With lockdowns being enforced across Europe many pubs, bars and restaurants are shut leaving us stuck at home on our Friday night. A recent trend sweeping across social media is turning people's homes into nightclubs as a source of entertainment for families and those that miss their usual nightlife fix. This handy list of super easy homemade cocktails is here to help you create your very own ‘night out’ while inside during lockdown.
Sex On The Beach
Ingredients
200ml of cranberry juice
100ml of orange juice
75ml of vodka
75ml of peach schnapps
Method
Mix together all of the ingredients (use a shaker if you've got one!)
Pour into a glass of ice and enjoy
Piña Colada
Ingredients
50ml of white rum
25ml of coconut cream
25ml of single cream
200ml of pineapple juice
Method
Mix together all of the ingredients (again, use a shaker if you've got one!)
Serve over ice
If you want to cheat, you can save buying the first three ingredients and just use Malibu instead
Woo Woo
Ingredients
25ml of peach schnapps
25ml of vodka
50ml of cranberry juice
Method
Mix the vodka and peach schnapps together
Add the cranberry juice and enjoy!
Mojito
Ingredients
Half a lime (cut into 4 pieces)
5 fresh mint leaves
Tablespoon of sugar
50ml golden rum (Captain Morgan's spiced or Havana Club should do)
Soda water
Handful of strawberries or raspberries (optional, but it gives an extra burst of flavour)
Method
Put the lime, mint leaves and sugar (plus the berries, if you're using them) into a glass and mash them together with any utensil you can find (the handle of a plastic utensil, like a spatula, can work)
Add the rum, top up with soda water and stir. Your mojito is now ready!
Margarita
Ingredients
Tequila
Lime/lemon/orange juice
Simple syrup
Method
Mix the Tequila orange and syrup juice together
Serve over ice
Espresso Martini
Ingredients
40 ml Absolut Vodka
20 ml coffee liqueur (Kahlúa)
20 ml cold Espresso
Method
Fill a cocktail shaker with ice and pour in the espresso, vodka and Kahlua. Shake until chilled. Pour into two chilled glasses.
Tequila Sunrise
Ingredients
50ml of tequila
25ml of grenadine
75ml of orange juice
Method
Mix the tequila and orange juice together
Pour into a glass over ice
Slowly pour in the grenadine, allowing it to settle at the bottom of the glass. Looks like a sunrise, doesn't it?
Lemon Drop
Ingredients
50ml of vodka
50ml of lemon juice
1 tablespoon of sugar
Lemonade
Method
Wet the rim of a glass and roll it in the sugar
Mix the vodka and the lemon juice together in the glass