Cucumber Basil Smash

This Cucumber Basil Smash drink recipe, from Hendricks Gin, reminded me of a couple of my friends who really enjoy cucumbers in their drinks.

Cucumber Basil Smash Drink Recipe

Ingredients:
2 ounces Hendricks Gin
1 ounce Lemon Juice
1/2 ounce Sugar Syrup
8 torn basil leaves
cucumber slices

Directions:
Put basil leaves in cocktail shaker and muddle gently. Add remaining ingredients and shake hard over ice. Strain over an ice-filled rock glass. Garnish with cucumber slices and additional basil leaves.

Vanilla Hot Toddy Drink Recipe

Vanilla Hot Toddy Drink Recipe

Ingredients:

1.5 ounces Crown Royal Vanilla flavored whisky

1 teaspoon fine grain sugar

2 small cloves

1.5 ounces of boiling water

 

Directions:

Pour Crown Royal Vanilla flavored whisky, sugar and cloves in a mug of boiling water. Garnish with a lemon wedge. Add more water as desired.

Watermelon Lemonade Drink Recipe

While visiting MarthStewart.com, I came across this Watermelon Lemonade Drink Recipe that sounded delicious. So, I just had to share!

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Watermelon Lemonade

Ingredients:
2 lemons, quartered
1 cup fresh mint leaves
1/2 cup packed light-brown sugar
1/2 medium seeded watermelon (about 9 pounds), rind removed, flesh cut into chunks
1 cup vodka (optional)

Directions:
Squeeze lemons into a large pitcher. Add squeezed lemon quarters. Add mint and sugar. Mash with a wooden spoon until mint is bruised and sugar is dissolved. In a blender, puree watermelon in batches until smooth. Pour through a fine-mesh sieve into pitcher (you should have about 8 cups of juice). Stir to combine. (Refrigerate covered up to 3 days.) Add vodka (if using). Serve over ice.

Caramel Apple Martini

Caramel Apple Martini - from The Blond Cook.

Caramel Apple Martini from TheBlondCook

Ingredients:
1 part Pinnacle Caramel Apple Vodka
1 part lemon-lime soda
1 part apple juice
Dark brown sugar, for rimming glass
Optional: caramel sauce for drizzling in glass and apple slice for garnish

Instructions:
Rim martini glass with dark brown sugar. Drizzle caramel sauce in martini glass.
Fill shaker with ice. Pour vodka, soda,  and apple juice in shaker. Shake well and strain into martini glass. Garnish with apple slice.

Disaronno Sour

Disaronno Sour

Ingredients:

• 1 1/2 ounces Disaronno Amaretto
• 1 ounce fresh lemon juice
• 1 teaspoon sugar
• lime slices

Directions:
Fill a tall glass with ice.  Add Disaronno, lemon juice and sugar.  Stir gently with limes.  Garnish with a slice of lime.

Pinnacle Minty Melon Vojito Drink Recipe

Pinnacle Minty Melon Vojito

Ingredients:
2 ounces Pinnacle Cucumber Watermelon flavored vodka
1 ounce fresh lime juice
1 ounce sugar syrup
mint leaves
5 chunks fresh watermelon (seedless)
splash of soda water

Directions:
Muddle mint leaves, watermelon, sugar syrup and fresh lime juice. Mix together in a southern jar filled with ice. Add Pinnacle Cucumber Watermelon flavored vodka. Top with a splash of soda. Garnish with chunks of watermelon and mint sprig.

Brewed Ice Coffee Drink Recipe

Brewed Ice Coffee

Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup Folgers Classic Roast^® Coffee
  Or 3/4 cup Dunkin' Donuts^® Dunkin' Turbo^® Coffee
• 3 cups cold water, divided
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1/2 cup half-and-half, chilled
• Ice cubes
• Whipped cream

Directions:
 

1. Brew coffee in coffeemaker using 1 1/2 cups cold water.
2. Combine hot brewed coffee and sugar in glass bowl or pitcher. Stir until sugar is completely dissolved. Blend in 1 1/2 cups cold water and half-and-half. Chill until ready to serve.
3. Pour over ice in tall glasses or cafe mugs. Top with whipped cream, if desired. Serve immediately.

Absolut Raspberri Drink Recipes

Absolut Raspberri flavored vodka has all natural ingredients, and contains no added sugar. Enjoy the flavor of fresh raspberries when you enjoy one of these Absolut Raspberri flavored vodka drink recipes.

Absolut Raspberri Chocolate Martini

Ingredients:
2 ounces Absolut Raspberri flavored vodka
1/4 ounce White Créme de Cacao
1/4 ounce sugar syrup
6 fresh raspberries

Directions:
Muddle raspberries with sugar syrup and shake with all ingredients. Double strain into chilled cocktail glass and garnish with raspberries.

Absolut Raspberri Collins 

Ingredients:

2 ounces Absolut Raspberri flavored vodka

1 ounce fresh squeezed lemon juice

1 ounce sugar syrup

splash of Soda water

fresh raspberries

Directions:

Shake the first 3 ingredients and strain into an ice filled highball glass. Top up with soda water and garnish with raspberries.

Absolut Raspberri Royal

Ingredients:

1 ounce Absolut Raspberri flavored vodka

3 ounces Champagne

3 fresh raspberries

Directions:

Pour Absolut Raspberri flavored vodka into a chilled flute.  Fill with champagne.  Garnish with fresh raspberries.

Absolut Raspberri Collins Drink Recipe

Absolut Raspberri Collins 

 

 

Ingredients:

2 ounces Absolut Raspberri flavored vodka

1 ounce fresh squeezed lemon juice

1 ounce sugar syrup

splash of Soda water

fresh raspberries

Directions:

Shake the first 3 ingredients and strain into an ice filled highball glass. Top up with soda water and garnish with raspberries.

 Here are more Absolut Raspberri Flavored Vodka Drink Recipes for You!

Absolut Raspberri Chocolate Martini Drink Recipe

Absolut Raspberri Chocolate Martini

Ingredients:
2 ounces Absolut Raspberri flavored vodka
1/4 ounce White Créme de Cacao
1/4 ounce sugar syrup
6 fresh raspberries

Directions:
Muddle raspberries with sugar syrup and shake with all ingredients. Double strain into chilled cocktail glass and garnish with raspberries.

 Here are more Absolut Raspberri Flavored Vodka Drink Recipes for You!

Kinky Liqueur Drink Recipes

Kinky is a fun and flavorful liqueur.  "A delightfully fruity fusion of super premium vodka." - Kinky

Here are some Kinky drink recipes for you!

Kinky Rita

Ingredients:
2ounces Kinky Liqueur
1 ounce Durango Silver Tequila
Splash of Pineapple juice
Lime wedge for garnish

Directions:
Pour all ingredients into a shaker filled with ice.  Shake lightly and strain into a salt-rimmed margarita glass filled with ice.  Garnish with a wedge of lime.

Kinky Cranberry

Ingredients:
1 ounce Kinky Liqueur
1 ounce Seagrams Dry Gin
3 ounces cranberry juice
splash of Sprite or other lemon lime soda

Directions:
Pour Kinky, Gin and cranberry juice in a tall glass filled with ice and stir well.  Add a splash of Sprite or other lemon lime soda.

Kinky Breeze








Ingredients:
2 ounces Kinky Liqueur
1 ounce RonDiaz Coconut Rum
Splash of Pineapple juice


Directions:


Pour Kinky, Rum and pineapple juice in a rocks glass full of ice and stir.  Garnish with a slice of pineapple.
 
Opulent Kinky Tini

Ingredients:
2 ounces Kinky Liqueur
1 ounce Opulent vodka
Orange twist for garnish

Directions:
Add ice, Kinky and vodka to a mixing glass, cap and shake for a few seconds. Strain into a chilled martini glass and garnish with an orange twist. 

Kinky Hookup Shooter

Ingredients:
1 ounce Kinky Pink
1 ounce Kinky Blue
1 ounce lemon lime soda

Directions:
Pour ingredients in a shaker filled with ice.  Shake well.  Strain into a shot glass.

Kinky Blow Pop Martini

Ingredients:
1 ounce Kinky Liqueur
1 ounce Bubble Gum Vodka
splash of lemon lime soda
blow pop

Directions:
Rim martini glass with sugar.  Pour Kinky and Bubble Gum vodka into a shaker full of ice.  Shake well and and strain into a martini glass filled with ice.   Add a splash of lemon lime soda and sink a blow pop in the middle! 

Tom & Jerry Drink Recipe

Ages ago, I remember going to Joe & Eddies to have a Tom & Jerry with Jeff and Larry, each year at Christmas time.

Until now, I had not known exactly what was in the drink concoction.  Here's the drink recipe for you!

First you'll need to make the Tom & Jerry Batter.

Ingredients:

• 12 eggs, separated
• 1 teaspoon cream of tartar
• 2 pounds of sugar
• 2 ounces dark rum
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Directions:
Whip the egg whites with the cream of tartar until they form stiff peaks.  In a separate bowl, beat the yolks with the dark rum, sugar and vanilla.  Once the mixture is liquefied, fold into the egg whites.

Tom & Jerry Drink Recipe

Ingredients:

• boiling water
• 1 tablespoon Tom & Jerry batter
• 1 ounce cognac
• 1 ounce dark rum
• hot milk
• nutmeg for garnish

Directions:
Rinse coffee mug with boiling water to clean and heat the mug.  Add the batter, cognac and rum and fill with hot milk.  Garnish with nutmeg.

Louisville Cooler

Louisville Cooler Drink Recipe for YOU!  (Since I didn't have an actual picture of the drink, thought I'd use a little humor with this one.)

Ingredients:

2 ounces Kentucky Bourbon
1 ounce Orange Juice
1/2 ounce Lime Juice
1 teaspoon Powdered Sugar
Orange Slice

Directions:

Shake all the ingredients in a shaker with ice cubes and strain into an old-fashioned glass over ice.  Garnish with an orange slice.