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Basic Gin Fizz Cocktail Recipe

Gin Fizz Cocktail

The classic gin fizz cocktail recipe.
Course: Cocktails

Ingredients
  

  • 2 oz gin
  • ¾ oz simple syrup
  • 1 oz fresh lemon juice
  • 1 egg white
  • club soda

Equipment

  • Cocktail shaker
  • Collins glass

Method
 

  1. Mix gin, simple syrup, egg white, and lemon juice in a cocktail shaker and shake for about 15 seconds, without ice, to thoroughly incorporate all ingredients.
  2. Add ice cubes and shake until chilled.
  3. Strain into a collins glass and then top off the glass with club soda.

Notes

This is the basic gin fizz cocktail.  I generally don’t make mine with egg whites and use a rocks glass with a large cube of ice instead of a collins glass.  Most recipes online call for soda water, but you can use mineral water, seltzer water, or sparkling water (like LaCroix); all make a great cocktail.  Mineral water will give a slightly different flavor profile than seltzer water.
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Old Fashioned

Old Fashioned

Course: Cocktails

Ingredients
  

  • 2 oz rye
  • 3 dashes angostura bitters
  • 1 tsp water
  • ½ tsp simple syrup
  • orange peel

Equipment

  • rocks glass

Method
 

  1. Combine rye, bitters, water, and simple syrup in a rocks glass. Stir; do not shake. Add ice cube. Garnish with orange peel.
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Mint Julep

Mint Julep

Course: Cocktails

Ingredients
  

  • 4-5 sprigs mint leaves only
  • ½ oz simple syrup
  • oz bourbon

Equipment

  • rocks glass
  • cocktail muddler

Method
 

  1. Muddle leaves with simple syrup in rocks glass; add bourbon; fill with crushed ice. Stir & serve.
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Aperol Sour

Aperol Sour

Course: Cocktails

Ingredients
  

  • 1 oz Aperol
  • 1 oz Gin
  • 1 oz lemon juice fresh squeezed
  • 1 oz simple sugar
Optional
  • 1 egg white

Equipment

  • Coupe glass
  • Cocktail shaker

Method
 

  1. Add Aperol, gin, lemon juice, and simple syrup to a cocktail shaker. Add ice cubes and shake vigorously for 30 seconds.
  2. Strain into a coupe glass and garnish with either a maraschino cherry, lemon slice, or lime slice.
If using egg white
  1. First add the egg white to the shaker and shake vigorously for 30 seconds. Then add the liquor and follow recipe above.
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Cosmopolitan

Cosmopolitan

Course: Cocktails

Ingredients
  

  • oz citrus vodka
  • ¾ oz Cointreau
  • ¾ oz lime juice fresh squeezed
  • ½ oz cranberry juice cocktail

Equipment

  • Coupe glass
  • Cocktail shaker

Method
 

  1. Add vodka, Cointreau, lime juice, and cranberry juice cocktail to a shaker with ice. Shake well until chilled.
  2. Strain cocktail into a couple glass.
  3. Garnish with a lime wedge