It's summer time, that means it's time to mix martinis for your guests, or for yourself and relax poolside sipping great martini cocktails. You can serve these cocktails in plastic martini glasses or your own martini glasses. I suggest plastic ones for an outdoor BBQ or poolside party. So here are ten great martini recipes for summer BBQs and outside parties.
The Bikini Martini
3 ounces Bombay Sapphire gin
squeeze of fresh lime juice
2 tbsp Blue Curacao
1 tbsp peach schnapps
1 tsp confectioners' sugar or one packet of Equal
lemon zest
Half-fill a martini shaker with ice and add the gin, lime juice, Curacao, schnapps and sugar. Shake well for at least 30 seconds pour in the mixture through a strainer. Garnish with lemon zest.
Summer Cooler Martini Recipe
3 Mint sprigs
1 tsp. Superfine sugar
1 oz. Lemon juice
2½ oz. Vodka
Mint sprig for garnish
Muddle mint, sugar, juice, and vodka in bottom of mixing glass. Add ice and shake. Strain into your Martini Glass and garnish.
Strawberry Martini recipe
1 1/2 - 2 oz gin
1 tsp dry vermouth
1 tsp Rose's® grenadine syrup
sugar
strawberries
Rub rim of chilled martini glass with a cut strawberry. Dip rim into a bowl of sugar until evenly coated. Pour Gin/Vodka, vermouth, and grenadine into a mixing glass with plenty of ice, and stir briskly. Strain into martini glass and drop in a strawberry.
Lemon Drop Martini
1 1/2 ounces vodka
1/2 ounce Triple Sec
1 teaspoon superfine sugar
3/4 ounce freshly squeezed lemon juice
Ice cubes
Superfine sugar for dipping
Twisted peel of lemon
Mix the vodka, Triple Sec, sugar, and lemon juice in a cocktail shaker half-filled with ice; shake well (supposedly the cocktail is to be shaken 40 times to make sure the sugar is well blended). Pour strained liquor into sugar-rimmed martini glass and garnish with a twisted peel of lemon.
Key Lime Martini
2 oz. Stolichnaya Vanilla Vodka
1 oz. Rose's Lime Juice
1 oz. Half and Half Cream
Shake with ice and strain into a chilled martini glass. Serve with a lime twist
Watermelon Martini
2 ounces chilled vodka
2 1/2 teaspoons Cointreau liqueur
3 pieces ripe watermelons, 1 inch cubes
1 sprig mint
Pour Cointreau over the watermelon in a mixing glass. Mash watermelon and cointreau into a puree with the back of a spoon. Shake contents vigorously, then strain into a chilled Martini glass. Garnish with mint.
Tropical Peach Martini
2 oz. Malibu Coconut Rum
2 oz. Peach Vodka
2 oz. Ginger Ale
Shake with ice. Strain into martini glass. Garnish with a fresh slice of peach.
Banana Split Martini
1 oz Cointreau
1 oz Banana Liqueur
1 oz Orange Juice
Shake and serve this in a chilled martini glass.
The Citrus Martini
1 oz Cointreau
1 oz Absolute Vodka
Grapefruit Juice
Splash of lime
Shake in a shaker with ice and strain into a chilled martini glass.
Cosmopolitan Martini
1/2 oz Cointreau® orange liqueur
1 oz vodka
juice of 1/2 limes
1 splash cranberry juice
Pour all ingredients in mixing glass half filled with ice, shake and strain into chilled martini glass.
To chill your martini glasses put them in the freezer, or fill the glass to the brim with ice and fill with water or club soda (Only remove the ice and liquid moments before you pour your martini). Remember to have fun and drink responsibly.
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