Top 5 Cocktails For Summer

Raspberry Lemonade Or A Raspberry Sangria

Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup rasberries

• 1/4 cup brown sugar or honey

• 1inch ginger ( optional)

• 1/4 or more cup lemon juice

• 4-5 cups water (cold)

• Crushed mint leaves

• Ice cubes with frozen raspberries and mint leaves

If you want to make Sangria replace the water with 3 cups white wine and 2 cups club soda, if you want you can skip the soda.

Blend and strain the raspberries and ginger. Mix the rest and serve chilled. Mix in some slices of lemon and raspberries and crushed mint leaves.

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Key Lime Melon Spritzer

Ingredients:

• 3 key limes

• 1 ½ cups cut cantaloupe pieces

• 1 teaspoon powdered sugar

• 2/3 cup club soda

• 4oz rum

Juice the limes. Puree the cantaloupe in a blender and strain it through fine mesh sieve to remove pulp.

In a pitcher, mix together lime juice, cantaloupe juice, powdered sugar, club soda and rum. Serve over ice.

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Zinzito Cocktail

Ingredients:

• 1 litre jug of ice cubes

• 90 ml vodka

• White wine

• 1 can of Sprite

• Mint leaves and sprigs

• Crushed ice

• Glass - Tall

Take the jug filled with ice cubes. Pour in vodka and Sprite. Toss in a cup of crushed / muddled mint leaves and top up the jug with wine. Add crushed ice.

Garnish with mint sprigs and serve... Serve chilled!

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Ginger Cocktail

Ingredients:

• 200g sugar

• 500ml water

• 1 x 5cm piece of ginger sliced

• Pulp and seeds from 10 passion fruit

• Juice and zest of 2 lemons

To make the syrup, bring the sugar and water to a boil in a small saucepan.

Once the sugar has dissolved, add the passion fruit, ginger and the lemon juice and zest and remove from the heat. Allow to cool.

To serve, pour a little of the syrup into a glass filled with ice then add some light rum and fill up with soda water. Add the mint and lemon and serve.

Alternatively, combine all the ingredients in a large jug.

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Summer Night Cocktail

Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup pineapple juice

• 1/2 cup fresh cucumber juice

• 10 fresh mint leaves

• 1.5 ounces white rum

Combine all ingredients and stir to combine. Pour over ice and serve! This is a great cocktail to make ahead. You can easily quadruple the recipe and store in a small pitcher until you are ready to serve guests later that day.

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