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Sex and the City Cocktail Recipes

Wondering how to make the drinks the ladies of Sex And The City love? Can't find the recipe to Carrie's Cosmopolitan? While Charlotte, Miranda, Carrie and Samantha all love the Cosmopolitan; the SATC ladies also drink Martinis and an occasional Manhattan or two.

Here are recipes that every fan of Sex and the City should know by heart when making drinks on a girl’s night in.

Drink Recipe for a Manhattan

Ingredients: ¾ oz Sweet Vermouth 2 ½ oz Blended Bourbon dash Angostura bitters 2 or 3 ice cubes 1 Maraschino cherry 1 twist of Orange peel

Mixing instructions: Combine the vermouth, whiskey, bitters and ice in a mixing glass. Stir gently, don’t bruise the spirits and cloud the drink. Place the cherry in a chilled cocktail glass and strain the whiskey mixture over the cherry. Rub the cut edge of the orange peel over the rim of the glass and twist it over the drink to release the oils but don’t drop it in

Drink Recipe for a Cosmopolitan

Ingredients: 1 oz Vodka 1/2 oz Triple sec 1/2 oz Rose's Lime Juice 1/2 oz Cranberry juice Lime wedge

Mixing instructions: Shake liquid ingredients like hell in a shaker with ice. Place lime wedge on the rim of a Martini glass. Pour mix into the glass, up.

Drink Recipe for a Traditional Martini

Ingredients: 1 1/2 oz Gin 3/4 oz Dry Vermouth 1 Olive

Mixing instructions: Stir gin and vermouth over ice cubes in a mixing glass. Strain into a cocktail glass, add the olive, and serve.