4 Delicious Cocktails for Your Mardi Gras Celebration

Grab your hurricane glasses and throw on your Mardi Gras beads…it’s time to celebrate Festival season! Here are 4 yummy cocktail recipes that you can whip up for your friends to enjoy this fun holiday. Laissez les bons temps rouler!

Hurricane
Ingredients:

Preparation:

1. Squeeze juice from half a lime into cocktail shaker over ice.
2. Pour the remaining ingredients into the cocktail shaker.
3. Shakle well.
4. Strain into a hurricane glass.
5. Garnish with a cherry and an orange slice.

Bourbon Slush
Ingredients:

• 2 cups of freshly-brewed strong black tea*
• 1 1/2 cup granulated sugar
• 1 (6-ounce) can frozen orange juice concentrate
• 1 (12-ounce) can frozen lemonade concentrate
• 2 cup water
• 2 to 3 cups bourbon whiskey**
• 7-Up, ginger ale, or any lemon-lime carbonated beverage, chilled

Preparation:

1. In a large, freezer-safe container, mix together the tea, sugar, orange juice concentrate, lemonade concentrate, water, and whiskey. Place in freezer and freeze at least 6 hours.
2. When bourbon mixture is frozen (as frozen as it can get with liquor in it), take it out of freezer and blend the mixture in your blender for a few seconds. Return to freezer for at least 1 hour.
3. When ready to serve, remove frozen mixture from the freezer and let stand for approximately 5 minutes.
4. To serve, scoop (an ice cream scoop works great) bourbon slush to fill a glass approximately 3/4 full. Top with lemon-lime beverage of your choice. Don’t stir, but let beverage coagulate with the frozen tea before drinking.

French 75
Ingredients:

• 1 ounce Gin or Cognac
• 1/2 ounce Cointreau orange liqueur
• 1/2 ounce lemon juice
• Champagne

Preparation:

1. Pour the lemon juice, gin, and Cointreau into a cocktail shaker with ice cubes.
2. Shake well
3. Strain into a chilled Champagne flute.
4. Carefully fill with Champagne.

Mardi Gras Morning
Ingredients:

• 1 oz King Cake vodka
• 1 oz Kahlua
• 1 oz cream

Preparation:

1. Combine ingredients in a shaker and shake well
2. Garnish a rocks glass with colorful sugar on the rim of the glass
3. Fill glass with ice
4. Pour drink into a rocks glass and enjoy