Cocktails and Mocktails

Cocktails

Ingredients: Lots of ice; 2 bottles of chilled sparkling white wine/Champagne; 2 ladles of Cointreau; 2 ladles of lemon juice; 1 ladle of sugar syrup
Method: Half fill a large bowl with ice; Pour in the cointreau, lemon juice and sugar syrup; Pour in the Champagne; Stir gently and serve; Virgin version: use alcohol-free bubbly (D'artigny is good, if you're in France) and instead of Cointreau, use 1 ladle of orange syrup

Ingredients (for 4): 4 shots of vodka; 1.5 shots of Cointreau; 1.5 shots of fresh lime juice; 3 shots of cranberry juice; lime curl for garnish
Method: Shake all the ingredients with ice in a shaker.; Strain drink into glass.; Add lime curl to the side of the glass

Ingredients (for a 2 litre jug): 150ml white rum (Bacardi is best because it doesn't have a strong flavour); 150ml Cointreau; 1 litre of frozen mango nectar (or pineapple, or whatever)
Method: Blend all ingredients in a blender until smooth and serve.; Virgin version: Leave out the rum, subsitute the Cointreau with 75ml orange syrup

INGREDIENTS:: a dash of creme de cassis; 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.; Virgin version: Just leave out the rum

Ingredients: 200ml Bacardi white rum; 200ml coconut milk; 600ml pineapple juice
Method: In a blender, blend all ingredients with approximately 2 cups of ice.; Strain into a hurricane glass.; Garnish with a cherry and pineapple wedge.; Virgin version: just leave out the rum

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.

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.