7 Best Easy Craft Cocktail Recipes
Do you want to make some amazing drinks but never know where to start? These craft cocktails are so simple and give you options for all different alcohols and moods!
Servings: 1
Cost: $3
Ingredients
Whiskey Sour
- 2 oz bourbon or whiskey
- 1/2 a medium sized eggs, egg white
- 1 oz lemon juice fresh lemonade works well too without adding syrup
- .5 oz maple or simple syrup leave out if want less sweet or double if want more sweet
- ice & garnish with maraschino cherry or orange
Paloma
- 2 oz Tequila Use reposado, blanco or silver... really anything but smoky mezcal, unless you want it smokey.
- .5 oz lime juice
- .5 oz grapefruit juice
- 2-3 oz grapefruit soda or sparkling water like Jarritos, Squirt or Izzys use just soda water to make a skinny version.
- Salt or sugar for rim add 1 tbsp of simple syrup if want to make sweeter
Espresso Martini
- 2 oz vanilla vodka or espresso tequila Espresso Tequila (Patron XO Cafe or Avion Espresso Liqueur). Espresso or Vanilla Vodka (Van Gogh and Smirnoff are options). You could also use regular vodka
- 1 oz Kahlua Irish Cream Liquor can be used in place if no Kahlua
- Chilled espresso or Starbuck Espresso Shot or iced coffee
- Optional: add 1 oz irish cream, garnish with cinnamon and/or cinnamon stick
S'mores Campfire Cocktail
- 2 oz vanilla vodka
- 1 oz irish cream liqueur Peppermint schnapps works as well
- 1 tbsp hot chocolate powder
- almond milk or any preferred milk
- Garnish crushed graham crackers, chocolate sauce & marshmallows
- Optional: Eggnog, espresso or kahlua.
Moscow Mule
- 2 oz vodka or try it with tequila for a Guadalajara Mule
- 1/2 tsp fresh lime juice fresh is best but lime cordial works too
- Ginger beer Q or Fever Tree only, the rest aren't as good.
- Optional: 1/2 tsp fresh grated ginger. Mint garnish
White Claw Froze
- 1 can White Claw or any hard seltzer
- 1 cup frozen mixed berries or frozen fruit of your choice
- 1/2 cup ice
- Fruit garnish
- Optional: Amaretto, flavored vodka or flavored rum Non-flavored okay too
Caesar - Better Than A Bloody Mary
- 2 oz vodka
- 1-2 tbsp pickled juice whether this be from pickles, spicy beans etc.
- 2 tbsp Worcestershire sauce I like mine extra muddy and do 4-5 shakes.
- 1 tbsp Tabasco sauce I like mine extra spicy and do 3-4 shakes.
- 1 tbsp Cholula or Tapatio Since this isn't spicy and more for flavor you can do 2-3 shakes.
- Clamato juice
- Celery salt seasoning or Tajin for the rim. I actually mix both together.
- Pickled spicy beans Or pepperoncini or pickled spicy vegetables or pickles.
- Ice filled cup
- Optional: Squeeze of lime juice & A1 or steak sauce.
Instructions
Whiskey Sour
- Add all ingredients to shaker, shake for 10 seconds vigorously.
- Serve over ice and garnish.
Paloma
- Rim glass with salt or sugar & fill with ice
- Mix together fruit juices & tequila & pour over ice
- Add in soda
Espresso Martini
- Put all ingredients into said shaker and shake until frothy and cold, pour it into a glass and garnish.
Campfire S'mores Cocktail
- 1. Crumble graham crackers on plate, rim glasses with chocolate syrup then dip the glass in the graham crackers.
- 2. Shake all other ingredients in a shaker with ice, pour over ice, garnish and serve!
Moscow Mule
- Tip: Always add ginger beer at the end so you don’t stir it up and lose carbonation.
- Add Ice, Vodka or Tequila, lime juice & ginger in a shaker and shake then pour over ice.
- Add ginger beer last and then garnish with mint.
White Claw Froze
- Pour frozen mixed berries, ice and White Claw into a blender... blend... serve.
- Find our White Claw Shot recipe and make that too!
Caesar
- Spicy salt rim. Most important start… I already have my celery salt & Tajin mix in a wide Tupperware container to stay ready, sort of like an alcoholic linebacker, always be prepared. Put a little water on the glass from the tap letting the water flow around the top edges of the glass. Dip the wet (not dripping) edges of the glass into the salt and get a nice thick rim around the edge.
- Add in the vodka and ice cubes.
- Fill the glass with Clamato juice about 1-2 inches from the top and add pickled juice.
- Shake in sauces to taste & lime juice then stir.
- Add your ideal pickled garnish... not celery.
