Vodka Drinks
Cosmopolitan
Ingredients
1 oz cranberry juice
1 oz vodka
1/2 fresh lime juice
1 oz triple sec
Steps
Shake with ice
Serve in martini glass
Garnish with orange slice, lime wheel, or orange twist
Blood Orange Sparkler
Ingredients
1½ oz of vodka
3 oz freshly squeezed and strained blood orange juice
Dash of angostura orange bitters (optional)
1 tbsp of rosemary simple syrup
4 oz of soda water
Sliced blood oranges and sprigs of rosemary to garnish
Ice cubes or crushed ice to serve
Steps
Fill a glass with ice.
Then add the vodka, blood orange juice, bitters and the rosemary simple syrup.
Top up with the carbonated water and stir gently.
Garnish with orange slices and fresh springs of rosemary
Vodka Tonic
Ingredients
1 ½ ounce (3 tablespoon) vodka
4 ounce ( ½ cup) tonic water
1 lemon wedge
1 lime wedge, plus additional for garnish
Steps
Fill a highball glass with ice.
Pour in the vodka and stir several times. Pour the tonic water onto a bar spoon into the glass (to increase the bubbles).
Squeeze in the juice from 1 lemon wedge and 1 lime wedge. Add the squeezed wedges into the drink, then add another lime wedge to the glass as a garnish.
Lemon Drop Martini
Ingredients
1 lemon wedge & 1 lemon wheel for garnish
1 TB of sugar for garnish
1 oz simple syrup
1 oz freshly squeezed lemon juice
2 oz vodka
Steps
On an empty plate, pour the sugar. Run the lemon wedge around the rim of the glass and dip the glass into the sugar. Place in the fridge for about thirty minutes to secure the coating.
In a cocktail shaker, combine the simple syrup, lemon juice, and vodka.
Add ice and shake until chilled.
Vodka Sidecar
Ingredients
2 oz vodka
1 oz Cointreau
1 oz lemon juice
Sugar for rim of glass
Orange peel for garnish
Steps
Shake with ice
Serve in glass with sugar rim
Garnish with lemon twist
Strawberry Basil Cocktail
Ingredients
3 fresh strawberries, thinly sliced
1 teaspoon minced fresh basil
2 oz vodka
1/2 oz club soda
1 tsp simple syrup
1 tsp cranberry juice
Pinch of pepper
Steps
In a shaker, muddle strawberries and basil.
Fill shaker three-fourths full with ice. Add the remaining ingredients; cover and shake 10-15 seconds or until condensation forms on outside of shaker. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass
Blood Orange Vodka Lemonade
Ingredients
2 oz lemonade
1 oz vodka
1 oz blood orange juice
1/2 oz simple syrup
Blood Orange Wheel
Steps
Pour ingredients over ice
Garnish with lemon or blood orange wheel
Sex on the Beach
Ingredients
1 oz vodka
1/2 oz peach schnapps
1 oz orange juice
1 oz cranberry juice
Garnish with Orange Bitters
Steps
Served on the rocks
Garnish with orange slice
Gilligan's Island
Ingredients
1 oz vodka
1 oz peach schnapps
3 oz orange juice
2 oz cranberry juice
Fresh-sqeeuzed lemon juice
Steps
Shake with ice
Serve in tall glass with orange slices and other fresh fruit
Fresh Raspberry Vodka Lemonade
Ingredients
1 ½ ounces vodka (citrus flavored optional)
5 fresh raspberries
4 ounces lemonade (fresh-squeezed)
1 teaspoon sugar
Steps
In cocktail shaker muddle raspberries and sugar. Add vodka and lemonade and shake until will mixed.
Pour over ice in a highball glass. Garnish with a twist of lemon and a fresh raspberry (*Use Cocktail Pick!)
Vodka Cranberry
Ingredients
1 oz vodka
4.5 oz cranberry juice
Lime juice
Orange juice (optional)
Lime wheel
Steps
Fill glass with 1/2 ice
Pour ingredients
Mix with bar spoon
Garnish with lime wheel