Making cocktail recipes at home can be quite simple. While it may appear to be complicated, creating a great cocktail at home is completely doable.
We discovered that signature alcoholic drinks make any evening infinitely more enjoyable!
So this year celebrate New Year's Eve with these fantastic cocktails. We have a drink for everyone, whether you like gin, wine or vodka.
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Frozen Strawberry and Rose Wine Frappe
Ingredients
Bottle Rose wine
400g of Strawberries
2 Lemongrass sticks
For garnish fresh mint lemon balm, or basil
Method
Fill ice cube trays halfway with rose wine and freeze overnight.
Place the strawberries in a blender with the rose wine ice cubes.
Blend until smooth, then pour into glasses and garnish with mint, lemon balm, or basil.
Negroni
Ingredients
25ml Gin
25ml sweet vermouth
25ml Campari
1 Orange
Method
Pour and stir gin, vermouth, and Campari in an ice-filled mixing glass for 40 seconds or until the outside of the glass gets cold.
Pour the cocktail into an ice-filled rocks / whiskey glass using a Hawthorne strainer or a slotted spoon.
Garnish with 3 very thin orange slices.
Sex on the Beach
Ingredients
25ml Vodka
12ml peach schnapps
25ml cranberry juice
1 orange juiced, 1 orange wedge
Cocktail cherries (optional)
Method
Pour vodka, peach schnapps and orange juice into an ice-filled tall glass. Pour cranberry juice over the top and stir
Garnish with cherries and orange wedge to serve.
Espresso Martini
Ingredients
40ml Vodka
20ml Coffee Liqueur
20ml freshly brewed espresso coffee
3/4 coffee beans (optional)
Method
Fill a cocktail shaker with ice cubes.
Add the vodka, espresso and coffee liqueur. Shake well to create foam on top, then strain into a cocktail or martini glass.
Place coffee beans on top as a garnish.
New Maid
Ingredients
60ml Blue Pea infused Gin
15ml sugar syrup
22.5ml lime juice
3 – 4 Cucumber slices
8 – 10 mint leaves
Blue Pea flower to garnish
Method
Add sugar syrup, lime juice, cucumber slices and mint leaves in a cocktail shaker and muddle well, now add blue pea infused gin and add some ice and shake well.
Pour the cocktail into gin glass using a strainer.
Garnish with a Blue Pea flower
