How to make a cocktail

Cocktails are a common type of beverage, always consisting of several components. They can include wine, vodka, cognac, fruit juices, dairy products, fruits and other ingredients.

There are both alcoholic and non-alcoholic cocktails. The latter are very fond of kids. This drink can be decorated and diversified children's holiday, but how? Make a cocktail at home is not difficult, it would be a desire and a fantasy. For children, it is better to cook their adored drink on milk. For example, "Caramel creamy cocktail". It is necessary to shake a mixer with 50 grams of chilled milk, and 20 grams of caramel syrup and cream ice cream. Then put the mass in a glass and decorate the top 10 grams of whipped cream.

Rarely, but there are children who do not consume milk even in the composition of delicious drinks and dishes. They can be offered one of the fruit cocktails. Moreover, their assortment is very wide. How to make a fruit cocktail with the addition of other products? It must be remembered that in the glass or wineglasses first of all put the fruit, and then add the remaining components under the recipe. For example, "Peach cocktail". At the bottom of the glass you need to put 50 g of canned fruit. Separately mix 10 g of cherry syrup, 30 g of peach juice, 50 g of any fruit mors. The resulting drink to fill the fruit in the can.

Adults, of course, prefer low-alcohol drinks. On a hot summer day, fruit cocktails are especially pleasant. Their strength should not exceed 8 degrees. Before making a cocktail of this kind, you need to place the canned or fresh fruit nicely in a glass, pour liquid ingredients, mix, and then add the food ice. If the recipe indicates champagne or soda, then they are poured not immediately, but before serving, and then the drink is not stirred. An example of a cocktail of this type is "Oranges in Vermouth". At the bottom of the glass lay slices of orange, pour them 20 grams of vodka, 80 g of white dessert vermouth and add food ice.

In Cuba, and now not only there, the traditional cocktail "Mojito" is distributed. This drink is also alcoholic and non-alcoholic. Those who are interested in how to make a Mojito cocktail should remember that according to the rules, it must consist strictly of six components: cane sugar, peppermint, edible ice, carbonated water, white rum and lime juice. The order of preparation is also important. First, sugar should be poured on the bottom of the glass (2-3 tsp) and immediately squeezed juice from the lime halves cut into two pieces (leave it there). Top put mint leaves and knead them until a strong aroma, and on them - a moderate amount of ice. Everything is filled with rum (50 ml), and the remaining space is filled with soda (100 ml, usually use soda).

How to make a mojito cocktail non-alcoholic? There is nothing easier than to remove one component - rum.

After a meal, as a rule, they serve dessert drinks. Among them there are also cocktails. Dessert cocktails received the name for a significant amount of sugar in their composition. Vodka, rum or cognac are contained in such drinks in a small amount. How to make a cocktail dessert, the final banquet table? You can prepare it, for example, on the basis of dry white wine. Mix 40 g of orange syrup with 60 g of wine in a tall cone-shaped glass. After adding ice and soda (or soda). Harder will be a drink with the addition of vodka. To get a cocktail "Carousel", you need to put ice in the glass, add 20 grams of strong red vermouth, vodka and orange liqueur. All slightly mixed and poured into a glass, put cherries and add 60 grams of champagne.

It is important not only to prepare a delicious cocktail, but also to serve it nicely. Glasses with a cocktail can be decorated decoratively with a sugar rim, the so-called hoarfrost, citrus slices. Use for serving a drink better transparent dishes, because in color it will look less spectacular.