Bahama Mama Breeze
2 1/2 cups pineapple juice
1 cup strawberries sliced
1 banana sliced
1/2 cup coconut cream
2 cups ice
Puree all ingredients in blender until thick and smooth. Pour into glasses. Garnish with a strawberry if desired. Serves 6.
Bloody Mary Mocktail
3 cups V8 vegetable juice
1 teaspoon worcestershire sauce
1 teaspoon prepared horseradish
1/2 teaspoon hot pepper sauce
lemon slices for garnish
Mix together first four ingredients. Serve over ice. Garnish with lemon slices. Serves 3.
Hot Raspberry Cider
8 cups apple cider or apple juice
1 cup frozen raspberry juice concentrate, thawed
2 tablespoons granulated sugar
1 cinnamon stick
Combine all ingredients in 4-quart saucepan. Heat over medium heat, stirring occasionally, until mixture starts to simmer. Reduce heat and simmer 10 minutes. Remove cinnamon stick. Serve warm.
Cinnamon-Apple Hot Toddy
1 (46 ounce) can apple juice
1/3 cup cinnamon red hots
Place red hots in a coffee filter and place in the percolator basket of a coffeemaker. Pour apple juice into the water well of the coffeemaker and brew.
Coffee Eggnog
2 eggs, separated
1 T. vanilla extract
1/3 c. sugar
1/3 c. instant coffee
Dash salt
2 c. milk, chilled
1 c. heavy cream, whipped
3/4 c. water
Shaved, unsweetened chocolate
In a small bowl with electric mixer at high speed, beat egg whites until soft peaks form. Graudally beat in sugar until stiff peaks form. In large bowl, beat egg tolks until lemon-colored. Gradually beat in coffee, salt, vanilla, milk and water. Stir in egg-white mixture and whipped cream. Mix well. Serve well chilled with chocolate sprinkled over each serving. Makes 12 servings.
Virgin Cosmopolitans
Ice cubes
1 cup cranberry juice
1 cup fresh tangerine juice
1/4 cup fresh lime juice
4 lime zest twists
Place 4 martini glasses in the freezer to chill for at least 30 minutes. Then fill a cocktail shaker half full with ice. Pour in the cranberry juice, tangerine juice and lime juice. Cover with the lid and shake vigorously for 10 seconds. Strain into the chilled glasses, dividing evenly. Garnish each glass with a lime twist.
Mock Peach Daiquiri
1 (14 ounce) can sliced peaches, drained (reserve juice)
1 tablespoon lemon juice
6 ice cubes
1/3 cup milk
1/2 cup peach juice
1/2 teaspoon rum flavoring
Combine all ingredients in blender. Blend until ice is gone. Serve immediately. Makes 2 1/2 cups including foam.
Variation: For Mock Strawberry Daiquiri, substitute fresh strawberries for peaches. Add 1 tablespoon sugar to taste.
The Enforcer
Fresh brewed coffee
Whipped cream
Chocolate sprinkles
Sugar cubes
Cinnamon
Pour coffee into a mug and stir in 2 sugar cubes and a dash of cinnamon. Top with whipped cream and chocolate sprinkles.
Great Grape Punch
2 ½ cups pineapple juice
2 ½ cups orange juice
2 ½ cups grape juice
2 tbsp lemon juice
16 oz ginger ale
Combine fruit juices. Add ginger ale just prior to serving. Makes 10 servings.
Hot Buttered Pineapple Drink
1 (48 ounce) can pineapple juice
2/3 cup orange juice
2 tablespoons butter or margarine
2 teaspoons brown sugar
4 (3-inch) sticks cinnamon
Combine all ingredients in a large saucepan; bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer 20 minutes. Remove cinnamon sticks and serve hot. Makes 5 cups.
Lemon Frappe
1 (6 ounce) can frozen lemonade concentrate, undiluted
1 1/2 cup water
1 pint lemon ice cream or sherbet
1 (12 ounce) can ginger ale
Combine first 3 ingredients in blender and mix until smooth. Spoon into pitcher; stir in ginger ale. Serve immediately. Makes 5 cups.
Peach Cooler
2 cups cold milk
1 cup frozen unsweetened sliced peaches
2 tablespoons frozen orange juice concentrate
2 tablespoons honey
Blend together all ingredients on high speed until smooth and frothy. Serve immediately. Use fresh mint for garnish.
Peach Island Iced Tea
2 cups peach nectar
1 tbsp fresh lemon juice
4 tbsp granulated sugar
2 cinnamon sticks
4 tea bags
4 cups cold water
Bring cold water to a boil. Pour over tea bags and cinnamon sticks in heat-proof pitcher or container; stir briefly. Allow to steep for 4-5 minutes or until desired strength. Strain tea into another container. Stir in sugar, lemon juice and peach nectar; cool. To serve, pour into ice-filled glasses. Garnish with lemon wedge or fresh peach wedge if desired. Makes about 6 servings.
Wassail Recipe
1 quart water
2 Oranges
2 Lemons
1 Lime
1 tbsp Cloves
1 tbsp Allspice
2 Cinnamon sticks
1 gal apple juice or cider
1 cup Sugar
Heat the water to boiling. Cut the lemons, oranges and lime in half and squeeze the juice into a separate bowl to save, throw the skins and pulp into the boiling water. Add spices and simmer for one hour.
Remove the cinnamon sticks, a few cloves, allspice and save to one side. Using a slotted spoon or strainer remove the citrus peels and pulp and the remaining spices. Return the cinnamon sticks and saved spices to the water. Add the apple juice or cider and return to heat.
When boiling, remove from heat and add the saved citrus juice and sugar. Simmer very lightly for another 10 minutes and serve.
Red Delicious Punch
2 bottles non-alcoholic sparkling cider
1 qt. cranberry juice
Mint sprigs
Frozen ice ring
Pour sparkling cider into a punch bowl. Mix in cranberry juice. Float the frozen ice ring in the punch bowl, and garnish with sprigs of mint.
Red Ruby Frost Punch
1 pint bottle cranberry juice
1 ½ cups lemon juice
1 cup sugar
1 pint raspberry sherbert
2-26 oz bottles chilled ginger ale
Combine cranberry juice, lemon juice and sugar, blending well. Chill. Pour over ice in punch bowl. Add ginger ale and sherbert. Serve at once. Makes 24 servings.
Recipes that Make One or Two Servings
Virgin Bellini Recipe
1 tsp. non-alcoholic Grenadine
1 oz. Lemon Juice
3 oz. Peach Nectar
4 oz. Club Soda
Pour all ingredients into a Champagne Flute and stir well.
Coffee-Apricot Cooler
¼ cups coffee, chilled
½ cup chilled apricot nectar (juice)
1/3 cup cold milk
½ pint coffee ice cream, softened
Mix coffee, apricot nectar, and milk together. Add the ice cream and beat until smooth. Pour into chilled glasses.
Citrus Collins
2 oz. orange or grapefruit juice
1 oz. lemon juice
1 oz. simple syrup*
Club Soda
Fill a 10-12 oz. glass with ice. Add ingredients above, then fill with club soda. Garnish with 1/2 orange slice and a cherry.
*Simple syrup: In a saucepan, combine 2 c. sugar and 1 c. water. Bring to boil, stirring until sugar dissolves. Boil gently 5 minutes. Makes about 2 cups and will keep in refrigerator for about 6 months.
Designated Driver's Delight
2 1/2 oz. orange juice
1 1/4 oz. pineapple juice
1 1/4 oz. cranberry juice
2 scoops vanilla ice cream
3-4 frozen strawberries
Mix all ingredients in a blender until smooth. Serve in a hurricane glass with an orange slice and a strawberry.
Faux Kir
White grape juice, chilled
Non-alcoholic Grenadine syrup
Raspberry ginger ale, chilled
For each serving, fill a large wine glass half-full with chilled white grape juice. Still in 1 T. non-alcoholic grenadine syrup. Fill with cold raspberry ginger ale.
Fruit Loose and Fancy Free
2 oz orange juice
2 oz grapefruit juice
1 tsp lemon juice
4 oz club soda
maraschino cherry
Vigorously shake juices and soda with crushed ice. Chill. Pour into a tall chilled glass. Drip in tsp. maraschino juice. Garnish with orange slice, lemon slice and throw in a cherry.
Fuzzy White Navel
2 large oranges
2 cups vanilla ice cream
½ cup chopped fresh or canned peaches
4 ice cubes
Fresh mint
In blender, combine pulp and juice of two oranges, ice cream, peaches and ice cubes; blend until smooth. Garnish with mint and serve with short straws.
Lemon Fizz
¼ cup lemon juice
1 tsp sugar
1 cup club soda
ice cubes
Combine lemon juice and sugar in tall glass and stir until sugar is dissolved. Add 3-4 ice cubes and fill with club soda.
Dri-Mai-Tai
2 ounces club soda
1 ounce fresh squeezed orange juice
1 ounce fresh squeezed lemon juice
1 ounce pineapple juice
1 ounce simple syrup(recipe below)*
½ ounce grenadine syrup
½ ounce fresh squeezed lime juice
¾ cup crushed ice
Orange cartwheel slice
Maraschino cherry
In blender, combine all ingredients except orange and cherry; blend until smooth. Pour into tall glass. Garnish with orange and cherry threaded on long wooden skewer.
*Simple syrup: In saucepan, combine 2 cups sugar and 1 cup water. Bring to boil; stir to dissolve sugar. Boil gently for 5 minutes. Makes 2 cups. Will keep 6 months refrigerated.
Virgin Manhattan Recipe
1/4 cup Cranberry Juice
1/4 cup Orange Juice
1/2 tsp Cherry Juice
1/4 tsp Lemon Juice
1 - 2 dashes Orange Bitters
Shake ingredients with ice, and strain; either into a chilled cocktail glass, or on the rocks in an old-fashioned glass. Garnish with a maraschino cherry, and serve.
Mock Libation
1 cup fresh squeezed orange juice (3 oranges)
2 to 3 orange segments
1 tablespoon vanilla yogurt
½ teaspoon orange-flavored gelatin (dry)
Orange and/or grapefruit segments for garnish
Fresh mint
Tall glass chilled in freezer. Then turn frosted glass upside-down into small amount of additional orange-flavored gelatin to coat rim. Return to freezer.
In blender, combine all ingredients except garnish; blend until smooth. Pour into prepared glass; garnish with 3 citrus segments threaded on long wooden skewer. Top drink with mint.
New Year's Eve Kiss
Passion fruit juice
Club soda
Pour 2 oz. passion fruit juice in a champagne flute. Fill with club soda.
Noon On The Equator
¼ cup orange juice
¼ cup tomato juice
Juice of ¼ lemon
¼ teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
1 ½ teaspoons grenadine syrup
Dash of tabasco sauce
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
Combine all ingredients in cocktail shaker, add ice and shake well. Strain into glass.
Tropical Orange Crush
2/3 cup orange juice
1 ring of pineapple
1 tsp lemon juice
Blend orange juice, pineapple and lemon juice for 30 seconds. Serve over ice in tall glass.
Peach Sunset
1 cup pineapple juice
Juice of 2 oranges (about 2/3 cup)
½ cup low fat cottage cheese
1 fresh peach, peeled and sliced or 2 canned peach halves, drained
2 teaspoons fresh squeezed lemon juice
1 packet low calorie sweetener
Crushed ice
Orange peel for garnish
In blender, combine all ingredients, except crushed ice and garnish. Blend until smooth. Pour over crushed ice; serve with orange garnish and straws.
Peachy Freeze
¾ cup cold milk
¾ cup chilled peaches
¼ tsp salt
3 drops almond extract
½ cup vanilla ice cream
Blend milk, peaches, salt & almond extract until smooth. Add ice cream and blend until smooth.
Pina Colada Perfecto for One
1 oz of creme of coconut
2 oz of pineapple juice
1 ½ oz of club soda
Mix over ice.
Pina Colada a la Papaya
1/2 cup fresh lemon juice
1 3/4 cups cold water
5 tablespoons granulated sugar
1 cup chopped fresh pineapple
1/2 ripe papaya, seeded, peeled and coarsely chopped
1/4 cup cream of coconut
Blend ingredients until smooth. Refrigerate at least 30 minutes. Garnish with pineapple wedges.
Virgin Strawberry Colada
7 ripe Strawberries
5 oz Pineapple Juice
1 1/2 oz Coconut Cream
1 cup Crushed Ice
Combine strawberries, pineapple juice, coconut cream and crushed ice in a blender, and blend well at high speed. Pour into a collins glass, garnish with a cherry and pineapple wedge, and serve.
Root Beer Twist
2 tsp lime juice
twist of lime rind
root beer
ice cubes
Place 3-4 ice cubes in tall glass. Add lime juice and rind. Fill with root beer and stir gently.
Rumless Rickey Recipe
1 dash non-alcoholic Grenadine
1 dash Bitters
1 oz. Lime Juice
Club Soda
Add juice, grenadine, and bitters to old-fashioned glass with three to four large ice cubes. Top with club soda. Stir. Garnish with long twist of lime.
Salt of the Border
1 cup of bitter lemon or lime soda
juice of one lemon
2 tsp sugar
salt to taste
crushed ice
Pour soda in ice cube tray and allow to freeze thoroughly. Place in blender container; add lime juice and sugar; process. Rub lime around rim of glass and dip in salt. Serve the mixture over crushed ice in the salted glass.
Sweet n' Tart Cubes
1 pkg raspberry flavoured soft drink mix
½ cup sugar
4 cups unsweetened pineapple juice
lemon-lime carbonated beverage
Combine drink mix, sugar and pineapple juice and stir until dissolved. Pour into 2-3 ice cube trays and freeze. To serve place 3-4 cubes in tall glass and fill with lemon-lime carbonated beverage.
Vanilla Eggcreme
Blend together equal parts:
Milk
Club Soda
Dash of Vanilla
Dash of sugar
These recipes are provided by the Washington Regional Alcohol Program and the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles as well as other sources.