Classic cocktail recipes

42nd Street

40 ml Bourbon
10 ml Grand Marnier
10 ml Cointreau
10 ml dry vermouth

Stir with ice and strain into a cocktail glass.
Decorate with lemon peel and a maraschino cherry.

Alexander

4 cl (1 shot) gin
2 cl (1/2 shot) white CrËme de Cacao
4-6 cl light cream

Shake with ice in a cocktail shaker.
Strain into a cocktail glass.

Decorate with a cherry if you are feeling a bit swanky...

Cosmopolitan

2 parts (lemon infused) vodka
1 part Cointreau
2-3 parts cranberry juice
(squeezed lemon or lime)

Stir or shake with ice and strain into a chilled martini glass.
Garnish with a slice of lemon.

Dry Martini

50 ml dry gin
10 ml Noilly Prat (dry vermouth)

Stir with ice.
Strain into a chilled martini glass (otherwhise referred to as a cocktail glass throghout this site).
Decorate with a green olive.

Mai Tai

20 ml Cointreau or Triple Sec
20 ml dark rum
20 ml white rum
10 ml Amaretto
20 ml squeezed lemon
1 dash lime
1 dash grenadine
syrup
pineapple juice

Shake with ice and strain into a highball glass. Fill with pineapple juice.
Decorate with a slice of pineapple.

Mojito

60 ml white rhum
1-2 tbsp syrup
1/2 lime
a handful of fresh mint sprigs
club soda

Muddle the mint leaves with limejuice and syrup in a rocks glass.
Add white rhum and crushed ice.
Add a splash of club soda on the top.

Margarita

40 ml tequila
20 ml Cointreau
40 ml lime juice
salt
sugar

Shake and strain into a champagne saucer or large cocktail glass rimmed with salt.