Candela's Sanity TOP 10 Favorite Drink List

1. Combine the tequila, lime juice, and salt in a tall glass. 
2. Add ice, top off with grapefruit soda, and stir.

4. Bastard French 75 

Ohh La La ! 

Yield: 1 serving 

Total Time : 0 hours 5 min     

Ingredients 

• 3/4 oz fresh  lime
• 3/4 oz simple syrup
• 2 oz gin ( Hendricks is my go to! )
• Champagne as desired between 2-4 oz ( Veuve Clicquot or Moet are my absolutely favorite ) You can use prosecco as well ! 

Directions

1. Shake lime, simple syrup and gin in a chilled cocktail shaker.
2. Strain mix into your favorite glass half-full of cracked ice add champagne as desired.
3. Garnish with lemon zest.  

5. Piña Colada

That's right you don't need to be on vacation to have this drink.

Yields:1 serving     

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Ingredients 

• 2 1/2 oz. rum
• 3 oz. pineapple juice
• 1 oz. coconut cream
• ice

Directions

1. Combine rum with unsweetened pineapple juice (you can sub in 3 ounces crushed or whole pineapple) and coconut cream* in a blender.
2. Blend on high with a cup or so of crushed ice, or 5 to 6 ice cubes.
3. Pour into a tall glass. Garnish with whatever you've got. Cherry. Pineapple. Fruit.

 

 6. Gin & Tonic

Light ,good & refreshing !

Yields:1 serving

Total Time:0 hours 5 mins

Ingredients

• 3 oz. gin
• 3 lime wedges
• 4 oz. tonic water

 

Directions

1. Add the gin to a highball glass filled with ice.
2. Squeeze in lime wedges to taste.
3. Then add tonic water and stir to combine.
4. Garnish with a lime wedge.

 

7. Moscow Mule 

 

Just grab a nice mug to impress. 

Yields:1 serving

Total Time:0 hours 5 mins

Ingredients

2 oz. vodka

1/2 oz. lime juice, freshly squeezed

6 oz. ginger beer

 

Directions

1. Squeeze lime juice into a Moscow Mule mug.
2. Add 2 or 3 ice cubes, then pour in the vodka and fill with cold ginger beer.
3. Serve with a stirring rod.

 

8. Daiquiri 

Not your traditional daiquiri. But you will enjoy this one! 

Yields:1 serving

Total Time:0 hours 5 mins

Ingredients

• 2 oz. white rum ( you can use dark rum but cut on the sugar )
• 1/2 tsp. superfine sugar ( or simple syrup ) 
• 1 oz and 1 teaspoon of fresh lime juice. 

Directions

1. Squeeze the lime into your shaker, stir in the sugar, and then add the rum. 
2. Shake well with cracked ice, then strain into a chilled cocktail glass. 

 

9. Margarita 

Not only for the señoritas!

Yields:1 serving

Prep Time:0 hours 5 mins

Ingredients

• 2 oz. silver tequila or reposado 
• 1 oz. Cointreau
• 1 oz. lime juice
• 1/2 tsp simple syrup or make it skinny use 1 stevia single serving. 
• Splash of sparkling natural mineral water. 
• coarse salt for the rim 

 

Directions

1. Chill a cocktail glass, and then rub its rim with lime juice and dip it in coarse salt.
2. Add tequila, Cointreau, lime juice, and ice together in a cocktail shaker.
3. Shake and then strain into the glass over ice.

 

10. Old Fashion

And if you have a neighbor like mine then this will be your #1 not the 10 on your list. 

Yields:1 serving

Total Time:0 hours 5 mins

Ingredients

• 2 oz. rye or bourbon
• 2 dashes Angostura bitters
• 1 sugar cube
• club soda
• orange peel 

 

Directions

1. Place the sugar cube in an Old Fashioned glass. 
2. Wet it down with Angostura bitters and a short splash of club soda.
3. Crush the sugar with a wooden muddler, then rotate the glass so that the sugar grains and bitters give it a lining. 
4. Add a large ice cube. Pour in the whiskey. 
5. Garnish with an orange twist and or maraschino cherry. 

 

 

Looking for more? Stay tuned our next blog will be about my top 10 Tapas & Bites.