Summer Cocktail Recipes

Entertaining on a hot evening? 

Check out these cocktail ideas from Tammy Wanchena, central buyer for the city of Eden Prairie in her newest blog. She got the ideas from Carl, a new hire with the city and a former bartender: 

The Ridicule
 1.25 oz. Malibu Coconut Rum
  .75 oz. Midori melon liquor
fill glass with pineapple juice
garnish with a pineapple slice and cherry
 
Fill a tall glass (14-16 ounce glass) with ice and pour ingredients in the order above.  Enjoy!
 
Blush Sangria
 3-4 oz. Barefoot Refresh Perfectly Pink wine
1.25 oz. peach schnapps
fill glass with pineapple juice
top with Sprite

Fill a tall glass (at least 16 ounces or larger) with ice and pour ingredients in the order above.  If you want to make drinks for more than one person at once, the recipe can be expanded for a pitcher.  Fill a large pitcher with ice and pour in the entire bottle of Barefoot along with 5 ounces of peach schnapps. If you don’t have a pitcher big enough you could cut this recipe down to allow for all the ingredients.  Now fill the pitcher with pineapple juice leaving enough room for a topper of Sprite and stir.  Garnishes for this Sangria are strawberries, maraschino cherries, limes, and oranges.  Squeeze the citrus and drop in along with the other fruit.

On a sidebar, if you make a pitcher of sangria, maybe start without ice in the pitcher…instead ingredients only.  Fill 4 or 5 glasses with ice and pour sangria into them instead.  It will give you more room to mix the ingredients.

Have a yummy cocktail recipe? Add it below in the comments.