Ditching the Dream Bar

ALABAMA SLAMMER 
** 1/2 oz Vodka 
** 1/2 oz Southern Comfort 
** 1/2 oz Amaretto 
** 1/2 oz Sloe Gin 
** Orange Juice 

Pour the liquor into a tall glass filled with ice. Top off with Orange Juice. 

Optional Garnish: Orange Slice with a Maraschino Cherry


BAKLAVA MARTINI
** 1/2 oz amaretto 
** 1/2 oz creme de cacao 
** 1 1/2 oz gin 
** Splash of Simple syrup 
** 1/8 t. ground cinnamon

Combine everything in a martini shaker with ice. Shake and strain into a chilled martini glass. 

Optional Garnish: Dash of cinnamon


COSMOPOLITAN 
** 1 1/2 oz Vodka 
** 3/4 oz triple sec 
** 3/4 oz cranberry juice
** 1 oz fresh lime juice

Put all the ingredients in an ice filled shaker. Shake well and strain into a chilled martini glass. 

Optional Garnish: Lime wheel or a twist.


FIRECRACKER MARTINI 
**1 1/2 oz Vodka 
** 1 1/2 oz Blue Curacao 
** Splash of Simple Syrup
** Grenadine 
** Maraschino Cherry 

Put vodka and blue curacao into a martini shaker with ice. Shake well and strain into a chilled martini glass. Gently pour a little grenadine into the glass – it will sink. 

Optional Garnish: A Maraschino Cherry dropped into the bottom, or as pictured here, with a coconut curl.


GIN GIMLET 
** 2 oz Gin 
** 1.5 oz Rose’s Lime Juice or other lime cordial 

Shake gin and lime in a martini shaker with ice. Strain into a chilled martini glass. 

Optional Garnish: Lime wheel.


LEMON DROP MARTINI 
** 1.5 oz Vodka 
** Triple Sec 
** 1 t. superfine sugar or splash of Simple Syrup 
** .75 oz Lemon Juice 

Put all ingredients in a martini shaker with ice. Shake well. Strain into a chilled martini glass. 

Optional Garnish: Lemon Twist


MARGARITA

** 2 oz Silver Tequila
** 2 oz fresh squeezed Lime Juice
** 1 oz Triple Sec 
** 1 oz Grand Marnier
** 2 oz Simple Syrup

Mix all ingredients together. Pour over crushed ice or ice cubes.

Optional Garnish: Lime wheel or twist.
You can salt the rim if desired. *Salt before pouring the drink by dipping the glass into a plate with a thin layer of the simple syrup, then into kosher (or margarita) salt.


MUDSLIDE ON THE ROCKS 
** 1 oz Vodka 
** 1 oz coffee liquor (like Kahlua) 
** 1 oz Irish Creme Liqueur (like Bailey’s) 

Pour ingredients into a shaker filled with ice. Pour drink, with ice, into a short glass. (Can be strained into a chilled martini glass)


OLD FASHIONED 
** 2 oz bourbon/ whiskey
 ** 2 dashes Angostura® bitters 
** splash water 
** 1 tsp sugar 
** maraschino cherry 
** 1 orange wedge 

Mix sugar, water and angostura bitters in a short glass. Drop in a cherry and an orange wedge. Mash into a paste using a muddler or the back end of a spoon. Pour in bourbon, fill with ice cubes, and stir. 
Optional Garnish: Fresh orange wedge and a maraschino cherry.


TEQUILA SUNRISE

** 2 oz Tequila
** 4 oz Orange Juice
** 1/2 oz Grenadine
** Orange slice
**Marschino Cherry

Pour the Tequila and Orange Juice into a highball glass with ice. Stir. Slowly pour the Grenadine around the inside edge of the glass and watch the magic happen (the Grenadine will sink and rise to mix with the juice/tequila)

Optional Garnish: Orange Slice and Cherry


WHITE RUSSIAN 
** 2 oz Vodka 
** 1 oz Coffee Liquor (like Kahlúa) 
** Heavy cream 

Add the vodka and Kahlúa to a short glass filled with ice. Top with a large splash of heavy cream and stir.