What can be more classic and elegant than a glass of sparkling white cocktail served with a bright wedge of fruit, maraschino cherry or a citrus peel? Cocktails are meant to rejuvenate the senses and clear or white cocktails serve the purpose in the best possible way by lifting up the senses with their sparkling white flawless nature.
Listed below are some classic white cocktails which will lift up your senses even before you can understand the magic of the cocktail.
Atlantic Cocktail
Ingredients
1 oz. of Gin 1 oz. of Cointreau 1 maraschino cherry 1 oz. of light rum
Tools
1 cocktail glass 1 cocktail shaker Jiggers
Method Of Preparation
Insert a cocktail glass into the freezer to let it chill. This may take somewhere between 10-15 minutes. While the glass is sitting in the freezer, rinse a maraschino cherry under running water and make sure that you pull out the stem from it. Once you are ready with the glass, throw some ice cubes into a cocktail shaker and then pour the Gin, Cointreau and the Light Rum into it.
Shake the shaker a few times vigorously and then pour the drink into the prepared cocktail glass by straining it through a strainer. Once everything is prepared, drop the maraschino cherry into the glass and then serve the drink.
Bamboo Cocktail
Ingredients
½ oz. of Dry Vermouth 2 oz. of Fino or dry sherry 1/4th teaspoon of orange bitters
Tools
1 cocktail glass 1 cobbler shaker
Method Of Preparation
- Pour the Dry Vermouth and the sherry into a cocktail shaker which is filled with ice cubes and then add a dash of orange bitters to it. Cover up the shaker tightly with its lid and then shake it until it becomes very cold and misty. Now take out a chilled cocktail glass from the freezer and strain the prepared cocktail into the glass by pouring it out of the shaker.
Caipiroska Cocktail
Ingredients
2 oz. of Vodka 1 tablespoon of powdered sugar 4 wedges of lime
Tools
1 muddler 1 old-fashioned glass 1 bar spoon 1 knife 1 jigger
Method Of Preparation
Take a fresh lime and cut in half. Remove the seeds of the lime carefully and then cut one of the halves into 4 wedges. Once done, take an old-fashioned glass and throw the lime wedges in it. Add 1 tablespoon of powdered sugar to the lime wedges and then muddle up the mixture with a muddler.
Once thoroughly muddled, throw some crushed ice over the lime wedges and then slowly pour the vodka to fill up the glass. Stir the drink lightly with a stirrer. Once the entire glass is filled up, serve the drink immediately.
Gibson Cocktail
Ingredients
2 oz. of Gin 3 cocktail onions 1 oz. of Dry Vermouth
Tools
1 mixing glass 1 cocktail stick 1 bar spoon 1 jigger 1 bar strainer
Method Of Preparation
- Fetch a mixing glass and fill it up with ice cubes. Pour the Dry Vermouth and the Gin into the mixing glass and then give a nice stir to the mixture with the help of a bar spoon. Once all the added ingredients are thoroughly incorporated into one another, fetch a chilled cocktail glass and strain the prepared drink into it. Finally, attach 3 cocktail onions to a cocktail stick and drop that into the cocktail glass to garnish the cocktail.
Carameltini Cocktail
Ingredients
2 oz. of Stoli Salted Caramel Vodka 2 teaspoons of Scotch
Tools
1 cocktail glass 1 strainer 1 cocktail shaker
Method Of Preparation
- Fill up a shaker with ice cubes and then pour the caramel vodka into it. Close the lid of the shaker and then shake it until the vodka becomes chilled. Once done, take a chilled glass and prepare it by pouring the scotch into it. Then swirl the glass to coat it entirely with the Scotch. Once done, strain the chilled caramel vodka into the prepared cocktail glass to serve it.
Perfect Lady Cocktail
Ingredients
1 oz. of Gin ½ oz. of fresh lemon juice 1 teaspoon of sugar syrup 1 egg white ½ oz. of peach brandy A wedge of peach, for garnishing
Tools
1 knife 1 shaker 1 citrus press 1 cocktail glass
Method Of Preparation
Cut up a fresh lemon in half and then squeeze out ½ oz. of lemon juice from it without dropping any seeds in the juice. Then take a fresh peach and cut out a thin wedge from it. After that, fetch a shaker and pour the Gin, fresh lemon juice and the peach brandy in it. Now take an egg and break it open in half.
Toss the egg yolk to collect only the egg white in a bowl and then drop the extracted egg white into the shaker. Finally add the sugar syrup to the mixture and then shake everything up nicely to combine. Once thoroughly combined, strain the mixture into a chilled glass and serve it with a wedge of peach.
Army And Navy Cocktail
Ingredients
½ oz. of freshly squeezed lemon juice 2 oz. of Plymouth Gin 1/4th oz. of Orgeat almond syrup
Tools
1 citrus press 1 cocktail glass Jigger 1 cocktail shaker 1 strainer
Method Of Preparation
- Squeeze out ½ oz. of fresh lemon juice from a lemon and then measure 2 oz. of Plymouth Gin and 1/4th oz. of Orgeat almond syrup with the help of jiggers. Once ready, take a cocktail shaker and pour the measured quantity of almond syrup and Gin into it. Follow that by adding the lemon juice. Once everything is added, shake the shaker to get a homogenous drink. Then fetch a chilled cocktail glass and strain the drink into it.
White Lady Cocktail
Ingredients
3/4th oz. of Cointreau or Triple Sec 1oz. + 3/4th oz. of fresh lemon juice 2 oz. of Plymouth Gin 1 oz. of egg white 1 lemon peel, for garnishing
Tools
1 twist knife 1 knife 1 cocktail glass 1 shaker 1 citrus press
Method Of Preparation
- Drop 5-6 ice cubes into a cocktail shaker and then pour the gin, Cointreau and the lemon juice into it. Then crack open the egg in half and drop the egg white over the mixture. Prepare the shaker by tightly closing it with its lid and then give it a nice shake until the egg white thoroughly mixes with the rest of the ingredients. Once done, fetch a cocktail glass and pour the drink into it by passing it through a strainer. Finally, drop a thin lemon peel on top to serve the gorgeous drink.