Cocktail Recipes

Ok seeing as I am sure some of you did some drinking last night...I thought we could start a ****tail thread and share some of our faves.

Two of my faves are

The Polly Bar's "The Mistress" - Polly is a ****tail bar in brunswick...if you love ****tails you will LOVE this place...and when I have been there this is my drink of choice, and I have mastered the recipe too ;)

Use a nice glass, like a martini or ****tail glass. Coat the rim with castor sugar...to do this I normally have a saucer with castor sugar in it, rim the glass with one of the liquers I normally use the strawberry schnapps (just dip your finger and run it around the edge) then turn the glass upside down and dip it in the castor sugar. You can also use a damp teatowel or sponge (new/clean) but I prefer the liquer. Or you can use fruit too.

After you have sugar coated the glass fill the glass with some ice (as much or as little as you would like)...then...add...

1 shot Vodka
1 shot Strawberry Schnapps
1 shot Lychee Liquer
And fill the glass with Champers

YUM!

Second Favourite would be...

Cosmopolitans (this recipe is for the real thing, so it is quite strong)

Using a shaker ...

4 shots of vodka
2 shots of cointreau
2 shots of cranberry juice
1 shot of lime juice

Add some ice after all the ingredients, shake and pour....into a martini glass of course ;) If you wish to sugar coat the glass, run a wedge of lime around the edge of the glass and then dip in castor sugar.

Enjoy!!!!!

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Cailin

A couple of my faves from the top of the head

**** Sucking Cowboy
3 doses of Butterscotch Schnapps
1 dose of Irish Cream

Serve in a shot glass

Prepare in Glass

How to prepare:
Three quarters of a shot glass filled with Butterscotch Schnapps. Using a spoon to assist with the topping up of Bailey's Irish Cream.


My SIL can't wait till I have the baby so I can go around to down a few of them at her place ;)


There is also one that I thought sounded absoultly horrid ie what was put into it but wasn't too bad. It was called an "Andy" and was Kahula and Coke but I can't remember how many parts of each it was.

Love

Sounds like a black russian minus the vodka :)

Marc's fave is CSCB's too but he usually has it in a glass not a shotglass LOL!

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Cailin

I have to say this is my fav. We found it in an old ****tail book one afternoon at my sister's while trying out every new recipie we could find ( I used to drink a lot there) Anyway, here goes:

Golden Dragon
30ml Grand Marnier
15ml Galliano
90ml pineapple juice

mix and drink. Of course, you can always use more, just stick to those proportions.

I used to make this Iced Coffee for my Mum in Summer when Dad was out. She said it helped her to sleep! Cadbury's liquer works really well instead of Baileys, but you can use almost any liquer in this. I'm sure we all know what goes well with coffee!
Baileys Iced Coffee
2tsps French Style Jarrah coffee powder 15ml hot water
15ml Baileys
130ml milk
Ice cream

Add coffee to water. Stir until dissolved. Add Baileys, milk and stir.
Add ice cream just before serving.

I'll add one of my favourites.

Midori Splice

30ml Midori
30ml Malibu
Top with Pineapple Juice

Float cream on the top.

YUMMO

You people are bad influences!! Cailin 'The Mistress' sounds fantastic. Will give it a try one day!!

Ok I'm resurrecting this one...

We went to our local on the weekend and found that they had 2 of our fave vodkas "absolut level" and "ciroc" also had a try of the van gogh melon mixed with schwepps agrum and it was great!

Tonight I'm having a Vodka, Peach schnapps and Lemonade and omg it is goood :D

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Cailin

Since you're nice people I'll share some of my recipies with you :p (I don't need them anymore so they're declassified lol).

Long Island Iced Tea
The secret is the sugar syrup. You make this by simmering sugar in water until it reduces to a syrup.
build it over ice in a highball glass or a hurricane glass
1 shot (30ml) vodka
1 shot bacardi
1 shot gin
1 shot tequila
1 shot of sugar syrup
dash of lemon juice
and top up with coke.

extra extra dry martini
prepare in a shaker over ice
1 shot chilled bombay saphire
get a bottle of dry vermouth hold it between the light and the shaker so that the light passes through it to the gin
turn the shaker over once and then back again
pour into a martini glass
for the modernist you may add a touch of midori (it looks nice)

Doesn't have a name but you build it over ice in a highball
1 shot vodka
1 shot butterscotch schnapps
1/2 shot baileys
top up with milk.

for a variation on the muddled drinks get mixed berries, put a few berries in the bottom of a glass with some castor sugar and some vodka, bash it a bit, add a bit of ice, crush it up a tiny bit and stick a straw in it.

a twist on the cowboy - after you build it get a shot glass and put grenadine in it. get a straw and put it in the grenadine. hold your thumb over the straw to create an airlock. lift the straw and put a couple of drops (no more) of grenadine in the cowboy. it will sink to the bottom making an interesting pattern and differant after taste.

I was gonna say... what are you doing posting in here :p Great recipes chloe! I'll be trying. Got a great recipe for a blueberry pancake (as its called) with blueberries, vodka, maple syrup, sugar syrup... will post soon!

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Cailin

I'm trying to plan a last-minute ****tail party for my sister's hen's night, as the races here in Brisbane have been cancelled due to equine flu. So ... I need a couple of good, girly ****tails - preferably with ingredients that will do for more than one ****tail IYKWIM.

What's your favourite ****tail recipe?

I love....

Crushed ice...quarter limes and squeeze 2 over the ice...throw the limes in...a good splash of gin, then that fizzy pink grapefruit drink....garnish with a sprig of mint and SWILL. It's easy and relatively cheap. It looks very girly...I guess you could replace the gin with vodka or bacardi too, but I love the citrusy taste that gin has.

Fruit Tingles:
Vodka
Blue Curacao
Lemonade
Red Cordial
Ice

Mix 60mL (2 shots)vodka, 60mL Blue Curcao, then fill shaker with ice and lemonade, add red cordial and shake!!!

Very yummy, cheap, it turns out a really cool purple colour, and you can use all ingredients for numerous other ****tails

There's a thread that exists here somewhere... will find it for you ;)

Thanks for merging the threads Cai - there's some yummy ****tails that I'm going to have to try!

I'll think of some more, but Cherie I have 4 ****tail encyclopedia's here so do you have a favourite?

Punch, vodka based, champagne ****tail, creamy ****tail, strong/light, fruity?

Pickled Brains
1 nip Kahlua
1/2 nip Cointreau
Yellow Advocaat
Shot glass

First layer Kahlua, then using a spoon layer the Cointreau so that is floats on top.
Then carefully dribble the advocaat so that it looks like a little floating brain.

Fire Engines:D

red cordial (Schweppes is best)
lemonade
vodka

I now drink them minus vodka as expecting! My son also loves them (minus vodka of course!).....

Bellini (this is a girly drink ;))

50 ml peach juice
100ml chilled champagne
dash of grenadine (optional)
peach slices to decorate

Mix ingredients gently in a tall champagne flute and garnish with apricot slice

Bacardi ****tail II

37.5 ml Bacardi 8 yo rum
25 ml apple juice
10 mls chambord
5 mls sugar syrup
ice cubes
2 ****tail cherries to decorate

Put the run, apple juice, chambord an sugar syrup in a mixing glass with some ice cubes and stir until chilled. Strain into a chilled ****tail glass and decorate with ****tail cherries.

Apple-soaked Mojito

8 mint leaves
1/2 lime, cut into wedges
2 teaspoons sugar syrup
crushed ice
50 ml golden rum (e.g. havana)
25ml apple juice
mint sprig and red apple slices to decorate

muddle the mint, lime and sugar syrup in a shake. Fill a highball glass with crushed ice. Add the rum to the shaker and shake well. Do not add ice to the shaker. Strain the drink into a highball glass and top up with apple juice. Decorate with a mint sprig and apple slice.

Lady of Leisure

25ml gin
12.5 ml chambord
12.5 ml Cointreau
dash of lemon juice
25 ml pineapple juice
ice cubes
strips of orange rind to decorate

Put the gin, chambord, cointrea, lemon juice and pineapple juice into a shaker with some ice cubes and shake to mix. Strain into a chilled ****tail glass and decorat with orange rind.

Camp Grenada

Ice cubes
1 1/2 measures of campari
1/2 measure grenadine
2 measures grapefruit juice
1 measure pineapple juice
3 measures cold lemon-lime
soda (e.g. lemonade)
seasonal fruit

Half fill the shaker with ice cubes.
Pour in the grapefruit and pineapple juices.
Add the grenadine and Campari and shake well.
Strain into an ice filled Collins glass and top with the lemon-lime soda. Garnish with seasonal fruit.

French Martini

1 1/2 oz Vodka
1/4 oz Chambord
1 1/2 oz Pineapple Juice

Shake ingredients in a shaker with ice, strain into a martini glass.

There's a few more I want to post... Some others I thought of were classics like Long Island Ice Tea, Japanese Slipper etc

Mmmmm....Bellinis....delish. Someone, get this baby out for a bit....I need a drink.

I've been hanging out for a lime capriosa (sp?) for ages ... finally bought the vodka and lime :D

(serves 2)
* 2 shots vodka
* 2 limes, halved
* 1tsp palm sugar
* sugar syrup
* ice

Muddle limes with palm sugar. Shake with ice, sugar syrup and vodka. Strain & serve.

YUMMMMO !

I am now in love with

ANGELS KISS

1 shot vodka
1 shot frangelico
i fresh lime quartered and squeezed

place all over ice in shaker and shake then pour.
potentially lethal.
heheheheheheheh!!!!

ohh i've never had ****tails!
im going to a hens night soon - ****tails galore im told!

mmmm they sound yummy!

I love Toblerone's...... mmmmm!

* Frangelico hazelnut liquor
*Kahlua liquor
* Baileys irish cream
* fresh cream
* honey

toblerone is good!!

i have a thing for Zulu Warriors

1 part strawberry liquor
1 part melon liquor (midori)
1 part lemon juice
strawberries
rockmelon
ice

blend



YUMMY

OH yum BG! I haven't heard of that one before....

I Love Red Corvettes
30ml Frangelico
30ml Midori
strawberries
Ice blend

Yumo

Angel Kiss sounds great too i love frangelico and lime over ice anyway

MMMM - still got a while before i can indulge thou as really want to BF for a while and bubs isnt out yet - humm maybe m 30th (september) would be good

Maitai

1 shot dark rum
1 shot light rum
1 shot triple sec
juice of one lime
50ml pineapple juice
50ml orange juice
Drizzle of grenadine

Pour in order over crushed ice.......it is literally "good"....LOL!

Mojito

Ingredients
1 Part BACARDI Rum or 1 Part BACARDI 151 (I use both)
12 Mint Leaves
1/2 Lime
1/2 Part Raw Sugar

Place 12 mint leaves, 1/2 part sugar and 1/2 lime in a glass. Muddle well with a pestle. Add crushed ice, BACARDI, top off with club soda, stir well and garnish with sprigs of mint or a lime wheel.

Oh I am drooling all over the place. I can't remember the last time I had a drink - actually I can remember exactly when I last had a drink and it was a frighteningly long time ago.

I have a bottle of 42 below manuka honey vodka sitting in my freezer waiting for me to have that first drink once I stop breastfeeding (or at least when he goes long enough between feeds for me not to get him pi**ed) - this is the ****tail recipe I'm planning to use...

Element:

45 mls (1 1/2 oz) 42 Below Manuka Honey vodka
15 mls (1/2 oz) liquid honey
1 tsp palm sugar
4 wedges of lime
2 lemongrass stalks
2 slices of ginger

Method:
In a shaker or mixing glass, muddle lemongrass, ginger and limes with palm sugar until juicy and well mixed. Fill the shaker with ice, add Manuka Honey vodka and liquid honey and shake vigorously. Pour the mixture into a tall glass, and serve.

This is one that DH and his mates invented:

Hard Mambooka
2 shots of Cointreau + 2 shots of Malibu over crushed ice.

Very, very yummy, and VERY potent. Can be quite drunk after one - we went to a wedding where a guy had 5 in quick succession, while sitting. When he stood up to go and dance, he fell flat on his face! It was quite funny!

Anyway, there is no other place where we have found this combination, and it is goooooooooooood!! Mmm....orange and coconut.....




Another one which I really loved was in Vanuatu, which was called Numbawan there.

It had baileys, kahlua, frangelico, white creme de cacoa, honey and cream. Some places poured it over ice, others had crushed ice in it, but I remember it being best without ice at all!

Only bummer is that while I remembered to write the ingredients down, I forgot to write how much of each one! So we haven't managed to make one yet, and I keep asking DH to just ring them and ask, but he hasn't done it yet....If anyone goes to Vanuatu, the best place for a Numbawan is the Italian restaurant the "Seaview" - apparently the best Italian restaurant in Vanuatu (we suspected it was the only Italian restaurant in Vanuatu)in Port Vila. Anyway, if anyone goes PLEASE get me the recipe!!!!!

I love Tequila Sunrises.

30ml Tequila
10ml Grenadine
Orange Juice
Orange Slice for garnish

Place 3 - 4 ice cubes in a Highball glass. Pour in Tequila, then orange juice. Pour grenadine down the side of glass. Do not stir, let the grenadine settle to the bottom of the glass. This will create the "sunrise" effect. Garnish with an orange slice.


Ren, do the Toblerones taste like a real Toblerone? I've always wanted to try this ****tail but i dont really like the taste of Baileys..

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ok ladies I have my sisters hen's party coming up and I am planning on making a few... so give me your best reciepies :D


also what does it mean when a reciepie states to "muddle lemongrass" or "Muddle well with a pestle" or "Muddle limes with palm sugar"

TIA

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Hi Kelebek.
A muddle is like a wooden ****tail tool like a pestle that is used to press the ingredients together or "smash" them up. I guess like using a mortar and pestle.

What kind of ****tail recipes are you after? Creamy ones etc??

I will be back later with my favourites!

I really, really want one of Rouge's Polly Bar Mistress drinks right about now.

Here's mine that I stole from the end of Season 3 of Sex and the City. It's a tricked-up, and more potent, version of a Bellini:

Flirtini

1 shot of vodka
2 shots of Champagne/Sparkling
2 shots of Pineapple Juice

Combine ingredients and either serve over ice in a highball glass, or serve in a Martini glass or Champagne flute.

Be careful with this one though - it's knocked me off of my feet many times even when I've tried to behave.

Yummo BloominRoses!

One of my favs is Midori Splice which is already on here.

Paddlepop
Milk
Butterscotch Schnaps
Malibu

I experiment and make the strength to my own liking.

Grasshopper
1 part Creme de Menthe
1 part Creme de Cacao
2 parts cream
(shake)

Blue Lagoon
Ice
30ml Vodka
15ml Blue Curacao
Lemonade

Half fill highball glass with ice. Add vodka and blue curacao. Top with lemonade.

I love the classic Champagne ****tail. It's an oldie but a goodie

1 shot Cointreau
Dash of Bitters
1 Sugar Cube
Champagne

Put a sugar cube at the bottom of Champagne glass then sprinkle some bitters over it
Put the shot of Cointreau (or Triple Sec) over the top of it
Top with champagne.

I am also partial to Pimms No 1which is pimms, lemonade, sprig of mint, lemon and cucumber although I put strawberries in instead because it makes it sweeter.

Does anyone have a good Daiquiri recipe? I'm yet to find a goodie.

We do a similar one to that tinks, but we use brandy good napoleon brandy!

Tinks,
I have a couple of recipes here. I haven't tried them though.

Daiquiris
1 part Fruit Liqueur
1 part Bacardi
1/2 part lemon juice
1/2 part sugar syrup
fruit
ice
(blend)

Use fruits such as banana, strawberry, honeydew melon, rockmelon, mango, peach, apricot, pineapple, kiwi, lychee. If no fruit liqueur available, use double Bacardi.

or

ice
45ml light rum
30ml lemon juice
30ml Cointreau
15ml Sugar Syrup

Place ice, rum, lemon juice, Cointreau and sugar syrup in shaker. Shake well. Strain into martini glass.