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Cocktails of all flavors. Sit back take a look around.  

Tipsy Grinch Punch

A Crowd Pleaser!
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Prep Time:10 minutes mins

Equipment

  • Pampered Chef Quick Stir Pitcher

Ingredients

  • 3 oz Peach Schnapps
  • 3 oz Bacardi “151” Rum
  • 3 oz Curaçao Liquer
  • 12 oz Orange Juice
  • 4 oz Sprite

Notes

Mix in your Pampered Chef Quick Stir Pitcher and Enjoy ! 

Please drink Responsibly!

Course: Drinks
Keyword: alcholic, christmas, grinch, punch
Author: Pampered Chef

Hibiscus Margarita

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Ingredients

  • 4 oz Patron (my favorite) Tequila Blanco
  • 4 oz Hibiscus Flower Syrup Floral Elixar Company or Torani
  • 3 oz Orange Flavored Liquer
  • 3 oz Lime Juice

Instructions

  • Fill shaker or pitcher with ICE
  • Add all ingredients
  • Shake vigorously -stir vigorously
  • Strain into cocktail glasses filled with fresh ice
  • Garnish with lime wedges
Margarita

Margarita

Yummy Refreshment
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Prep Time:10 minutes mins
Total Time:10 minutes mins

Ingredients

  • 3 shots tequila
  • 2 shots orange flavored liqueur
  • 1 juice lime
  • 1 wedge lime
  • 1 cup coarse salt

Shake indgredients vigorously.

Instructions

  • Moisten the rim of the glass with lime
  • Turn glass over into coarse salt. Spin glass to run salt on rim.
  • Fill glass with ice cubes
  • Pour mixed margarita into glass
  • Garish with Lime Slice
Keyword: cocktail, margarita, tequila
Servings: 2 Glasses
Pina Colada

Pina Colada

Print Recipe
Prep Time:10 minutes mins
Total Time:10 minutes mins

Ingredients

  • 2 shots Bacardi White Rum
  • 1 ½ cup fresh Coconut water
  • 4 Chunks Pineapple fresh
  • 1 cup Pineapple juice
  • 2 tsp Sugar granulated

Instructions

  • Mix ingredients in blender until smooth; pour into glasses; garnish with pineapple wedges and maraschino cherries if desired.
Servings: 1 Person
Vodka and cranberry

Cherry Cosmopolitan

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Prep Time:5 minutes mins

Ingredients

  • 2 tbsp Vodka (your choice) 1 ounce
  • 1 tbsp Triple Sec 1/2 ounce
  • 1 tbsp Cherry Juice 1/2 ounce
  • 1 Lime halved

Notes

In a Cocktail Shaker or Glass at least 12 oz. Stir and Shake.
Pour into a Chilled Martini Glass.  Add A Slice or Wedge of Lime or Lemon.
Awhhh. Enjoy!
Course: Drinks
Keyword: cocktails, cosmo, cranberry juice
Author: Patricia
Campari and a vodka

Campari + Vodka Negroski

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Ingredients

  • 3 tbsp Campari 1 1/2 ounce
  • 1 ounce Sweet Vermouth 3/4 ounce
  • 1 dash Bitters

Notes

Combine ingredients in a mixing glass
  1. Add ice and stir
  2. Strain into a rocks glass over fresh ice
  3. Garnish with an orange twist
In a cocktail shaker filled halfway with ice, combine all ingredients and shake well. Strain mixture into a chilled stemmed cocktail glass. Garnish with a skewered orange wheel and cherry, if desired.
Makes 1 serving.
 
Kick back and Enjoy…..
Irish Cream Cocktail

Baileys Nutterlicious

If you set out to find the thickest, nuttiest, most indulgent milkshake on the internet, then you’ve just found it.
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Notes

  • Difficulty: Easy
  • Servings: 2
  • Prep Time: 10 min
  • Cook Time: 20min
 
Directions
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STEP ONE
First, blend up the Baileys, ice, almond milk and banana.
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STEP TWO
Smear the rim of a cocktail glass with the melted chocolate or a little chocolate hazelnut spread, then dip into the crushed hazelnuts.
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STEP THREE
Pour the Baileys mixture into the glass, then sprinkle some crushed peanuts over the top.
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STEP FOUR
Sip elegantly or slurp through a straw, it's delicious either way.

Hurricane Cocktail

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Ingredients

  • 2 ounces light rum
  • 2 ounces dark rum
  • 1 ounce lime juice freshly squeezed
  • 1 ounce orange juice freshly squeezed
  • 1/2 ounce passion fruit puree
  • 1/2 ounce simple syrup
  • 1 teaspoon grenadine
  • Garnish: orange half-wheel
  • Garnish: preserved cherry

Notes

Steps
Add the light and dark rums, lime and orange juices, passion fruit puree, simple syrup and grenadine into a shaker with ice and shake until well-chilled.
Strain into a large Hurricane glass over fresh ice.
Garnish with an orange half-wheel and a preserved cherry.

GIN & TONIC

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Ingredients

  • WHAT YOU'LL NEED
  • Tanqueray London Dry Gin
  • Fresh Tonic Water
  • Wedge of lime
  • Ice

Notes

Add ice to a glass

Pour in 1 Shot of Tanqueray London Dry Gin

Top off with fresh Tonic Water

Add Lemon/Lime Wedge

Enjoy!

 
Paloma

Ultimate Paloma

It turns out the Paloma, not the Margarita, is Mexico's most beloved cocktail.
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Ingredients

  • 1 grapefruit wedge
  • 1/4 Cup Grapefruit Juice
  • 1 Tbsp Lime Juice Fresh
  • 1 teaspoon sugar
  • 1/4 cup Mescaline or Tequilla
  • 1/4 cup Club Soda

Notes

Preparation
Pour some kosher salt on a plate. Rub half of rim of a highball glass with grapefruit wedge; dip rim of glass in salt. Combine grapefruit juice, lime juice, and sugar in glass; stir until sugar is dissolved. Stir in mescal, add ice, and top off with club soda. Garnish with grapefruit wedge.

VODKA MARTINI COCKTAIL

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Notes

Ingredients

  • MARTINI & ROSSI® EXTRA DRY (3/4 oz.)
  • WELL CHILLED GREY GOOSE® VODKA (2  ½oz)
  • ICE CUBES5-6
  • LEMON PEEL OR OLIVE TO GARNISH
 

Method

Step 1
Fill a mixing glass with ice cubes.
Step 2
Pour in the vermouth and vodka and stir for about 20 seconds.
Step 3
Strain into a well-chilled Martini glass.
Step 4
Twist the peel over the cocktail, to release the oils, then drop into the drink as a garnish. Or Garnish with an olive.

Olive Garden Copy Cat Watermelon Sangria

I'm obsessed with their sangrias and had to find a way to make one as close as possible. This will soon be your favorite as as you try it!
 
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Notes

--- ✦  INGREDIENTS:

• 11 strawberries (cut)

• 1 medium orange (cut)

• 7 oz. Totani  - Classic Watermelon Syrup

• 1 bottle (750 ml) white Moscato

 • 1 (7.5 oz.) can Ginger Ale

• 4 cups ice

 

Non-Alcohol Version

 

~Simply omit the Moscato, and be sure to use watermelon syrup.

 

~Why not make some copycat Olive Garden Watermelon Sangria today?

 

NON ALCOHOLIC Version

This recipe can be easily modified for those who do not drink. Especially the “Kiddos”.

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