Summer Punch

This recipe is all over Pinterest so we decided to try it. This makes a lot of servings, but it's worth it.

Ingredients:
-2 bottles Moscato
-1 pink lemonade concentrate
-3 C of Sprite
-Fresh raspberries

Mix all ingredients together in a large punch bowl or pitcher.  

Serve over ice.

This recipe was really good. You could hardly taste the alcohol in the drink because it was sweet. I don't think it was overwhelmingly sweet though. There was a slight tangy flavor from the lemonade concentrate. . Everyone who tried this at our party really enjoyed it, our friend Rachael's husband kept stealing sips from her cup. This recipe is well worth serving at a party because it does make so many drinks.

Bloody Berry

This was a unique drink because it wasn't just mixing different liquids together, it actually used fresh strawberries in the drink. This reminded me a lot of a Strawberry Julius, it had the same flavor and consistency. This recipe was actually really tasty.

This recipe is from Vegetarian Times

Ingredients:

-4 cups hulled, chopped strawberries
-¼ cup lime juice
-1 cup sugar
-½ cup peeled and coarsely chopped fresh ginger
-hot sauce

-vodka if you want to make it an alcoholic drink

Cut and hull the strawberries. It took us almost 2 containers of
strawberries to get enough. 

Blend the strawberries with the lime juice.
Meanwhile, heat the sugar, water, ginger, and hot sauce until the sugar is dissolved.
Stir the 2 mixtures together.

This was the hard part for us, strain the liquid to get all the seeds out. Ours was pretty thick it took a really long time to get it all strained through a fine mesh strainer.

Pour the mixture over ice.

Stir in some vodka.

This drink was really good on its own, and also good with the vodka, and I couldn't taste the alcohol in it all. I'm not sure I would make it again though just because it was really time consuming, but Alecia's mom said that the strained we were using was too fine, you want a strainer that can trap the strawberry seeds, while letting liquid through. Since we were using a super fine mesh strainer we had a lot of trouble.

Blood Orange Tequila Drink with Lime

It's starting to get warm out, and summer is the perfect time for fun cocktail recipes. This one uses blood oranges and is perfect for the beach or a summer party. The blood orange gave it a really deep red color, I thought this was fun for a different orange cocktail. The original recipe comes from Food fashion and fun.

Ingredients:

-1/2 cup Blood Orange Juice (this took us about 3 oranges)
-1/4 cup Lime Juice
-1/2 cup Tequila
-1 cup Sparkling Limeade
-Extra Blood Orange Slices for garnish

Cut the oranges. They are really a deep red on the inside.

Add the ingredients with some ice to a shaker.

Pour into a glass.

Garnish with an orange slice.

Find a good spot to enjoy your drink!

The color in this was pretty cool. If I made this again, I would use a little less lime juice, it had a pretty strong citrus taste.

Creamsicle Cocktail

I'm a sucker for new cocktail recipes and I came across the creamsicle on Pinterest but there were no measurements attached so I adapted this recipe that I found from Google to fit the ingredients that I had already purchased to make the first recipe.

Ingredients:
-1-1.5 ounces of vanilla vodka.
-5 ounces of orange juice.
-1 ounce 7-up

Gather your ingredients. 

Mix all of the ingredients in a shaker with ice.

Pour.

Serve.

This cocktail was delicious it actually did taste like a creamsicle, the only downside was that you couldn't taste the alcohol so a few drinks might creep up on you.