The best co*cktail recipes for those sunny spring afternoons (2024)

Taylor Swift reportedly ordered this drink while in Kansas City watching Travis Kelce play. So why wouldn't you want to try it, too?

Ingredients

• 30 ml Bombay Sapphire Gin
• 15 ml St-Germain elderflower liqueur
• 60ml Orange aperitif wine OR dry vermouth
• 60 ml fresh strained grapefruit juice
• 1 dash lemon bitters

Method

Fill your co*cktail shaker with ice, add all the ingredients and shake vigorously until well-chilled. Strain into a chilled coupe to serve. (If you’re feeling extra fancy, garnish with a grapefruit twist!).

We love the smoothness of a sour, with the added touch of bitterness from the angostura.

Ingredients

• 50ml Dutch Barn Orchard Vodka
• 25ml Monin Cherry Blossom Syrup
• 15ml Lemon Juice
• 50ml Egg white
• 2 drops Saline Solution
• 3 drops Angostura bitters

Method

Stamp a large ice cube and place it in a rocks glass. Combine all the ingredients apart from the bitters in a co*cktail shaker, dry shake first, then hard shake with ice. Double strain into the glass and garnish with 3 drops of angostura bitters.

Add a bitter twist to a classic margarita with this blood orange combination.

Ingredients

• 45ml 1800 Tequila
• 20ml Lime juice
• 20ml blood orange juice
• 15ml agave syrup
• Garnish with a slice of blood orange peel

Method

Add the tequila, lime and blood orange juice and agave syrup to a co*cktail shaker. Shake with ice, before pouring into a chilled coupe glass, garnished with a slide of blood orange peel.

A tropical twist on a classic margarita: guaranteed to make you feel like you're sitting on a beach in Mexico and watching the world go by.

Ingredients

• 45ml 1800 coconut
• 20ml lime juice
• 10ml agave syrup
• Garnish with salted coconut rim

Method

First, salt the rim of your glass. Then add your remaining ingredients into a co*cktail shaker with ice, and strain into your glass.

A sweet twist on a bourbon co*cktail, perfect for sipping on a nice spring evening.

Ingredients

• 60 ml Woodford Reserve
• 30 ml lemon juice
• 20 ml honey
• 240 ml peach iced tea

Method

Combine ingredients into a tall glass and stir. Garnish with a slice of peach or lemon wheel.

Made in collaboration with Camila Cabello, the drink is a twist on a classic rum punch and will have you feeling like you're at carnival.

Ingredients

• 60 ml BACARDÍ Carta Blanca rum
• 15 ml St Germain liqueur
• 15 ml Passion Fruit Nectar
• 15 ml lime (juice of about half a lime)
• 30 ml coconut water
• Lime wheel and toasted coconut flakes as garnish

Method

Build all ingredients into a rocks glass filled with cubed ice. Give a quick stir to combine. Garnish with a lime wheel and toasted coconut flakes.

What's a spring co*cktail suggestion without an Aperol Spritz?

Ingredients

• 75ml of Prosecco D.O.C
• 50ml of Aperol
• 25ml of soda
• 1 slice of orange

Method

Fill a large wine glass with ice. First pour 75ml of Prosecco. Add 50ml Aperol. Top with a 25ml dash of soda. Garnish with a slice of orange.

Like a mango lassi but alcoholic.

Ingredients

• 50ml Salford Rum
• 3 large slices of mango (or 15ml mango purée)
• 25ml lime juice
• 10ml sugar syrup

Method

In a shaker, muddle the mango in the sugar syrup, add the other ingredients and shake well. Fine strain into a chilled coupette and garnish with mango slices.

You had us at "honey sour".

Ingredients

• 50ml Nine Tines Vodka
• 50ml Blood Orange Juice (approx. juice from 1 blood orange)
• 25ml Lemon Juice
• 25ml Good Quality Honey
• Splash of Bitters

Method

Combine all the ingredients in a co*cktail shaker, shake with ice, pour into glass and add garnishes.

A paloma is the perfect balance of bitter and sweet, and if anyone's going to know how to do it right, it's Patrón.

Ingredients

• 45ml Patrón Reposado
• 90ml Fresh grapefruit juice
• 15ml Agave syrup (1:1)
• 15ml Fresh-squeezed lime juice
• 30ml Sparkling water
• 1 pinch of salt + Grapefruit slice for garnish
• Salt rim (optional)

Method

Combine all ingredients except sparkling water in a shaker and shake with ice to chill. Strain onto fresh ice in a sugar and salt rimmed collins glass. Top with sparkling water and garnish with a grapefruit wedge.

The perfect choice if you're after something with a kick!

Ingredients

• 45ml Mi Campo Reposado
• 15ml Crème de Cassis
• 15ml Lime Juice
• Ginger beer

Method

Add all ingredients except for the ginger beer to a co*cktail shaker with ice. Shake until the shaker becomes frosty. Strain into a collins glass with ice and top with ginger beer. Garnish with seasonal berries.

You had us at 'neon green'.

Ingredients

• 60ml Mi Campo Blanco
• 60ml Verdita
• 20ml Chareau
• 30ml simple syrup

Method

To make verdita, mix 240ml pineapple juice, 1 jalapeño, several sprigs of coriander and mint – blend and strain through fine mesh strainer. Then, shake and strain all of your ingredients over ice in a collins glass and garnish with mint.

Mermaid Gin has not only come up with this delicious recipe for a pin gin picante but they've also got maybe the prettiest gin bottle going?! We're obsessed.

Ingredients

• 50ml Mermaid Pink Gin
• 30ml Lime Juice
• 10ml Agave/honey/sugar syrup
• Coriander sprig to garnish (optional)

Method

Combine the ingredients over ice and shake. Strain into a chilled glass and garnish with a sprig of coriander... depending on your stance on coriander, that is.

This stunner looks so pretty and fresh we can practically feel the sun breaking through the clouds rn.

Ingredients

• 50ml VIVIR Tequila Blanco or Reposado
• 10ml Agave Syrup
• 10ml Lime Juice
• 60ml Pink Grapefruit Juice
• Soda water or grapefruit soda to fill glass
• Wedge of pink grapefruit
• Sea salted rim if desired
  

Method

Wipe a slice of lime around the rim of a highball glass. Then dip into sea salt so the rim is coated. Grab a co*cktail shaker and fill with ice. Add all ingredients except the soda water, shake, place some ice into your glass, pour in your co*cktail and top up with soda water or grapefruit soda. Add the pink grapefruit wedge

Blackberry and basil? Have you ever heard of a fresher combo?!

Ingredients

• 1 tablespoon sugar
• ½ lime
• 3 ripe blackberries
• 6-7 basil leaves
• 42ml of Copalli White Rum
• 1 cup crushed ice
• ¼ cup soda
• Blackberries and basil leaves to garnish

Method

Add the lime segments, blackberries, and sugar to a co*cktail glass and gently muddle 7-8 times. Add basil and gently muddle again 4-5 times to infuse flavour. Add the rum and gently stir with a spoon to combine. Add crushed ice, gently stir, and top with a splash of soda. Gently stir once more. Garnish with a bit more crushed ice and garnish with blackberries and basil.

As if daiquiris weren't already nice enough the clever people over at Mount Gay Rum have come up with this delicious recipe for a passion fruit one. Name a sunnier-sounding drink, we dare you.

Ingredients

• 50ml Mount Gay Black Barrel
• 25ml Fresh Squeezed Lime Juice 
• 15ml Passion Fruit Syrup
• 15ml Cointreau

Method

Add the rum, lime juice, syrup and Cointreau to a co*cktail shaker with ice. Shake and strain into chilled coupe. Garnish with a lemon wheel or peel, and enjoy!

Whether you're lounging in the garden on a sunny spring day, or if you've just cranked the heating up to create the summertime illusion, this co*cktail is the perfect accompaniment.

Ingredients

• 50ml Palm Beach Banana and Butterscotch
• 25ml amaretto
• 25ml lime juice
• 50ml pineapple juice
• Wedge of pineapple to garnish.

Method

Add all ingredients to a rocks glass with ice. Churn the ingredients until chilled and diluted. Garnish with a wedge of pineapple.

Ooft these look refreshing. They're also super simple to make, even in big batches meaning fewer kitchen trips for you.

Ingredients

• 50ml Jimador Silver Tequila
• 25ml Lime Juice
• 25ml Fresh Strawberry Purée

Method

Fill a blender with ice and all of the ingredients. Blend to your desired consistency. Then, pour into a salt-rimmed glass and garnish with strawberries and basil leaves. Cheers!

People either love it or hate it, but it's a classic co*cktail regardless. It's also a perfect drink for spring - fresh, tasty, and strong.

Ingredients

• 25ml gin
• 25ml sweet vermouth
• 25ml Campari
• Ice
• Blood orange slice to garnish

Serves one

Method

Combine the gin, vermouth and Campari in a shaker with ice and stir until the metal feels cold (the benefit of using a metal shaker). Strain into a tumbler and add fresh ice and a slice of blood orange.

Clearly, one of the best things about being an adult is turning all your favourite childhood sweets into co*cktails. Enter, the pineapple sherbet spritz.

Ingredients

• 50ml TW Kempton Pineapple Sherbet Gin Liqueur
• 25ml Pineapple juice
• 10ml Lemon juice
• 10ml vanilla syrup
• Soda top

Method

Mix all ingredients over ice in a large wine glass and garnish with a pineapple wedge.