14 Amazing Cocktail Recipes to Impress your Guests

Everybody loves cocktails. There are so many different ingredients to use, with a wide selection of spirits that there is sure to be a cocktail out there to suite everybody’s tastes.

Cocktails are a great way to impress your guests and help to really step up your event a gear or two. To make sure you create some of the best cocktails, we’ve asked 14 different cocktail connoisseurs from various brands and companies to share with us some of their delicious cocktail recipes that are sure to impress your guests.

Some of the experts below are hosting amazing cocktail events, so make sure to check them out too.

Hurricane: Jamie Oliver’s Drinks Tube

25ml Freshley squeezed lime juice
50ml Freshley pressed orange juice
20ml Passion fruit syrup
5ml Grenadine
25ml Dark rum
25ml White rum
Garnish with orange slice and glace cherry

Watch how to make it here or go to Jamie Oliver’s Drinks Tube for more cocktail recipes.

I’ve Got 99 Bourbons, But A Beech Ain’t One: Buffolo Trace

50ml Buffalo Trace
15ml Corn Syrup
6-7 Mint Leaves
2 Dashes Aztec Chocolate Bitters
Chocolate Soil*

Add all ingredients into the Julep tin and half fill with crushed ice. Churn with a bar spoon. Top with crushed ice. Garnish with mint and chocolate soil.

*Boil 100g sugar and 2 tbs water until golden brown, add 70g chocolate. Remove from heat, whisk for 2 minutes.

Buffalo Trace have several events happening in London for London Cocktail Week, including cocktail masterclasses. Check them out.

Marmalade Mule: Chase Vodka

50ml Chase Marmalade Vodka
2 Dashes Angostura Bitters
15ml Freshly squeezed lime
Premium Ginger Beer to top

Build all ingredients in a glass over ice and garnish with fresh slices of lime and ginger.

Hibiscus Mojito: Wahaca

4 Lime Wedges
10ml Gomme
10-12 Mint leaves
35ml Olmeca Altos Blanco Tequila
35ml Apple juice
12.5ml Hibiscus Syrup

Muddle the lime wedges with sugar syrup. Add the mint and other liquid ingredients. Add crushed ice and churn well with a bar spoon. Top with crushed ice and garnish with a mint sprig.

Brockmans 75: Brockmans Gin

Add 40ml Brockmans to a shaker filled with ice cubes

Add 25ml Lemon juice
Add 15ml Sugar syrup

Shake and strain into a champagne flute glass

Top with Champagne/Prosecco & garnish with lemon zest

The Glen Moray Triple Wood

60ml Glen Moray Classic Single Malt Whisky
10ml White Port
10ml Noilly Prat Dry Vermouth
Dash of Bob’s Lavender Bitters

Stir over ice and strain into a chilled goblet. Serve garnishing with orange peel twist
and a sprig of heather.

Nosferatini: Zetter Townhouse

50ml Beefeater Gin
15ml Dry Martini
2 Drops Drink Factory Blood Solution.

Place ice blocks into a glass, add the gin, add the vermouth, stir & double strain. Add 2 drops of blood at either end of the glass (representing Dracula’s fangs)

Why not attend the Zetter Townhouses Marylebone’s Cocktail Masterclass to learn how to make more delicious cocktails?

The Opihr Oriental Spiced Gin Negroni

30ml Opihr Oriental Spiced Gin
30ml Sweet Vermouth

30ml Campari

Combine Opihr Oriental Spiced Gin, Campari and Sweet Vermouth in a mixing glass.

Add ice and stir until chilled. Strain into a rocks glass.

Garnish with orange peel

Highwayman Spritz: Highwayman Gin

25ml Highwayman Gin

35ml Bittermans citron sauvage liqueur

15ml lemon juice

Stir in wine glass of ice and add Prosecco and a slice of grapefruit.

Domaine de Canton Breeze

Domaine de Canton French Ginger Liqueur

30ml Dark Rum

Splash of Pineapple Juice

Build on the rocks and stir.

The Last Word: Shaken Cocktails

30ml Gin – Broker’s works brilliantly here

20ml Lime juice

20ml Maraschino

15ml Green Chartreuse

A few drops of absinthe

Twinkle Toes: Vestal Vodka

30ml Vestal blended potato vodka

5ml Elderflower cordial

Top with Freixenet Brut cava

Liverpool Rose: Liverpool Gin

25ml Liverpol Rose Gin

5ml White Cacoa

2.5ml Sugar syrup

1 dash Peychaud bitters

Want to taste this cocktail and more? Tickets are still available for the Gin Party in the Palm House happening 15 October 2015. Get your tickets here.