Best Beautiful Cocktail Photos & Recipes

In a mixing glass half-filled with crushed ice, combine all of the ingredients. Stir well. Strain into a cocktail glass.

Add all ingredients into a Wine Glass with ice and stir. Garnish with an orange wheel.

Fill cocktail shaker with ice. Juice the lemon and add to the shaker. Add a little sugar, if desired. Pour in gin and maraschino, and shake. Serve straight up in a cocktail glass.

The strict recipe does not have any sugar, but I like to add a little.

Pour ingredients over ice cubes in an old-fashioned glass and serve.

Add Smirnoff No.21 Vodka, tomato juice, red hot sauce, green hot sauce, worchester sauce, lemon juice, pinch of salt, pinch of pepper.

Pour back and forth between two mixing glasses.

Strain into an ice-filled highball glass.

Garnish with celery stalk.

Blend light rum, blue curacao, pineapple juice, cream of coconut, and one cup ice in an electric blender at high speed. Pour contents into a highball glass. Decorate with a slice of pineapple and cherry.

Pour vodka and curacao over ice in a highball glass. Fill with lemonade, top with the cherry, and serve.

Shake vodka, triple sec, lime and cranberry juice vigorously in a shaker with ice. Strain into a martini glass, garnish with a lime wedge on the rim, and serve.

Stir gin and vermouth with ice in a mixing glass. Strain into a cocktail glass, add the olive, and serve.

Shake gin, juice of lemon, and powdered sugar with ice and strain into a highball glass over two ice cubes. Fill with carbonated water, stir, and serve.

Shake all ingredients with ice, strain into a cocktail glass, and serve.

Add vodka and peach schnapps to a highball glass over ice. Fill with equal measures of cranberry juice and orange juice, and stir.

Place mint leaves in bottom of glass. Add crushed ice, Light Rum, sugar, strawberries and lime juice, then muddle. Add soda water and garnish with mint leaves, strawberries, and optionally orange wedges.

In a shaker half-filled with ice cubes, combine the gin, lemon juice, and sugar. Shake well. Strain into a glass full of ice and add club soda. Stir and garnish with the cherry and orange slice.

Pour the Amaretto Liqueur into a cocktail shaker half-filled with ice. Add a splash of sweet and sour mix, and then shake well. Strain or pour into a glass, garnish with a maraschino cherry and a slice of orange, and serve.

Pour over ice into an collins glass. Garnish with lemon and orange twists. You may fill with some club soda.

Rum the rim of a cocktail glass with lime juice, and dip in salt. Shake all ingredients with ice, strain into the glass, and serve.

Pour Campari, gin and vermouth into an old-fashioned glass almost filled with ice cubes. Stir well, garnish with a twist of lemon, and serve.

Add all ingredients to a mixer with ice. Shake well (until ice is melted), and serve in a cocktail glass.

Shake ingredients with ice and strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with a twist of lemon peel.

Pour vodka and coffee liqueur over ice cubes in an old-fashioned glass. Fill with light cream and serve.

Pour tequila in a highball glass with ice, and top with orange juice. Stir. Add grenadine by tilting glass and pouring grenadine down side by flipping the bottle vertically very quickly. The grenadine should go straight to the bottom and then rise up slowly through the drink. Garnish stirrer, straw and cherry-orange.

Pour peach puree into glass and slowly add champagne. Stir gently. Garnish with a peach slice.

Add all the ingredients with about 1 1/2 cups of ice into a blender and blend until smooth. Pour into a stemless wine glass. Garnish with 2 blackberries.

Pour Vodka and Cranberry Juice into a highball glass over ice. Stir well, add the wedge of lime, and serve.

Pour ingredients into shaker filled with ice, shake vigorously, and strain into chilled martini glass. It should be somewhat frothy.

Pour the water, simple syrup, and grapefruit juice into a cocktail shaker filled with ice and shake well. Strain that grapefruit mix into a beer glass, filling it half-way, and top it with beer. Complete it by garnishing with a grapefruit slice.

Mix ingredients together over ice in a glass. Pour into a shaker and give one brisk shake. Pour back into the glass and make sure there is a touch of fizz at the top. Garnish with lemon.

Pour light rum, creme de almond and triple sec, in order, into a collins glass. Almost fill with equal parts of sweet and sour mix and pineapple juice. Add dark rum, a large straw, and serve unstirred.

Combine the vermouth, bourbon whiskey, and bitters with 2 - 3 ice cubes 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.

VARIATION: No bitters. Substitute a twist of lime for the cherry and orange. Hold the lime twist in a lighted match over the drink and then drop it in. The heat really zips up the lime flavor.

Muddle mint leaves, powdered sugar, and water in a collins glass. Fill the glass with shaved or crushed ice and add bourbon. Top with more ice and garnish with a mint sprig. Serve with a straw.

Place mint leaves in bottom of glass. Add crushed ice, Captain Morgan Original Spiced Rum, sugar, and lime juice, and muddle. Add soda water and garnish with mint leaves.

Mix ingredients in a highball glass with ice.

Mix sugar, water and angostura bitters in an old-fashioned glass. Drop in a cherry and an orange wedge. Muddle into a paste using a muddler or the back end of a spoon. Pour in bourbon, fill with ice cubes, and stir.

Pour the tequila into a salt-rimmed collins glass filled with ice cubes. Fill with club soda. Splash lime juice on top, and serve.

Put all ingredients into an electric blender with 2 cups of crushed ice. Blend at a high speed for a short length of time. Strain into a collins glass and serve with a straw.

Muddle 3 slices of cucumber with the vodka, lime juice, simple syrup, and 3 dashes of hot sauce, in a cocktail shaker. Add ice and shake well. Strain into an old-fashioned glass filled with fresh ice and top with club soda. Garnish with a cucumber slice and add an extra dash of hot sauce. Note: Take it easy with the hot sauce. One dash too many can easily throw off the balance and burn the drink to the point where it's undrinkable.

Mix all together and put in the refrigerator till cold. Add cloves and cinnamon sticks to taste.

Combine the gin, cherry brandy and lime juice in a cocktail shaker half-filled with ice cubes. Shake well. Strain into a collins glass almost filled with ice cubes. Drop the benedictine and brandy into the centre of the drink, and serve.

Add ingredients with a bit of ice in a blender. Blend and then strain into a cocktail glass. Garnish w/ strawberry.

Rub rim of cocktail glass with lemon juice and dip rim in salt. Shake schnapps, tequila, triple sec, lemon juice, and strawberries with ice, strain into the salt-rimmed glass, and serve.

Shake blended whiskey, juice of lemon, and powdered sugar with ice and strain into a whiskey sour glass. Decorate with the half-slice of lemon, top with the cherry, and serve.

To make the blackberry hibiscus syrup, add water and sugar to a medium saucepan over medium heat. The ingredients for this step show (syrup). Stir until the sugar dissolves, then add the blackberries. Bring the mixture to a boil, reduce heat to medium-low, and cook berries until they break down and release their juices (about 5 minutes). You can use a fork or masher to help break up the berries while they’re cooking. Return the pan to medium heat, stir in the dried hibiscus, then bring the mixture back to the boil. Take the mixture off the heat, and let cool completely. Pour mixture through a fine-mesh strainer into a clean jar.
* Note: The recipe above makes enough syrup for roughly 10 cocktails. Leftover syrup can be store in the refrigerator for up to 1 month. Also try in iced tea or over pancakes, yogurt and ice cream.
To make the cocktail, combine 1 ounce of the blackberry hibiscus syrup with tequila and lime juice in a short tumbler filled with ice, stirring to combine and chill. Add the soda water, and gently stir to combine. Garnish with a lime wedge and some blackberries.