3 Easy, Fruity Summer Cocktail Recipes

Name: Mai Tai
Yield: 1 drink
Ingredients: Ice; 2 ounces of light rum; 1 ounce of dark rum; 1 ounce of coconut rum; ½ ounce of triple sec; 1 ounce of orange juice; 1 ounce of pineapple juice; Splash of grenadine; Pineapple, umbrella, orange wheel and cherry for garnish

by Billy P. on June 16, 2016 Updated on November 16, 2018

You know summer is in the air when I start whipping out the booze and making some fruity drinks just like in these summer cocktail recipes!

I always say that my perfect bliss is somewhere in the Caribbean on a smoking hot beach with an umbrella and some sort of tropical fruity adult beverage in a coconut. Well I couldn’t get my hands on a coconut for this video but there is plenty of tasty drinks to go around! Whether it’s making an electric lemonade in a punch bowl or whipping up a blackberry mojito or even making a traditional mai tai, these 3 Summer Cocktail Recipes are sure to get you started off right this season. Enjoy, drink responsibly and get to pouring!!

Electric Lemonade Punch Bowl

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SERVINGS

12-14

INGREDIENTS

2 cups of vodka
2 cups of blue curacao
6 cups of lemonade
Ice
Lemon wheels and carnations for garnish

DIRECTIONS

Mix together the vodka, blue curacao and lemonade until combined and cool with ice. Serve with garnishes.

Blackberry Mojito

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SERVINGS

1 drink

INGREDIENTS

8 blackberries
4 fresh mint leaves
Juice of ½ lime
1 ounce of simply syrup (equal parts sugar and water boiled and cooled)
2 ounces of light rum4 ounces of club soda
Ice
Lime wheel, mint leaf and blackberries for garnish

DIRECTIONS

Muddle the blackberries, mint leaves and lime juice in the bottom of a tall glass until pureed and pour in the simple syrup, rum, club soda and ice. Stir and Serve with garnishes.