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Ingredients Required:

• Pineapple juice (8 ounces)
• Orange juice (4 ounces)
• Banana liqueur (5 ounces)
• Coconut rum (5 ounces)
• Fruit punch (4 ounces)
• Orange slices

How to Make:

• Add the pineapple juice, orange juice, banana liqueur, coconut rum, and fruit punch in a cocktail shaker.
• Add ice cubes and shake.
• Stir until well chilled and pour into drink glasses.
• Use orange slices for garnishing.
• Serve chilled.

Ingredients Required:

• Tequila (2 ounces)
• Grapefruit soda (4 ounces)
• 2 tbsp lime juice
• Salt (optional)

How to Make:

• If desired, wet the rim with lime wedges and then roll it in a dish of salt.
• Add tequila, lime juice and a pinch of salt in a glass filled with ice.
• Stir well and fill the glass with grapefruit soda.
• Serve immediately.

Ingredients Required:

• 1 cup sliced strawberries
• Whiskey (2 ounces)
• Lemon juice (2 ounces)
• ½ cup sugar
• ¼ cup water
• Strawberries and lemon slices, for garnish

How to Make:

• Take a saucepan and add chopped strawberries, sugar and water. Stir over low heat until sugar is dissolved and the strawberries have softened.
• Remove the saucepan and allow it to cool for about 15 minutes. Filter the syrup in a bowl through a strainer and remove the strawberry pieces.
• Combine whiskey, strawberry syrup, and lime juice in a shaker and add ice cubes.
• Stir well and pour into glasses. Garnish with strawberries and lemon slices, as you fancy.
• Serve chilled.

Ingredients Required:

• Sweet tea vodka (or iced tea and vodka)
• Lemon juice
• Sugar
• Ice cubes

How to Make:

• Add lime juice, sugar and water in a tray and allow it to freeze overnight.
• Add sweet tea vodka to a glass filled with ice and stir well.
• OR Take 6 tea bags and add boiled water. Allow it to stand for 5 minutes and remove the tea bags. Let it refrigerate for about an hour and then add 2 ounces of vodka.
• Add lemonade ice cubes to the glass.
• Garnish with lemons, if desired. Serve cold.

Ingredients Required:

• Bourbon (5 ounces)
• ½ lime
• Club soda or sparkling water
• Ice cubes

How to Make:

• Squeeze the lemon into a Collins glass filled with ice and drop it in.
• Add bourbon and fill the glass with club soda or sparkling water.
• Stir and serve.

Ingredients Required:

• 60 ml vodka
• 60 ml coconut rum
• 40 ml blue curacao
• 60 ml pineapple juice
• 60 ml lemonade
• Orange or lemon slices, for garnish

How to Make:

• Combine vodka, coconut rum, blue curacao in a glass filled with ice.
• Add pineapple juice and lemonade to the above mixture.
• Pour into glasses and stir well.
• Enjoy immediately.

Ingredients Required:

• Vodka (2 ounces)
• Orange liqueur (1 ounce)
• Orange juice (2 ounces)
• Simple syrup, to taste

How to Make:

• Put ice in a cocktail shaker and pour vodka, orange liqueur and orange juice into the shaker.
• Add simple syrup according to your taste depending on how sweet you like your cocktails.
• Shake well for about 20 seconds and then strain into martini glasses.
• Serve immediately.

Ingredients Required:

• Chopped watermelons
• Lime juice (2 tbsp)
• Vodka (2 ounces)
• Honey or maple syrup
• Ice

How to Make:

• Add watermelon and lime juice to the blender. Blend until smooth.
• Add watermelon juice, vodka, and honey to a glass filled with ice.
• Shake well. Garnish with small watermelon wedges.
• Serve iced.