Three refreshing homemade cocktails to try this Saturday
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Beat the heat this weekend by creating these delicious and refreshing easy homemade cocktails.
If you do not enjoy alcohol or cannot indulge in alcoholic beverages for whatever reason then you can refrain from adding alcohol to these cocktail recipes, and you can create the virgin version of these cocktails.
Porn star martini cocktail
Ingredients
45g of vanilla flavoured vodka
15g of passion fruit liqueur (such as Passoã or De Kuyper)
30g of passion fruit puree
15g of ounce lime juice, freshly squeezed
15g of ounce vanilla simple syrup
30g of sparkling wine, chilled
Garnish: 1/2 cup passion fruit
Instructions
Add all ingredients except sparkling wine into a shaker with ice and shake vigorously until well-chilled.
Strain into a chilled coupe glass.
Garnish with a passion fruit half.
Serve with a sparkling wine sidecar (on the side).
In a blender, combine ice, sugar and strawberries. Pour in lime juice, lemon juice, rum and lemon-lime soda. Blend until smooth. Pour into glasses and serve.
In a blender, combine ice, sugar and strawberries. Pour in lime juice, lemon juice, rum and lemon-lime soda. Blend until smooth. Pour into glasses and serve.
Gin sour
Ingredients
60g of London dry gin
30g of lemon juice, freshly squeezed
15g of ounce simple syrup
15g of ounce egg white or aquafaba (optional)
Garnish: lemon twist (optional)
Garnish: 3 drops Angostura bitters (optional)
Instructions
Add all ingredients into a shaker and vigorously dry-shake (without ice) if using egg white or aquafaba.
Add ice and shake again until well-chilled.
Strain into a coupe glass.
Garnish with a lemon twist. Or if using egg white or aquafaba, decorate the frothy top with 3 to 5 drops of Angostura bitters.