Summer may be drawing to a close, but it’s going to stay warm for a while. That means there’s plenty of time to fire up your blender and rethink frozen cocktails.  They don’t need to be sweet and overbearing, they can be balanced and still refreshing and delicious.

Armagnac Ambrosia

INGREDIENTS:

• 3 oz. Delord XO 15-Year-Old Armagnac
• 1 oz. Pierre Ferrand Dry Curaçao
• 1½ cups ice cubes 
• 2 kiwi fruits, peeled
• 5 fresh strawberries, leaves removed

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Strawberry Margarita

• 1 oz. Siete Leguas Reposado
• 1 oz. Teremana Reposado
• ¾ oz. lime juice, freshly squeezed
• 1 oz. Cappelletti Aperitivo
• 1 cup frozen strawberries
• Pinch of salt

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Piña Colada

• 2 oz. Bacardi Carta Blanca Rum
• 3 oz. pineapple juice
• 1½ oz. Cream of Coconut
• ½ oz. lime juice, freshly squeezed
• ½ cup fresh pineapple chunks, frozen
• ½ cup ice

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Saturn

• 1 oz. fresh lemon juice
• 1 oz. Liquid Alchemist Passion Fruit Syrup
• ½ oz. Velvet Falernum
• 2½ oz. Bombay Sapphire Dry Gin
• ½ oz, Liquid Alchemist Orgeat Syrup
• 2 cups crushed ice

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Frozen Negroni

• 1 oz. Cappelletti Aperitivo
• 1 oz. Fresh orange juice
• 1 oz. Cocchi Vermouth di Torino
• 1½ oz. Bombay Sapphire Dry Gin

SIMPLE STEPS:

Blend equal parts Cappelletti, orange juice and Cocchi, then freeze in ice cube trays until solid. Mix three ice cubs and 1½ ounces gin for every cocktail. 

Frozen Irish Coffee

• ½ cup vanilla ice cream
• 1¼ cups whole milk, frozen in an ice cube tray
• 4 oz. cold brew, chilled
• 2 oz. brandy
• 2 oz. Mr. Black Coffee Liqueur
• ¼ tsp fresh coffee grounds

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