Memorial Day weekend is finally here and there’s no better way to celebrate than with a drink in your hand!
Before you grab your beach towels and hit the waves with your buds, whip up these yummy cocktails! HollywoodLife.com has found the latest and most trendy recipes for you and your besties. All you need is some Midori Melon, vodka, limes and more — check out the recipes here!
Ingredients:
1 oz Midori Melon
1 oz vodka
1 oz Bicardi Limon
1 oz fresh lemon juice
1 can of CASCAL Crisp White Soft Drink
Method:
Mix the ingredients above and pour over ice. Enjoy with friends.
2 oz Voli Lyte
5 blueberries
Mint
Agave nectar
Soda water
Glass: martini
Approximately 110 calories
Ingredients
1 part Skinnygirl Cucumber Vodka
2 parts club soda
Method
Shake vodka and soda in a cocktail shaker with ice, pour over fresh ice, and garnish with a cucumber slice.
Delicious, refreshing, and low cal!
Flower BrambleFound at STK in NYC
Rose water-infused plymouth shaken with fresh lemon juice, garnished with
Edible flower
Absolut Wild Tea Vodka, St. Germain, Peach & Mint
The first two were created by Erica Lancellotti CEO of BarCandy, an elite staffing agency servicing private events and corporate clients with a carefully selected team of experienced and knowledgeable professionals trained to know the meaning of excellent customer service. Both of these cocktails are low cal but with all the great taste.
Crystal-ChampagneA cocktail that looks like Champagne but with half the calories.
Ingredients:
1 oz Kettle One Vodka
1 on-the-go sugarfree white cran-peach crystal light
Pelligrino
Preparation:
Take 1oz kettle one vodka and add crystal light on-the-go packet and shake in shaker with ice
Add mixture strained into champagne glass
Add Pelligrino to top of champagne glass.
Garnish with zest of lemon and serve a low calorie Bellini like cocktail! Skimp on the calories not your class
Ingredients:
2 oz. Sapphire Gin
1 oz. St.-Germain Liquer
4 slices of organic cucumber
4 pieces of organic Ginger
4 small pieces of organic jalapeño
Pure-squeezed light Orange Juice
Half of fresh organic lime
Preparation:
Muddle cucumber,Ginger,jalapeño in shaker
Add the juice of half of fresh organic lime
Add ice
Add sapphire gin, St-Germain Liquer and 2 splashes of low-calorie orange juice
Serve over ice in a rocks glass.
Keep the heat up in the summer with jalepeno and help your body burn through fat and calories!
Served at Home Restaurant located in the West Village. Both are locally sourced and created by Home’s Beverage Director, Rachel Dreskin.
Seneca Drums Gin makes this simple spring cocktail sparkle
Ingredients:
1 ½ oz. Seneca Drums gin
1 scant oz. simple syrup
½ oz. lemon juice
1 squeezed lime wedge
1 ½ oz. sparkling wine
Preparation:
Shake and strain into a wine glass over ice, topped with 1 ½ oz. sparkling wine and garnish with an orange wedge.
Served at Home Restaurant located in the West Village. Both are locally sourced and created by Home’s Beverage Director, Rachel Dreskin.
Apricot and Rosemary make the Crazy Jane a little sweet, a little savory, and very delicious. Home Restaurant infuses Bootlegger Vodka (from NY State).
Ingredients:
1 ½ oz. Rosemary-infused vodka
½ oz. apricot puree
½ oz. simple syrup
¼ oz. fresh lime juice
Preparation:
Shake and strain into a rocks glass over ice and garnish with lime wedge.
These two cocktails are served at SoHo’s sultry Moroccan-themed Sway Lounge. Sway’s mixologist Tim Brooks is the creator.
Raspberry SpritzerIngredients:
1/4oz Chambord
4 raspberries
5oz prosecco
Preparation:
Pour 1/4 oz Chambord into a shaker, add 4 raspberries and muddle. Addice, shake vigorously and strain into a chilled champagne coupe. Top with prosecco and drop one raspberry in coupe.
Ingredients:
3oz Grand Marnier
6 lemon slices
8 mint leaves
Preparation:
Place 6 lemon slices (about half a lemon) and 8 mint leaves in a shaker and muddle. Add 3 oz of Grand Marnier and ice and shake vigorously. Strain into chilled champagne coupe. Garnish with mint sprig.
Lastly is this tasty cocktail that is served at the Sanctuary Hotel.
Tribute-TiniIngredients:
Stoli Blueberry
Blue Curacao
Fresh lime juice
Simple syrup
Preparation:
Shaken and strained into a chilled martini glass
Celebrity Fans: Alexander Skarsgard and Penn Badgley
Making drinks with your girlfriends? Try the appetizing SKYY Infusions Coconut Conquest and celebrate the unofficial start to summer as every lady should, bold and classy.
1 oz. SKYY Infusions® Coconut
½ oz. Fresh lime juice
½ oz. Orange juice
½ oz. Triple sec
¼ oz. Agave nectar
Mix and serve in a shot glass
X-Rated Margarita BlissCelebrity Fans: Ciara, Kelly Bensimon, Gabrielle Union
Created by Travis London
2 cups X-Rated Fusion Liqueur
½ cup sparkling water
1 cup zero calorie sweetener
Juice of 1 lemon
1 cup blackberries, pulsed in blender
6 slices of fresh ginger
½ cup Cabo Wabo Blanco
1 cup ice
Place all ingredients (except tequila and ice) in a saucepan and bring to a boil over high heat. Stir to make sure all the sugar is dissolved and remove from heat to allow to cool. Once cooled down remove ginger slices and place in blender with tequila and ice. Pour into chilled and rimmed margarita glasses. Garnish each with a picker of lemon and ginger slices.
16 ½ oz. X-Rated Fusion Liqueur25oz SKYY Vodka16 ½ oz. Orange Juice16 ½ oz. Pineapple Juice8oz Grenadine
Combine one bottle of SKYY Vodka, 16 ½ oz. of X-Rated Fusion Liqueur, 16 ½ oz. of Orange Juice, 16 ½ oz. of Pineapple Juice, and 8oz of Grenadine in a bowl. Serve mixture directly into ice filled glasses and stir to cool the mixture. Garnish with slices of orange.
Atlantico Tour de Force1.5 oz Atlantico Reserva
3 oz coconut water
1/4 oz coconut milk
3 mint leaves
1/2 oz freshlime juice
sugar to taste
· 2 oz. Hpnotiq
· 1 oz. Premium Blueberry Vodka
· Splash of Lemonade
Mix Hpnotiq and Premium Blueberry Vodka. Add lemonade to taste. Garnish with fresh blueberries and mint.
Harmonie Blush· 2 oz. Hpnotiq Harmonie
· 1 oz. Premium Citrus Vodka
· Splash of Cranberry Juice
Shake well and strain into a Martini glass. Garnish with a candied violet.
Rosé Sparkler1 part Courvoisier® Rosé
1 part Thatcher’s™ Blueberry
3 parts Champagne
Shake first two ingredients and strain into chilled Champagne flute. Top with Champagne. Garnish with blueberries and a cherry dropped in.
Served at Bagatelle LA
Grey Goose La Poire
Thai Basil
Fresh cucumber
Fresh Mint
Coconut water
Fallernum
Gold RushServed at Bishops & Barons
Knob Creek Bourbon
honey syrup
freshly squeezed lemon juice
garnished with a lemon flag and nutmeg
served on the rocks.
Queen & MayorServed at The Vinatta Project
Rye
Homemade Raspberry Syrup
Pomegranate
Lemon
From Casa Lever
2 oz. Gin No.3
1/2 oz. Creme de Framboise
1/2 oz. Lemon Juice
1/4 oz. Simple Syrup
3 Cherry Tomatoes
3 Basil Leaves
Muddle basil leaves and cherry tomato. Add all other ingredients and shake well over ice.
Strain and pour into a chilled martini glass. Garnish with sweet paprika and a basil leaf.
3/4 oz. The Glenrothes Select Reserve Single Malt Scotch Whisky
3/4 oz. Sweet Vermouth
3/4 oz. Luxardo Cherry Liqueur
3/4 oz. Fresh Orange juice
1 slice fresh peach (without skin)
Muddle one half-inch thick slice of peach. Add all the ingredients to a shaker and fill with ice.
Mix well and strain into a chilled coupe or cocktail glass. Garnish with an orange peel and peach slice.
4 pieces of chopped Pineapple
4 pieces of chopped Ginger Root
1 1/2 oz. Pink Pigeon Rum
1/2 oz. Simple Syrup
1/2 oz. Lemon Juice
1/2 oz. Luxardo Bitters
Top with Ginger beer
Muddle pineapple and ginger root, lemon juice and simple syrup.
Add rum. Shake well, over ice and top up with a Ginger beer and bitters.
Ingredients:
4-5 blueberries
2 sage leaves
3 lime wedges
1/2 oz acai spirit
1 oz simple syrup
2 oz cachaca
Directions:
Muddle the blueberries sage and limes. Add syrup acai spirit and cachaca. Shake vigorously strain into rocks glass and add ice. Garnish with lime wedge and blueberries.
Created by Travis London
2 oz. X-Rated Fusion Liqueur
4 oz. Peach Tea
Peach slice for garnish
In a cocktail shaker filled with ice, combine X-Rated Fusion Liqueur, peach tea, and shake vigorously. Strain into an ice cube filled highball glass and garnish with peach slice
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