Brush up on your bartending skills with these classic recipes.
We love a fancy, complicated craftcocktailjust as much as the next person.
But who has all the unusual ingredients they tend to require?
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Frankly, there’s just something about unfussy classics that keep us coming back time and again.
Classic Cocktail Recipes
Try these classic cocktail recipes.
Dana Gallagher
Serve the margaritas in the prepared glasses over ice and garnish with the lime slices.
Negroni
Combine gin, Campari, and sweet vermouth in a large pitcher.
Divide the mixture among 3 4-ounce glasses.
Brie Passano
Place a strip of orange peel in each.
Pack the glass with crushed ice and top with the bourbon.
Serve garnished with mint sprigs.
Greg DuPree
Shake and strain into a glass filled with ice.
Garnish with an orange slice and a cherry.
Add 1 thinly sliced navel orange, blackberries, and club soda.
Charles Masters
Refrigerate for 1 hour or more before serving to allow the fruit to macerate and sweeten sangria.
Serve thiswine cocktailin tall glasses filled with ice.
Moscow Mule
Fill a Moscow mule mug with ice.
Maura McEvoy
Add lime juice and vodka.
Top with ginger beer and stir.
Garnish with a slice of lime.
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Old Fashioned
Saturate a sugar cube with Angostura bitters.
Place the cube inan old-fashionedglass, add water, and muddle the sugar until it dissolves.
Fill the glass with ice, pour in rye whiskey, and stir.
Sarah Karnasiewicz
Garnish with a slice of orange.
Stir until very cold.
Garnish with a maraschino cherry.
Sarah Karnasiewicz
Martini
Combine vodka or gin and dry vermouth in an ice-filled bar glass.
Stir until very cold.
Strain into a cocktail glass and garnish with an olive.
Sarah Karnasiewicz
White Russian
Fill a cocktail glass with ice.
Pour the vodka and Kahlua over the ice.
Cranberry-Lemon Spritz
Add cranberries,lemon juice, and sugar to a tall glass.
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Mash the cranberries with the end of a wooden spoon.
Pour in vodka and cranberry juice.
Mix, add ice, and top with club soda.
Greg DuPree
Eggnog
Simmer the heavy cream, nutmeg, and sugar in a medium saucepan.
Blend the eggs on low for 1 minute.
Gradually add the hot cream mixture.
Tom Schierlitz
Blend the mixture until it’s frothy, and then about 30 seconds more.
Add brandy to combine.
Top it with the orange juice, and let it settle.
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Slowly add in some grenadine and garnish your cocktail.
Strain it into a martini glass and sprinkle some cocoa or cinnamon on top.
Stir in some mango juice and both gold and coconut rum.
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Garnish your cocktail with pineapple slices or cherries.
Tom Collins
Mix leom soda (like Sanpellegrino Limonata) and gin in a large pitcher.
Serve it over ice and lemon- or basil-garnished glasses.
Fred Hardy
Dirty Shirley
Combine vodka, grenadine, and lemon-lime soda (like a Sprite or 7Up).
Stir it up and add a cherry to bring back all that childhood nostalgia.
Shake it up together with ice and top your cocktail with more dark rum.
Greg DuPree
Garnish it with your choice of a cherry, pineapple slices, or mint (or all three).
Serve the Bloody Mary over ice and garnish it with celery stalks.
Sprinkle the top with pepperoncini.
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you could garnish it with an orange slice and cherry for an extra fruity flavor.
You’ll combine them with simple syrup, freshly squeezed lemon juice, and cola.
you’re free to garnish it with a lemon slice for an extra touch of refreshing flavor.
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Add peach slices or another fruit for garnish.
Limoncello Spritz
Limoncello is an Italian classic.
To make it a spritz, just add dry sparkling wine, club soda, and fresh lemon juice.
Antonis Achilleos
it’s possible for you to add a rosemary sprig and lemon peel for garnish, too.
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