Cocktail Friday - Sonic Blaster

So its Cocktail Friday again.  

And its confession time for me.  

I actually made this on a saturday... I know, I am so bad.  What probably makes it worse, is that it was the saturday after the Pina Colada's.... I kinda have an excuse..... Oliver had his operation last friday, so we were unsure if we should drink too much, in case anything went wrong (more in another post).

Cocktails ahoy - its a Sonic Blaster! 

Ingredients for 2 

1oz vodka

1oz banana liqueur

1oz white rum

2oz orange juice

2oz pineapple juice

2oz cranberry juice.

Put all ingredients into cocktail shaker, with ice cubes.  Shake vigorously. Pour over crushed ice.

Oh.  My.  Word.  These were a little bit of tropical heaven.  Not too much of anything, but the right amount of everything.  These will definitely be made again.  

Cocktail Friday - piña colada

Hey everybody! 

Welcome to another edition of Cocktail Friday.  This weeks drink of choice: Pina Colada.  Ah, the beautiful taste of summer.  It's getting closer, can you feel it?!?

Ingredients for 2 drinks 

4oz light rum

2oz dark rum

4oz coconut cream

6oz pineapple juice

I put all the ingredients in the cocktail shaker, and well, shook.  

Ta - da.....

I initial poured these over ice cubes.  Man, they were STRONG.....  Literally every recipe I have seen for this says to combine all ingredients in a blender with ice.  I don't have a blender, so I had to improvise.

Second time round, I used crushed ice.  This made them taste not AS strong.  They still had a darn good kick though....

And that coconut cream, thats just weird stuff.  I was going to use coconut milk, but again, most recipes called fro the cream, so I purchased it anyway.  Who knows what else I can put it in....

Cocktail Friday - Bahama Mama

Ok folks, time for a new feature on the blog.  Hopefully this will encourage me to post more regularly....

Given our recent trip to the beach, and the fact summer is right around the corner (please...)  I have been indulging in cocktail making.  I tend to do this every few months or so, but usually only stick with one cocktail, that I end up being pig-sick of after a while.

Not this time.  I am determined to grow our liquor cabinet to something the boys will want to pilfer as they get older (everyone raided their parents alcohol stash as a teenager, right?!?)

So we will begin this new weekly series with the cocktail I indulged in on holiday, the Bahama Mama.  Typically I was missing some vital tools of the trade, like a cocktail shaker, a measuring utensil and hurricane glasses.   I found all of these at World Market.  

Ingredients to make 2 Bahama Mama's 

1 1/2 ounces coconut rum (its got to be Malibu....)

1 1/2 ounces banana liquor

2 ounces spiced run ( I used Goslings black rum, as, well, I am a Gosling...)

3 ounces of orange juice

5 ounces of pineapple juice

couple dashes of grenadine

Add all ingredients to cocktail shaker.  Shake.  Pour over ice into hurricane glasses.  Enjoy..

These were absolutely flipping lush.  We had 3 each last friday, and that was enough alcohol to not have a sore head the next day.  Makes the weekends easier when you don't have a sore head.  Wouldn't want to drink much more than that, as they are very sweet.  I wish I had taken some photos of them....  

I think tonights poison will be Pina Colada's.  

Check out my drinks board on Pinterest!