Discover our favorite retro cocktails, then take a look at the greatest gin cocktails, fruity cocktails and three-ingredient cocktails.
From creamy piña coladas to tequila sunrises, retro cocktails are having a renaissance. Simple consuming and attention-grabbing, they’re nice for events and for including a bit enjoyable to cocktail hour.
Finest retro cocktail recipes
Piña colada
Transport your self to the tropics with our good piña colada recipe. Creamy, fruity and delightfully retro, this drink of coconut cream, white rum and pineapple is ideal for summer time sipping. You’ll want a blender for this recipe – and be sure you don’t use an excessive amount of ice as this can make the cocktail watery.
Tequila dawn
This easy-drinking, kitsch tequila cocktail appears very placing and may be made in simply two minutes. Simply be sure you serve the drink unmixed as that is the important thing to these all-important ‘dawn’ layers.
Intercourse on the seaside
Make this traditional vodka cocktail with only a handful of components and our easy recipe – it is a citrussy serve for sunny days
Blue lagoon
Who does not love a blue cocktail? Maximise your vacation vibes with this vibrant, candy and fruity drink.
Lengthy island iced tea
For a cocktail that options 5 totally different spirits – gin, vodka, rum, tequila and triple sec – this drink is surprisingly clean and simple consuming.
Cosmopolitan
This traditional 90s cocktail – made well-known by a sure HBO collection – is deliciously tangy and fruity, and wishes simply 4 components to make.
French martini
Rising within the late 80s and 90s, the French martini exemplifies the period’s vogue for fruity and candy vodka cocktails.
Brandy alexander
Made with crème de cacao, cream and brandy, this decadent dessert cocktail makes for a particular after-dinner deal with.
Grasshopper
One for followers of mint chocolate, this retro, three-ingredient drink is a good dessert cocktail or festive celebration tipple. To make it much more particular, swap the cream for vanilla or mint chocolate chip ice cream and whizz the whole lot collectively in a blender till clean for a scrumptious boozy pudding.
Traditional snowball
Zesty lemonade and creamy advocaat should not go collectively however they work brilliantly on this traditional festive cocktail. Do not skip the lime juice as this stops the drink from being too cloying.
White russian
So referred to as as a result of vodka was the first ingredient, the white russian loved a interval of recognition through the disco years of the Nineteen Seventies earlier than fading into obscurity. That’s till the discharge of The Huge Lebowski in 1998, the place it was the go-to drink for Jeff Bridges’ The Dude, who drinks 9 of them all through the movie. To make this recipe vegan, substitute the cream in your favorite dairy-free single cream. We like utilizing oat-based ones greatest.
