X FACTOR PARTY COCKTAIL RECIPE

This week's recipe is a tribute to our own Mary Byrne!!!!!

We have taken the classic Scarlett O Hara and revamped it. The original Scarlett O Hara was made with Southern Comfort, but we have tweaked it to be more like a cosmo as we know how girls like their cosmos and have used Irish whiskey and apricot brandy liqueur instead. Apricot Brandy is readily available in off licences......happy shaking and raise a glass or two to Mary!!!!!!!

SCARLETT O HARA
40mls Irish Whiskey
20mls Apricot Brandy
60mls cranberry juice
2 lime wedges

Method:- Put some ice into a martini glass to chill it. Pour the ingredients into a cocktail shaker with ice. Squeeze in the lime wedges. Discard the ice from the martini glass. Shake the mixture and strain into the chilled martini glass. Garnish with a piece of orange zest.....enjoy!!

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X FACTOR PARTY COCKTAIL

This weeks recipe is dedicated to Wagner, the Brazilian lothario. We are sure he would really enjoy a Caipirinha about now.

The Caipirinha is the national drink of Brazil and all you need to make it is some limes, caster sugar and Cachaca, a Brazilian sugar cane spirit, available in higher end off licences like Celtic Whiskey Shop on Dawson St, D2 and Redmond's in Ranleagh and you will get 19 portions out of a 70cl bottle.

Recipe:-
35mls Cachaca
half a lime cut into 4 wedges
2 teaspoons of caster sugar

Method:- Place the wedges in the bottom of a cocktail shaker. Add sugar and muddle to release the juice from the fruit. Add the cachaca and some ice and shake hard. Pour the contents of the shaker into an old fashioned glass(whiskey glass)

Garnish with a lime wheel and piece of sugar cane(optional, available on http://www.mixo-logic.barstore.com/)

X FACTOR PARTY COCKTAIL RECIPE

Ok, ladies!

Here is your first recipe......

We will post a different recipe each week so that you can have a delicious cocktail while you and your girlfriends watch Simon Cowell & Co.

This week we are breaking out the bubbles, but not breaking the bank.....

What you need:-  Vodka, raspberries, pineapple juice and Prosecco(Dunnes do a great Prosecco for about €7 a btl)Martini Glass

FLIRTINI
20mls Vodka
40mls pineapple juice
5 raspberries
Prosecco(to top up)

Glass:- Martini Glass
Garnish:- Raspberry

Method:- Muddle the raspberries in the bottom of a cocktail shaker. Add the vodka and pineapple juice and shake hard. Strain the mixture into a martini glass and top with chilled Prosecco. Garnish with a raspberry floating in it.