Cocktails are a great way to have a fun and tasteful time in a friendly company. As you know, a cocktail is a drink consisting of several mixed liquids.

In this case, the cocktail can be alcoholic or non-alcoholic. An alcoholic cocktail can be made from almost any alcohol. Usually vodka, vermouth, tequila, rum, liqueurs and whiskey are used, which are mixed with other ingredients: soda, fruit and berry juices, cream, etc.

Non-alcoholic cocktails today are usually called “mocktail,” which translates as “false, imaginary cocktail.” Indeed, non-alcoholic cocktails often repeat the taste and name of their alcoholic counterparts. For example, “Non-alcoholic Mojito” is practically indistinguishable from a regular one.

Cocktail recipes at home

If you're having a party, why not try making a cocktail at home? and not to please friends and relatives. Or you can organize real competitions for the title of the best bartender and prepare your favorite cocktails. If you don't have a shaker, you can mix the ingredients in a separate glass, in a blender, or directly in the glass.

You will also need to purchase the necessary ingredients or use what you have in your home supplies. Making cocktails at home allows you to experiment and have fun. Surely, a cocktail made by yourself will be more delicious than the one you ordered at the bar. Here are a few recipes for simple and incredibly tasty cocktails that you can easily prepare at home.

Making a Mojito cocktail at home

This is a traditional Cuban cocktail that is popular all over the world. Its sweet and sour taste of lime and mint will not leave anyone indifferent.

To prepare you will need 60 ml white rum, 150 ml soda, 2 tsp. sugar, mint leaves, ice and half a lime. Pour sugar into the bottom of the glass, cut half a lime into several pieces and squeeze the juice out of them so that it dissolves the sugar, place the peels in the glass. Then add mint leaves, crushed ice, rum and soda to the glass. Garnish the glass with a slice of lime or lemon. If you do not add rum to the cocktail, you will get a non-alcoholic Mojito, which perfectly quenches thirst and invigorates.

Making a Margarita cocktail at home

This is a popular Latin American cocktail made with tequila lime and citrus liqueur.

To make a classic margarita you will need 60 ml tequila, 40 ml citrus liqueur Triple Sec or Cointreau, 20 ml lime juice, crushed ice and sea salt for garnish. Place salt on a plate, wet the rim of the glass and dip it in the salt. Combine all ingredients in a shaker or separate glass and stir thoroughly for 10 seconds. Pour the cocktail into a glass, add ice and garnish the glass with a slice of ice. You can also easily make a Strawberry Margarita by simply adding a couple of crushed strawberries to these ingredients and replacing the salt with sugar.

Preparing the B-52 cocktail at home

If you want to go on a “flight,” then try making the famous B-52 cocktail.

You will need 3 liqueurs: coffee, orange and cream, 20 ml each. In the original it is Kahlua, Cointreau and Baileys, but you can replace them with others. Take a 100 ml glass and slowly pour in the coffee liqueur along the tip of the knife, then the cream liqueur, and then the orange liqueur on top. You should get three even layers. And now the promised “flight” - set fire to the cocktail, insert a long straw into it and quickly drink the contents. The highlight of the cocktail is that you start drinking a cold cocktail, which quickly becomes hot, giving you the feeling of a dizzying turn.

Making a Daiquiri cocktail at home

Another popular Cuban cocktail, born in the town of the same name.

To make a classic Daiquiri you will need 40 ml white rum, 7 ml sugar syrup, 20 ml lime juice and ice. Mix all ingredients in a shaker or glass and pour into a chilled glass. The cocktail is ready! You can also prepare various variations of this cocktail. For example, Banana Daiquiri - just blend a quarter of a banana, 1 tsp. cream and 2 tsp. triple sec and mix them with the main ingredients.

Making a Cosmopolitan cocktail at home

Cosmopolitan is a delicious cocktail that is very popular in all bars around the world. It's a real star of parties and Hollywood movies, and you can easily make it at home.

You will need 20 ml each of vodka and Cointreau liqueur, and 10 ml each of cranberry and lemon juice. Shake all ingredients in a shaker or glass with ice and pour into a chilled martini glass.

Making Pinacolada cocktail at home

Pina colada- a popular tropical cocktail, a drink of Puerto Ricans, translated as “filtered pineapple.”

To prepare a cocktail at home we will need: light rum (for example: Havana, Bacardi Superior) - 30 ml, coconut milk (or Malibu liqueurs, Creme de coco) - 20 ml, pineapple juice - 70 ml.

Quickly stir the cocktail ingredients together with crushed ice in a shaker, pour into a tall, chilled glass, and garnish with a slice of pineapple and a cherry. Served with a straw.

Milk is a product that is not to everyone’s taste, but a milk-based cocktail is a drink that children and adults love. It’s not surprising, why refuse such a drink - after all, it’s tasty and healthy. Here's how to prepare such a drink at home and make it healthy. To lose a few extra pounds or just for fun? Milk and products containing it are useful for children, women who are preparing to become mothers and those who have already become mothers - almost everyone knows about this. But how can you force a child, for example, to drink at least a glass of milk? Don’t worry about this issue and waste your nerves and energy.

Everything is ridiculously easy and simple - just buy a blender and mixer and prepare delicious milkshakes with milk, ice cream, kefir or whey, with fruits or berries every day. You can be sure that even the most picky and capricious children will be delighted with such a delicacy. As a result, everyone will be happy - both you and the children!

Homemade cocktail without chemicals

A method for making a traditional milkshake. The usual classic milk-based drink consists of two main ingredients - milk and ice cream. Before preparing the drink, it is important to cool the milk to +6 degrees (if the milk is cold, the cocktail will not taste good). You need to beat the drink at high speed in a blender or using a mixer; the whipping time is not strictly established - as soon as you get a thick foam, the cocktail is ready.

If you want to add pieces of fruit, berries or fruit ice to a milkshake, then before adding them to the drink you need to wipe or strain this component through a strainer (this is necessary so that the peel or seeds do not get into the drink). Cocktails, after they are prepared, are usually poured into tall glasses and served with special cocktail straws. In addition to milk, the basis for such a drink can be kefir, classic yogurt or cream of any fat content. And fruits can be additives. Syrups, berries, chocolate and even alcohol.

If you carefully monitor your figure, eat properly or adhere to a certain diet, then a low-calorie cocktail is perfect for you. You can use low-fat kefir or skim milk as the basis for this drink. Additional components can be apple slices. Kiwi. Strawberries. You can also add fruit juice to a low-calorie smoothie. But remember - full-fat yogurt, milk, nuts, chocolate and other foods containing large amounts of fat are not suitable for such a cocktail.

Classic milkshake with ice cream

In order to make this drink we need 250 grams of ice cream (seal) and 1000 grams. milk. Beat these two components in a blender until you get a thick foam. The percentage of milk to ice cream can be different - it all depends on your tastes. If you like to drink such cocktails through a straw slowly savoring its taste, then add more milk (1.5 liters) for the specified amount of ice cream. If you prefer thick, high-calorie shakes like those served at McDonalds, keep the amount of milk to a minimum.

Milkshake with apple and nuts

This cocktail is a non-alcoholic milk drink that has a delicate taste and tart smell. This cocktail will be a wonderful treat for any holiday where children will be present. Although adults will also be happy to try such a treat and will be impressed.

Products:

• 2 medium apples;
• 0.5 liters of milk;
• 2 tbsp. spoons of chopped walnuts;
• 0.5 cups sugar.

Cooking method:

Peel the apples and remove the core and seeds. Next, grate them on a fine grater, sprinkle with sugar and mix well. You need to boil the milk, cool it and pour it over the grated apples. Beat the apple-milk mixture in a blender or using a mixer. Pour the resulting cocktail into glasses and sprinkle with chopped nuts.

Banana milkshake

This milk drink will appeal not only to children, but also to adults. For the latter, you can add a couple of spoons of cognac or liqueur just before serving.

Cooking method:

In a blender, beat 250 grams of creamy ice cream, a liter of milk and a chopped banana. Pour the resulting drink into tall glasses. And before serving the drink on top, you can garnish it with pieces of kiwi or bananas. For adults, as mentioned earlier, you can add a couple of spoons of cognac to the cocktail.

Published on April 5, 2017

Anyone can make a milkshake. Many of us remember this taste from childhood. Once upon a time, I simply dreamed that we would have a mixer at home in order to prepare these cocktails in unlimited quantities.

Today, a mixer is far from a problem; almost every family has either a mixer or a blender. But for some reason, we often buy milkshakes in cafes or pizzerias, but we don’t prepare them at home.

In this article I will try to give several recipes for making milkshakes that will become your favorites. But first I want to tell you some tips on how to properly prepare a cocktail based on dairy products.

Remember milk must be chilled. Only then will it whip well into foam.

You can add almost all fruits except orange, tangerine, grapefruit and sour apples. Otherwise, there is a risk of having a fasting day after drinking a cocktail.

In addition to milk, you can use kefir, fermented baked milk, and yogurt.

You can decorate the cocktail with coconut, grated chocolate, grated nuts, mint, and pieces of fruit.

You can decorate with a beautiful top of whipped cream. You can read how to make whipped cream at home by following the link.

You can also decorate the edges of the glass in which you will serve the cocktail. Dip the glass into water and then into sugar. You will get beautiful edges in edible snow.

It is better to take ice cream white without dyes. And of course, only ice cream.

Fruits and berries that you plan to use in the cocktail can be whipped together with milk. Just remember to wash them first.

Very often, all possible syrups are used for cooking. If you don’t have syrup on hand, you can replace it with jam.

INGREDIENTS:

Ice cream 1 waffle cup.

A glass of milk.

COOKING PROCESS:

☑ Remove the ice cream from the cup and place it in the blender bowl.

☑ Pour in milk and beat for 3-4 minutes.

☑ Pour into glasses and serve.

Your cocktail is completely ready.

Strawberry-vanilla cocktail

INGREDIENTS:

Strawberries-200 grams

Vanilla ice cream - 150 grams.

Milk 100-150 grams.

Vanilla sugar packet.

Sugar to taste but not more than 150 grams.

COOKING PROCESS:

☑ Mix strawberries with ice cream and beat well.

☑ Add milk, vanilla, sugar and beat for about three more minutes.

☑ Pour into glasses, garnish with strawberry halves and serve.

Your cocktail is ready.

Coffee Banana Milkshake

INGREDIENTS:

1 banana.

1 teaspoon instant coffee.

Half a glass of milk.

1 tablespoon honey.

100-120 grams of ice cream.

COOKING PROCESS:

☑ Cut the banana into circles and mix with ice cream. Beat everything using a blender.

☑ Dissolve coffee in 2 tablespoons of warm water. And send it to the banana.

☑ Add honey and beat milk for 3-4 minutes.

Your cocktail is ready.

Almond milkshake

INGREDIENTS:

A third of a glass of milk.

1 cup kefir.

50 grams of almonds.

Apricot syrup or jam.

Sugar to taste.

A tablespoon of ice cream.

COOKING PROCESS:

☑ Peel the almonds, pour boiling water over them to make it easier to remove the skin.

☑Place pure almonds in a coffee grinder and grind the grains.

☑Mix almond powder with the rest of the ingredients and beat until foam appears. Pour the cocktail into glasses and serve.

Hot chocolate milkshake

INGREDIENTS:

1 banana.

Half a liter of milk.

Dark chocolate bar.

Ground cinnamon.

COOKING PROCESS:

☑ Peel the banana, cut into circles and use a blender to turn it into banana puree.

☑ Pour the milk into a saucepan and put on fire.

☑ Add banana puree and broken chocolate to the milk.

☑ Continue heating the milk until the chocolate is completely dissolved.

☑As soon as the chocolate dissolves and the mass begins to thicken, pour the cocktail into glasses and sprinkle ground cinnamon on top.

Cocktail raspberry paradise

INGREDIENTS:

Raspberries 140-150 grams.

Milk glass.

Ice cream 100-120 grams.

Sugar 2-3 tablespoons.

COOKING PROCESS:

☑ Place the raspberries in a saucepan, pour out all the sugar and put on fire. ☑ Bring to a boil and cook for just a couple of minutes. Be careful that the sugar does not burn.

☑ Cool the raspberries and pour in the milk, mix and pour into a blender. Add ice cream and beat until fluffy. This will take about 2-3 minutes.

☑ Pour the finished cocktail into glasses and serve to guests.

Cherry milkshake

INGREDIENTS:

Cherries, fresh or frozen. You can use cherry syrup.

Milk glass.

Ice cream 120-130 grams.

1-2 tablespoons of sugar. Depends on the acidity of the cherry.

COOKING PROCESS:

☑ Wash the cherries well and remove the pits.

☑ Squeeze juice from berries. Or simply puree them using an immersion blender.

☑ Mix cherry puree with the rest of the ingredients and beat well for 3-4 minutes.

Cocktail mint cloud

INGREDIENTS:

150 milk.

150 ice cream.

30 mint syrup.

A sprig of mint.

Whipped cream.

COOKING PROCESS:

☑ Mix all ingredients and beat until fluffy.

☑ Garnish with a top of whipped cream and a sprig of mint.

Milkshake Paradise Apple

INGREDIENTS:

500 milk.

2 sweet apples.

50 grams of walnuts.

Vanilla.

Honey or cane sugar about a tablespoon.

COOKING PROCESS:

☑ Grind the nut grains in a coffee grinder to a powder state.

☑ Wash the apples and turn them into puree.

☑ Add sugar or honey to the puree and mix.

☑ Pour milk and beat.

☑ Pour into glasses and garnish with nuts.

Milkshake with vodka

INGREDIENTS:

150 milk.

1 egg.

50 vodka.

2 level tablespoons of sugar.

Coconut flakes or grated chocolate.

COOKING PROCESS:

☑ Separate the yolk from the white.

☑ Beat the egg white for 1 minute and gradually add sugar.

☑ Beat for a few more minutes.

☑ Carefully add the yolk and continue whisking the cooled milk.

☑ Pour in the vodka again and beat everything well.

☑ Pour into glasses, decorate with coconut shavings and serve.

The warmer it gets outside, the more often we look towards soft drinks. On hot summer days, milkshakes are very popular. Previously, I was completely indifferent to them until I tried to make this drink at home. Today I offer a note about... Together we will learn how to prepare two versions of homemade milkshakes and beautifully serve them for family and loved ones.

As a fruit filling for cocktails, you can use jam, preserves, ice cream or fresh fruit. I like the cocktail with banana and strawberries best, it turns out the most delicate. I often experiment with adding two or three different fruits or berries. I think over time everyone will find their favorite taste.

To make a milkshake at home, we need a blender or mixer. In different recipes, either 33% fat cream or vanilla ice cream is added to the cocktail.

Milkshake with cream

• 0.5 l. milk
• 2 tbsp. l. cream 33% fat
• powdered sugar to taste
• 3-4 ice cubes (optional)
• fruits, berries

To make the cocktail really cooling, you can add a couple of ice cubes to it (but not at all necessary). The ice needs to be crushed at the very beginning, so we throw it into a blender bowl or a special chopper in a food processor. Add fruit, powdered sugar, cream and a glass of milk to the resulting mass. Beat everything with a blender until smooth, and then pour in the rest of the milk and beat again.

Pour the cocktail into serving glasses, put a straw in it and decorate with whatever we can think of. The top looks especially impressive when topped with whipped cream and chocolate or grated almonds.

Here are some easy and fun milkshake serving ideas.

Milkshake with ice cream

• 0.5 l. milk
• 200 gr. vanilla ice cream
• powdered sugar to taste
• 3-4 ice cubes (optional)
• fruits, berries

A milkshake with ice cream turns out much tastier. It is best to take vanilla, without fruit additives. Prepare it the same way as with cream. Initially, crush the ice, then add all the other ingredients, beat everything well.

P.S.

Stock up on straws and prepare delicious and healthy milk drinks, especially now we know. Bold experiments will help you make unforgettably delicious homemade cocktails. A couple of pieces of chocolate, pieces of fruit and berries will help make the drink very beautiful.

On the eve of a holiday, be it New Year or a birthday, we think about what to do that would be remembered for a long time and one of the options is making a cocktail. You know that there are more than 1000 alcoholic ones and more than 2000 non-alcoholic ones. The main ingredients are gin, vodka, tequila, rum, and various liqueurs, hot chocolate, milk, honey, cream and much more are in demand as additional ingredients. Today I will tell you how to make an alcoholic cocktail at home, as well as the best recipes.

What do you need for cooking?

First, we must purchase straws, napkins and a real bartender’s set, which is 7 items made of noble stainless steel:

1. Shaker 550 ml consisting of 3 parts with built-in strainer
2. Molded Ice Bucket 1.3L Double Wall
3. Lid
4. Ice tongs
5. Jiger 20/40
6. Bar spoon 19.5 cm
7. Strainer with solid molded handle

Of course, you can do it without this set, but believe me from personal experience, pouring even through an ordinary teaspoon is very inconvenient and you can’t always do it right 🙁 That’s why we don’t skimp on buying, because such a set will last you a lifetime, unless, of course, it’s Chinese:- ).

The second step is to buy the main ingredients, and there are not a lot of them. That’s why you need to look for the best cocktails and buy them for them, and over time everything else, but if you have enough money, then take everything, it won’t hurt :-). The main advantage is that they invigorate more than they kill, but if you need to kill someone, you can do this with the help of some options, well, more on that later. You must definitely purchase:

1. Rum (of course there are many types, you should start from the desired cocktails)
2. Vodka (light is better, I like Helsinki, of course it’s twice as expensive as Nemiroff, but it’s worth it)
3. Tequila
4. Absinthe
5. Liqueurs (there are a lot of them, I personally recommend the most popular Baileys, Malibu, Shridan’s, Coinro)
6. Juice (the best are orange, lemon, apple, tomato)
7. Fillings (various berries and pieces of fruit)
8. Syrups to suit your taste

The best alcoholic cocktails

Well, let’s get down to looking at simple and tasty alcoholic cocktails at home, we’re sure you’ll like them.

Mojito

Very popular among alcoholic and non-alcoholic cocktails, its preparation does not require professional skills, so preparing a mojito at home is not difficult. Preparation is as follows: take a shaker, fill it 1/3 with ice, then add mint leaves (preferably previously crushed), then fill with soda (1/3 of the shaker) and finally pour 50-60 ml of white rum, then close the lid and Give it a good shake, voila the mojito is ready, pour the resulting mixture into a glass, garnish with a slice of lime and insert a straw.

Recipe

Pina Colada

No less popular, especially among girls, is Pina Colada, a sweet Caribbean cocktail that translates to “filtered pineapple.” Guys are unlikely to like it, but girls will be delighted. Guys, take note with this cocktail to warm up the girls before the more killer cauldrons.

1. 60 ml white rum
2. 60 ml pineapple juice
3. 75 ml coconut cream
4. pineapple pieces
5. 60 ml Baileys liqueur

Pour all the ingredients into a mixer, beat well, then pour into a glass with ice and you're done.

Margarita

An equally famous cocktail in the CIS countries, which has won its fans with its unique taste and ease of preparation.

1. 50 ml lime juice (you can use lemon)
2. 50 ml tequila
3. 25 ml Cointreau liqueur
4. ice a couple of cubes

All ingredients are poured into a shaker with crushed ice and shaken thoroughly, after which they are poured into a wide glass and salt or sugar is poured onto the edge of the glass to taste.

Sex on the beach

An equally titled cocktail for ladies, which consists of simple and inexpensive ingredients, plus it’s very easy to make at home.

1. 50 ml vodka
2. 25 ml peach liqueur (Peach Schnapps)
3. 50 ml orange juice
4. 50 ml cranberry or pineapple juice

Video cooking instructions

All this is mixed in a shaker and poured into a glass with ice, after which you can garnish with a slice of lime, lemon, orange or cherry. You need to drink through a straw.

Screwdriver

The most famous drink among young people, which is the easiest to prepare and consists of two ingredients. And invented back in the 1940s by the USA.

1. 50 ml vodka
2. 150 ml orange juice (pineapple juice can also be used)

Video instruction

All these ingredients are poured into a shaker with crushed ice, mixed well and poured into a glass, garnished with an orange slice. That's it, the screwdriver is ready, you drink through a straw.

B 52

All of these were more feminine cocktails, but now let’s go with men’s “invigorating cocktails” and let’s start with the most famous one - B 52. It is very beautiful, flaming and popular in clubs, both externally and internally - it is a burning bomb, it lifts the mood above the forevatar , I highly recommend it for entertaining parties. And so now we’ll find out how to cook B 52.

Recipe

1. 30 ml Kahlua coffee liqueur
2. 30 ml Baileys cream liqueur
3. 30 ml Cointreau orange liqueur

Video instruction

But preparing this cocktail is more difficult and requires a little skill, so if you want to show the company what kind of bartender you are, it’s better to practice in advance. We will need a glass and a bar spoon with a long stem, insert this spoon into the glass and carefully pour the coffee liqueur, then raise the spoon above the already poured coffee liqueur, also carefully pour the cream liqueur and finally, just as carefully pour the orange liqueur on top, it’s almost ready, last the finishing touch will be a beautiful arson and voila everything is ok. You should drink it quickly and through a straw, just lower the straw to the bottom and pull it into you from the bottom, only quickly, so that the straw does not melt :) It is this sequence that will bring extraordinary sensations.

Zombie

Our next participant is named Zombie, which has a bunch of ingredients and is therefore very unique, its taste is extraordinary.

1. 75 ml white rum
2. 15 ml dark rum
3. 30 ml pineapple juice
4. 30 ml orange juice
5. 30 ml passion fruit juice (peach)
6. 30 ml table purified water
7. 30 ml fruit rum
8. 15 ml apricot brandy

How to make a Zombie cocktail video lesson

Preparing the Zombie cocktail is very simple, pour all the ingredients into a shaker, mix well and pour into a glass with ice, you can drink through a straw or simply, you can garnish with a cherry.

Fidel

The next alcoholic cocktail is Fidel for extreme people, they drink it to quickly turn off the brain and turn on the autopilot 🙂 so be careful not to overdo it.

1. 30 ml coffee liqueur
2. 30 ml lemon juice
3. 30 ml absinthe

Cooking master class

Preparation requires the presence of a bar spoon; with its help, first carefully pour out the coffee liqueur, then lemon juice and pour absinthe on top. You need to drink it in one sip, you can set it on fire if you wish.

Oligarch

There is also a more invigorating Oligarch cocktail, if you drink a couple of glasses of this, your eyes will start sending each other after 15 minutes :)