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  • Signature Cocktails: Chocolate Martini

    POSTED BY COLLEEN MULLANEY, OCTOBER 30 2007 10:58 AM | PERMALINK

     

     

    Chocolate Martini
    Serves 4

    8 oz. Absolut Vanilla

    8 oz. Kahlua

    4 oz. light creme

    Chocolate shavings for garnish

    Raw sugar for the rims

    In a cocktail shaker filled with ice, mix the Absolut, Kahlua, and creme until frothy. To sugar rims of glasses, pour the sugar into a shallow dish, wet the rims and dip into the sugar coating evenly. Strain the Absolut, Kahlua, and creme into glasses and serve.

    It’s a wedding after all, so who doesn’t want to indulge in a bit of...

  • Signature Cocktails: Mimosa Punch

    POSTED BY COLLEEN MULLANEY, OCTOBER 04 2007 09:46 AM | PERMALINK

    Mimosa Punch

    Serves 8

    Punch bowl or large pitcher

    2 cups mandarin orange juice

    2 cups pear nectar

    ½ cup Cointreau

    Two bottles chilled dry champagne

    2 cups ice cubes

    Orange slices and fresh sliced strawberries for garnish

    Combine the orange juice, pear nectar, and Cointreau in the punch bowl and mix well. Just before serving, slowly pour in the champagne. Add the ice cubes, garnish with orange and strawberry slices, and serve. If you’re pouring into glasses, mix the first 3 ingredients...

  • Signature Cocktails: Raspberry Rickety

    POSTED BY COLLEEN MULLANEY, SEPTEMBER 27 2007 11:17 AM | PERMALINK

     
    Raspberry Rickey
    Serves 4
    8 oz. vodka
    3 oz. lime juice
    2 oz. Chambord
    12 fresh raspberries, plus 4 for garnish
    fresh limes for garnish club soda to top
     
    Muddle the raspberries in the bottom of a pitcher or large glass. Fill with ice and add the remaining ingredients. Stir well and pour into 4 glasses. Top with club soda. Garnish with lime wedges and fresh raspberries. If fresh raspberries are not available, look for fresh frozen berries with out the syrup, as the sugar will...

  • Signature Cocktails: Fruit Smoothie

    POSTED BY COLLEEN MULLANEY, SEPTEMBER 13 2007 09:23 AM | PERMALINK

    Fruit Smoothie

    Serves 12

    Large pitcher or punch bowl

    2 cups raspberry puree or ¾ cup raspberry syrup

    6 cups pineapple juice

    2 cups orange juice

    3 tablespoons lemon juice

    3 cups light rum

    4 cups ice cubes

    Combine raspberry puree and other liquid ingredients in pitcher or bowl and mix well. Add ice cubes and serve immediately. To make the raspberry puree, simply puree 4 cups of fresh or frozen raspberries until smooth. Strain the puree into a bowl through a fine-mesh sieve to remove the...

  • Signature Cocktails: Champagne Cocktail

    POSTED BY COLLEEN MULLANEY, SEPTEMBER 06 2007 03:46 PM | PERMALINK

    Serves 8 1 bottle (750ml)

    Champagne, chilled 16 oz.

    Grand Marnier 4 oz.

    lemon juice

    8 sugar cubes

    Divide and pour into each glass the Grand Marnier, lemon juice. Drop in the sugar cube and fill each glass with Champagne. Serve immediately.

    The champagne toast at the wedding marks a joyous end to formalities and a splendid beginning of festivities. Champagne is celebratory in itself, but when mixed to make a cocktail, it becomes a decadent addition to the party. Champagne cocktails are...

  • Signature Cocktails: Mango Mojito

    POSTED BY COLLEEN MULLANEY, AUGUST 30 2007 02:10 PM | PERMALINK

    Serves 10, 15 oz.

    10 Cane Rum

    6 oz. mango nectar

    10 mint sprigs

    5 limes, or 5 oz. lime juice

    5 tsp. raw sugar

    Soda water to top, if desired

    Muddle the lime, mint and sugar together in a large pitcher. Add mango nectar, ice and rum. Mix well and pour into glasses. Garnish with mint and add a splash of soda.

    Serve your guests the drink of the moment. In the past few years, the mojito has taken the cocktailing world by storm. Usually made with a typical blend or rum, natural sugar, lime and mint,...

  • Signature Cocktails: Pink Lady

    POSTED BY COLLEEN MULLANEY, AUGUST 23 2007 08:00 AM | PERMALINK

    Large Pitcher
    2 cups guava nectar or juice
    ½ cup apricot brandy
    two bottles (750 ml each) dry champagne, chilled
    fresh raspberries for garnish

    Combine guava nectar and brandy in the pitcher, mixing well. Pour mixture into each champagne glass, covering bottom up to about an inch. Fill each glass with chilled champagne, garnish with berries and serve.


    Bubbles, it seems, are the epitome of celebrations and puts everyone in a flirty mood, so lets have some!
    The cocktail's smooth, guava flavor...

  • Dark 'N Stormy: A Destination Wedding Cocktail

    POSTED BY CASSANDRA BROMFIELD, AUGUST 17 2007 02:55 PM | PERMALINK

    Dark 'N Stormy

    2 oz Gosling's® Black Seal rum
    4 oz ginger beer

    Mix ingredients together in an old-fashioned glass over cracked ice, and serve.

    It's the national drink in Bermuda. A blend of Dark Rum and Ginger Beer. Depending how stormy you want it, add more or less rum. Now we had fun with this drink. At first I kept calling it Dark' n Lovely. OK they had a good laugh on my account, but as the bartender would make refills the drink got a little darker and stormier. Then eventually someone...

  • Signature Cocktails: Margarita Madness

    POSTED BY COLLEEN MULLANEY, AUGUST 16 2007 02:50 PM | PERMALINK

    Large Pitcher
    3 cups premium 100 percent agave silver tequila
    2 cups pear nectar
    1 cup fresh lime juice
    1 cup Cointreau
    ½ Grand Marnier
    3 limes
    6 cups crushed ice
    coarse salt for rims.

    Combine the tequila, pear nectar, lime juice, Cointreau, and Grand Marnier in the pitcher and mix well. Add the crushed ice. Salt rims of glasses, and pour margaritas.

     

     

     

    The classic margarita is a perfect thirst quenching cocktail to serve over the warm sultry months, I suggest whipping up a batch of this feel...

  • Signature Cocktails: Melon Melody

    POSTED BY COLLEEN MULLANEY, AUGUST 09 2007 09:00 AM | PERMALINK

    Serves 8

    Large pitcher or bowl
    4 cups pineapple juice
    2 cups vodka
    ¾ cup Midori (melon liqueur)
    ½ cup cream of coconut
    ½ cup fresh lime juice
    4 cups ice

    For garnish:
    cantaloupe
    honeydew melon
    watermelon

    Mix the liquid ingredients into the pitcher. Add ice and shake well. Let sit to chill.

    Using smaller end of melon baller, scoop melons into small rounds. Thread the melon balls onto large cocktail picks or small skewers. Strain ice from pitcher, pour into glasses and garnish with melon...