Category Archives: Cocktails

This week’s cocktail is one I made up with stuff I had around 🙂 We got some cherry vodka that is the type that isn’t sweet, just flavored, so I wanted to make something with that. I also had some tart cherry liqueur from Michigan left (you can use Heering also as a substitute). IContinue reading “Cherry Citrus Vodka Punch”

I know my photo here doesn’t really match the name of this drink 🙂 This is in fact the green eyes cocktail, which normally is a lovely pale green color… I had some ripe cherries from my sour cherry tree that I thought would go great with the flavor of this drink, and they haveContinue reading “Green Eyes Cocktail (with Cherries)”

This tequila sunrise (ish) cocktail is roughly based on a tequila sunrise, but with some changes. I had a bottle of tequila and a bunch of fresh oranges I needed to use up, but I wanted a less sweet, more mature version of a tequila sunrise. This drink does in fact have tequila and orangeContinue reading “Tequila Sunrise (ish)”

This week’s drink is a fun, bright, tasty cocktail using gin, aperol and elderflower liqueur, as well as lemon juice. It is a little sweet, a little sour, a little foamy… If you haven’t had aperol before it is an Italian bitter apéritif made of gentian, rhubarb and cinchona, among other ingredients. It has aContinue reading “Aperol Negroni Sour Cocktail”

This week’s cocktail comes from the Drinking with Chickens book, which is a cocktail book with cute pictures of chickens posing with the drinks 🙂 This is a sort of rum punch drink, made with grapefruit, lime, cherry and pineapple juice. I still had some tart cherry concentrate from my cherry muffins and my tartContinue reading “Planter’s Punch”

In addition to the tart cherry ricotta muffins I made this week, I wanted to use some more of the tart cherry concentrate I had leftover so decided to make this sparkling tart cherry vodka limeade. There is a link to the concentrate in the muffin post if you are interested in getting some. ThisContinue reading “Sparkling Tart Cherry Vodka Limeade”

I love the name of this cocktail and I love gin and citrus so couldn’t wait to try this one. This drink is mainly gin, with a bit of Cointreau and some lemon and lime juice. I also added some clementine juice for a bit of extra flavor. I used my Tinkerman’s citrus gin forContinue reading “The Dumpster Fire Cocktail”

Our drink in the picture was a *slight* variation on the actual trato hecho cocktail which uses pineapple infused mezcal, which I really want to try but didn’t have time to make, so will do in the future. We happened to have a little pineapple vodka around that we had made as an experiment byContinue reading “Trato Hecho Cocktail”

Since I got this bottle of kümmel I mentioned in last week’s bourbon and kümmel, I wanted to try making another drink using it. We had all the ingredients for the after hours, so I went with that. The drink is a combo of kümmel, gin, maraschino liqueur and bitters plus some water. This cocktailContinue reading “After Hours Cocktail”

I have been wanting to try kümmel ever since I heard about it. Kümmel is a liqueur flavored with cumin and caraway seeds, both of which I love. I couldn’t find this liqueur at our local ABC, so I had to order it online. I wanted to go fairly simple for the first cocktail IContinue reading “Bourbon and Kümmel”