For almost a century, all over the world, mankind has been celebrating a delightful holiday - the Eighth of March. Traditionally, on this day, the representatives of the stronger sex prepare all sorts of surprises for their beloved ladies. Of course, there are many ways to please the lady of your heart. For example, you can prepare enchanting cocktails that perfectly complement festive table and will surprise even the most capricious beauty.

"Exotic cocktail" - an unforgettable taste of the tropics

This is a drink for those with a sweet tooth who love exotic fruits with their truly heavenly sweetness. Looks impressive and cooks pretty quickly.
We peel the sweet mango and cut it into beautiful slices, then beat the fruit with rum, coconut ice cream, and then decorate the cocktail with chocolate chips.

"Turquoise Dreams" - a cocktail for dreamy ladies

You need to have the following ingredients at home:

1. lemons (two pieces);
2. sugar (one hundred and fifty gr.), and then add lemon juice (thirty ml.);
3. soda (one hundred twenty ml.);
4. vodka (forty-five ml.).

So, you need to carefully cut the lemon zest and pour boiling water over it. Then, after cooling the zest liquid, add freshly squeezed lemon juice to it and leave the mixture for an hour in the refrigerator.

You can also simplify the preparation process by replacing the lemonade with a mixture of lemon juice and soda. It is preferable to pour the prepared liquid into a tall glass with ice and add a little vodka and delicious Blue Curacao liqueur, thanks to which the cocktail becomes turquoise and refreshing.

"Night of passion" - only for "hot things"

Undoubtedly, a romantic and sweet cocktail made from peach and lemon juice, as well as papaya syrup, ice, strong gin, along with an orange-flavored liqueur, will turn the head of any woman.

Put the ice cubes in a shaker and fill them with peach and lemon juice, orange liqueur, gin and papaya syrup. Shake the drink until foamy, then serve it in a chilled glass.

"Passion" - forbidden sweetness

The composition of the cocktail includes the famous Irish liqueur "Baileys" with a delicate creamy taste (fifty gr.) and strong French - "Cointreau" (fifty gr.), which has a floral fruity aroma. As a rule, the drink is supplemented with whipped sweet cream, and to remove excessive cloying, it is refreshed with ice chips.

Use a shaker and bring the ice to a crumb state, and then mix it with the liqueurs. When serving a cocktail, garnish it with whipped cream and a berry.

The intoxicating drink is served with chocolate chip cookies. Cut the pulp of pineapple into large cubes and beat in a blender, adding a little rum (literally a couple of tablespoons) and a little ice cream.

"Temptation" - a refreshing and bold cocktail

The cooking method is quite easy. You have to mix two parts of vodka, the same amount of pineapple and apricot liqueur. Then add some lime juice and Grenadine syrup. Shake all ingredients several times in a shaker.

"Superwoman" - ready in 5 minutes

A relatively strong cocktail with a noble taste of Scotch whiskey (forty ml) and cocoa notes (twenty ml of light liquor), decorated with airy cream (thirty ml) and "spicy" nuts. Stir the liqueur into the whiskey and pour the mixture into a long glass, garnishing generously with cream and nuts.

"Style Wumen" - a cocktail for stylish ladies

You need to cool all the components of the future drink in advance, which can impress with a slightly citrus-sour palette of aftertaste. Alternately pour into the shaker: vodka (fifty ml.); liquor (twenty-five ml.); cranberry and lemon juice (50 ml each). After mixing the drinks, pour the cocktail into cool glasses.

Shake the shaker vigorously for a while, then free the glass from the ice and pour the contents of the shaker into it. The cocktail can be garnished with a thin slice of lime.

Charming dessert "Raffaello" will melt the heart of any young lady

Dessert goes well with absolutely all eight cocktails. Melt white chocolate in a "water bath" or in the microwave, and then cool slightly and add to it butter and mix until smooth. Then add two tablespoons of lightly salted coconut flakes.

Put the prepared cream in the refrigerator and wait for the final cooling. While the chocolate yummy is cooling, take the almonds and mix them with wet hands with the sweet powder, then fry them over medium heat until the nuts turn golden.

We take out the frozen cream from the refrigerator, and then, armed with two spoons, we try to create balls into which we put the almonds and sprinkle with waffle breading, then we smear the future “Raffaella” with whipped cream and finally roll in coconut flakes. At the end, you will get an incredibly tasty and easy-to-prepare dessert. It is advisable to leave the dish overnight in the refrigerator and let it brew.

Video recipe: Homemade Raffaello

Festive cocktails must be unusual. For March 8th, we've rounded up some of the women's favorite and tastiest cocktails ever offered by famous bartenders around the world. Grab some recipes and get ready for the holidays.

Alcoholic cocktails for March 8

To prepare each of these cocktails and please your loved one on March 8, you will need a fairly extensive supply of various drinks. So that this does not empty your wallet too much, it is better to choose a few of them, the most successful in your opinion.

Sparkling Spice Champagne Cocktail

To prepare it, you need to get pink champagne and mango syrup.

To prepare one serving, take:

• A glass of champagne
• Two tablespoons of syrup
• Two hot peppers

First, pour the mango syrup into the glass. Topped with pre-chilled rose champagne. Pepper use as decoration. Be sure to wash it, remove the seeds and hang it beautifully on the edge of the glass.

Superwoman cocktail for strong women

This is a pretty strong cocktail, which you won’t be able to drink a lot. But if your beloved prefers strong drinks, she will undoubtedly be happy with him. To create it, you will need a good whiskey and cocoa liquor.

1. Mix 40 ml of whiskey with 20 ml of cocoa liqueur. It is best if the liquor is light.
2. Top the cocktail with whipped cream and sprinkle with a little ground nutmeg.

Real women's cocktail "Cranberry margarita"

The cocktail is very fresh and tasty, although quite strong. To prepare it you will need:

• Tequila
• Triple Sec liqueur
• Cranberry juice

Mix 300 ml of tequila with lime juice, add 100 ml of liqueur and 200 ml of cranberry juice. All this is best mixed in a shaker and then left for several hours in the refrigerator. Before serving, dip the rim of the glass in lime juice and dip in salt. Be sure to put a few pieces of ice in the glass.

Non-alcoholic cocktails for March 8

If you prefer non-alcoholic cocktails, make an exotic pineapple.

Non-alcoholic "Luxury pineapple"

To prepare it, you will need peach juice, papaya syrup and lemon juice. Place some ice in a shaker and add all the ingredients. Shake well - foam should form. Serve your loved one in a chilled glass.

It can be prepared in a slightly different interpretation:

• Ice cream
• A pineapple
• Some chocolate syrup

Slice the pineapple pulp and blend together with the chocolate syrup in a blender for about three minutes. After that, add 250 g of ice cream there and beat again. This cocktail is best served with chocolate chip cookies.

mango cocktail

If you want to really surprise and even delight your beloved woman on March 8, make this cocktail for her.

To prepare it, take:

• Mango - 2 pcs.
• Coconut ice cream - 250 g.
• Vanilla syrup - a few tablespoons
• Chocolate

Remove the skin from the mango and cut into large pieces. Place in blender and blend with vanilla syrup. A little later, add ice cream and whisk again. Cool the glasses and scatter the cocktail over them. Grate some chocolate and sprinkle on top.

One of the most popular drinks in Italy, produced in Venice at the beginning of the 20th century. Traditionally consists of sparkling wine and peach puree. It is the official cocktail of the International Bartending Association (IBA), under the category "Modern Classic".

original recipe

To prepare the original Bellini, puree of white peaches is used, crushed by hand and passed through a strainer for uniformity. Puree can be sweetened to taste sugar syrup and put to cool.

After that, cool puree and prosecco sparkling wine are poured into a shaker with ice in a ratio of 1:3, mixed, shaken and decanted into glasses without ice. Served immediately.

homemade recipe

At home, instead of white peaches, you can use yellow or peach juice with pulp. Prosecco is replaced with dry or semi-sweet champagne, in some cases gin or vodka.

The chilled components are mixed immediately in a glass, without using a shaker, and stirred with a spoon. The ratio of puree and alcohol can be changed up to 1:2.

Non-alcoholic recipe

To make non-alcoholic Bellini, you can add any carbonated drink or grenadine (sweet pomegranate syrup) instead of sparkling wine.

Price

A ready-made Bellini cocktail 0.75 l with a shelf life of 365 days can be purchased from 1,200 rubles at any alcohol store in Russia.

Story

The creator of the cocktail, Giuseppe Cipriani, named it after the painter Giovanni Bellini, who often depicted the robes of saints and angels on his canvases with a unique pinkish tint of white that reminded Cipriani of the color of the resulting cocktail.

It was invented in France (Burgundy) at the beginning of the 20th century and is a mixture of blackcurrant liqueur and dry wine. Just like the Bellini cocktail, it is included in the IBA under the category "Modern Classics". Recommended as an aperitif - a cocktail before a meal.

original recipe

Cold blackcurrant liqueur Creme de Cassis is poured into a chilled flute glass with a high and narrow bowl shape, followed by dry white wine in a ratio of 1 to 9. All this is thoroughly mixed with a small spoon and served on the table.

Cyrus piano

This type of cocktail uses champagne instead of dry white wine. The ratio can also be changed from 1:9 to 1:5. After cooking, you can decorate with canned or "drunk" cherries.

Kir Petillant

Instead of white wine, dry sparkling champagne is added.

Korn Kir

Vodka or brandy instead of wine.

Kir Imperial

Blackcurrant liqueur is replaced by raspberry, and dry white wine by champagne.

Kir Cardinal

Change white wine to still red.

Price

0.75 liters of Kir Royal Lejay can be purchased for 1,000 rubles.

Story

Named in honor of the priest Felix Cyrus, the hero of the Resistance and the post-war mayor of Dijon (the capital of Burgundy), where the Creme de Cassis liqueur was made. Cyrus contributed a lot to the popularization of the cocktail, offering it to delegations coming to the city.

Cocktail Rose

Alcoholic cocktail based on kirsch (cherry liqueur), strawberry syrup and dry vermouth. Created in 1919 in France, Paris, today it is one of the official cocktails of the International Association of Bartenders under the category "Modern Classics".

Recipe

Pour 20 ml of Kirschwasser white cherry liqueur and 40 ml of dry vermouth into a mixing glass, add three dashes (half a bar spoon) of strawberry syrup and put some ice. After thorough mixing, the drink is decanted into a cool cocktail glass or Martini glass. This cooking method is called Stir & Strain.

After cooking, you can decorate with cherries.

Story

The drink was invented in the Shatam bar by two bartenders at once and was popular in the 1920s in Paris. The original recipe used redcurrant syrup instead of cherry brandy (kirsch).

The all-day cocktail consists of vodka, cranberry and lemon juice and triple sec liqueur. It is an IBA Modern Classic. It was originally created in the 70s of the XX century as a support for Absolut Citron vodka (vodka with a lemon flavor).

Recipe

In a shaker are placed: 1 part triple sec liqueur, 3 parts vodka, 2 parts cranberry and 0.5 parts lemon juice. All this is mixed and decanted into a pre-chilled glass without ice. Rarely, a cocktail is garnished with a slice of lemon or orange.

Story

In the 70s of the XX century, when created, it took root only in some informal groups. The rebirth of the cocktail was due to Cheryl Cooke, a Florida barmaid, who decided to change the cocktail for women. Later, Toby Zizzini from Manhattan changed the recipe to one that has become considered a classic.

However, the real popularity of the drink was brought by the series "Sex in big city", which was released on the screen in 1998.

How to please yourself beautiful ladies in honor of a well-deserved holiday? Of course, sweet alcoholic cocktails that taste good and are not too harmful for a slender camp. We suggest you try the most popular cocktails on March 8.

world cocktail

Cosmopolitan is a drink for real fashionistas. This truth the world comprehended with light hand Hollywood. How to make the famous cocktail at home? Its main ingredient is Cointreau liqueur. Although it will be quite successfully replaced by Triple Sec or any other orange liqueur. Before cooking, we cool all the ingredients in advance, and fill the cocktail glass to the top with crushed ice. Next, alternately pour 50 ml of vodka, 25 ml of liquor, 50 ml of cranberry and 25 ml of lemon juice into the shaker, then whisk the mixture vigorously. Pour the ice out of the glass, fill it with a cocktail and decorate with a slice of lime or lemon.

tropical paradise

Delicate sweet "Pina Colada" is a constant favorite of alcoholic cocktails for girls. Make it at home and have an impromptu bachelorette party. Pour a handful of ice cubes into a blender, pour in 50 ml of light rum, 100 ml of pineapple juice and 50 ml of Malibu coconut liqueur. You can also add a sliced ​​banana if you like. Then the cocktail will turn out to be thicker and more saturated. Whisk all the ingredients until a homogeneous mixture is obtained and pour it into a pre-chilled cocktail glass. Before serving, decorate it with orange slices, pineapple and strawberries or cream.

Azure dreams

Do you dream of the gentle rustle of the sea surf and the velvety sandy coast? The cocktail " Blue Lagoon". Let's start with lemonade. Cut the peel from 3 lemons, add 150 g of sugar to it, pour 800 ml of boiling water and let it cool. Add the juice of squeezed lemons, leave it in the refrigerator for an hour, and then carefully filter. If there is no time, lemonade can be replaced with a mixture of 30 ml of lemon juice and 120 ml of quality soda. Fill a tall glass to the brim with ice cubes. Next, pour 45 ml of vodka, 20 ml of Blue Curacao liqueur and 150 ml of ready-made lemonade into it.

strawberry caresses

Another cocktail ladies' hit is the famous "Margarita". The combination of stunning tequila and refreshing citruses is really sweet to a woman's heart. In addition, it is quite simple to prepare such a cocktail at home. We wash it under cold water 30 g of fresh strawberries, remove the stalks and put them in a blender bowl. Add to the berries 50 ml of tequila, 20 ml of Cointreau liqueur, 30 ml of lime or lemon juice and 2-3 tbsp. l. crushed ice. Blend all ingredients until you get a smooth drink. Before serving, moisten the rim of the glasses and dip them in powdered sugar, after which we fill it with a chilled cocktail.

chocolate perfection

Chocolate is perhaps the most seductive delicacy that almost no woman can resist. Therefore, recipes for sweet alcoholic cocktails with his participation are especially tasty. Melt in a water bath 50 g of dark chocolate with a mass fraction of cocoa beans of at least 75%. Add 40 ml of dark rum to it and cool slightly. We put 2-3 thin rings of hot red pepper at the bottom of the glass, flavor them with 3-4 drops of lime juice and gently break 2 quail eggs on top. Carefully, without stirring, pour them with the chocolate-rum mixture. It is recommended to serve such a cocktail with a glass of freshly squeezed grapefruit juice.

The magic of aromas

Among alcoholic beverages many ladies unconditionally prefer the classic "Martini" or vermouth. Its sweet, tart taste and sophisticated grassy aroma are perfect for creating a wide variety of cocktail fantasies. If you splash a little sparkling champagne with a martini, you get a particularly harmonious union. So, we combine in a shaker 50 ml of Martini Bianco, 60 ml of orange and pomegranate juice, 70 ml of cranberry juice and 100 ml of champagne. Fill the glasses a third with ice cubes and pour in the finished cocktail. Garnish with lemon wedges before serving.

fruity sunset

Another child of the hot tropics is the Daiquiri cocktail, named after the beach of the same name near Santiago. Part classic recipe Includes only white rum, lime and ice. However, today in many bars you can find banana, strawberry and coffee variations. This "Daiquiri" deserved place of honor among recipes for light alcoholic cocktails. We offer you another interesting improvisation. We put in a blender bowl 3-5 tbsp. l. crushed ice, add 60 ml of white rum, 15 ml of passion fruit syrup, 30 ml of lime juice and beat all the ingredients, then pour the cocktail into chilled glasses.