The cocktail mixer

When party season is in full swing, there’s nothing better for getting in the mood than a delicious cocktail. Our easy-to-use tool allows you to search for your favourite cocktail or you can enter your favourite ingredients to find ones that you may never have tried. We’ve got a fantastic range of alcoholic and non-alcoholic cocktails, so jump in and treat your taste buds.

Sidecar Cocktail

Ingredients:

1 twist fresh orange zest

1 tsp lemon juice

1 tsp brandy

2 tsp Cointreau (or any other orange liqueur)

Champagne or Sparkling White Wine

Directions:

Pare a twist of fresh orange zest into a chilled champagne glass.

Add the lemon juice, brandy and orange liqueur and swirl together.

Top up with chilled champagne or sparkling white wine and serve

Pink Volcano

Ingredients:

1kg strawberries

8 tbsp sugar

3 bottles cider, chilled

1 bottle pink Champagne, chilled

2 tbsp strawberry sherbet

ice

Directions:

Slice the strawberries into a jug or bowl (one that can fit into your fridge).

Sprinkle over the sugar, pour in bottle of cider and chill for a few hours.

When chilled, pour the strawberries and cider into a large punch bowl filled with ice, and add the rest of the cider and the champagne.

Sprinkle the sherbert over the top to give it a volcano-like fizz.

Peach Schnapps Punch

Ingredients:

1 litre pineapple juice

50ml Archers peach schnapps

1 litre sparkling white grape juice (such as Schloer's)

1 lemon, sliced

1 handful mint sprigs

Ice

Directions:

In a large jug or serving bowl, mix the pineapple juice and Archers well (otherwise whoever gets the last glass gets a shock).

Stir in the sparkling grape juice.

Add the lemon slices and mint sprigs.

To serve, half fill a glass with ice and top up with the punch.

Easy Peasy Tropical Punch

Ingredients:

1 litre carton pineapple juice

1 litre carton grapefruit juice

ice

1 orange, sliced

1 star fruit, sliced

Directions:

Mix the juices and ice cubes together in a punch bowl.

Float slices of orange on top

To serve, decorate the rim of your glasses with the slices of star fruit and pour in the punch.

Buck's Fizz

Ingredients:

1 measure fresh orange juice, chilled

2 measures champagne, chilled

1 dash grenadine (optional)

(Grenadine is a concentrated, blood-red syrup made from pomegranate juice)

Directions:

Simply pour the orange juice and champagne into a frosted glass. Add a dash of Grenadine if desired.

Morning-After Bloody Mary

Ingredients:

1 tsp thick horseradish sauce (optional)

1 handful ice cubes (or frozen cherry tomatoes)

1 shot vodka

1 squeeze lemon juice

100ml tomato juice

4-5 dashes Worcestershire sauce

2-3 drops Tabasco sauce

1 slug medium sherry

Freshly-ground black pepper to taste

1 celery stick

Directions:

Spoon the horseradish (if desired) into a hi-ball glass and throw the ice (or frozen cherry tomatoes) on top.

Pour in the vodka, squeeze in some lemon juice and top up with the tomato juice.

Season with the Worcestershire sauce and Tabasco and stir.

Pour in the sherry (over the back of a spoon), grind over some black pepper, add the celery stick and serve with a couple of paracetamol.

Near the end of the drink, take care not to swallow all the horseradish sauce at the bottom of the glass (you don't want to bring the whole lot up again).

Eyeball Martini

Ingredients:

1 fresh radish per drink

1 stuffed green olive

5 parts gin

1 part dry vermouth

Directions:

Using a small knife, carve the radish into the shape of an eyeball. Bore a hole big enough to take the stuffed olive. For an authentic look, leave some streaks of red skin coming from the hole. This will give the impression of a bloodshot eye.

Stir the gin and vermouth in a mixing glass and strain into a martini cocktail glass. Drop in the blood-shot eyeball.

Lychee Martini

Ingredients:

1 measure (50ml) premium vodka

2 tsp fresh lychee juice

ice

1 lychee, peeled and stoned

Directions:

Shake together the vodka, lychee juice and ice and strain into a martini glass. Garnish with the peeled lychee.

Matsuhisa Martini

Ingredients:

Sake (Hokusetsu, honjozo-grade)

Vodka

Sliced gari (pickled ginger)

Cucumber, thinly sliced for garnish

Directions:

Mix equal parts of sake and vodka with the gari in a shaker filled with ice, shake and pour into cocktail glasses. Garnish with cucumber.

Body Shots

Ingredients:

2 shots mezcal or tequila

2 lime quarters

Salt

Two shot glasses

Directions:

Fill the shot glasses with mezcal or tequila.

Rub the cut side of the lime on to your friend's neck, then sprinkle over a little salt. Allow them to do the same to you.

Lick the salt off each other's necks simultaneously, shoot the tequila in one go, then bite into the lime and suck the juice. Repeat.

Mojito

Ingredients:

1 tsp sugar

4 sprigs mint

Juice of 1 lime

Ice

1 measure light Havana rum

Soda water or lemonade

Directions:

Muddle the sugar and sprigs of mint together in a tall hi-ball glass. Add the ice, squeeze in the lime juice, and pour in the rum and soda. Stir and garnish with the remaining mint.

Original Daiquiri

Ingredients:

crushed ice

1 measure light Havana rum

1 tbsp sugar syrup

juice of 2 limes

Directions:

Pour everything into a cocktail shaker. Thrash vigorously and pour into a cocktail glass.

Long Island Iced Tea

Ingredients:

1 measure gin

1 measure light rum

1 measure tequila

1 measure triple Sec

1 measure vodka

2 measures fresh lemon juice

1 tsp sugar

cola

lemon wedge

Directions:

Shake together all the ingredients except the cola and lime wedge. Pour into a chilled Collins glass (any tall glass will do) with ice, pour over the coke, stir gently and top with the lime wedge.

Cosmopolitan

Ingredients:

2 measures vodka

1 measure triple sec (or Cointreau)

1 measure lime juice

1 measure cranberry juice

ice

strip of lime peel

Directions:

Shake together all the ingredients except the lime. Strain into a Martini glass and garnish with the lime.

Screaming Orgasm

Ingredients:

1 measure very good quality vodka

1 measure Irish Cream (Bailey's)

1 measure Kahlua

Directions:

One at a time, pour slowly (in the order given) into a large shot glass. Shoot.

Mint Julep

Ingredients:

Mint sprigs (very fresh and lots of it)

1 part <a href="http://www.ivillage.co.uk/food/tools/recipefinder/display_recipe/0,10193,6209,00.html?">simple syrup</a> (or 1 tsp sugar dissolved in 2 tsp water)

Ice

2-3 parts bourbon (depending on taste)

Directions:

Muddle the mint and simple syrup in a glass or cocktail shaker. Add the ice and bourbon and stir gently. Strain into a cocktail glass (or preferably a silver mint julep cup) filled with ice and garnish with more fresh mint sprigs.

<p>You can also sugar the rim of the glass before adding the cocktail: wet the rim with water or lemon juice and dip it in a saucer of sugar.

The Big Brother Bacardi Cocktail

Ingredients:

50ml Bacardi rum

1 heaped teaspoon strawberry jam

50ml apple juice

1 in length of cucumber, diced

lemonade

Directions:

Place cucumber and jam in bottom of glass and muddle with rolling pin

Add Bacardi rum and apple juice with a scoop of ice and mix well with a spoon (or shake in a shaker if you have one)

Absolut Hunk Vodka Martini

Ingredients:

50ml Absolut Vanilia

10ml gomme (sugar) syrup

10ml fresh lime juice

splash of pineapple juice

Directions:

Pour Absolut Vanilia over ice in a shaker

Add gomme (sugar) syrup, fresh lime juice and a splash of pineapple juice

Close the shaker, shake all the ingredients together. Then pour out into a Martini glass.

Cherry Berry

Ingredients:

ice cubes

40ml/1 1/2 fl oz Jameson Irish Whiskey

40ml/1 1/2 fl oz Amaretto

15ml/ 1/2 fl oz Crème de Fraise

dash maraschino liqueur/cherry juice

150ml/5 fl oz pineapple juice

cherry or strawberry, to garnish

Directions:

Fill high ball glass with ice cubes. Pour all ingredients into a shaker, add ice to the top and shake. Strain the liquid into a highball glass. Garnish with a cherry and a strawberry.

Winter Pudding

Ingredients:

100ml/4fl oz Jameson Irish Whiskey

30ml/1 fl oz fresh lime juice

dash gomme syrup

dash ginger cordial

pinch of cinnamon

4 fresh strawberries, diced, plus 1 more for each garnish

Directions:

Fill a highball glass three-quarters of the way with crushed ice.

Put in four diced strawberries, add the remaining ingredients and stir with a long-handled spoon.

Apricot Blazer

Ingredients:

100ml/4fl oz Jameson Irish Whiskey

4 tsp brown sugar

30ml/1 fl oz Apricot brandy

8 to 10 dried apricots

orange zest, to garnish

Directions:

Pour the Jameson into snifter glasses - this is a bulbous glass traditionally used for drinking whiskey.

Add the sugar.

Heat the liquid in the glass whilst adding the brandy and apricots.

Traditional Spiced Mulled Wine

Ingredients:

2 bottles medium or full-bodied red wine (Bulgarian Cabernet Sauvignon is ideal)

1.5 litres water

1 orange, studded with 10 cloves

2 oranges and 2 lemons, sliced

6 tbsp sugar or honey

5cm cinnamon stick

2 tsp finely grated fresh root ginger

2 tbsp fruit liqueur such as Cointreau, Grand Marnier, Calvados or cherry brandy

Directions:

Mix all the ingredients together in a slow cooker or a large saucepan. Heat very gently for about minutes. Do not boil, or you will boil off the alcohol.

Stir gently to ensure that the sugar or honey has dissolved.

Florida Zinger

Ingredients:

1/2 fresh Florida pink grapefruit

2 spoons Demerara sugar

2 shots Bombay Sapphire gin (or equivalent)

Directions:

Mash half a pink grapefruit in the bottom of a tall glass. Add two spoons of Demerara sugar, the gin and ice.

The Ruby

Ingredients:

3 shots of citrus vodka

6 fl. oz Florida pink grapefruit juice

1 slice of fresh Florida grapefruit

Directions:

Put some ice in a cocktail shaker. Pour in the vodka and grapefruit juice and mix well.

Empty the contents into a martini glass rimmed with sugar.

Dolce Havana

Ingredients:

40ml white rum

20ml aperol

15ml cointreau

30ml fresh orange juice

20ml fresh lime juice

Directions:

Place all ingredients into a cocktail shaker with plenty of ice.

North Sea Breeze

Ingredients:

2 shots Miller's gin or other brand

3 shots lychee juice

3 shots grapefruit juice

Directions:

Using a highball glass, build the cocktail in the order of ingredients listed - Miller's first, then lychee juice and finally the grapefruit

Divinitini Divine Chocolate Cocktail

Ingredients:

4 cubes of melted Divine milk chocolate*

1 slice of orange

Dash of Grand Marnier

Dash of dark creme de cacao

1 fl oz Wyborowa orange vodka or other orange vodka

1 fl oz pure vodka

Directions:

Melt Divine milk chocolate. The best way is in a double boiler, or in a glass bowl set over in a pan of boiling water.

Shake it together with Wyborowa orange and pure vodka, Grand Marnier, creme de cacao and a crushed slice of orange.

Greenall's Gin Martini

Ingredients:

4 parts Greenall's Original London Dry Gin

Splash dry vermouth

A twist of lemon

Directions:

Pour parts Greenall's Gin to a mere splash of dry vermouth in a glass

Add a twist of lemon

Greenall's Blue Lady

Ingredients:

1 part Greenall's Original London Dry Gin

2 parts Blue Curacao

1 part fresh lemon juice

1 tbsp egg white

Directions:

Pour part Greenall's Gin to parts Blue Curacao into a glass

Add part freshly squeezed lemon, followed by tablespoon of egg white

Greenall's Pink Lady

Ingredients:

2 parts Greenall's Original London Dry Gin

1 part grenadine syrup

1 tsp egg white

Directions:

Pour parts Greenall's Gin to part Grenadine syrup into a shaker

Add teaspoon of egg white

Negroni

Ingredients:

1 part Greenall's Original London Dry Gin

1 part Campari

1 part sweet martini

Club soda to taste

Directions:

Mix part Greenall's Gin to part Campari

Singapore Sling with Greenall's Gin

Ingredients:

4 parts Greenall's Original London Dry Gin

2 parts Cherry Brandy

1 part fresh lime juice and pineapple juice, mixed

Splash Angostura Bitters

Soda water to top up

Slice of lemon and cherries to garnish

Directions:

Pour parts Greenall's Gin to parts Cherry Brandy and part lime and pineapple juice.

Add a splash of Angostura Bitters

Greenall's Joan Collins

Ingredients:

Greenall's Original London Dry Gin

2 tsps lemon juice mixed with sugar

Dash Angostura Bitters

Soda water to top up

Directions:

Pour a generous measure of Greenall's Gin into a glass followed by teaspoons of lemon juice and sugar.

Pom Star Cocktail

Ingredients:

2 parts Plymouth Gin or other gin

Pomegranate juice

Directions:

Pour gin into a tall glass with ice

Top with equal parts Pomegreat pomegranate juice and Rubican passionfruit juice

Magnum Mint Cocktail

Ingredients:

Two shots Stolichnaya Vanilla vodka

15ml Creme de Cacao White

5ml Creme de Menthe White

Directions:

Rinse a mixing glass filled with ice with the cr eme de menthe and discard.

Add the Stolichnaya and the Creme de Cacao and stir until cold.

Serve in a pre-chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with a frozen mint leaf frosted with icing sugar.

The Magnum Classic Cocktail

Ingredients:

One Magnum Classic

One shot Baileys Original Irish Cream

One shot Stolichnaya vanilla vodka

Directions:

Carefully slide the Magnum Classic off the stick and pick off some of the chocolate coating - save for later.

Whizz both the remaining chocolate and ice cream in the blender, then add to the Irish Cream and vodka

Use the remaining Magnum chocolate to garnish

Christmas Party Punch for 10

Ingredients:

<p><img src=http://i.ivillage.co.uk/uk_en/a_ukpix/100x100/schwartz_mulledwine.jpg width=100 height=100 border=0 alt="mulled wine" align=right>1 bottle red wine

1 carton cranberry and blackcurrant drink

150 ml (1/4 pint) brandy

1 packet Schwartz Mulled Wine Spice, or your own blend of coriander seed, allspice and nutmeg

115 g (4 oz) Demerara sugar

2 oranges, sliced

1 lemon, sliced

Directions:

Pour the wine, cranberry drink and brandy into a large saucepan. Add the mulled wine sachets and stir well.

Bring to just below boiling point for minutes.

Stir in the sugar, orange and lemon slices.

Remove the sachets and serve piping hot.

Perfect pom

Ingredients:

<img src="http://i.ivillage.co.uk/uk_en/a_ukpix/100x100/pomegranate.jpg" align=right>50ml Vodka

20ml Framboise

20ml Lemon Juice

8/10 Fresh Raspberries

Seeds from ? Pomegranate

1 Tbls sugar substitute

30ml Laurent Perrier Champagne

Directions:

Muddle fruit, add all other ingredients except Champagne

Shake and strain over crushed ice into a highball, top with Champagne

Garnish with raspberry and pomegranate seeds

Cool blue

Ingredients:

50ml Gold Rum

8/10 fresh Blueberries

1 Tbls sugar substitute

20ml fresh Lime

20ml Blueberry Liqueur

Soda Water

Directions:

Muddle blueberries

Add rest of ingredients except soda

Shake and strain over crushed ice

Top with soda, garnish with blueberries

Lo mango

Ingredients:

<img src="http://i.ivillage.co.uk/uk_en/a_ukpix/100x100/mango1.jpg" align=right>50ml Bourbon

1 Tbls sugar substitute

2Tblsp Mango Puree

20ml Fresh Lemon Juice

20ml Fresh Orange Juice

Directions:

Shake and strain all ingredients over cubed ice into a highball glass

Garnish with wedge of mango

Sweet cooler

Ingredients:

<img src="http://i.ivillage.co.uk/uk_en/a_ukpix/100x100/lemons.jpg" align=right>50ml Gin

20ml Campari

1 Tbls sugar substitute

20ml Lemon Juice

Soda Water

Directions:

Shake and strain first four ingredients over cubed ice into highball glass

Top with soda, garnish with Lemon wedge

Rum Cosmo

Ingredients:

1.5 oz Puerto Rican white rum

0.5 oz Triple Sec

1.5 oz cranberry juice

0.5 oz lime juice

0.5 Simple Syrup

Directions:

Shake all of the ingredients with ice and serve chilled in a cocktail glass.

Bundy Fruit Cup

Ingredients:

Bundaberg Rum

Peach Schnapps

Selection of fresh chopped fruits

Lemonade

Directions:

Mix ml Bundaberg Rum and ml Peach Schnapps into a tall glass.

Add ice, and a selection of fresh chopped fruits such as strawberry, orange, lemon, lime and cucumber.

Stir and top up with lemonade.

Hurricane cocktail

Ingredients:

1.5 measure light rum

1.5 measure dark rum

1 measure orange juice

1 measure fresh lime juice

1/4 cup passion fruit juice, or 1 tablespoon passion fruit syrup

1 teaspoon sugar syrup

1 teaspoon grenadine

Cherries with stems, and orange slice to garnish

Ice cubes

Directions:

Shake the rum, fruit juices, sugar syrup and grenadine together with some ice.

Pour into a tall glass, and add more ice to fill.

Garnish with an orange slice and cherries.

Frozen mango daiquiri

Ingredients:

400ml/14fl oz mango juice

200ml/8fl oz white rum

100ml/4fl oz lime juice

4 tsp golden caster sugar

4 glassfuls of crushed ice (about 600ml/1 pint)

Directions:

Put the mango juice, rum, lime juice, sugar and ice into a blender and whiz together until thick and slushy. Serve in a cocktail glass.

Teacher's Whisky Hot Toddy

Ingredients:

50mls Teacher's Whisky

2 teaspoons vanilla sugar

1 pod of green cardamom

Pinch of cinnamon

2 wedges of lemon

1 wedge of orange

37.5mls pressed apple juice

Hot water

Directions:

Add the cardamom, cinnamon and vanilla sugar to a heat proof glass and gently press the cardamom. Half fill the glass with boiling water then pour in the apple juice and whisky. Squeeze in the lemon and orange then gently stir until the sugar has dissolved then top up with boiling water. If preferred, strain off into a fresh glass and garnish with a cinnamon stick.

African chocolate martini

Ingredients:

<img src="http://i.ivillage.co.uk/uk_en/a_ukpix/article/Amarula-chocolate-Martini.jpg" align="right" alt="chocolate martini">50ml Amarula cream liqueur

25ml vodka

10ml creme de cacao

Directions:

Combine the ingredients in a cocktail shaker and shake. Pour into a chilled martini glass.

Apple margarita

Ingredients:

2 Pink Lady apples

Juice of 3 limes

3 (75ml) shots of Tequila

2 shots (50ml) of Cointreau

2 large handfuls of crushed ice

Directions:

Remove the core and roughly chop the apples. Place in a liquidiser with the lime juice and blitz well until smooth. Pour into a container and freeze for at least hours.

Grand Esprit

Ingredients:

<img src="http://i.ivillage.co.uk/uk_en/a_ukpix/article/Grand-Esprit--000036-RT.jpg" align="right" alt="Grand Marnier cocktail">25ml Grand Marnier

25ml Elderflower cordial

Soda water

Directions:

Fill a tall glass with ice and add the Grand Marnier and Elderflower cordial. Top up with soda water and stir well.

Berryoska Redcurrant

Ingredients:

<img src="http://i.ivillage.co.uk/uk_en/a_ukpix/article/RS_LD_BerryoskaRedCurrant01.jpg" alt="Berryoska cocktail" align=right>How to enjoy Berryoska Redcurrant:

50ml/1.7 fl oz Russian Standard Original Vodka

8-10 redcurrants

Juice of half a lime

3 tsp sugar

Directions:

In a tumbler, muddle the lime juice, sugar and redcurrants. Top the glass up with crushed ice. Add Russian Standard Original Vodka and stir well. Top with extra crushed ice and garnish with a few redcurrants.

Ginger lime long-tail

Ingredients:

<img src="http://i.ivillage.co.uk/uk_en/a_ukpix/130x90/Ginger_Lime_Longtail.jpg" alt="Ginger lime long-tail" align=right>2 shots Mekhong

1/2 shot fresh squeezed lime juice

Ginger Beer (you can also uses Ginger Ale)

1 dash of Angostura Bitters

3 lime wheels

Directions:

Pour Mekhong and lime juice into a Collins glass. Add ice and lime wheels. Cover with a shaker tin and shake briefly. Top off with ginger beer and add Bitters. Serve with a straw.

Sabai Sabai

Ingredients:

<img src="http://i.ivillage.co.uk/uk_en/a_ukpix/130x90/SabaiSabia.jpg" alt="Sabai Sabai" align=right> 1 1/2 shots Mekhong

1 1/2 shots fresh squeezed lemon juice

3/4 shot simple sugar syrup

Finger pinch of sweet Thai basil

Club soda

Directions:

Pour Mekhong and the rest of the ingredients except club soda into a mixing glass. Add ice and shake vigorously for seconds. Strain into a chilled martini-cocktail glass. Top off with club soda.

Thai Smile

Ingredients:

<img src="http://i.ivillage.co.uk/uk_en/a_ukpix/130x90/ThaiSmile.jpg" alt="Thai Smile" align=right>2 shots Mekhong

1 shot fresh squeezed lemon juice

1/4 pomegranate fruit

3/4 shot simple sugar syrup

Directions:

Muddle pomegranate (saving over a spoon of seeds to garnish) and sugar syrup in a mixing glass. Add remaining ingredients, fill with ice and shake vigorously for seconds and strain into a martini glass. Garnish with remaining pomegranate seeds.

Mackintosh Rose cocktail

Ingredients:

<img src="http://i.ivillage.co.uk/uk_en/a_ukpix/article/Mackintosh-Rose.jpg" alt="Mackintosh Rose cocktail" align=right>35ml Caorunn Gin

15ml Chambord

75ml Cranberry and raspberry juice

75ml Tonic

5 drops Fee lemon bitters

Glass: 12oz Hi-ball Glass

Directions:

Shake all ingredients except tonic and strain over cubed ice in a chilled glass. Top with tonic, and squeeze in a fresh lemon wedge.

Margaret's Blush

Ingredients:

<img src="http://i.ivillage.co.uk/uk_en/a_ukpix/article/Margarets-Blush.jpg" alt="Margaret's Blush cocktail" align=right>35ml Caorunn Gin

15ml Triple sec

50ml Cranberry juice

50ml Pineapple juice

50ml Soda water / champagne

5 drops Fee orange bitters

Glass: 12oz Hi-ball Glass

Directions:

Shake all ingredients except the soda/champagne, strain over cubed ice in a chilled glass and top with the soda/champagne.

Clearly Crane cocktail

Ingredients:

<img src="http://i.ivillage.co.uk/uk_en/a_ukpix/article/Clearly-Crane.jpg" alt="Clearly Crane cocktail" align=right>50ml Caorunn Gin

20ml Dry Vermouth

75ml Lemonade

75ml Tonic

5 drops Fee lemon bitters

Directions:

Build in a chilled glass. Add alcohol and bitters.

Then add some finely diced orange, lemon, lime and grapefruit and long sprigs of mint before adding the ice.

The Blush Apple Martini

Ingredients:

<img src="http://i.ivillage.co.uk/uk_en/a_ukpix/article/The-Blush-Apple-Martini.jpg" alt="Blush apple martini" align=right> 50ml Caorunn Gin

50ml Pressed apple juice (cloudy)

5ml Gomme

3 Raspberries

Glass: 6oz Martini/cocktail glass

Directions:

Shake all ingredients with ice and fine strain into chilled glass. (Do not muddle raspberries)

Noel @ Napoleon's

Ingredients:

<img src="http://i.ivillage.co.uk/uk_en/a_ukpix/article/Christmas-Cocktail.jpg" alt="Christmas cocktail" align=right>35ml Courvoisier Exclusif

One fresh lime

1/2 passion fruit pulp

15ml apricot brandy

Cranberry juice

Directions:

Take a tall glass, add the passion fruit pulp, fresh lime wedge and apricot brandy, fill glass with crushed ice and churn through ingredients. Top up with crushed ice, pour over the Courvoisier Exclusif stir and fill with crisp cranberry juice

Harveys frosted apple & ginger

Ingredients:

50ml Harveys Bristol Cream

50ml Pressed apple juice

Ginger ale

Cinnamon stick

Fresh mint and apple slices

Directions:

Fill a high ball glass with ice (crushed ice looks even better!)

Pour over ml Harveys Bristol Cream and ml premium pressed apple juice

Top up with a dash of ginger ale

Swirl with a cinnamon stick and leave in the glass. Garnish with a sprig of mint and apple slices

Harveys mulled apple & winter spice

Ingredients:

220ml Harveys Bristol cream

500ml Pressed apple juice

6 cloves

50ml vanilla sugar

Directions:

Slowly warm the Harveys Bristol Cream with the premium pressed apple juice, cloves and ml vanilla sugar in a pan for - minutes to release the incredible flavours

Strain the liquid into a warmed pint/ litre punch bowl

Fountain of youth cocktail

Ingredients:

<img src="http://i.ivillage.co.uk/uk_en/a_ukpix/article/RS_CD_FountainYouth02_MR.jpg" alt="Fountain of Youth cocktail" align=right>50ml / 1.7 fl oz Russian Standard

60ml / 2 fl oz Pomegranate juice, fresh squeezed where available

20g / 0.7 oz thinly sliced ginger

Directions:

Shake all ingredients vigorously with ice, double strain and pour into a cocktail glass.

Courvoisier Ginger Explosif

Ingredients:

<img src="http://i.ivillage.co.uk/uk_en/a_ukpix/article/Gingerbread-Stairs.jpg" alt="Gingerbread Exlosif" align=right>35ml Courvoisier Exclusif

20ml pear puree

25ml cloudy apple juice

10ml Pain D'Epices (gingerbread syrup)

squeeze of fresh lime

Directions:

Shake ingredients over ice, double strain into a chilled martini glass and garnish with a little gingerbread man.

Louisiana jam

Ingredients:

<img src="http://i.ivillage.co.uk/uk_en/a_ukpix/130x90/SC-bottle-and-Lou-Jam-.jpg" alt="Louisiana jam" align=right>35ml Southern Comfort

20ml lemon juice

20ml apple juice

2 teaspoons of apricot jam

8 mint leaves

15ml sugar syrup

Directions:

Place mint leaves into a clean, empty jam jar and gently muddle

Place remaining ingredients into the jam jar

Half fill with crushed ice, put the jam jar lid on and shake vigorously

Mississippi mule

Ingredients:

<img src="http://i.ivillage.co.uk/uk_en/a_ukpix/130x90/SC_Miss-Mule.jpg" alt="Mississippi mule" align=right>35ml Southern Comfort

Juice of 4 lime wedges

Ginger beer

3 dashes Angostura Bitters

Directions:

Fill glass with cubed ice

Pour in Southern Comfort

Squeeze the lime wedges into the glass and discard

Mississippi mule

Ingredients:

<img src="http://i.ivillage.co.uk/uk_en/a_ukpix/130x90/SC_Miss-Mule.jpg" alt="Mississippi mule" align=right>35ml Southern Comfort

Juice of 4 lime wedges

Ginger beer

3 dashes Angostura Bitters

Directions:

Fill glass with cubed ice

Pour in Southern Comfort

Squeeze the lime wedges into the glass and discard

Southern belle

Ingredients:

<img src="http://i.ivillage.co.uk/uk_en/a_ukpix/130x90/SC_southen-Belle-smaller.jpg" alt="Southern belle" align=right>35ml Southern Comfort

10ml elder flower cordial

Cranberry juice

Directions:

Fill glass with cubed ice

Pour in Southern Comfort

Add elderflower cordial

Mulled cider

Ingredients:

One litre Merrydown Medium Vintage Cider

Splash of dark rum (optional)

4 cups of fruity herbal tea - orangey flavours go well

1 tbsp soft brown sugar

2 clementines

4 or 5 cloves

2 cinnamon sticks

2 fresh bay leaves

4 cardamon pods

Directions:

Pour the Merrydown into a large saucepan. Add the sugar and stir until dissolved over a gentle heat. Stud each clementine with the cloves, then cut the fruit in half and add to the pan along with the cinnamon sticks, bay leaves and cardamom pods

Apple Temptation

Ingredients:

<img src="http://i.ivillage.co.uk/uk_en/a_ukpix/130x90/Apple-Temptation.jpg" alt="Apple temptation" align=right>Three raspberries

37.5ml of citrus vodka

25ml triple sec

2 dash orange bitters (optional)

Juice of half a lime.

Directions:

Three raspberries shaken hard with .l of citrus vodka, ml triple sec.

dash orange bitters (optional) and the juice of half a lime.

Forbidden fruit

Ingredients:

<img src="http://i.ivillage.co.uk/uk_en/a_ukpix/130x90/Forbidden-Fruit.jpg" alt="Forbidden fruit" align=right>1 slice of fresh ginger muddled with 2 strawberries,

1/3 of a fresh lemon,

Directions:

Shake all the ingredients hard and strain over ice in an old fashioned glass.

Mint angel

Ingredients:

<img src="http://i.ivillage.co.uk/uk_en/a_ukpix/130x90/Mint-Angel.jpg" alt="Mint angel" align=right>5-8 Fresh mint leaves

Appletiser

Directions:

Stir vigorously with ice cold Appletiser and crushed ice

Bitter orange and cardamon martinis

Ingredients:

<img src="http://i.ivillage.co.uk/uk_en/a_ukpix/130x90/GF_Dec_Martini.jpg" alt="Bitter orange martini" align=right>12 cardamom pods

6 tbsp Seville orange marmalade, plus

more to serve

400ml/14fl oz vodka

125ml/4fl oz Cointreau

4 tbsp lemon juice

ice, to serve

Directions:

Bash cardamom pods in a pestle and mortar until they split. Melt the marmalade in a pan, then whisk in the vodka. Add the crushed pods. Don't boil the mix, simply warm it for a few mins. Leave to infuse off the heat for mins, then strain. Add the Cointreau and lemon juice and chill (or keep in the freezer). Serve in glasses with a little more marmalade in the bottom,ice and a cardamom pod floating on top