Cool drinks for hot summer cocktail parties
Cool, Refreshing Summer Cocktails
Beat the heat with summer cocktails
Enjoy the hot, balmy days of summer with cool, refreshing cocktails that deliciously beat the heat. Bubbly, iced drinks can be casually sipped poolside or served festively at your next summer cocktail party.
Wild Hibiscus Flower Sparkler
Serves 1
As beautiful as it is delish, this unique sparkling wine cocktail is sure to a be a popular choice at your next evening pool party or semi-formal cocktail soiree. Paired with a superlative sparkling wine or Champagne, Wild Hibiscus Flowers in Syrup make for a drink with eye appeal that is also quite pleasing to the palate.
Ingredients:
4 ounces chilled sparkling wine or Champagne
1 Wild Hibiscus Flowers in Syrup*
1 teaspoon Wild Hibiscus Syrup*
Directions:
Pour sparkling wine or Champagne into champagne flute and add flower petals-side up. Drizzle in syrup and serve.
*Wild Hibiscus Flowers in Syrup are brilliant red hibiscus flowers packed in sweet same-hued syrup available at www.WildHibiscus.com. They are deliciously beautiful as garnish for drinks or desserts.
Karma Citrus Celebration
Serves 1 to 2
KARMA is a new brut-style effervescent wine from California that comes in single-serve bottles. This bubbly drink can be sipped as is or transformed into a festive cocktail. Gather your guests for this KARMA cocktail and let them make their own.
Ingredients:
1 bottle of KARMA
1 ounce orange liqueur
1 ounce Cointreau
1 sugar cube
Directions:
Sip down a couple of ounces of KARMA from the bottle. Add orange liqueur, Cointreau and sugar cube. Continue to sip.
Rock Star Rootbeer
Serves 1
A tasty twist on the frosty mug soft drink, this refreshing vodka cocktail is a fun libation to sip while lounging by the pool.
Ingredients:
1 ounce Three Olives Root Beer Vodka
1 ounce Three Olives Vanilla Vodka
4 ounces ginger ale
Fresh cherry
Directions:
Mix vodkas in a glass filled with ice. Stir in ginger ale and garnish with a cherry
Honey Daiquiri
Serves 1
Ingredients:
1 half lime
Ice
1 tablespoon honey
3 ounces Purista Caipirinha Cocktail Mix
3 ounces light rum
Lime wedge
Directions:
1. Squeeze lime into a glass. Add a few ice cubes.
2. Add honey, Purista and rum. Stir and serve garnished with a lime wedge.
Michele Borboa, MS is a contributing editor for SheKnows.com, specializing in health, fitness, and lifestyle. She is also a food columnist for SheKnows and ChefMom.com and a blogger for Miso Vegan. Michele is a health and wellness expert, personal chef, cookbook author, and freelance writer, based in Bozeman, Montana. Look for her cookbook Make-Ahead Meals Made Healthy (Fair Winds Press) in July 2011. You can reach her at michele.borboa@sheknows.com or follow her at http://twitter.com/micheleeborboa.
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