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7 All-time favourite Cocktails to sip on your Date

Your perfect date is incomplete without a special cocktail for your loved one. On this Valentine, date sip a new classic cocktail rather than the old ones and make your date even more special.

Just like you curate themed party you can also create different drink and cocktails for every mood or occasion. Make your date sparkling by offering a cocktail to your lover. A glass of cocktail is like a bonus to the romantic mood, along with red roses, chocolates, delicious food and perfect lighting.

Here are 7 all-time favorite cocktails to sip on your date and make it romantic, refreshing and sophisticated.

Woo Woo

Woo Woo is a beautiful looking and refreshing alcoholic beverage which gets its colour from peach schnapps and cranberry juice. A lime wedge and mint leaves are used as a garnish. It is typically served in a highball glass or as a shot or in a rocks glass. The ingredients are usually shaken together with ice or stirred as preferred.

Ingredients: 25ml peach schnapps, 25ml vodka and 50ml cranberry juice.

Recipe: To prepare a Woo Woo cocktail you need to simply need to mix all the ingredients together. First you need to add the vodka and peach schnapps. After a shake all the cranberry juice, pour it in a glass and garnish it with lime wedge and mint leaves.

 

Vodka Sunset

Vodka Sunset is a zingy, refreshing cocktail. The name Vodka Sunset comes from the pretty cool color resembling the sky during the sunset. It’s a perfect cocktail to sip during a date on the beach while you enjoy watching the gorgeous sunset with your lover.

Ingredients: 50ml vodka, orange juice and 25ml raspberry cordial

Recipe: To prepare this tropical cocktail shake up the orange juice and the vodka together. Next in a glass full of ice pour this mix and drop in the raspberry cordial and let them sink to the bottom. The tropical cocktail to enjoy at your date is ready.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

Long Island Iced Tea

Long Island Iced Tea is alcoholic as it contains 3 alcoholic bases namely light rum, vodka, and tequila but taste bloody good! Its dark brown color creates a different mood at your date. This cocktail is tangy in taste.

Ingredients: 25ml light rum, 25ml vodka, 25ml gin, 25ml tequila, 50ml lime juice, coke.

Recipe: To prepare this super alcoholic cocktail chuck all the alcoholic ingredients together. Add lime juice and give it a proper mix around. Now for extra punch top up the glass with coke and ice. Sip the Long Island Iced Tea with a high on alcohol warning.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lemon Drop

Want to make your date a lemony date? Try out lemon drop, a sour and sweet cocktail with the punch of lemon juice to refresh your date. A sip of this cocktail would be like a wakeup call for your taste buds giving a fresh start to your date every time is sip it.

Ingredients: 50ml vodka, 50ml lemon juice, 1 tablespoon sugar and lemonade.

Recipe: To prepare lemon drop you need to mix 50ml vodka, 50ml lemon juice, and 1 tablespoon sugar together and let the sugar dissolve. Once done pour this mix into the glass with ice and add lemonade. Your lemony cocktail is ready.

Bramble

The Bramble is a cocktail created by Dick Bradsell in 1980s London, England. It is the best a spring cocktail, the pairing of the gin, blackberry, lemon and crushed ice comes together to create this light tasting and refreshing cocktail.

Ingredients: 50 ml Gin, 10 ml Crème de Mure, 25 ml Lemon Juice, 1/2 ml Sugar Syrup, Blackberry

Recipe: To prepare Bramble cocktail you need to add 50 ml Gin, 10 ml Crème de Mure, 25 ml Lemon Juice, 12 1/2 ml Sugar Syrup into the mixing glass. Fill mixing glass with cubed ice and shake it well for 10 seconds. Now fill rocks glass with crushed ice and strain this mixture into glass and top up with crushed ice. Pour creme de mure over drink using bar spoon. Garnish with 2 lemon slices and blackberry.

 

 

 

 

Strawberry Daiquiri

This delicious Strawberry Daiquiri is one of the most preferred rum cocktails with strawberry flavor in it. Strawberry Daiquiri is a perfect cocktail for all strawberry lovers to quench their craving. This cocktail is sweeter than other cocktails.

Ingredients: 1/2 ml Bacardi Rum, 1/2 ml Strawberry Liqueur, 25 ml Lime Juice, 1/2 ml Sugar Syrup, 1 Strawberry

Recipe: To prepare Strawberry Daiquiri all ingredients must be added into a shaker and fill with ice. Shake for about 15 seconds and then strain into a chilled martini glass. Garnish with a strawberry.

Strawberry Daiquiri is sweet and easy to drink cocktail, making it a perfect choice for cocktail novices.

 

 

 

El Presidente

El Presidente is a fantastic rum cocktail for your date. It is a perfect mix of the bright citrus of orange with Orange Liqueur and Dry Vermouth.

Ingredients: 50 ml Aged Rum, 1/2 ml Orange Liqueur, 10 ml Dry Vermouth, splash Grenadine, Orange Peel

Recipe: To prepare El Presidente you will have to begin by chilling coupe glass with ice and soda. Then add ice to mixing glass and later add 50 ml Aged Rum, 1/2 ml Orange Liqueur, 10 ml Dry Vermouth, splash Grenadine, Orange Peel. Stir sown the drink for 20 seconds, using a bar spoon. Strain the drink into the chilled coupe glass and serve straight up. Garnish with orange peel twist.

 

 

 

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