Ready for an easy peasy cocktail to cool off the deep summer heat? Here’s one per weekend to carry you on through the season. Grab your juicy vintage romance novel and head for the beach, pool, or back yard.
Watermelon Cooler
Ingredients:
3 ounces Watermelon Juice (Make this by placing a few chunks of watermelon in a bowl and muddling or pressing with a spoon. Then strain.)
3 ounces Red Curacao
1 ounce Gin
Whipped Cream for Garnish and Ice
Directions:
In a shaker with ice, shake watermelon juice, red curacao, and gin for 20 seconds. Pour into cocktail glass over crushed ice. Garnish with a dollop of whipped cream.
Mudslide Freeze
Ingredients:
1 ½ ounces Coffee Liqueur
1 ½ Irish Cream Liqueur
1 ½ Vodka
2 tablespoons Chocolate Syrup
Whipped Cream for Garnish
4 cups crushed Ice
Directions:
In blender, blend together ice, coffee liqueur, Irish cream liqueur, and vodka. Add chocolate syrup and blend until smooth. Pour into cocktail glass and garnish with whipped cream.
Gimlet
Ingredients:
2 ½ ounces Gin
½ ounce Lime Juice
½ ounce Simple Syrup (Make this by combining ½ cup water and ½ cup white sugar in saucepan over medium heat. Stir until sugar is dissolved. Strain into a jar and seal with a lid. It will keep in the refrigerator for a month.)
Ice and Lime Wedge
Directions:
Place all ingredients except garnish in a cocktail shaker. Shake and strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with a lime wedge.
Pina Colada Freeze
Ingredients:
2 ounces Rum
2 ounces Coconut Cream
3 ounces Pineapple Juice
Fresh Pineapple Wedge for Garnish and Ice
Directions:
In blender, blend all ingredients except garnish. Pour into cocktail glass and garnish with a fresh pineapple wedge.
Island Freeze
Ingredients:
1 ½ ounce Rum
½ ounce Irish Cream liqueur
1/3 ripe Banana
3 ounces Coconut Milk
1 cup Ice
Whipped Cream for Garnish
Directions:
In blender, blend all ingredients except whipped cream for 20 seconds. Pour into cocktail glass. Top with a dollop of whipped cream.
I hope you are able to cool off before summer’s end with one or more of these cocktails and vintage romance novels. Which ones sound the most appealing to you?
C
heers & Happy Reading!
Flossie Benton Rogers, Conjuring the Magic with Paranormal Fantasy Romance
Oh, I love watermelons. Here it’s high time for them. So sweet and refreshing especially after keeping one in the fridge for several hours. Never made juice of any kind from it. All these sound fabulous if having the right ingredients. Worth trying. I’d rather have a book and a cup of coffee under the shadow of trees. The weather changed to an autumn, late autumn looking, one for the moment. Thanks for the recipes!
Watermelon is my favorite, Carmen, and my grandfather used to engineer watermelon seed spitting contests:) I always wanted to try watermelon wine, as in that song.
YUM!!! Jillian
Yep indeed!
Great post My Mother in law is cutting a watermelon maybe I should make me a cooler. I sure could use a mudslide… Great post
I hope your watermelon was red and juicy, Cathy!