Cherry Blossom

Here's just one version out of many. (Easy)

4 Ingredients:

0.42 oz. Triple Sec
1.1 oz. Lemon Juice
1.1 oz. Cherry Brandy
Teaspoon of Sugar

Method:

Shake all ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice.  Shake well for 10 or 15 seconds or until the outside of the shaker becomes frosted.  Strain into cocktail glass.

Can also use Vodka or Gin.

(makemeacocktail.com)

Blue Sea Martini

This delicious concoction gets its beautiful color from the addition of the blue curacao .  Although this may look like the beautiful blue ocean it certainly doesn't taste like it (thankfully) and instead tastes like a tropical island vacation. 

Ingredients

1 1/2 ounces lemon vodka
1 ounce blue curacao
1 tablespoon fresh lime juice
1/4 cup light white cranberry juice
lime and lemon for garnish


Mix all the ingredients in a chilled drink mixer filled halfway with ice. Shake vigorously. Strain into two chilled martini glasses and garnish with the lemon and lime or your favorite fruit.

Earth Day drinks - sheknows.com

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Green Plantini (For Earth Day)

One of the biggest environmental pushes these days is to go "green" and what better way to do so then to sip on a lovely green cocktail?  But don't worry, this drink doesn't taste like a plant, it just looks like one!

2 ounces vodka
1 1/2 ounces apple pucker
lime wedge for garnish

1. Mix all the ingredients (except for the lime wedge) in a chilled martini mixer filled halfway with ice. Shake vigorously.
2. Strain liquid into a chilled martini mixer and garnish with a fresh lime.

(sheknows.com)

Love and Hope Lemonade

Recipe:
4 oz. Love and Hope Rose
1 oz. Simple Syrup
5 oz. fresh-squeezed lemon juice
Lemon wheel, for garnish
Raspberries, for muddling and garnish
Mint sprigs, for muddling and garnish

Directions:
In the glass half of a Boston shaker, muddle raspberries, mint, simple syrup and lemon juice.
After muddling, combine the rose, then pour back and forth between the two halves of the shaker to mix. Double strain into a goblet over ice. Garnish with the lemon wheel, mint sprig, and a raspberry.

From Lonesome Dove Western Bistro in Fort Worth, Texas

Happy Easter.
Happy Passover.

(townandcountrymag.com.... best spring cocktails-easter)

Butterfly Martini Cocktail

"Butterflies are self propelled flowers" ?  Robert A. Heinlein, Science Fiction writer

Butterflies are colorful, airy and ephemeral. Add Grey Goose elderflower cordial and a flower on top for the closest you'll get to recreating that on your taste buds. 

Ingredients:

1 lemon zest
1 1/2 Grey Goose Le Citron
1 1/2 oz. white grape juice
3 Basil leaves
3 Mint leaves
1 tsp. Elderflower cordial
1 tsp. fresh lemon juice



Preparation:

Fill a cocktail shaker with shredded basil and mint leaves, and combine with all other ingredients.
Shake hard with plenty of ice Strain through a fine sieve and top with a squeeze of lemon rind to release essential oils.  Discard rind. Serve in a cocktail glass and garnish with an edible flower.

Tip: Try using unsweetened grape juice The other ingredients will provide all the sugar you need.
(Pastemagazine.com/blogs/

Mermaid Fish Bowl

5 oz. Sugar Island Coconut Rum
5 oz. Menage A Trois® Vodka
16 oz. Dole® Canned Pineapple Juice
3 oz. Blue Curacao
6 oz. Tres Agaves® Organic Margarita Mix
16 oz. Sprite®
3 slices each:  Lemon, Lime, Orange
Swedish Fish® Gummy candy or cherries

Directions: 
Sprinkle nerds® candy on bottom of bowl as gravel. Fill bowl with ice. Add remaining ingredients.
Serve in glass/plastic fishbowl shaped container with 18-inch party straws.

(sugarislandrum.com)

Scandinavian Coffee

1 oz. Aquavit
5 oz. shot black coffee
1 1/2 oz. whipped cream
1 tsp sugar

Add coffee and aquavit to an Irish coffee cup and sweeten to taste.  Gently float cream on top, sprinkle with nutmeg and serve.

(drinksmixer)

Marbella Sunset

1/4 oz. light rum
1/4 oz. strawberry liqueur
1 oz. pineapple juice
1 oz. orange juice

Add the rum, pineapple juice and orange juice to a cocktail shaker half filled with ice and shake well.
Slowly strain into a cocktail glass and add the strawberry liqueur. It will sink to the bottom giving it pink and orange hues reminiscent of a Marbella sunset.

(drinksmixer.com)

Gin Daisy

2 oz. Gin
1 oz. lemon juice
1/2 tsp sugar
1/2 tsp grenadine syrup
1 maraschino cherry
1 slice orange

Fill a shaker halfway with ice cubes.  Pour in the gin, lemon juice, sugar and grenadine.  Shake well.  Pour with the ice into an old fashioned glass and garnish with the cherry and the orange slice. 

(mixthatdrink.com)