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Look Out Below!
1 1/2 OUNCES 151 PROOF RUM
2 TEASPOONS LIME JUICE
1 TEASPOON GRENADINE
ADD INGREDIENTS TO A ROCKS GLASS FILLED WITH ICE. SHAKE.
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Weekend at the Beach
1 OUNCE CITRUS RUM
1 OUNCE PEACH SCHNAPPS
PINEAPPLE JUICE
ORANGE JUICE
FILL A TALL GLASS WITH ICE. ADD CITRUS RUM AND PEACH SCHNAPPS. FILL WITH EQUAL PARTS PINEAPPLE AND ORANGE JUICE. SHAKE UNTIL MIXED WELL. GARNISH WITH A MARASCHINO CHERRY.
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Beautiful Transition
1 OUNCE VODKA
1 OUNCE PEACH SCHNAPPS
GRENADINE
ADD ICE, VODKA AND PEACH SCHNAPPS TO A COCKTAIL MIXER. STIR. STRAIN INTO A CHILLED SHOT GLASS. TOP WITH 2 OR 3 DROPS GRENADINE. TOAST TO LIFE AND THROW BACK WITH GUSTO.
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Sun Kissed
2 1/2 OUNCES CITRUS RUM
1 1/2 OUNCES TRIPLE SEC
SPLASH OF GRENADINE
DASH OF LIME JUICE
ADD INGREDIENTS TO AN ICE FILLED COCKTAIL SHAKER. SHAKE WELL. STRAIN INTO A CHILLED MARTINI GLASS. GARNISH WITH A LIME TWIST.
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Orgasm
1 OUNCE COFFEE LIQUEUR
1 OUNCE AMARETTO LIQUEUR
1 OUNCE IRISH CREME LIQUEUR
ADD COFFEE LIQUEUR, AMARETTO AND IRISH CREME TO A COCKTAIL SHAKER FILLED WITH ICE. SHAKE UNTIL CHILLED. STRAIN INTO AN ICE FILLED ROCKS TUMBLER.
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Vineyard Juice
1 1/2 OUNCES STOLICHNAYA VODKA
1 1/2 OUNCES TRIPLE SEC
1 1/2 OUNCES POMEGRANATE CHERRY JUICE
ADD INGREDIENTS TO A COCKTAIL SHAKER FILLED WITH ICE. SHAKE. STRAIN INTO A CHILLED MARTINI GLASS. GARNISH WITH A FRESH LIME WEDGE.
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Inside
2 OUNCES PARROT BAY COCONUT RUM
2 OUNCES MIDORI MELON LIQUEUR
1 OUNCE PINEAPPLE JUICE
2 OUNCES FAT FREE MILK
ADD COCONUT RUM, MELON LIQUEUR, PINEAPPLE JUICE AND MILK TO A COCKTAIL SHAKER FILLED WITH ICE. SHAKE WELL. STRAIN INTO A CHILLED STEMLESS MARTINI GLASS.
*This drink is for my readers with a sweet tooth that needs fulfilling! ~Penny
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Black Rose
2 ounces Rum
1 tsp Sugar
Cold Black Coffee
Add rum and sugar to a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake until sugar is dissolved. Pour everything into a rocks tumbler. Fill with cold black coffee.
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Ecstasy
1 1/2 ounces Vodka
1/2 ounce Black Raspberry Liqueur
1/2 ounce Pineapple Juice
1/2 ounce Cranberry Juice
Add ingredients to a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake well. Strain into a chilled martini glass.
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Leprechaun
2 ounces Irish Whiskey
tonic water
Fill rocks glass with ice. Add whiskey. Fill with tonic. Garnish with lemon twist.
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Poetic Virtue
1 1/2 ounces Parrot Bay Coconut Rum
1 1/2 ounces white Creme de Cacao
1 1/2 ounces Cask and Cream Liqueur
1/2 ounce Grenadine
Add ingredients to a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake until well chilled. Strain into a chilled martini glass. Serve with a feather quill and a parchment scroll. (to write your own story, of course!)
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Siren
2 ounces Whipped Cream Vodka
2 ounces Limoncello
splash of Mineral Water
Add vodka and limoncello to an ice filled cocktail shaker. Shake until sides are frosted. Strain into a chilled martini glass. Add a splash of mineral water. Garnish with whipped cream and a maraschino cherry.
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Mist
3 ounces Belvedere Vodka (my favorite!)
1 1/2 ounces Pineapple Juice
Champagne
Add vodka and pineapple juice to a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake until sides are frosted. Strain into a chilled martini glass. Top with champagne. Toast to moving forward with success in your life!
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Ephemeral
3 ounces Pinnacle Whipped Vodka
1 ounce Limoncello
4 ounces Orange Juice with pulp
Seltzer Water
Add vodka, limoncello and orange juice to a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake vigorously. Strain into a chilled martini glass. Top with seltzer. Garnish with an orange twist.
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Body Haiku
3 ounces Sake
1 ounce Dry Vermouth
Add sake and vermouth to an ice filled cocktail shaker. Shake only enough to mix. Strain into a chilled martini glass. Garnish with a cocktail onion.
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East Side
1 ounce Rum
1 ounce Amaretto
1 ounce Coconut Rum
Milk or Cream
Add rum, amaretto and coconut rum to an ice filled rocks glass. Fill with milk. Cover with a cocktail shaker and shake well.
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Celebrate
The most expensive champagne you can afford.
Share it.
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Heart Felt
2 ounces Apricot Brandy
1 ounce Dry Vermouth
2 ounces Orange Juice
Splash of Grenadine
Add apricot brandy, vermouth, orange juice and grenadine to a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake until sides are well frosted. Strain into a chilled martini glass.
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Come and Go
(shooter)
1 ounce Tequila
1 ounce Triple Sec
1/2 ounce milk
Add tequila, triple sec and milk to a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake until chilled. Strain into a shot glass.
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Poinsettia Cocktail
1/4 cup Vodka
1/4 cup Champagne
1/2 cup Cranberry Juice
Combine vodka, champagne and cranberry juice in a large red wine goblet. Add crushed ice. Stir until well chilled. Twist strips of orange peel over the glass before dropping them in.
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Santa’s Secret
1 1/2 ounces Dark Rum
1/2 ounce Light Rum
1/2 ounce Kahlua coffee liqueur
1/2 ounce milk
Add dark rum, light rum, Kahlua and milk to a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake until sides are frosted. Strain into a martini glass. Garnish with red sprinkles.
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Christmas Wishes
1 ounce Peppermint Schnapps
1 ounce dark Crème de Cacao
2 ounces Milk or Cream
Fill a tumbler with ice. Add schnapps, creme de cacao and cream. Cover with cocktail shaker and shake until frosty. Garnish with a fresh mint sprig.
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Thanksgiving
3/4 ounce Gin
3/4 ounce Dry Vermouth
3/4 ounce Apricot Brandy
1/4 ounce Lemon Juice
Add ingredients to a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake. Strain into a chilled martini glass. Garnish with a maraschino cherry.
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Sundae Delight
2 ounces Caramel Baileys Irish Cream
1/2 ounce White Rum
Vanilla Ice Cream
Chocolate Syrup
Spoon a small amount of ice cream into a rocks glass. Squeeze a ribbon of chocolate syrup on top. Set aside. Place 1 large scoop of ice cream into a cocktail shaker half filled with ice. Add Baileys and rum. Shake very well until sides are frosted. Strain into the prepared rocks glass.
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Goldrush
1 ounce Tequila Gold
1 ounce Goldschlager
Fill a short glass with ice. Add tequila and Goldschlager. Stir.
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Bend at the Waist
1 1/2 ounces Stoli Vanil
1 1/2 ounces Baileys Irish Cream
1 1/2 ounces Frangelico Hazelnut Liqueur
2 ounces Milk
Add ingredients to a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake until frosted. Pour contents into a rocks glass. Toast a Happy Birthday to Trip X..!
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Upside Down
2 ounces Vanilla Vodka
4 ounces Pineapple Juice
Dash of Grenadine
Add vodka and pineapple juice to a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake until chilled. Strain into a chilled martini glass. Add a dash of grenadine. Garnish with a maraschino cherry.
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Tides
1 ounce Captain Morgan Spiced Rum
2 ounces Pineapple Juice
splash Cherry Juice
dash Grenadine
Add ingredients with ice to a tumbler. Stir. Garnish with a maraschino cherry.
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Grand Occasion
1 1/2 ounces Rum
1/2 ounce Triple Sec
1/2 ounce Creme de Cacao
1/2 ounce Sour Mix
Add ingredients to a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake well. Strain into your best crystal chilled martini glass. Serve on a fine linen napkin.
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Cuba Libre
2 ounces White Rum
1 Lime
Cola
Add rum to a highball glass filled with ice. Cut the lime into 8 wedges. Squeeze and drop the wedges into the glass. Top with cola. Stir. Serve with a straw.
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Whale Tale
1 ounce Vodka
1 ounce Spiced Rum
1/2 ounce Blue Curaçao
1 ounce Sour Mix
Pineapple Juice
Add vodka, rum, blue curaçao and sour mix to a tall glass filled with ice. Fill with pineapple juice. Cover with a cocktail shaker and shake vigorously. Garnish with a stemmed maraschino cherry.
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Wings
1 1/2 ounces Bombay Gin
1/2 ounce Apricot Brandy
1/2 ounce Lime Juice
Dash of Grenadine
Add ingredients to a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake well. Strain into a chilled martini glass.
*Don’t let the odd ingredients fool you. This drink is delicious! It has a sweet tart flavor and pours out a most beautiful shade of pink-red.
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Cowboy
2 ounces Jim Beam Bourbon Whiskey
Milk
Add bourbon and ice to a short glass or tumbler. Fill with milk. Pour everything into a cocktail shaker then pour back into the glass.
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Seduction
(floater shot)
1 ounce Frangelico Hazelnut Liqueur
1 ounce Banana Liqueur
1 ounce Irish Cream
Pour Frangelico in the bottom of a shot glass. Layer banana liqueur by slowly pouring over a spoon. Layer Irish Cream on the top.
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Wild
3 ounces Ketel One Citroën Citrus Vodka
1/2 ounce Chambord Black Raspberry Liqueur
1/2 ounce White Crème de Cacao
Add ingredients to a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake until well chilled and sides are frosted. Strain into a chilled martini glass. Garnish with fresh mint leaves.
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Stroke Me
1 3/4 ounces Vanilla Vodka
1 3/4 ounces Orange Vodka
1 ounce Orange Juice
1/2 ounce Triple Sec
Add ingredients to a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake until sides are frosted. Strain into a chilled martini glass.
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Thunder and Lightning
1 ounce 151 proof Rum
1 ounce 100 proof Peppermint Schnapps
Combine rum and schnapps in a shot glass. Make a toast to Mother Nature.
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Banshee
2 ounces 99 Bananas Liqueur
1 ounce Crème de Cacao
1 ounce Half and Half
Fill a cocktail shaker with ice. Add the liquid ingredients. Shake until frothy. Strain into a chilled wine glass.
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Christmas in July
Brut or Extra Brut Champagne
Pineapple Juice
Grenadine
Fill a wine goblet 3/4 full with ice. Fill the goblet 3/4 full with champagne. Fill with pineapple juice. Add a splash of grenadine.
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Cute Gay Bartender
1 1/2 ounces Strawberry Vodka
1 1/2 ounces deKuyper® Grape Pucker Schnapps
4 1/2 ounces Lemonade
4 1/2 ounces Sprite® Soda
Add all ingredients to a tall glass with ice. Stir.
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Take me Higher
(adapted from @MOB514′ s Drunken Arnold Palmer))
3 1/2 ounces Limoncello
Unsweetened Iced Green Tea
Honey or Sugar (optional)
Fill a tall glass with ice. Add limoncello. Fill with iced tea. If desired, add sugar or honey to taste. Stir well. Garnish with a fresh mint sprig and a lemon slice.
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Sensations
(blender drink)
1 ounce Sambuca
1 ounce Light Rum
not quite 1 ounce Lime Juice
1 ounce Cream or Half n’ Half
Add a half scoop of crushed ice to a blender. Add Sambuca, rum, lime juice and cream. Blend slowly for 10 to 20 seconds until thick and slushy. Pour into a chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with a small flower or flower petals.
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Hidden Blonde
1 1/2 ounces Myers’s Dark Rum
1 1/2 ounces Triple Sec
1 ounce Cream
Add rum, triple sec and cream to a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake until well chilled. Strain into a chilled martini glass. Garnish with an orange peel twist.
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Leather
2 ounces Gin
1/2 ounce Triple Sec
1/2 ounce Sweet Vermouth
1 teaspoon Lemon Juice
Fill mixing glass with ice. Add gin, triple sec, sweet vermouth and lemon juice. Stir, so as not to bruise the gin. Strain into a martini glass. No garnish needed … Leather is more than enough.
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she’s perfect
3 ounces Italian Prosecco Sparkling Wine
1/2 ounce Chambord Black Raspberry Liqueur
1 ounce Cranberry Juice
1 ounce Orange Juice
Fill a rocks glass with ice. Add Prosecco, Chambord, cranberry and orange juice. Stir gently. If you feel you need a garnish… do so with an orange slice.
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Red Mermaid
1 ounce Gin
1 ounce Cointreau
1/2 ounce Orange Juice
1 Fresh Lemon Juiced (1/2 ounce)
Add ingredients to a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake well. Strain into a chilled martini glass. Garnish with a stemmed maraschino cherry on a cute little pink cocktail skewer.
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Liquid Diamond
1 ounce Vodka
1 ounce Peach Schnapps
Fill rocks tumbler with ice. Add vodka and peach schnapps. Stir.
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You give me Fever!
2 ounces Citrus Vodka
Lemonade
Fill a tall glass with ice. Add vodka. Fill with lemonade. Garnish with a lemon slice and a straw.
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Black and White Martini
3 ounces Vanilla Vodka
1 ounce Crème de Cacao
Black and White Licorice Candy
Combine vodka and crème de cacao with cracked ice in a cocktail shaker. Shake well, until sides are frosted. Strain into a chilled martini glass. Drop a piece of licorice candy into the glass.
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Leap of Faith
6 ounces Citrus Vodka
1 ounce Sweet Vermouth
1 ounce Grand Marnier
1/2 teaspoon Lemon Juice
Add vodka, sweet vermouth, Grand Marnier and lemon juice to a cocktail shaker filled with cracked ice. Shake well. Strain into a chilled martini glass
*note: this martini is as potent as a Vampire’s bite… enjoy with extreme caution!
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Round 3
1 ounce Stoli Raspberry Vodka
1/2 ounce Peach Schnapps
1/2 ounce Chambord
Cranberry Juice
Pineapple Juice
Prosecco, Cava or Sparkling Wine
Fill a tall glass with ice. Add vodka, peach schnapps and Chambord. Add a splash of cranberry juice and a big splash of pineapple juice. Shake well. Top with sparkling wine.
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Eat Me … I’m a Chocolate Bunny
(makes 2 servings to share … or … not)
3 ounces Godiva Chocolate Liqueur
2 ounces Creme de Cacao
2 ounces Vanilla Vodka
big splash of half and half
Drizzle chocolate syrup around the inside of a chilled martini glass. Fill a cocktail shaker with ice and add chocolate liqueur, creme de cacao, vodka and half and half. Shake until well chilled. Strain into prepared martini stem.
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Orange Krush
1 1/2 ounces Vodka or Orange Vodka
1/2 ounce Triple Sec
1 ounce Orange Juice
1 ounce Sprite
Fill a rocks glass with ice. Add vodka, triple sec, orange juice and Sprite. Stir gently.
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One Enchanted Evening #2
1 ounce Creme de Banana
1 ounce Mount Gay Rum
2 ounces Pineapple Juice
Grenadine
Add creme de banana, rum and pineapple juice to a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake until well chilled. Pour all into a rocks glass. Top with a few drops of grenadine.
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Full Monty
2 ounces Vodka
2 ounces Galliano
grated ginseng OR fresh ginger root
Add Vodka and Galliano to a shaker filled with cracked ice. Shake until the sides are well frosted. Strain into a chilled martini glass. Sprinkle with grated ginseng or ginger.
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