Classic Cocktail Recipes

If autumn was a cocktail, this collision of caramel apple and prosecco spritz would be it.

Want to know what we're sipping all summer long? It's this easy cocktail of fresh blueberries, lemon juice, simple syrup, sparkling wine, and soda.

A variation on our favorite Mexican cocktail, this long margarita includes tequila, Cointreau, and lime soda.

A not-too-sweet little sipper, made with vodka and Chambord and garnished with fresh raspberries, this refresher perks up cocktail hour.

"A terrific, deeply flavored cocktail." "A blessing after a rough day at work." That's what folks are saying about this cocktail.

If a trip to Hogsmeade isn't in your future, you can whip up a sweet little batch of Butterscotch Beer to tide you over. It's magical.

A modern riff on the classic Italian cocktail. The addition of orange-flavored hard seltzer gives your drink a refreshing, and unexpected, upgrade.

Last-minute gift, anyone? Repurpose your Christmas tree by infusing vodka with a sprig or three. A celebratory and cinch of a project that extends the Christmas spirit--and spirits.

Seven lords a leaping? Perhaps after partaking of this Christmas cheer it'll be seven lords a leaning. Prosecco, Campari, and citrus juice meld into an effervescent cocktail of holiday happiness.

The eminently trendy, magnificently slushy cocktail doesn't have to cost $15 a pour. Here's how to make frosé at home.

Mint. Muddled. Mine. When we've got this gin-based mojito on our minds, those are about the only words we can muster. Well, maybe add "More."

Crisp white wine, Cointreau, plenty of citrus, and sparkling water collide in this sipper that you can succumb to without regretting in the morning.

Happen to have a bottle of Kahlua collecting dust in the back of your liquor cabinet? Mix up one of these. (And, if you're bored, you could recreate scenes from The Big Lebowski...)

The classic martini--you know, the one sipped throughout decades past--dispenses with questions of shaken or stirred, dirty or dry. It just is what it is.

Bitter. Sweet. Floral. Herbal. Citrusy. Elegant. Classic. Fizzy. Magical in all ways. That's what folks are saying about this lovely little cocktail. Cin cin.

All the flavor of the classic without any of the purported hallucinogenic properties. With apologies to Baudelaire, Hemingway, van Gogh, et al.

A sprightly summer cocktail, this vibrant variant on a Pimm's Cup is a wham bam grand slam of booze, orange, lemon, cucumber, mint, and lemon-lime soda.

No mere cocktail and not just dessert, this margarita granita falls somewhere blissfully, intoxicatingly in between. Yet is still as satisfying as if you'd had both.

The only real trick to this stiff summery sensation is resisting the temptation to snitch a swig before it's time.

There are those people who feel a frozen margarita is a lesser margarita. We are not those people.