Cocktails and Mocktails

Cocktails

Ingredients: 3 ladles of ice cubes; 1 bottle of Champagne; 1 ladle of Cointreau; 1 ladle of lemon juice; ½ ladle of sugar syrup
Method: Mix the cointreau, lemon juice and sugar in a salad bowl.; Pour in the Champagne and add the ice.; Mix well and serve right away with a ladle!

Ingredients: 1 1/2 oz vodka; 1/2 oz Cointreau; 1/4 oz fresh lime juice; 1 oz cranberry juice; lime juice and sugar for garnish
Method: Shake all the ingredients with ice in a shaker.; Dip rim of glass in lime juice then sugar.; Strain drink into glass.

Ingredients (serves 2): 3 ounces rum; 1 1/2 cups frozen mangoes, cubed; 3 tablespoons fresh lime juice; 1 ounce triple sec; 4 teaspoons sugar; 2 cups ice cubes
Method: Blend all ingredients in a blender until smooth and serve.

INGREDIENTS:: 1/4 oz creme de cassis; 2 1/4 oz dry white wine
Method: Pour the creme de cassis into a wine glass.; Slowly add the dry white wine.
Variations: Kir Imperial: Substitute raspberry liqueur for the creme de cassis and Champagne for the wine; Kir Royale: Substitute Champagne for the white wine, serve in a Champagne flute.

Ingredients: 2 tsp sugar; 6-8 mint leaves; club soda; 1 lime, halved; 2 oz light rum; mint sprig for garnish
Method: Place the sugar, the mint leaves, and a little club soda into a highball glass.; Muddle well to dissolve the sugar and to release the mint flavor.; Squeeze the juice from both halves of the lime into the glass.; Drop one half of the lime into the glass.; Add the rum.; Stir.; Fill the glass with ice cubes.; Add the rest of the club soda.; Garnish with the mint sprig.

Ingredients: 2 oz light rum; 1/2 cup pineapple cubes or 2 oz pineapple juice; 1 1/2 oz coconut cream; maraschino cherry for garnish; pineapple wedge for garnish
Method: Blend all ingredients with approximately 2 cups of ice.; Strain into a hurricane glass.; Garnish with the cherry and pineapple.

Narelle and Yves' mock Cosmopolitan

Ingredients: 6 shots Cranberry juice; 1/2 shot lime juice; 1 shot orange syrup; glass frosted in lime juice and sugar
Method: Dip rim of glass in lime juice and then in sugar; Combine all ingredients in a glass over ice, stir.

A non-alcoholic version of the Frozen Piña Colada

Ingredients: 4 oz pineapple juice; 2 oz coconut cream (or 6 oz piña colada mix); 1 cup ice; orange slice for garnish
Method: In a blender, add 1 cup ice, pineapple juice and cream of coconut (or piña colada mix).; Blend until slushy.; Pour into an chilled hurricane glass.; Garnish with an orange slice.

Ingredients: 6 oz. frozen orange juice concentrate; 1 cup milk; 1 cup water; 1/2 cup sugar; 1 tsp. vanilla extract; 8-9 ice cubes
Method: Combine all ingredients except ice cubes in blender.; Blend for about 1-2 minutes, adding ice cubes one at a time.

Ingredients: Perrier; fresh mint leaves; sugar; Angostura bitters; lime juice; ice
Method: In your glass, add mint leaves, sugar, bitters and lime juice.; Muddle with a pestle.; Fill glass up with ice and add Perrier to the top.

Ingredients: 3 oz tomato juice; 1/2 oz lemon juice; 1 dash of Worcestershire sauce; celery salt; ground pepper; hot pepper or Tabasco sauce; celery stalk for garnish
Method: Build the liquid ingredients into a highball glass over ice cubes.; Mix well.; Add the seasonings to taste.; Garnish with the celery stalk.