BY ANASTASIA CHOO

Aside from flowers and breakfast in bed on Mother’s Day, impress the Mama in your life with one of these easy cocktails:

Tea Tini –  It’s tea time and Mum will sure enjoy this light short drink on a Spring afternoon.

Ingredients:

• 50ml vodka
• 30ml iced tea (sweet)
• 10ml lemon juice (fresh)
• Garnish: ​lemon wedge
• Garnish: sugar for glass rim

Method:

• Pour the ingredients into a cocktail shaker with ice cubes.
• Shake well.
• Strain into a chilled cocktail glass rimmed with sugar.
• Garnish with the lemon wedge.

 

Pink Lady – A classy feel as the egg white forms a foam that sits on top, not unlike Mum wearing a hat.

Ingredients:

• 50l gin
• 25ml apple brandy
• 7.5ml freshly squeezed lemon juice
• 1-2 dashes grenadine
• 1 egg white
• Garnish: Maraschino cherry

Method:

• Pour the ingredients into a cocktail shaker with ice cubes.
• Shake vigorously.
• Strain into a chilled cocktail glass.
• Garnish with the cherry.

 

Glamour Girl – Girls night out for Mum.

Ingredients:

• 90ml Rose Pinot Grigio
• 30ml peach schnapps
• 15ml cranberry juice
• 1 rose petal or maraschino cherry (for Garnish)

Method:

• Pour the ingredients into a cocktail shaker filled with ice.
• Shake well.
• Strain into a chilled cocktail glass.
• Drop a rose petal or cherry in the drink for a garnish.

 

White Lady Cocktail – A gentle, mother- like variation of the Sidecar

Ingredients:

• 50ml gin
• 25ml orange liqueur
• 25ml freshly squeezed lemon juice

Method:

• Pour the ingredients into a cocktail shaker filled with ice cubes.
• Shake well.
• Strain into a chilled cocktail glass.

 

Porn Star Cocktail – Do not be put off by the name, it’s classy, refined and just a little wild.

Ingredients:

• 60ml vodka, vanilla if you have it, if not add a tiny splash of vanilla extract
• 1 1/2 fresh passionfruit, reserve the spare half for the garnish
• 15ml passionfruit liqueur
• 15ml simple syrup
• 15ml fresh lime juice
• 60ml Champagne or Prosecco
• Half a fresh passionfruit to garnish

Method:

• Take your cocktail shaker and add a good handful of ice.
• Scoop out the seeds and pulp from 1 and a half passionfruit, reserving the final half for the garnish, into the shaker.
• Add the vodka, vanilla flavoured if you have it followed by the Passion fruit liqueur, sugar syrup and fresh lime juice.
• Shake this fragrant mix until super chilled then pour into your cocktail glass.
• Garnish with the reserved half of passionfruit.
• Serve alongside the shot glass filled with Champagne or Prosecco.  Sip the cocktail alongside a sip of the fizz and marvel at this wonderful drink.

 

Blushing Lady –  A medley of sweet, sour and tart.

Ingredients:

• 60ml vodka
• 30ml pomegranate Liqueur
• 30ml pink grapefruit juice
• Garnish: strawberry
• Garnish: coarse sugar for rimming

Method:

• Rub a wedge of lemon around the rim of a cocktail glass and dip the glass into a plate of coarse sugar. Set it aside.
• Pour the remaining ingredients into a cocktail shaker with ice.
• Shake and strain into the prepared glass.
• Garnish with a strawberry.

 

In and Out Lemontini – Enjoy the Springtime freshness for dessert.

Ingredients:

• 100ml vodka
• 1 splash of limoncello

Method:

• Pour a splash of limoncello into a frozen cocktail glass.
• Swirl the liqueur around in the glass until all surfaces are coated.
• Shake the vodka in a cocktail shaker filled with ice.
• Throw away any excess limoncello in the glass.
• Strain the shaken vodka into the coated cocktail glass.
• Garnish with a lemon twist.