Easy Cocktail Recipes

You find yourself on a tropical island with a bottle of gin and no vermouth in sight. Forced to improvise, you add a little passion fruit juice… and once you get back to civilization, you happily find Alize de France, a Cognac-based liqueur flavored with tart passion fruit, to transport you back to your bliss-filled paradise.

Just the thing for a short boating party or extended stay on a desert island. Simply lie by the lagoon and hope you never get rescued.

Be sure to use white lemonade for a psychedelic green color.

Ginger liqueur gives this drink an unmistakable Asian flavor – delicate, understated, and smooth.

If your party needs a B12 booster, mix together these ingredients and offer them as shots. Shaken with ice and served on the rocks, they’ll keep your party fueled for hours.

This shimmering, potent elixir is packed full of botanical bling. Melding gin with both green and yellow Chartreuse, two fine herbal liqueurs made from more than 130 herbs and plants, gives this jewel of a drink an intensely aromatic flavor.

Another Madeira?

Frozen raspberries are always available, always reliable. Take them out of the freezer about 15 minutes before you make this drink.

This refreshing blender drink has just a touch of Southern Comfort for flavor, but very little alcohol, so it won’t bowl you over.

Sweet, ripe pears are not always available when you need them, so use canned pears for this drink.