Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Festive drinks

Chris-Mist
Ingredient:
1 oz cranberry juice (either regular or sugar free)
1 oz cranberry vodka
Splash of Lime Juice
Top with Sierra Mist

Directions: In shaker combine: Cranberry Juice, cranberry vodka and lime. Shake over ice and strain into glass. Top with Sierra Mist.

Berry Christmas
Ingredients:
2 oz cranberry juice (or other favorite red juice)
Splash of lime juice
Sierra Mist

Directions: Fill glass with ice (or chill all ingredients and skip the ice). Add to glass: cranberry juice, splash of lime juice and then top with Sierra Mist. Granish with something festive and fun (above: glass is rimmed with green sugar crystals and adorned with a candy cane twist).

Cosmopolitan Slushy

Ingredients:
10 ounce (1 1/4 cups) citrus-flavored vodka
1/2 cup Rose's lime juice
2 cups cranberry juice
4 ice cube trays

Directions
1. Combine vodka, lime juice, and cranberry juice  in a pitcher with 2 cups water and stir to blend. Divide between ice cube trays and freeze at least 4 hours or overnight (the drink cubes will freeze only partially.
2 Just before serving empty trays into a large bowl and using a fork, break up cubes to loosen ice crystals (the ice will be slushlike). Spoon slush into tall stemmed glasses and serve immediately.


Lime Sorbet Margaritas
Ingredients
1 lime, cut into 8 wedges
1/4 cup sugar
2 pints lime sorbet
1/2 cup tequila

Directions
1. rub the lime wedges around the rims of 8 stemmed glasses. Place the sugar on a small plate. turn each glass upside down and dip the rims in the sugar to coat.
2 place 2 scoops of sorbet in each glass and pour 1 tablespoon of tequila over the top of each serve with a spoon.

 Cucumber Saketini
Ingredients
3 ounces gin
1/2 ounce sake
5 thin slices of cucumber.

Directions
1. In a shaker with ice, mix together the gin and sake. Strain into a martini glass and garnish with the cucumber.

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