appletini (single serving)
Ingredients:
1 cup apple juice ½ cup lemonade 1 green apple wedge Ice cubes
Instructions:
Fill a cocktail shaker with ice cubes. Add apple juice and lemonade. Shake and pour into a chilled cocktail glass and garnish with the apple slice.
Ingredients:
SINGLE SERVING 8-SERVING PITCHER
½ cup limeade 4 cups limeade ½ cup lemonade 4 cups lemonade ¼ cup orange juice 2 cups orange juice ¾ cups ice 6 cups ice
Instructions:
For a single serving, fill a cocktail shaker with ice cubes. Add ingredients, shake, and pour into a chilled margarita glass. For a pitcher, whisk together ingredients and pour over ice-filled glasses. For frozen margaritas, blend all ingredients in a blender.
cosmopolitan (single serving)
Ingredients:
1 cup cranberry juice ½ cup limeade ¼ cup orange juice orange slice
Instructions:
Fill a cocktail shaker with ice cubes. Add all ingredients. Shake and strain into a chilled cocktail glass and garnish with the orange slice.
mimosa (single serving)
Ingredients:
½ cup lemon-lime soda ¼ cup orange juice 1/8 cup limeade 1/8 cup lemonade
Instructions:
Pour orange juice, limeade, and lemonade into a champagne flute and top with lemon-lime soda.
bloody mary (6-serving pitcher)
Ingredients:
3 cups tomato juice 3 tablespoons lemon juice 3 tablespoons lime juice 1 tablespoon prepared horseradish 1 ½ tablespoons Worcestershire sauce ¼ teaspoon garlic powder ¾ teaspoon Tabasco sauce ¾ teaspoon celery salt ½ teaspoon coarse black pepper ¼ cup pickle juice
Instructions:
Whisk together ingredients in a pitcher and refrigerate several hours or overnight. Serve in a salt-rimmed glass with a celery stick and a lime wedge. Slightly adapted from www.food.com shirley temple (single serving)
Ingredients:
1 cup ginger ale 2 tablespoons grenadine syrup 1-2 maraschino cherries
Instructions:
Fill a glass with ice. Add ginger ale and top with grenadine syrup. Add maraschino cherries. mojito (4 servings)
Ingredients:
10 large mint leaves ½ cup sugar (or more to taste) ¾ cups freshly squeezed lime juice 3 cups sparkling water or club soda
Instructions:
Finely chop the mint leaves. Place the chopped mint leaves in a bowl or non-reactive pitcher and press them with a pestle or the back of a spoon to release the oils. Add the sugar and press the mint leaves and sugar together. Add the lime juice and stir until the sugar is dissolved and no longer grainy.
If you haven’t been mixing the mint and sugar in a pitcher, transfer to a glass or plastic pitcher. Right before serving, add the sparkling water and serve immediately over ice. Garnish with lime slices and mint leaves. sangria (4-6 servings)
Ingredients:
1 apple 2 limes 2 lemons 1 orange ¾ cup apple juice concentrate 3 cups grape juice 1 ¾ cups sparkling water or club soda
Instructions:
Thoroughly wash all the fruit. Core the apple and cut it into 8-12 slices. Place the slices in a serving pitcher. Slice the lime, lemon (seed it), and orange and place them in the pitcher. Juice another lime and lemon and add the juices to the pitcher. Add the apple juice concentrate and the grape juice. Chill until ready to serve. Immediately before serving, add the sparkling water or club soda and serve it over ice, trying to get some of each fruit into each glass.