Recipes To Shake Up Your Cocktail Game

Everyone likes getting a little fancy now and then, be it an event you get dressed to the nines for or just a fancy dinner out. Other times you just want a taste of the good life without all the accruements.

Enter fancy cocktails! 

The perfect way to upgrade your evening without having to upgrade your wardrobe. So, the next time you’re feeling fancy, just grab your cocktail shaker, invite some friends over, and prepare to dazzle and delight your taste buds with an evening of extravagance.

We’ve made it even easier by compiling a few of our favorite lavish cocktails that you can make at home.

Cobra Fang

The tiki drink for the true tiki-phile.

Ingredients

• 1 oz. Rum
• 1 oz. Demerara 151-proof rum
• ½ oz. Falernum
• ½ oz. Fresh lime juice
• ½ oz. Fresh orange juice
• ¾ oz. Passionfruit mix
• 2 Dashes angostura bitters
• 2 Dashes absinthe
• Orange slice (for garnish)
• Pineapple spears (for garnish)

Directions

1. Add all ingredients except the garnishes to a shaker tin and shake with ice.
2. Strain into a tiki mug using a Hawthorne strainer.  Add fresh ice and garnish dramatically in proper tiki fashion.

Enter The Dragon Fruit

An exotic cocktail served exotically.

Ingredients

• 1½ oz. Vodka
• 1 Dragon fruit
• ½ oz. Coconut water
• ½ oz. Lime juice
• ½ oz. Agave syrup
• 2 oz. raspberries
• 2 oz. crushed ice

Directions

1. Slice the top off a dragon fruit and set aside.
2. Using a spoon, carefully scoop out the flesh of the fruit and put it into a blender. Be extra careful not to damage the exterior of the fruit.
3. Add the vodka, raspberries, coconut water, lime, agave and crushed ice to the blender with the dragon fruit.
4. Blend until emulsified.
5. Pour the blended cocktail into the fruit and serve with a straw.

Tiger Style

An exotic twist on the Rum Flip.

Ingredients

• 1¾ oz. Batavia Arrack rum
• ¾ oz. Calamansi
• ¾ oz. Coconut syrup
• 2 Drops saline solution*
• 1 egg white
• lime wheel

*Saline Solution Directions

• 7 oz. boiling water
• 1¾ oz. sea salt

1. Combine boiling water and salt in a heatproof container. Stir until salt has dissolved.
2. Allow to cool and transfer to an eye dropper or dasher bottle.

Cocktail Directions

1. Add all ingredients to a shaker without ice, and dry shake.
2. Fill the shaker with ice and shake again until cocktail is chilled.
3. Strain the drink into a lowball glass.

Disco Volante

A light and summery version of Milk Punch.

Ingredients

• 2 oz. Gin
• 5 oz. Aperol
• ¼ oz. Absinthe
• 8 oz. Milk
• 1½ oz. Fresh lemon juice
• ¾ oz. Simple syrup
• Grapefruit peel

Directions

1. In a mixing glass, mix together all the ingredients except the milk and garnish.
2. In a pot, heat milk to around 140 degrees, then remove from heat.
3. Add Aperol mixture to the warm milk and stir until the milk curdles.
4. Line a strainer with cheesecloth and set over a large container and set a second empty container alongside.
5. Pour some of the mixture into the cheesecloth until the strainer is about three-quarters full. Allow the mixture to strain 10-15 seconds until the stream becomes clear, then quickly move the strainer over the second container.
6. Once the stream stops, discard the solids in the strainer.
7. Move the strainer back to the first container and add more of the milky mixture, repeating until the entire mixture has been strained once.
8. Repeat the entire process with the cloudy liquid to ensure the final strained mixture is clear.
9. Pour 4 oz. into a lowball glass over ice, express a grapefruit peel over top, and garnish with the grapefruit peel.

Ramos Gin Fizz

A delightfully fizzy cocktail that requires some serious elbow grease.

Ingredients

• 2 oz. Gin
• ½ oz. Heavy cream
• ½ oz. Fresh lemon juice
• ½ oz. Fresh lime juice
• ¾ oz. Simple syrup
• 3 dashes Orange flower water
• 1 Fresh egg white
• Club soda, to top

Directions

1. Add all ingredients except the club soda into a shaker and dry-shake vigorously (without ice).
2. Fill with ice and shake again.
3. Strain into a Collins glass.
4. Pour a little bit of club soda back and forth between the empty halves of the shaker to pick up any residual egg white, and then pour into a glass.