Easy Cocktail Recipes

Perfect for a winter holiday party, New Year’s Eve, or a touch of Christmas in July. Just remember to look for chestnuts packed in water or dry vacuum packed. Candied chestnuts or chestnuts in syrup will make your teeth hurt.

This combination of fruit flavors and tequila tastes just like bubble gum. The only thing that makes it pink is food coloring. But it tastes so real, you might be blowing bubbles afterward.

White rum, synonymous with the name Bacardi, is the base of many well-known cocktails. This one, of course, must be made with Bacardi.

The deep yellows of Galliano and passion fruit make sure this cocktail is both a rich golden colour and good fruity flavor.

Watermelon is such a colorful and tasty fruit that makes a great mixer. Don’t be tempted to add more unless you want to dilute the strength of your cocktail.

Aniseed-flavored pastis, such as Pernod, are firm favorites in today’s cocktail bars and often form the basis of almost lethally strong drinks.

The sherry you choose makes all the difference to this drink, be it dry, sweet or slightly nutty medium-sweet amontillado.

Tequila will give any cocktail a good kick, but this concoction is really not as strong as its name implies.

This is a truly spectacular cocktail and can be great fun o decorate. Look out for swizzle sticks in the shape of palm trees or hula dancers and elaborately curly straws.

In spite of the horrible literary pun in the name, this popular cocktail is fast becoming a modern classic.