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Discover cocktail recipes you can make with the ingredients you already have on hand! Select your ingredients, and we’ll match them with our collection of over 1500 cocktail recipes.

Ginger Rogers

Ginger Rogers

Ginger Rogers

Mix It Yourself:

2 Parts Maker's Mark Bourbon
2.5 Parts Mango Nectar
0.5 Part Lime Juice
0.5 Part Ginger Beer
0.5 Part Bitters
Mango Cubes

Pour the Maker’s Mark Bourbon, nectar, lime juice, ginger beer and bitters into a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake vigorously for about 25 seconds. Strain into a cocktail glass or serve over ice. Garnish with 3 cubes of mango spiked on a 5-inch wood skewer.

Ginger Sublime Cocktail

Ginger Sublime Cocktail

Mix It Yourself:

6 parts Hennessy V.S
2 parts Lemon juice
1.5 parts Agave nectar
1 Inch piece of turmeric cut into 4 slices
3 Small slices of ginger

Muddle the turmeric and the ginger in the shaker.
Add all liquids.
Add ice, shake to chill and then fine strain into a coupe glass.
Garnish with an orange twist.

Recipe and image from hennessey.com

Ginger Witch

Ginger Witch

Mix It Yourself:

Ingredients:
1 oz Strega Liquore
1 oz Jameson Whiskey
1 oz Lemon Juice
0.75 oz Ginger Syrup
Top with Club Soda

Directions:
Shake & strain ingredients into a tall tumbler glass.

Gingerbread Cookies + Milk

Gingerbread Cookies + Milk

Mix It Yourself:

Ingredients:

2 oz. Vanilla Vodka
1.5 oz Baileys
2 tsp. Cinnamon Schnapps
1.5 oz Granny's Gingerbread
1.5 oz Half and Half

Create a rim around cocktail glass using gingerbread cookie crumbles. Shake remaining ingredients with ice. Pour and serve!

Gingerbread Martini

Gingerbread Martini

Gingerbread Martini

Mix It Yourself:

2 oz. gingerbread tea
2 oz. Prairie Organics gin
2 oz. Cointreau
Ice

In a martini shaker combine ingredients. Shake and serve in a chilled martini glass. Garnish with an orange twist.

Photo Credit: Russell Caron Wedding Photography

Glasgow Seelbach

Glasgow Seelbach

Glasgow Seelbach

Mix It Yourself:

1 oz Auchentoshan American Oak Single Malt Scotch Whisky
0.5 oz Grand Marnier
7 Dashes Angostura Bitters
7 Dashes Peychaud's Bitters
Champagne
Lemon Twist

Place everything except champagne in a mixing glass with ice and stir. Strain into flute. Top with champagne. Garnish with a lemon twist.

Glitter and Gold

Glitter and Gold

Glitter and Gold

Mix It Yourself:

2 oz Hennessy VS
0.25 oz Clove Honey Syrup
1 oz Lemon Juice
1 Dash Ginger Bitters

Honey Clove Syrup
1 Cup Honey
1 Cup Water
10 Cloves

For the Clove Honey Syrup:
1. Add to pot 1 cup honey, 1 cup water, and 10 cloves.
2. Once boiled, remove from heat and cool. Strain off cloves and keep refrigerated.

For the cocktail:
1. Add the rest of the ingredients to a mixing glass with ice and stir to chill.
2. Strain into a coupe glass and garnish with a green pine needle holding gold leaf

 

 

Godfather

Godfather

Mix It Yourself:

Ingredients:

2 oz Bourbon
1/4 oz Amaretto

Directions:

  1. Fill a mixing glass 2/3 full of ice. Add the bourbon and amaretto and stir until well-chilled.
  2. Strain into a rocks glass over fresh ice.

Source: Liquor.com

Godiva Valentini

Godiva Valentini

Godiva Valentini

Mix It Yourself:

1 oz Chocolate Liqueur
0.5 oz White Chocolate Liqueur
0.5 oz Ciroc Vodka

Shake with ice and strain into a chilled martini glass.
Garnish with a chocolate-covered strawberry.

Gold Apricot French Martini

Gold Apricot French Martini

Mix It Yourself:

2 oz Black Infusions Gold Apricot Liqueur
1 oz Pineapple Juice
½ oz Chambord or Raspberry Liqueur
Lemon Twist

 

Combine the vodka, pineapple juice, and Chambord in a shaker filled with ice. Shake and strain into a martini glass. Garnish with a lemon twist.

Gold Rush

Gold Rush

Mix It Yourself:

1.5 oz. Crown Royal Canadian Whiskey

.75 oz. honey syrup (equal parts honey and water)

.75 oz. lemon juice

1 dash bitters

1 twist of lemon

In a shaker with ice, add Crown Royal Blended Canadian Whisky, honey syrup and lemon juice
Shake and strain into an ice-filled rocks glass
Top with a dash of bitter and garnish with a lemon twist

Gold Rush cocktail

Gold Rush

Gold Rush

Mix It Yourself:

Ingredients:

2 parts Wild Turkey Longbranch
0.75 part Lemon Juice
0.75 part Honey Syrup

Directions:

Add all ingredients to a shaker. Shake and strain over ice. Garnish with a lemon peel.

Golden Delicious

Golden Delicious

Mix It Yourself:

Ingredients:

1 oz Applejack
1/2 oz Apricot Liqueur
1/2 oz Brandy
1/2 oz Allspice Dram
3/4 oz Simple Syrup
1/4 oz Simple Syrup

Directions:

Shake ingredients with ice and strain into a sugar-rimmed coupe.

 

Golden Groom

Golden Groom

Mix It Yourself:

Ingredients:
1.5 oz Goslings Gold Seal Bermuda Rum
5 slices Pineapple
10 Mint Leaves
1 oz Lime Juice
0.5 oz Turbinado or Demerara Syrup (dark simple syrup)
0.5 oz Combier Peach Liqueur


Directions:
1. Muddle pineapple and a cocktail shaker.
2. Add rest of the ingredients, and 1 cup crushed ice and shake.
3. Double strain into a coupe glass.
4. Garnish with mint.

Photo copyright Russel Caron Wedding Photography

Golden Mistletoe cocktail

Golden Mistletoe

Golden Mistletoe

Mix It Yourself:

Ingredients:

1.5 oz Gold Apricot
1.5 oz Cranberry Juice
0.5 oz St. Elder Elderflower Liqueur
0.5 oz Simple Syrup
Cranberries
Mint

Directions:

Combine the vodka, elderflower liqueur, cranberry juice, and simple syrup in a shaker filled with ice. Shake and strain over fresh ice in a rocks glass. Garnish with fresh cranberries and a mint leaf.

Golden Ring

Golden Ring

Mix It Yourself:

Ingredients:
0.75 oz Galliano
1 oz Bols Cacao Brown
1.5 oz Cream

Directions: 
​Shake all ingredients and finestrain into a pre-chilled glass.

Golden Spritz

Golden Spritz

Mix It Yourself:

Ingredients:

2 oz Apple Brandy
2 oz Ginger Beer
2 tsp Simple Syrup

Mix apple brandy, whiskey and simple syrup in a shaker with ice. Top with ginger beer and enjoy!

Gordon's Cup

Gordon's Cup

Gordon's Cup

Mix It Yourself:

1.5 Parts Cucumber Lime Svedka
0.5 Part Agave Nectar
3 Lime Wedges
2 Cucumber Wedges
Salt
Pepper

Muddle lime and cucumber wedges with agave nectar in a cocktail shaker. Add SVEDKA Cucumber Lime and ice, shake, and empty into a rocks glass with a salt and pepper rim.

Gordon’s Citrus

Gordon’s Citrus

Gordon’s Citrus

Mix It Yourself:

1.5 oz Gordon's Gin
0.75 oz Lemon Juice
0.75 oz Sugar Syrup
0.75 oz Orange Juice
Ground Cinnamon
1 Orange

1. Fill a cocktail shaker with fresh ice and pour all the ingredients over it.
2. Shake vigorously for a minute or two.
3. Wet the rim of a rocks glass and place on a saucer of cinnamon to dust.
4. Then fill with cubed ice and pour over the contents of the cocktail shaker.
5. To garnish, add a thin slice of fresh orange.

Grand Derby

Grand Derby

Grand Derby

Mix It Yourself:

1 Part Maker's Mark Bourbon
0.5 Part JDK & Sons™ O3 Premium Orange Liqueur
0.5 Part Lemon Juice
0.5 Part Orange Juice
1 Orange Twist

Shake and strain into a sugar-rimmed martini glass. Garnish with an orange twist.

Grand Margarita

Grand Margarita

Grand Margarita

Mix It Yourself:

Ingredients:

 

Directions:

Method: Rim a double rocks glass with fine salt (optional). Shake with ice and strain into a rocks glass over ice.

Garnish with a Lime Wedge.

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