Alligator

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Ingredients:

• 2 ounces Midori melon liqueur
• 4 ounces orange juice
• ice

Steps:

• Fill glass to halfway with ice
• Add the Midori and orange juice and stir

Apple Jack

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Ingredients:

• 1/2 ounce apple Schnapps
• 1/2 ounce Bourbon

Steps:

• Serve over ice in a Rocks glass
• Garnish with a sprinkle of cinnamon

Apple Strudel Cocktail

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Ingredients:

• 1 1/2 fluid ounces vodka
• 1/2 fluid ounce calvados
• 2 teaspoons applesauce
• 1 teaspoon brown sugar
• 1 pinch ground cinnamon

Steps:

• Shake the vodka Calvados apple sauce and sugar together in a cocktail shaker with ice
• Double strain into a martini glass and sprinkle over a small pinch of cinnamon

Brandy Berry Fix

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Ingredients:

• 1 teaspoon sugar dissolved in water
• 2 ounces brandy
• 1/4 ounce strawberry liqueur Fragolino di Nemi
• 3/4 ounce fresh lemon juice not the bottled kind

Steps:

• Build fill glass with crushed ice
• Add sugar brandy strawberry liqueur amp; fresh lemon juice
• Pour into a hi-ball glass 9 oz
• Add lemon wedge strawberries

Chartreuse Cocktail

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Ingredients:

• 1 1/2 ounces tequila
• 1 ounce green chartreuse liqueur
• 1 ounce lime juice
• 1/4 cup ice Crushed

Steps:

• Pour all ingredients over ice in tightly covered container
• Shake until very cold
• Pour into serving glass; garnish with lime slice if desired

Copycat Trader Vic's Mai Tai

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Ingredients:

• 2 ounces of 17 year old j wray nephew rum
• 1 lime juice of
• 1/2 ounce holland dekuyper orange Curacao
• 1/4 ounce trader vic rock candy syrup
• 1/2 ounce french garier orgeat syrup

Steps:

• Pour all ingredients over shaved ice in a cocktail shaker
• Shake vigorously and pour into a collins glass
• Add a sprig of fresh mint

Gin Fizz

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Ingredients:

• 3 tablespoons gin 2 measures
• 1/2 large lemon juiced
• 1 teaspoon superfine sugar 5 ml
• soda water

Steps:

• Add gin lemon juice and sugar to ice-filled cocktail shaker Shake until the sugar is dissolved
• Prepare a tall frosted narrow glass by filling with ice half-way
• Pour sifted cocktail shaker contents into prepared glass and top up with soda Ideally there should be less soda than the other combined ingredients; however it is a matter of personal taste
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Liquori Casalinghi Cherry Liqueur

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Ingredients:

• 1 1/2 lbs ripe flavorful cherries
• 1 cup sugar less 2 tablespoons sugar
• 1/3 cup water plus
• 1 tablespoon water
• 1 3/4 cups grain alcohol or 1 3/4 cups vodka

Steps:

• You will need to crush the cherries along with their pits I found it was easiest to use a heavy duty extra large zip lock adding a handful of cherries at a time and smash each cherry with a hammer Be sure to crust the pit well Push the pulp to the bottom of the bag and add the next handful
• Leave covered in a dark place for 24 hours
• After 24 hours boil the water and add the sugar Stir until sugar is dissolved Remove from heat
• Put cherry mixture in a fine muslin bag or use a fine sieve and squeeze the juice into a bowl
• Add the cherry juice to the sugar syrup mixture and set aside to cool
• Add alcohol to the cooled cherry syrup
• Pour into a jar with a tight fitting lid and place in a cool dark place for one week
• After one week filter into a cool looking bottle seal and age it for at least six months before you pop the top

Mango-Peach Sangria

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Ingredients:

• 1/3 cup sugar
• 1/3 cup water
• 1 cup Grand Marnier
• 1 750 ml bottle white wine they recommend Viognier
• 1 mango chopped
• 2 peaches cut into thin wedges
• 1/4 cup mint

Steps:

• In a saucepan cook the sugar and water until the sugar dissolves; transfer to a pitcher and refrigerate until cold
• Stir in the Grand Marnier Viognier mango peaches and mint
• Serve over ice

Pink Chum-Pagne

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Ingredients:

• 1 teaspoon water
• 1/2 teaspoon caster sugar
• 1 dash pineapple juice
• 1 dash orange juice
• 1/2 cup cranberry juice
• lemonade

Steps:

• Mix the water with the sugar in a jug Stir until sugar is almost disolved
• Add the orange and pineapple juice Stir for 5 seconds
• Add cranberry juice
• Fill to brim with lemonade

Snow Cosmo

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Ingredients:

• 3 ounces smirnoff twist citrus-infused vodka
• 2 ounces Cointreau liqueur or 2 ounces patron citronge
• 3 ounces white cranberry juice
• 1 slice lime to taste
• cranberries garnish

Steps:

• Add all ingredients to a cocktail shaker with ice and shake
• Strain into a long stemmed glass and garnish with skewered cranberries

The Mint Divine a Mocktail

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Ingredients:

• 4 mint leaves
• 1/4 ounce lime cordial
• ice cube
• soda water

Steps:

• Tear mint leavesamp; place in a highball glass
• Add lime cordial stir to mixamp; add ice cubes
• Top with soda wateramp; garnish with a lime wheel