Simple Summer Cocktails

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Cocktails add that zing to the summer season. With the making of those restaurant-fancy cocktail recipes becoming more and more complex, we tend to look for easy recipes. Find a selection of easy-to-make cocktail recipes in this article. Try the following simple summer cocktails.

Barbados Punch

Ingredients:

• Mount Gay Rum – 150 ml
• Sparkling apple juice – 600 ml
• Mint leaves – 15 (torn)
• Lime – 1 no. (sliced into 8 parts)
• Mint sprigs – a few
• Granny Smith apple – 1no. (sliced into 8 parts)

Method:

1. Mix together all the above given ingredients in a big jug, add ice cubes.
2. Pour into tall glasses and garnish with mint sprigs.

Tequila Gimlet

Ingredients:

• Don Julio Reposado tequila – 50 ml
• Lime juice – 10 ml
• Lime cordial – 10 ml

Method:

1. Fill a tall glass with ice cubes till its half.
2. Mix together the above given ingredients and strain into the glass and serve.

Carpe Diem

Ingredients:

• Strawberries – 10 (hulled and halved)
• Vanilla sugar – 2 tbsp
• Clear apple juice – 90 ml
• Lime juice – 30 ml
• Martin Miller’s gin – 150 ml
• Basil leaves – 8 (torn) and a few whole
• Cucumber slices – a few
• Sparkling wine – a little as per taste (chilled)

Method:

1. Put the strawberries in a blender, add sugar and the juices and blend so that it is smooth.
2. Add ice in a bowl and put this mixture into it, add the basil leaves and gin.
3. Stir well and pour into a cocktail glass.
4. Top with sparkling wine and garnish with a basil leaf and a cucumber slice.

Earl’s Punch

Ingredients:

• Earl Grey tea – 500 ml (slightly sweetened)
• Lemon juice – 100 ml
• Martell VS Cognac – 100 ml
• Lemon twists and Jasmine blossoms – a few

Method:

1. Mix together all the ingredients (except the lemon twists and jasmine blossoms).
2. Pour into teacups and garnish with lemon twists and jasmine blossoms.

Cherry Caipirissima

Ingredients:

• Simple syrup – ¾ ounce
• Lime – Half (cut into quarters)
• Cherries – 3 (hulled and halved)
• White rum – 2 ounces

Method:

1. In a bowl, mix well the simple syrup, lime quarters and cherries with a wooden spoon.
2. Pour in the rum and a few ice cubes.
3. Shake well and transfer to cocktail glasses.

Italia Libera

Ingredients:

• White rum – 1 ounce
• Amaro – ¼ ounce
• Simple syrup – ¾ ounce
• Lime wedge – 1
• Setlzer – chilled

Method:

1. Mix together in a shaker, the rum, the simple syrup and the lemon juice.
2. Now add some ice cubes and shake together well.
3. Strain into a tall glass with some ice cubes in it.
4. Add the seltzer as a topping and garnish with lime wedge.

Spellbinder

Ingredients:

• Gin – 2 ounces
• Strega – ¼ ounce
• Dry vermouth – half an ounce
• Lemon peel strip – 1
• Cucumber – 1 long strip

Method:

1. In a cocktail shaker, mix the vermouth, gin and strega.
2. Add ice and mix together vigorously.
3. Strain into a chilled glass, garnish with cucumber and lemon strips, and serve.

Absinthe Frappe

Ingredients:

• Absinthe – one and a half ounce
• Heavy cream – 1 ounce
• Lime juice – ¾ ounce
• Simple syrup – ¾ ounce

Method:

1. In a cocktail shaker, put together all the ingredients and shake vigorously for about 25 seconds.
2. Take a tall glass, pour the mixture, add a straw and serve.

Guadalajara Sour

Ingredients

• Blanco Tequila – 1 ¾ ounces
• Chilled rose – ¾ ounce
• Lemon juice – ¾ ounce
• Simple syrup – ¾ ounce

Method:

1. Fill in the lemon juice, tequila and the simple syrup into a cocktail shaker, add ice cubes and shake hard.
2. Take a chilled rock glass, add a few ice cubes, and strain the mixture from the shaker into it.
3. Now, gently pour the rose on it and serve.

Raspberry cordial

Ingredients:

• Raspberries – 500 g
• Caster sugar – 500 g
• Red wine vinegar – 3 spoonfuls

Method:

1. In a pan, put the sugar, vinegar and raspberries. Heat the pan in sim, mash until smooth and syrupy.
2. Filter through a sieve by rubbing the mixture on it.
3. Put the filtrate from the sieve into a pan, add 300 ml water and then filter again. Put together the pulp and the liquid.
4. Stir and boil for a min.
5. Cool and serve in glasses.