Best Cocktail Recipes

By definition, any beverage described as a cocktail contains more than one ingredient. So if you want to make a cocktail, you have to know how to mix these different liquids.
As with cooking, you need to follow the correct order of doing things. With a few exceptions, it runs as follows:
1. Chill or preheat the glass (if needed)
2. Prepare garnish (if needed)
3. Pour the ingredients into the mixing container
4. Add ice cubes (if needed)
5. Mixing ingredients (shaking, stirring, mixing, etc.)
6. Put (or pour) into the glass
7. Add pre-prepared garnish (if needed)
8. Serve to the guests or enjoy yourself

Here are few best cocktail recipes.

Hair of the Dog

Ingredients

• 3 teaspoons runny honey
• 2 shots blended scotch whisky
• 1 shot whipping cream
• 1 shot milk

Instructions

1. Mix honey with whisky and stir until honey dissolves.
2. Add whipping cream and milk, shake with ice and strain into chilled glass. Garnish with grated nutmeg (optional).

White Russian

Ingredients

• 2 shots vodka
• 1 shot coffee liqueur
• 1 shot whipping cream

Instructions

1. Shake vodka and coffee liqueur with ice and strain into ice-filled glass.
2. Float lightly whipped cream on top of drink.
3. Garnish with grated nutmeg. (optional)

Hot Toddy

Ingredients

• 1 bar spoon runny honey
• 2 shots blended scotch whisky
• ½ shot sugar syrup
• ½ shot lemon juice
• 3 cloves
• top with boiling water

Instructions

1. Warm the glass and place bar spoon loaded with honey.
2. Add the rest of the ingredients and stir until honey dissolves.
3. Garnish with lemon slice and cinnamon stick.

Big Bay Storm

Ingredients

• 1¼ oz Gosling Rum
• ¾ oz Campari
• ¾ ounce fresh lemon juice
• ¾ ounce of pineapple juice
• Ice cube
• 1 ounce cup of soda

Instructions

1. Mix the ingredients (rum, campari, lemon juice and pineapple juice) in a cocktail shaker.
2. Add ice and shake it hard. Strain into the Collins glass filled with ice.
3. Add Cheerwine, stir and mix, then decorate with orange wheels.

Treacle No. 1

Ingredients

• ¼ shot sugar syrup
• 2 dashes bitters
• 2 shots Jamaican rum
• ½ shot apple juice

Instructions

1. Combine and stir the syrup and bitters with two ice cubes in a glass.
2. Add rum, add a few pieces of ice cubes and stir to mix.
3. Finally, float with the apple juice. Decorated with lemon zest twist.

Southern Mint Cobbler

Ice White Cosmo

Ingredients

• 7 fresh mint leaves
• 2 shots Southern Comfort
• ½ shot lemon juice
• ½ shot peach purée

Instructions

1. Gently muddle the mint at the bottom of the shaker (just to bruise).
2. Add the rest of ingredients (Southern Comfort, lemon  juice and peach purée) , add the ice and shake, strain into the glass filled with crushed ice.
3. Garnish with mint.

 

Ice White Cosmo

Ingredients

• 2 shots vodka
• ¾ shot ice wine
• 1¼ shots white cranberry juice
• ¼ shot lime juice

Instructions

1. Put the ingredients into shaker and shake with ice.
2. Strain into chilled glass.
3. Garnish with orange zest.

 

Pisco Sour

Ingredients

• 2 shots pisco
• ¾ shot lime juice
• ½ shot sugar syrup
• ½ fresh egg white
• 1 dash orange flower water

Instructions

1. Shake all the ingredients with ice in a shaker and strain into chilled glass.
2. Garnish with three drops of Angostura bitters.

Blue Hawaii

Ingredients

• 1½ ounces white rum (recommend El Dorado 3 Year)
• ½ ounce blue curaçao
• 1 ounce pineapple juice
• ½ ounce lemon juice
• ¼ ounce simple syrup
• 1 teaspoon cream of coconut
• Crushed ice

Instructions

1. Put the ingredients (rum, curaçao, pineapple juice, lemon juice, simple syrup, and cream of coconut) into shaker and shake with 3 ice cubes until chilled.
2. Strain the cocktail into a hurricane glass which is filled with crushed ice.
3. Garnish with the orange slice on the rim of the glass and tuck the orchid into the ice at the top of the glass.