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A cocktail recipe for every occasion. Whatever your taste buds are calling out for: wine, vodka, gin, triple sec, champagne or whisky-based we have a cocktail recipe that’s perfect for you.

  • This is how you can make your very own PRIDE smoothie

    Having trouble getting enough fibre in your diet, here’s a super colourful way to do it

    We love a smoothie – and not just a Steve with the dreamy eyes and pecs you can nestle in. We love the type you can drink too. Now you can rainbow that smoothie up with this exclusive recipe, brought to you by the World Avocado Organization (WAO).

    Here’s what you’ll need

    Ingredients:

    • 2 tbsp acai powder
    • 1 litre almond milk
    • 1 pear
    • 150g spinach
    • ½ avocado
    • ½ mango
    • 75g strawberries
    • 75g raspberries
    • 4 bananas
    • 150g blueberries

    Method:

    Create each layer and store separately in the freezer for 5 minutes allowing them to settle:

    Purple: Place half a banana into the blender, add two tablespoons of acai powder, cover with almond milk and blend
    Blue: Blend together the blueberries and pear
    Green: Blend the spinach and avocado with almond milk
    Yellow: Break up two bananas into the blender, cover with almond milk and blend
    Orange: Peel and cut up an orange with half a mango, add one banana and blend with almond milk
    Pink: Add strawberries and raspberries with half a banana, cover with almond milk and blend

    Pour an equal amount of each smoothie carefully on top of one another into a highball glass – your smoothie is complete!

     

  • We can’t wait to get our hands on this Pride cocktail by Lambrini

    Lambrini boys just want to have fun

    We’ve never seen so many pretty colours in one drink… plus it’s a drink that comes with edibles, so sensibly you’re lining your stomach before you go to town!

    Brilliant

    Here’s how to make the Rainbow Road cocktail.

    METHOD:

    Blend six ice cubes with the 15ml Blue Curaçao. Pour into the bottom of a jam jar style glass that’s been dipped in hundreds and thousands.

    Blend the pineapple juice, lemon juice, vodka and bubblegum gomme with six ice cubes and pour gently on top of the Blue Curaçao.

    Top with crushed ice and pour over the cranberry juice and Very Cherry Lambrini.

    Garnish with fizzy rainbow strips, marshmallows a slice of watermelon and other colourful sweets.

    INGREDIENTS:

    50ml Lambrini Very Cherry
    25ml Vodka
    25ml Cranberry juice
    15ml Blue Curaçao
    15ml Bubblegum gomme
    15ml Lemon juice
    25ml Pineapple juice
    Coloured sweets

  • COCKTAIL RECIPE | Pomegranate Gin

    COCKTAIL RECIPE | Pomegranate Gin

     

    Add the rosemary and a drop of gin with a tablespoon of ice into a shaker and bash it about a bit. Add both fruit juices and the gin, and shake. Pour into a glass through a strainer and top with ice and a few pomegranate seeds if you have them.

  • COCKTAIL RECIPE | Elderflower Gin

    COCKTAIL RECIPE | Elderflower Gin

     

    50ml gin

    30ml elderflower cordial

    100ml tonic

    1 lime wedge

    Fill a tall glass with crushed ice. Pour over the gin, cordial and tonic. Stir & serve with a wedge of lime.

  • COCKTAIL RECIPE | Cherry Gin

    COCKTAIL RECIPE | Cherry Gin

    In a glass, muddle together the cherries, simple syrup, and lemon until the cherries are a little bit squishy. Fill the glass with crushed ice, pour oven the gin and stir. Top up with soda water and garnish with a few more dried cherries. A good tip to remember in general is 30g of dried fruit counts as one of your 7-a-day.

  • COCKTAIL RECIPE | Southside

    COCKTAIL RECIPE | Southside

    SOUTHSIDE

     

    Ingredients:

    Gin  (BUY NOW)

    Lime juice (BUY NOW)

    Lemon juice (BUY NOW)

    Soda water (BUY NOW)

    Mint leaves (BUY NOW)

    Sugar Syrup

    Fill a cocktail shaker (I didn’t actually have one so I used my protein shake cup!) with ice.

    Add the gin, lime, lemon, simple syrup, and mint leaves- shake it like a Polaroid for 10 seconds. Strain into an ice-filled glass, garnishing with mint.

  • COCKTAIL RECIPE | Greenall’s Negroni

    COCKTAIL RECIPE | Greenall’s Negroni

     

    Perfect if you like:

    A fruity but sour gin-based drink with complex citrus flavours.

     

    Ingredients.

    20ml Greenall’s The Original London Dry Gin, (BUY NOW)

    20ml Campari Bitter, (BUY NOW)

    20ml Martini Rosso (BUY NOW)

     

    Method.

    Pour all the ingredients into an ice-filled glass and stir. Garnish with an orange twist.

    Greenall’s The Original London Dry Gin is available from: Waitrose, Tesco, Asda, Morrisons, Sainsbury’s and Master of Malt. RRP: £15.49 for 70cl. ABV 37.5%

  • COCKTAIL RECIPE | BLOOM Gin French 75

    COCKTAIL RECIPE | BLOOM Gin French 75

    Perfect if you like:

    Good quality gin based cocktails with a bit of party fizz.

     

    Ingredients.

    25ml BLOOM London Dry Gin, (BUY NOW)

    25ml freshly squeezed lemon juice, (BUY NOW)

    10ml sugar syrup (1 part water : 2 parts sugar),

    top with good quality Prosecco or Champagne (BUY NOW)

     

    Method
    Shake the first three ingredients with ice and strain into a chilled champagne flute. Top with bubbles and garnish with pretty edible flowers.

    BLOOM London Dry Gin is available from: Amazon. Sainsbury’s, Waitrose, Asda, Morrisons and Ocado. RRP: £24.00 for 70cl ABV 40%

  • Have an Absolutely Fabulous drink sweetie

    The sun has finally started to shine through like the South of France, the new garden smoker has been lit, the guests are turning up… Twiggy… Kate Moss… Giorgio… so just what on Earth are you going to serve them? They don’t drink tap water… They’re not boring old, toilet going, tap water drinkers sweetie… no. They want a proper hard kick from something classy, sophisticated and absolutely fabulous.

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  • COCKTAIL RECIPE | Blueberry Basil Gin

    COCKTAIL RECIPE | Blueberry Basil Gin

    COCKTAIL RECIPE | Blueberry Basil Gin

    (C) CREDIT: Jordan Lohan

    Ingredients.

    ¼ cup blueberries (BUY NOW)

    4 torn / shredded basil leaves (BUY NOW)

    45ml gin (BUY NOW)

    10ml lime juice (BUY NOW)

    10ml simple syrup

    Lime, to garnish

     

    Method.

    In a shaker, muddle the blueberries, basil, simple syrup, and lime juice. Add crushed ice and gin, shake it. Strain it.

    Drop in as many blueberries as you like (think of those antioxidants!). Garnish with lime and more basil, if you like.

     

    Buy these ingredients.

    Gin

    Lime juice

     

  • COCKTAIL RECIPE | Chambord Royale

    Giving a Royale twist to a  favourite.

    Chambord Royale

    Your favourite fizz topped with delicious Chambord, for a taste so good it deserves its own fanfare.

    Ingredients.
    Chambord Black Raspberry Liqueur (BUY NOW)
    Champagne, prosecco or cava (BUY NOW)

    Method.
    Pour your favourite fizz into a flute glass and top with Chambord. Garnish with the all important raspberry.

     

    Get these ingredients delivered straight to your door.

    Chambord Black Raspberry Liqueur

    Champagne

    As always please drink responsibly. If you need advice on alcohol consumption please visit drinkaware.co.uk