Cocktail Recipes

Brandied Flip

Brandy Alexander

1/2 ounce crème de cacao
1/2 ounce brandy
1/2 ounce heavy cream

1. Fill cocktail shaker with ice.
2. Add crème de cacao, brandy, and heavy cream.
3. Shake.
4. Strain into a cocktail glass.

Classic Cocktail

1 1/2 ounces brandy
1/4 ounce Cointreau
1/4 ounce maraschino liqueur
1 teaspoon lemon juice

1. Fill cocktail shaker with ice.
2. Add brandy, Cointreau, maraschino liqueur, and
lemon juice.
3. Shake.
4. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass.

Corpse Reviver

2 dashes of grenadine
2/3 ounce lemon juice
2/3 ounce orange juice
2/3 ounce brandy
Champagne

1. Fill cocktail shaker with ice.
2. Add grenadine, juices, and brandy.
3. Shake.
4. Strain into an old-fashioned glass.
5. Top with champagne.

Eggnog (for two)

3 eggs
4 ounces sugar
1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1/2 ounce brandy
1/2 ounce dark rum
8 ounces heavy cream
8 ounces milk

Note: Keep all ingredients refrigerated in advance of
making this drink.

1. Beat the eggs and sugar until thick.
2. Add vanilla and nutmeg.
3. Continue to beat mixture.
4. Add brandy, rum, heavy cream, and milk.
5. Stir.
6. Chill before serving.
7. Dust with nutmeg.

King’s Peg

2 1/2 ounces cognac
Chilled champagne

1. Fill wine glass with ice cubes.
2. Add cognac.
3. Top with champagne.

Push

1/2 ounce apricot brandy
1/2 ounce amaretto
3 ounces pineapple juice
Chilled champagne

1. Fill cocktail shaker with ice.
2. Add apricot brandy, amaretto, and pineapple juice.
3. Stir.
4. Strain into a collins glass with ice.
5. Fill with champagne.
6. Garnish with a lime wheel and cherry.

Sangria

1/5 dry red wine
1 ripe peach
6 slices lemon
1/2 ounce cognac
1 ounce triple sec
1 ounce maraschino liqueur
1 tablespoon sugar
1 whole orange
6 ounces chilled club soda

1. Pour wine into a glass pitcher.
2. Add peeled and sliced peach and lemon slices.
3. Add cognac, triple sec, maraschino liqueur, and
sugar.
4. Stir to dissolve sugar.
5. Carefully place the orange in the pitcher. (See below.)
6. Let mixture marinate at room temperature for at
least 1 hour.
7. Add soda and 1 tray of ice cubes to pitcher.
8. Stir.
9. Pour into wine goblets.
(Serves 6)

(For orange: cut orange peel into one long strip,
beginning at stem end and continuing until spiral
reaches bottom of fruit. Make sure to expose the fruit
while cutting. Leave peel attached to orange bottom
to suspend fruit in pitcher.)

Singapore Sling

Juice of 1/2 lemon
1 teaspoon powdered sugar
2 ounces gin
Club soda
1/2 ounce cherry-flavored brandy

1. Fill cocktail shaker with ice.
2. Add lemon, powdered sugar, gin, club soda, and
brandy.
3. Shake.
4. Strain into a collins glass.
5. Add ice cubes.
6. Fill with club soda.
7. Float cherry-flavored brandy on top.
8. Garnish with fruits in season and serve with a straw.

Stinger

1 1/2 ounces brandy
1/2 ounce white crème de menthe

1. Fill cocktail shaker with ice.
2. Add brandy and crème de menthe.
3. Stir.
4. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass.

Thunder and Lightening

1 1/2 ounces brandy
1 egg yolk
1 teaspoon sugar
Pinch of cayenne pepper

1. Fill cocktail shaker with ice.
2. Add brandy, egg yolk, sugar, and cayenne pepper.
3. Shake.
4. Strain into a cocktail glass.

Tintoretto

1 pear
Chilled champagne
Dash of pear brandy

1. Puree pear in blender.
2. Pour 1/2 ounce pear puree into a champagne glass.
3. Top with champagne.
4. Add pear brandy.