Lifestyle: the 10 minutes cocktail recipes
Whether you will be drinking all by yourself, with a partner or with some friends, it doesn't matter. What's important is that you will have fun while making your cocktail, as well as when sipping it, guaranteed it comes out nice and good.
The recipe shared is of some of the most common cocktails that can be made within 10 minutes. Makes you wonder if you were ever a bartender in your previous life.
Style Tips- Adding a bar cart to your space will add style and spice to your mixology quest.
PINA COLADA
Ingredients-
1½ ounce of coconut cream, 2 ounces of white rum, and 1½ ounce of pineapple juice.
Preparation-
Mix all ingredients with crushed ice until smooth, or blend all ingredients with ice slowly until smooth, and garnish with sliced strawberry or pineapple.
BANANA DAIQUIRI
No need to panic, you won't necessarily be needing a banana to prepare this. A banana liqueur will do.
Ingredients-
2 ounces rum
¾ banana liqueur
¾Freshly squeezed lime juice
½Sugar syrup
Preparation-
Add rum, banana liqueur and lime juice into a shaker with ice and shake until well chilled
Garnish with a banana slice.
2 ounces rum
¾ banana liqueur
¾Freshly squeezed lime juice
½Sugar syrup
Preparation-
Add rum, banana liqueur and lime juice into a shaker with ice and shake until well chilled
Garnish with a banana slice.
PALOMA
This drink originated in Mexico, it is a combination of tequila, grapefruit soda and lime juice.
Ingredients -
2 ounces tequila
½ ounce of lime juice
Grapefruit soda, chilled
Preparation-
Add tequila and lime juice to the glass and fill with ice.
Top with grapefruit soda and stir briefly and gently to combine.
Garnish with a lime or lemon wheel.
COSMOPOLITAN
This fruity cocktail is one of the best out there.
Ingredients-
1½ ounce citrus vodka
1-ounce Cointreau (available at the mall)
½ lime juice
¼ ounce cranberry juice
Preparation-
Add all ingredients to a shaker with ice and shake, strain into a glass (martini glass if you trying to be extra) garnish with a lime wheel.
Ingredients-
1½ ounce citrus vodka
1-ounce Cointreau (available at the mall)
½ lime juice
¼ ounce cranberry juice
Preparation-
Add all ingredients to a shaker with ice and shake, strain into a glass (martini glass if you trying to be extra) garnish with a lime wheel.
SEX ON THE BEACH
This drink is so tasty and will make you feel like you are on an island somewhere in Cape Verde
Ingredients-
Vodka, Schnapp, Cranberry, Orange, lime
Preparation-
Fill glass with ice cubes
Pour vodka and schnapps over top of the ice
Add cranberry juice and orange juice
Garnish with an orange wheel or cherry.
Caution Tips-
You don't have to follow the ratio here. Gently mix in your ingredients and do a taste test to get the quantity right.
Avoid driving under the influence of alcohol.
Article by;
Gbemisola Akinwale
Interior Stylist and Lifestyle+Design Writer.
