oz vodka, 1 oz cranberry juice, 1/2 oz Cointreau, 1/2 oz fresh lime juice, lime wheel for garnish.
- Method: Shake all ingredients with ice and strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with a lime wheel.
- Negroni
- Ingredients: 1 oz gin, 1 oz Campari, 1 oz sweet vermouth.
- Method: Stir all ingredients with ice and strain into an ice-filled old-fashioned glass. Garnish with an orange peel.
- Martini
- Ingredients: 2 1/2 oz gin or vodka, 1/2 oz dry vermouth, lemon twist or olive for garnish.
- Method: Stir or shake gin and vermouth with ice. Strain into a chilled martini glass. Garnish with a lemon twist or olive.
- Piña Colada
- Ingredients: 2 oz light rum, 1 oz coconut cream, 1 oz heavy cream, 6 oz fresh pineapple juice, 1/2 cup crushed ice, pineapple slice for garnish.
- Method: Blend all ingredients until smooth. Pour into a chilled glass. Garnish with a slice of pineapple.
- Daiquiri
- Ingredients: 2 oz white rum, 1 oz lime juice, 1/2 oz simple syrup.
- Method: Shake rum, lime juice, and syrup with ice and strain into a chilled cocktail glass.
- Manhattan
- Ingredients: 2 oz rye whiskey, 1 oz sweet vermouth, 2 dashes Angostura bitters, cherry for garnish.
- Method: Stir all ingredients with ice and strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with a cherry.
- Bloody Mary
- Ingredients: 1 1/2 oz vodka, 3 oz tomato juice, 1/2 oz lemon juice, 2 dashes of Worcestershire sauce, Tabasco, celery salt, pepper, celery stalk and lemon wedge for garnish.
- Method: Stir all ingredients in a highball glass filled with ice. Garnish with celery stalk and lemon wedge.
These classic recipes should help anyone interested in crafting some of the most beloved cocktails at home. Enjoy mixing these up!