It’s time for red, white and boozy drinks and Vixen has some simple and delicious cocktail recipes for you to try. To the patriotic few, Independence Day is a holiday commemorating the adoption of the Declaration of Independence, but to most of us it’s an excuse to shoot fireworks into the sky, have a cookout with your family and drink cocktails until you pass out.
Although it is always important that you drink responsibly, it is also important to drink in style. Check out some Fourth of July must-have recipes that will definitely deem you the hostess with the mostest.
1. The Fourth of July Cocktail
1 ounce watermelon schnapps
1 big splash cranberry juice
1 very thin slice jalapeno or serrano pepper
1 slice lemon
1 slice lime
1 1/2 ounces tequila
1/4 ounce blue curacao
1/2 ounce simple syrup
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2. Red White and Blue Martini
1 1/2 ounces vodka
1/2 ounce triple sec
1/2 ounce blue curacao
1/2 ounce prepared sweet-and-sour mix
1 dash grenadine
3. Patriotic Punch
Sobe Pina Colada
Gatorade Fruit Punch
G2 Gatorade Blueberry-Pomegranate
1 Part Whipped Cream Vodka
4. Born Free
1½ oz. SVEDKA Stars & Stripes
1 oz. watermelon schnapps
½ oz. cranberry juice
½ oz. lemon juice
½ oz. simple syrup
¼ oz. blue curacao
Soda water
5. Bloody Firecracker
2 oz. Skinnygirl cucumber vodka
2 oz. low-sodium tomato juice
lemon juice
squeeezed lime juice
teaspoon of worcestershire sauce
teaspoon of hot sauce
dash of salt
6. Red Hound
2 oz. ciroc red berry
1/4 oz. maraschino luxardo
1 1/2 oz. grapefruit juice
splash simple syrup
7. Life and Liberty
1 oz. UV blue vodka
1 oz. raspberry sherbet
1 oz. lemon-lime soda
8. Red, White and Blueberry
4 oz. maker’s mark bourbon
1.4 cup of lime juice
1/4 c. lemon juice
1/2 c. orange juice
1 oz. syrup
4 mint leaves
several blueberries
tablespoon of club soda
9. Strawberry Sparkler
6 oz. sauza tequila silver
2 oz. dekuyper strawberry
1 bottle of rosé champagne
4 oz. limeade
2 tablespoons of brown sugar
10. Jamaican Me Blue
2 oz. white Jamaican rum
1 oz. syrup
3/4 oz. blue curacao
1/2 oz. lime juice
1/2 oz. lemon juice