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Cluster Fuck

(frozen)

1/2 ounce Vodka or Vanilla Vodka

1/2 ounce Kahlua Coffee Liqueur

1/2 ounce DeKuyper Buttershots Butterscotch Schnapps

1/2 ounce Triple Sec

1/2 ounce Baileys Irish Cream

2 Oreo cookies

1 ripe peeled Banana

1 scoop Vanilla Ice Cream

Add all the ingredients to a blender with 1/2 cup of ice (approximately 4 cubes). Blend until smooth. Pour into a parfait glass. Top with whipped cream. Garnish with a cherry.

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Cream Dream

2 ounces Vanilla Vodka

Ginger Ale

Cola (optional)

Fill a tumbler or rocks glass with ice. Add Vodka. Fill with ginger ale. Add a splash of cola if you like.

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Ocean Room

3 ounces Bacardi Rum

1 ounce Blue Curaçao

2 ounces Coco Lopez Coconut Cream

2 ounces Pineapple Juice

Add all the ingredients to a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake vigorously until the side of the shaker is frosted. Strain into a large wine goblet.

Be as flamboyant as you like with the garnish using a pineapple wedge, maraschino cherry and frilly pick. Or if you are feeling more demure… garnish with a pineapple wedge only…

or leave completely naked and let the allure of the sapphire blue drink capture your attention.

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In The Bathtub

2 ounces Vodka

1 ounce Triple Sec

6 ounces Cran-Raspberry Juice

1/2 ounce Lime Juice

Splash of Sprite

Add vodka, triple sec and lime juice to a tall glass** with ice. Fill with cran-raspberry juice. Top with a splash of Sprite. Stir gently. Garnish with a lime wedge.

** if you are taking this to the bath with you… make sure you use PLASTIC!!!

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Perfect Manhattan

2 ounces Rye Whiskey

1/2 ounce Sweet Vermouth

1/2 ounce Dry Vermouth

Angostura Bitters

Add whiskey, sweet vermouth, dry vermouth and a dash of bitters to a mixing glass filled with ice. Stir until the mixture is very cold. Strain into a chilled martini glass. Garnish with a lemon twist.

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Daydream Martini

(serves 2)

*yum* Penny’s current favorite!

6 ounces Citrus Vodka

1 ounce Triple Sec

2 ounces fresh Orange Juice

1/4 teaspoon Bar Sugar (superfine granulated)

Combine all ingredients in a mixing glass with cracked ice. Stir well. Strain into 2 chilled martini glasses.

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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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Sweetheart’s Usual

3 ounces Vodka

Orange Juice

Cranberry Juice

Fill a tall glass with ice. Add vodka. Pour orange juice until glass is 3/4 full. Top with cranberry juice. Stir well.

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Passionate Pussy

1 1/2 ounces Baileys Irish Cream

1 ounce Cointreau

2 ounces Light Cream

Add ingredients to an ice filled cocktail shaker. Shake until frosted. Strain into a chilled martini glass.

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Vanilla Twist

6 ounces Vanilla Vodka

1 ounce Cointreau

1 ounce Dry Vermouth

Vanilla Bean

Combine Vodka, Cointreau and Vermouth in a cocktail shaker filled with cracked ice. Shake well. Strain into chilled martini glass. Garnish with vanilla bean.

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Fantasie

4 ounces chilled White Wine

3/4 ounce Apricot Brandy

Add ingredients to a frosted wine glass.

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New Year’s Eve

Champagne Cocktail

* 6 ounces chilled Champagne

* 1 sugar cube

* Angostura® bitters

Place sugar cube in the bottom of a chilled champagne flute and soak it with bitters. Fill with Champagne. Garnish with a lemon twist.

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Sugarplum Martini

Chambord

Stoli Razberi Vodka

Sparkling Wine or Champagne

Sugar Cube

Place a sugar cube in a chilled martini glass. Saturate sugar, drop by drop with Chambord. Fill glass 1/2 way with raspberry vodka. Top with Champagne.

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Hush

3 ounces White Zinfandel Wine

1 ounce Peach Schnapps

Dash of Sour Mix

Seltzer or Soda Water

Add wine, peach schnapps and sour mix to a chilled wine goblet. Fill with seltzer. Garnish with a lemon slice.

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White Heart

1/2 ounce Sambuca

1/2 ounce White Crème de Cacao

2 ounces Milk or Cream

Add ingredients to a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake. Strain into a chilled martini glass.

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1 1/2 ounces Vodka

1/2 ounce Creme de Cacao

1/4 ounce Grenadine

3/4 ounce Milk

Add ingredients to an ice filled cocktail shaker. Shake until frosted. Strain into a chilled martini glass.

*If You like chocolate covered cherries, You are going to love this drink!*

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Sweet Patootie

2 ounces Gin or Orange Gin

1 ounce Triple Sec

1 ounce Orange Juice

Add ingredients to a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake until frosted. Strain into a chilled martini glass.

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Italian Coffee

2 ounces Amaretto

Hot Black Coffee

Add liqueur to a mug. Fill with coffee. Stir. Top with whipped cream. Sprinkle with shaved almonds.

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Illusions

1 ounce Vodka

1 ounce Coconut Rum

1/2 ounce Midori Melon Liqueur

1/2 ounce Blue Curaçao

Orange Juice

Stir vodka, coconut rum, midori and blue curaçao over ice until well chilled. Strain into a frosted wine glass or large cocktail glass. Fill with fresh ice. Add orange juice to taste. Garnish with a melon wedge.

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One Enchanted Evening

1 ounce Banana Liqueur

1 ounce Mount Gay Rum

2 ounces Pineapple Juice

Grenadine

Add all ingredients, except grenadine to an ice filled cocktail mixer. Shake well. Pour contents into a tall glass. Top with a few drops of grenadine.

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Bat Bite

2 ounces Rum

Cranberry Juice

Fill a rocks tumbler with ice. Add rum. Fill with cranberry juice. Garnish with a lime wedge.

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Sweet Nothing

2 ounces Vodka

1 ounce Coco Lopez Cream of Coconut

2 ounces Pineapple Juice

4 ice cubes – crushed

Mix all the ingredients in a blender until frothy. Pour into a chilled martini glass. Garnish with a pineapple wedge.

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Because He Can

3 1/2 ounces Grey Goose Le Citron Vodka

1 ounce Limoncello

1 1/2 ounces Cranberry Juice

1/2 ounce Sour Mix

squeeze of Fresh Lime Juice

Add ingredients to an ice filled cocktail shaker. Shake until frosted. Strain into a chilled martini glass. Garnish with a lime wedge.

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The Footman

1/2 ounce Gin

1 ounce Orange Juice

1 Peach Slice

1 ice cube

Chilled Champagne

1 Peach Slice for garnish

Blend all the ingredients except the Champagne in a blender until smooth, about 10 seconds. Pour into a flute and fill with Champagne. Garnish with the second peach slice.

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Rachel

1 ounce Black Raspberry Liqueur

1 ounce Dark Crème de Cacao

1 ounce half and half

Add ingredients to an ice filled cocktail shaker. Shake vigorously. Strain into a chilled martini glass. Garnish with a fresh raspberry or a chocolate curl.

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Blue Babydoll

(serves 2)

1 ounce Vodka

1 ounce Blue Curacao

1 ounce Blueberry Schnapps

1 ounce Sour Mix

Ginger Ale

Fill 2 rocks glasses with ice. Fill a cocktail shaker with ice. Add all ingredients to shaker except ginger ale. Shake until chilled. Strain equally into the glasses. Fill each glass with ginger ale. Garnish with a cocktail pick strewn with blueberries or a maraschino cherry.

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Caribbean Screw

1 ounce Coconut Rum

1 ounce Banana Liqueur

1 ounce Peach Schnapps

Milk

Orange Juice

Pineapple Juice

Add ice to a tall glass. Add rum, banana liqueur and peach schnapps. Fill with equal parts milk, orange juice and pineapple juice. Cover with a cocktail shaker. Shake vigorously. Pour all ingredients back into glass.

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O’s Story

(serves 2)

4 ounces Brandy

3 ounces White Rum

2 ounces Triple Sec

1 ounce Lemon Juice

cracked ice*

Fill cocktail shaker with cracked ice. Add all the ingredients. Shake vigorously until frosted. Strain into two chilled wine goblets.

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*It’s important that you use cracked ice in this cocktail… anything else will affect the flavor that is intended. Oh… by the way… this cocktail is extremely potent and not meant for the timid. Drink under advisement! ~~ penny

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Idol Time

2 ounces Cognac

2 ounces Champagne

Add cognac to brandy snifter. Top with Champagne.

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Naked Lady

1 ounce Rum

1 ounce Apricot Brandy

1 ounce Sour Mix

dash of Grenadine

Add ingredients to an ice filled cocktail shaker. Shake. Strain into a chilled martini glass.

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Gang Banger

1 ounce Vodka

1 ounce Tequila

1 ounce Bourbon

Sprite

Add ice to a tall glass. Add Vodka, Tequila and Bourbon. Fill with Sprite. Stir.

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The Taste of Seduction

1 ounce Irish Cream

1 ounce Raspberry Liqueur

1 ounce Blackberry Liqueur

1 ounce Creme de Cacao

1/2 scoop Vanilla Ice Cream

1/2 cup of ice

Fill blender with all the ingredients and blend until smooth and creamy. Serve in a parfait glass. Garnish with a fresh raspberry and an optional mint leaf.

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Paradise

1 ounce Gin

1 ounce Apricot Brandy

1 ounce Orange Juice

squeeze of fresh Lemon Juice

Add ingredients to a mixing glass filled with ice. Stir. Strain into a chilled martini glass. Garnish with an orange slice.

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Beachcomber

2 ounces Citrus Rum

1/2 ounce Triple Sec

dash of Grenadine

splash of Sour Mix

Add ingredients to a rocks glass filled with ice. Shake.

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Absolutely Fabulous

2 ounces Vodka or Citrus Vodka

1 ounce Cranberry Juice

1 ounce Champagne

Add vodka and cranberry juice to a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake. Strain into a chilled martini glass. Top off with champagne. Garnish with a lemon twist.

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Doctor’s Elixir

1 ounce Dr. McGillicuddy’s Mentholmint Schnapps

1 ounce Chambord Raspberry Liqueur

Add ingredients to an ice filled rocks glass. Stir. Take orally.

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Diablo

1 1/2 ounces Brandy

1/2 ounce Triple Sec

1/2 ounce Dry Vermouth

2 dashes Bitters

Add ingredients to a mixing glass filled with ice. Stir. Strain into a chilled martini glass. Garnish with a lemon twist.

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Rendezvous

1 1/2 ounces Gin

1/2 ounce Kirschwasser

1/2 ounce Campari

Add ingredients to a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake. Strain into chilled martini glass. Garnish with a lemon twist.

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Samantha

2 1/2 ounces SKYY Vodka

1 1/2 ounces Cabo Wabo Anejo Tequila

1 ounce Simple Syrup

1 ounce fresh squeezed Lime Juice

Rim a chilled martini glass with a mixture of salt and a small amount of white pepper. Shake ingredients with ice. Strain into rimmed glass. No garnish.

recipe courtesy of SKYY Vodka

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Crazy Bitch

1 ounce Peach Schnapps

1 ounce Triple Sec

dash of Lime Juice

Cranberry Juice

Fill a cocktail shaker with ice. Add peach schnapps, triple sec and lime juice. Shake crazily. Pour all contents into a tall glass. Fill with cranberry juice. Garnish with a lime slice.

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Release Valve

1 ounce Pineapple Vodka

1 ounce Pineapple Rum

Pineapple Juice

1/2 ounce Grenadine

Fill a tall glass with ice. Add Vodka and Rum. Fill with Pineapple Juice. Stir. Top with Grenadine.

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Rebel Yell

1 1/2 ounces Bourbon

1/2 ounce Triple Sec

1 ounce Lime Juice

Pour contents into a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake. Strain into a shot glass.

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Silk Thoughts

1 ounce Cherry Liqueur

1 ounce Brandy

1 scoop Vanilla ice cream

crushed ice

Blend all the ingredients in a blender until smooth. Pour into a Sundae glass. Garnish with 2 maraschino cherries.

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DOM

1 1/2 ounces Gin

1/2 ounce Brandy

1/2 ounce Sweet Vermouth

Add ingredients to a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake until cold. Strain into a chilled martini glass.

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Amalfi Dream

2 ounces Vodka

1 1/2 ounces Limoncello

1/2 ounce lemon juice

Add all ingredients to an ice filled cocktail shaker. Shake vigorously. Strain into a chilled martini glass. Garnish with a lemon twist.

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Halley’s Comfort

2 ounces Southern Comfort

2 ounces Peach Schnapps

Sparkling Water

Add Southern Comfort and Peach Schnapps to an ice filled tumbler. Fill with sparkling water. Stir gently. Garnish with lemon slice.

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Johnnie Law

1 1/2 ounces Sloe Gin

3/4 ounce Triple Sec

1 tsp. Anisette

Add ingredients to ice filled shaker. Shake vigorously. Strain into chilled martini glass.

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Slippery Dick

(floater shot)

1 1/2 ounces Banana Liqueur (bottom)

1/2 ounce Irish Cream (top)

Pour liqueurs into a shot glass over the back of a spoon to keep separate.

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Gumby

1 ounce Vodka

1 ounce Melon Liqueur

1 ounce Sour Mix

Add ingredients into a mixing glass filled with ice. Shake well. Pour contents into a tall glass. Fill with lemon-lime soda.

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Visitor

1 ounce Vodka

1/2 ounce Orange Liqueur

1/2 ounce Banana Liqueur

Orange Juice

Add vodka, orange liqueur and banana liqueur to a mixing glass filled with ice. Shake. Pour contents into glass and fill with orange juice.

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Rainbow

(floater)

1/2 ounce Dark Crème de Cacao (bottom)

1/2 ounce Crème de Violette

1/2 ounce Yellow Chartreuse

1/2 ounce Maraschino Liqueur

1/2 ounce Benedictine

1/2 ounce Green Chartreuse

1/2 ounce Cognac (top)

Rest the tip of an upside down barspoon against the inside of the glass and on the surface of the base spirit. Pour each liqueur slowly down the spoon to create separate layers.

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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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Special Rough

1 ½ ounces Brandy

1 ½ ounces Apple Brandy

2 dashes Pernod

Pour ingredients into a mixing glass filled with ice. Stir. Strain into chilled martini glass.

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Sex in the Kitchen

1 ounce Coconut Rum

1 ounce Chambord

Pineapple Juice

Combine ingredients in glass filled with ice. Shake. Garnish with a cherry.

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Head Banger

1 ounce 151-proof Rum

1 ounce Sambuca

dash of Grenadine

Add ingredients to an ice filled cocktail shaker. Shake vigorously. Strain into a shot glass.

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Blue Balls

1/2 ounce Blue Curaçao

1/2 ounce Coconut Rum

1/2 ounce Peach Schnapps

1/4 ounce sour mix

Dash of Sprite

Mix all ingredients. Chill with ice and strain into a shooter glass.

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Secret Martini

6 ounces Gin

2 ounces Lillet Blanc

2 dashes Angostura Bitters

Combine ingredients in a mixing glass filled with cracked ice. Stir well and strain into a chilled martini glass. Garnish with a cocktail olive.

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Sex

1 oz. Coffee Liqueur

1 oz. Orange Liqueur

Fill a rocks glass with ice. Add ingredients. Stir. Garnish w/ orange slice.

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Fare Thee Well Martini

6 oz. Gin

1 oz. Dry Vermouth

dash of Sweet Vermouth

dash of Cointreau

Combine all ingredients in a mixing glass with cracked ice and stir well. Strain into a chilled martini glass.

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Nude Peach

1 1/4 oz. NUDE Vodka

1 1/2 oz. Patron Silver Tequila

1 oz. Limeade or fresh sour mix (fresh squeezed lemons and simple syrup)

1 1/2 oz. soda

1 oz. Peach Schnapps

Combine all ingredients over ice in a tall glass. Stir. Garnish with a lime wedge.

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Sailor Jerry & Coke

2 oz. Sailor Jerry Spiced Rum

Coke or Diet Coke

Lime Wedge

Fill a tall glass with ice. Measure in the Rum and fill with Coke.

Squeeze a lime wedge into the mix and toss it in the glass. Stir.

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Santa Shot

3/4 oz. Grenadine

3/4 oz. Green Crème de Menthe

3/4 oz. Peppermint Schnapps

Float the ingredients in layers in a shot glass. Starting with the Grenadine on the bottom and finishing with the Peppermint Schnapps on the top.

Sno Cap

1 oz. Coffee Liqueur

3/4 oz. Vodka

3/4 oz. Irish Cream

In a blender, add a cup of ice and all the ingredients.

Blend until smooth. Garnish with non-perils.

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Tie Me to the Bedpost

1 oz. Citrus Vodka

1 oz. Coconut Rum

1 oz. Melon Liqueur

1 oz. Sour Mix

Pour all ingredients into a cocktail mixer filled with ice. Shake.

Strain into a chilled martini glass.

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Old Fashioned

Muddle together in a glass:

Stemless Maraschino Cherry, Orange slice,

1/2 tsp. Sugar, 4-5 dashes of Bitters

Fill the glass with ice.

Add 2 oz. Whiskey

Splash of Seltzer or Soda Water

Stir.

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Bailey’s and Coffee

2 oz. Irish Cream

Hot Black Coffee

Whipped Cream

Add the irish cream to a mug. Fill with hot, steaming black coffee. Stir gently. Top off with whipped cream

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Eden

2 oz. Vodka

Apple Juice

Fill a rocks glass with ice. Add Vodka and fill with Apple Juice. Garnish with a Cherry.

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Yo Mama

2 oz. Orange Vodka

Seltzer Water

1/2 oz. Orange Juice

Fill rocks glass with ice. Add vodka. Fill with seltzer water, leaving a bit of room at the top of the glass. Float the orange juice on top.

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Fahrenheit 5

Coat the inside of a shot glass with hot sauce.

1 oz. Pepper Vodka

1 oz. Cinnamon Schnapps

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Appletini

2 oz. Sour Apple Pucker

2 oz. Vodka

Splash of Sour Mix

Add ingredients to an ice filled cocktail shaker. Shake vigorously. Strain into a chilled martini glass.

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Vampire

1 1/2 oz. Vodka (or Raspberry or Cranberry Vodka)

1/2 oz. Chambord

2 oz. Cranberry Juice

Add ingredients to a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake and strain into a chilled martini glass.

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Hot Apple Toddy

2 oz. Whiskey

1 tsp. Honey

Apple Cider

Heat apple cider in a large mug in the microwave. Add Whiskey and honey. Stir. Garnish with a cinnamon stick, 2-3 whole cloves and a thin slice of lemon.

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Velvet Dress

1 oz. Brandy

1/2 oz. Coffee Liqueur

1/2 oz. Triple Sec

Milk or Cream

Measure ingredients into a rocks glass filled with ice. Shake.

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Trance

Fill a rocks glass with ice.

1 oz. Jägermeister

1 oz. Hypnotiq

Fill with an Energy Drink, such as Red Bull.

Sprinkle a pinch of sugar over the drink.

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Maiden’s Blush

2 oz. Gin

1 tsp. Triple Sec

1/2 tsp. Lemon Juice

1/2 tsp. Grenadine

Measure ingredients into a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake vigorously. Strain into a chilled martini glass.

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Moulin Rouge

1 oz. Cognac or Brandy

4 oz. Orange Juice

1 oz. Champagne

Measure the Cognac and Orange Juice into a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake vigorously and strain into a chilled flute. Top off with the Champagne. Garnish with an orange slice.

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Monkey Wrench

Fill a rocks glass with ice.

2 oz. Rum or Orange Rum

Fill with Grapefruit Juice.

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The Vineyard Road Cosmopolitan

1 1/2 oz. Grey Goose Le Citron Vodka

1/2 oz. Cointreau

1 oz. Cranberry Juice

splash of Realime Juice

Pour all the ingredients into a shaker filled with ice. Shake vigorously. Strain into a chilled martini glass. Garnish with a lemon twist.

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