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Great Sacandaga Lake Summer Cocktails



Pina Colada

1 1/2 cup ice
1/2 cup diced pineapple, frozen
2 ounces pineapple juice
2 ounces Coco Lopez coconut cream
1 1/2 ounces white rum
1 ounce dark rum
Pineapple slices

Put the ice, frozen pineapple, juice, coconut cream, and the white and dark rums into a blender. Blend until smooth and frosty. Pour the drink into 2 glasses and garnish the rim with pineapple slices.

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Banana Colada

INGREDIENTS
2 ripe bananas, mashed
4 fluid ounces cream of coconut
6 fluid ounces rum
4 fluid ounces banana liqueur
3 cups crushed ice


DIRECTIONS

In a blender, combine bananas, cream of coconut, rum, banana liqueur and ice. Blend until smooth. Pour into glasses and serve.

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The Mojito

1 teaspoon sugar
2 to 3 fresh mint leaves
Soda
2 ounces fresh lemon juice
2 ounces fresh lime juice
Pulp from 1/2 lime
1-ounce rum
Special equipment: muddler

Add sugar, mint leaves and a touch of soda to a highball glass. Using a muddler, crush the mint leaves and blend the mixture. Add the juices, lime pulp and fill with ice. Add rum and top the glass with soda.
Serving suggestion: Garnish with a mint leaf and a straw. Encourage guests to stir their drinks with their straws to capture all the sweetness at the bottom of the glass.

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Green Apple Martini

Cinnamon and sugar for rimming glass
5 tablespoons vodka
5 tablespoons sour-apple schnapps
5 tablespoons lemonade
5 tablespoons lemon-lime soda (such as 7-Up or Sprite)

In a cocktail shaker filled with ice, combine vodka, schnapps, lemonade and lemon-lime soda. Cover and shake vigorously. Dip rim edge of martini glasses in a shallow dish with 1/4-inch water, then in a shallow dish with 1/4-inch of equal parts sugar and cinnamon mixture. Strain shaken mixture into prepared glasses and serve.


Mai Tai

INGREDIENTS

2 cups light rum
1 cup dark rum
1 cup 151 proof rum
1 cup orange curacao (orange flavored liqueur)
1 cup almond flavored syrup
1 cup simple syrup
10 limes, juiced
1/2 gallon fresh orange juice

DIRECTIONS

In a large jar or drink cooler, combine the light rum, dark rum, 151 rum, orange liqueur, almond syrup, simple syrup, and lime juice. Stir and top off with orange juice. Do not use grenadine if you want the true Mai Tai! Serve in 8 to 12 ounce glasses with ice.

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Strawberry Daiquiri

INGREDIENTS
6 cups ice
1/2 cup white sugar
4 ounces frozen strawberries
1/8 cup lime juice
1/2 cup lemon juice
3/4 cup rum
1/4 cup lemon-lime flavored carbonated beverage


DIRECTIONS

In a blender, combine ice, sugar and strawberries. Pour in lime juice, lemon juice, rum and lemon-lime soda. Blend until smooth. Pour into glasses and serve.

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Lime Daiquiri

INGREDIENTS
3 limes, juiced
1/2 cup white sugar
10 fluid ounces white rum
4 maraschino cherries
6 cups ice cubes
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DIRECTIONS
In a blender combine lime juice, sugar and rum. Blend and add ice one cube at a time until mixture is thick and smooth. Pour into 4 glasses and garnish with maraschino cherries.
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Sangria

2 Bottles Red Wine (750ml)
1/2 cup Triple Sec
1/4 cup Tequila
1/4 cup Sweet Vermouth
1/4 cup Fresh Lime Juice
Lemons, Limes and Oranges (sliced)
Sugar to taste
2 cups Sprite or 7up

Mix all ingredients except the Sprite in a large pitcher or punch bowl. Add fruit slices. Refrigerate for a few hours to let flavors mix. Just before serving add sugar to adjust sweetness and pour in the soda. Serve over ice with slices of the fruit.

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Woo Woo

Fill a cocktail shaker with ice

1 oz. Vodka
1 oz Peach Schnapps
2 oz. Cranberry Juice

Combine ingredients and shake well, strain into a cocktail shaker.

Can also be served as a shooter. In that case reduce liqours to 3/4 oz. each and the Cranberry to 1/2 oz. serve in a rocks glass.

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Mint Julep

Ingredients
Serves 4
2 tablespoons superfine sugar
2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
24 mint leaves, plus 4 sprigs for garnish
2 cups finely crushed ice
1 cup bourbon

Directions
Combine sugar, lemon juice, and mint leaves in a pitcher. Crush well with a wooden spoon. Add ice and bourbon, and mix well. Pour into silver tumblers, garnish with mint sprigs, and serve.

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Watermelon Margarita

Ingredients
Makes 2 cocktails
2 limes
4 tablespoons tequila
2 tablespoons vodka
1 tablespoon Triple Sec
2 cups watermelon, seeds removed
1/4 cup sugar
3 cups crushed ice

Directions
Rub the rims of two glasses with a slice of lime each, and dip the rims in salt.
Process the juice of 1 1/2 limes with the other ingredients in a blender until smooth. Add more crushed ice, and blend until slushy.

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Margarita (frozen)

The frozen, blended version of the original Margarita. This version has a nice, light sour lime taste but there are many more variations with almost any flavor you may want. If the mix is too thick once blended, add more juice: if it's too thin, add more ice.


Ingredients:
1 cup of ice
1 1/2 oz tequila
1/2 oz Triple Sec
1/2 oz lime juice
3 oz sour mix
lime wedge for garnish
salt for rimming glass (optional)

Preparation:
Pour the ingredients into a blender.
Blend until smooth.
If desired, salt the rim of a chilled margarita glass.
Pour contents into the glass.
Garnish with the lime wedge.

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Pina Colada


Banana Colada


The Mojito


Green Apple Martini


Mai Tai


Strawberry Daiquiri


Lime Daiquiri


Sangria


Woo Woo

 


Mint Julep


Watermelon Margarita


Margarita

 

     
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