by Wilbur, Todd
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BENNIGAN’S O’MALLEY’S ORANGE COOLER
This drink is an overdue improvement on the old-school screwdriver. Mix this with orange-flavored vodka, add a little sugar and Sprite, and you’ve got a tastier new twist on a tired old favorite.
1½ ounces Absolut Mandrin
vodka
4 ounces (½ cup) orange juice
1 packet (1 teaspoon) sugar or
sweetener
1 ounce Sprite
GARNISH
orange wedge
maraschino cherry
1. Fill a 14-ounce glass with ice.
2. Combine the vodka, orange juice, and sugar in a shaker. Shake well and pour over ice.
3. Add Sprite on top of drink, garnish with an orange wedge and maraschino cherry speared on a toothpick. Serve with a straw.
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BENNIGAN’S RASPBERRY ROAD ICED TEA
Bennigan’s tweaks the Long Island Iced Tea with this Chambord-laced beauty.
½ ounce Skyy vodka
½ ounce Beefeater gin
½ ounce triple sec liqueur
½ ounce Chambord raspberry
liqueur
4 ounces (½ cup) sweet & sour
mix (from page 231)
1 ounce Coca-Cola
GARNISH
1 lemon wedge
1. Fill a 14-ounce glass with ice.
2. Pour all ingredients over ice in the order listed.
3. Garnish with a lemon wedge and serve with a straw.
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THE CHEESECAKE FACTORY CARIBBEAN COOLER
This recipe clones a delicious smoothie-type cocktail using strawberry puree that you make from a thawed box of the frozen sliced strawberries. One ounce of puree goes into the glass first before you add the drink. Check out the cool layering effect.
1 cup ice
¾ ounce white rum
¾ ounce Malibu rum
1¼ ounces cream of coconut
1¼ ounces half-and-half
2 ounces (¼ cup) mango juice
2 ounces (¼ cup) pineapple juice
2 ounces (¼ cup) strawberry
puree
GARNISH
whole strawberry
orange slice
pineapple slice
1. Make the strawberry puree by thawing frozen sweetened sliced strawberries. Blend until smooth.
2. Combine ice, rums, coconut, half-and-half, mango juice, pineapple juice, and half (1 ounce) of the strawberry puree in a blender and blend on high speed until the ice is crushed and the drink is smooth.
3. Pour the remaining 1 ounce of strawberry puree into the bottom of a 14-ounce wine glass.
4. Pour the drink into the glass over the strawberry puree. Add the strawberr y, orange slice, and pineapple slice to the rim of the glass. Add a straw and serve.
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THE CHEESECAKE FACTORY KEY LIME MARTINI
It’s like eating a key lime pie, except there’s no crust, it looks like a martini, and you’re drinking it. For the whipped cream in this recipe be sure to use the canned kind with a nozzle top. Estimate about a cup’s worth into the shaker with everything else and shake it up real good.
1½ ounces Vox vodka
½ ounce Midori liqueur
½ ounce white crème de cacao
liqueur
juice of ½ lime
1 ounce simple syrup (from
page 226)
1 cup canned whipped cream
(nozzle top)
GARNISH
sugar for rim
whole lime slice
1. Chill a martini glass by filling it with ice and water.
2. Add all the ingredients into a shaker, along with a handful of ice, and shake well.
3. Remove ice and water from the martini glass, then moisten just half of the rim of the glass and dip it into sugar.
4. Strain drink into the glass, and add a lime slice to the sugared side of the rim (so that the drink is sipped from the unsugared edge), and serve.
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THE CHEESECAKE FACTORY J.W. PINK LEMONADE
This drink is named after the bartender who invented it over nine years ago: Mr. Jeff Wiley, of the Redondo Beach, California, Cheesecake Factory. He’s still there inventing killer drinks, but none have been as successful as this cocktail, which is currently one of the top five best-selling drinks at the chain.
If you don’t want to make lemonade from scratch and want something that tastes similar to the stuff used at the Factory, pick up Country Time lemonade. If you’ve got time to take the fresh-squeezed route, check out the fresh lemonade recipes on pages 88-90.
1½ ounces Absolut Citron vodka
½ ounce Chambord liqueur
6 ounces (¾ cup) Country Time
lemonade
GARNISH
sugar for rim
lemon wedge
1. Moisten the rim of a 16-ounce glass. Dip the rim in sugar then fill it with ice.
2. Add the ingredients in the order listed, garnish with a lemon wedge, and serve with a straw.
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THE CHEESECAKE FACTORY TWILIGHT ZONE
Next stop . . . this crazy drink. Looking at this list of ingredients, you just know it’s going to end with an ironic, thought-provoking twist.
½ ounce Bacardi light rum
½ ounce Myers’s dark rum
½ ounce crème de cacao liqueur
¼ ounce Bacardi 151 rum
¼ ounce triple sec liqueur
¼ ounce amaretto liqueur
2 ounces (¼ cup) mango juice
2 ounces (¼ cup) orange juice
2 ounces (¼ cup) pineapple juice
splash grenadine
GARNISH
lime wedge
orange slice
maraschino cherry
1. Fill a 16-ounce glass with ice.
2. Add all the ingredients in the order listed.
3. Drop in lime wedge, orange slice, and maraschino cherry. Serve with a straw.
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THE CHEESECAKE FACTORY TROPICAL MARTINI
This drink weaves together the sophistication of a martini with the loose fruity fun of a tasty tropical number. If you can’t find straight passion fruit juice, pick up a passion fruit blend, such as Mauna Lai Paradise Passion guava/passion fruit blend, and make one of these immediately.
2 ounces vodka
2 ounces passion fruit juice
1 ounce mango juice
1 ounce pineapple juice
½ ounce simple syrup (from page
226)
splash grenadine
GARNISH
sugar for rim
whole strawberry
pineapple slice
1. Chill a martini glass by filling it with ice and water.
2. Add all the ingredients into a shaker, along with some ice, and shake well.
3. Remove ice and water from martini glass, then moisten half of the rim of the glass and dip it into sugar.
4. Strain drink into the glass, add a strawberry and pineapple slice to the sugared side of the rim (so that the drink is sipped from the unsugared edge), and serve.
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CHEVYS 100% BLUE AGAVE MARGARITA
If you want to enjoy a really good margarita get to a Mexican food chain and order it “on the rocks.” The rocks versions are usually made with top shelf tequilas, rather than the cheaper stuff found in the slushy blended kind. Create your next margarita masterpiece with this bright blue dazzler, or with one of the other happy Chevys clone recipes that follow.
1½ ounces Herradura silver
tequila
½ ounce triple sec liqueur
½ ounce blue curaçao liqueur
½ cup sweet & sour mix (from
page 231)
OPTIONAL
salt around the rim
GARNISH
lime w
edge
1. Put a handful of ice into a shaker.
2. Add all ingredients and shake. Pour the drink into a 12-ounce margarita glass (salt the rim first, if you want it).
3. Garnish with a lime wedge on a toothpick, add a straw, and serve.
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CHEVYS HOUSE ROCKS MARGARITA
This formula re-creates the chain’s basic rocks margarita. Nothing fancy, but still good when you use freshly made sweet & sour.
1½ ounces El Jimador silver
tequila
½ ounce triple sec liqueur
½ cup sweet & sour mix (from
page 231)
OPTIONAL
salt around the rim
GARNISH
lime wedge
1. Put a handful of ice into a shaker.
2. Add all ingredients and shake. Pour the drink into a 12-ounce margarita glass (salt the rim first, if you want it).
3. Garnish with a lime wedge on a toothpick, add a straw, and serve.
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CHEVYS LAVA LAMP MARGARITA
This one gets its name from the look of the Chambord that’s added to the glass after the drink is mixed. Drizzled on top of the drink, the tasty raspberry liqueur serpentines in slow-mo to the bottom of the glass. Since the drink is served layered, instruct your designated drinker to stir before sipping, or get a mouthful of lava.
1½ ounces Sauza
Conmemorativo tequila añejo
½ ounce triple sec liqueur
½ cup sweet & sour mix (from
page 231)
½ ounce Chambord liqueur
OPTIONAL
salt around the rim
GARNISH
lime wedge
1. Put a handful of ice into a shaker.
2. Add tequila, triple sec, and sweet & sour mix to the shaker, shake, then pour the drink into a 12-ounce margarita glass (add salt around the rim of the glass first if you want it).
3. Drizzle Chambord into the glass, add a lime wedge on a toothpick, add a straw, and serve.
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CHEVYS THE SUNBURN MARGARITA
Here’s a sweeter margarita for tequila lovers with a cranberry fetish.
1½ ounces El Jimador silver
tequila
½ ounce triple sec liqueur
¼ cup sweet & sour mix (from
page 231)
¼ cup cranberry juice
OPTIONAL
salt around the rim
GARNISH
lime wedge
1. Put a handful of ice into a shaker.
2. Add all ingredients, shake, and pour the drink into a 12-ounce margarita glass (salt the rim first, if you want it).
3. Garnish with a lime wedge on a toothpick, add a straw, and serve.
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CHEVYS ULTIMATE ORANGE MARGARITA
If by delicious you mean Herradura tequila, Cointreau, orange juice, and homemade sweet & sour mix, then, yes, this margarita is quite delicious.
1½ ounces Herradura reposado
tequila
½ ounce Cointreau liqueur
2 ounces (¼ cup) orange juice
2 ounces (¼ cup) sweet & sour
mix (from page 231)
OPTIONAL
salt around the rim
GARNISH
lime wedge
1. Put a handful of ice into a shaker.
2. Add all ingredients and shake. Pour the drink into a 12-ounce margarita glass (salt the rim first, if you want it).
3. Garnish with a lime wedge on a toothpick, add a straw, and serve.
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CHEVYS WATERMELON FRESH FRUIT MARGARITA (ON THE ROCKS)
Chevys is famous for margaritas made with fresh, pureed fruits. While these drinks usually come in blended form combined with house margarita mix right out of a machine, they are much better when ordered on the rocks. Here now is a clone of the most popular flavor, watermelon, made by simply pureeing some fresh melon in your blender. First cut some ripe seedless watermelon from the rind, and then coarsely smash it in a bowl with a potato masher or large fork (this gives the blender something to grab on to). Pour the melon from the bowl into a blender and blend on high speed for 10 seconds or until the watermelon is pureed.
1½ ounces El Jimador silver
tequila
½ ounce triple sec liqueur
2 ounces (¼ cup) sweet & sour
mix (from page 231)
2 ounces (½ cup) pureed
watermelon (seedless)
GARNISH
lime wedge
1. Put a handful of ice into a shaker.
2. Add all ingredients and shake. Pour the drink over ice in a 10-ounce margarita glass.
3. Garnish with a lime wedge on a toothpick and serve.
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CHILI’S CALYPSO COOLER
Ever order one of those expensive specialty drinks off the shiny, full-color restaurant table-stand cards and wish you had a clone recipe? This is one of those drinks, off one of those cards. And here’s the clone recipe.
1¼ ounces Captain Morgan
spiced rum
½ ounce peach schnapps
4 ounces (½ cup) orange juice
splash Rose’s lime juice
½ ounce grenadine
GARNISH
orange wedge
maraschino cherry
1. Fill a 16-ounce glass with ice.
2. Pour all ingredients over ice in order listed. Don’t stir.
3. Garnish with an orange wedge and cherry on a toothpick. Serve with a straw.
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CHILI’S CHAMBORD 1800 MARGARITA
Meet the drink that comes in a giant 21-ounce “schooner” glass at Chili’s. Now go find something big enough to hold it.
2½ ounces Cuervo 1800 Añejo
tequila
¾ ounce Cointreau liqueur
1 ounce Chambord liqueur
4 ounces (½ cup) sweet & sour
mix (from page 231)
splash Rose’s lime juice
GARNISH
lime wedge
1. Prepare a 21-ounce glass by salting the rim if desired. Fill the glass with ice.
2. Combine all ingredients in a shaker, shake, and pour over ice.
3. Garnish with a lime wedge on the rim and serve with a straw.
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CHILI’S JAMAICAN PARADISE
Thanks to Chili’s you can catch a Jamaica-style buzz without leaving the States.
1¼ ounces Malibu rum
½ ounce Sauza gold tequila
½ ounce Midori liqueur
½ ounce blue curaçao liqueur
2 ounces (¼ cup) sweet & sour
mix (from page 231)
splash Rose’s lime juice
GARNISH
orange wedge
maraschino cherry
1. Fill a 16-ounce mug with ice.
2. Combine all ingredients in a shaker, shake, and pour over ice.
3. Add an orange wedge and maraschino cherry on a toothpick. Serve with a straw.
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CHILI’S CHILI’S MANDRIN BLUSH
The subtle orange flavor combines well with the cranberry juice and Sprite.The vodka combines well with you.
1½ ounces Absolut Mandrin
vodka
2 ounces (¼ cup) cranberry juice
4 ounces (½ cup) Sprite
GARNISH
orange wedge
1. Combine all ingredients in a shaker, shake, and pour into an ice-filled 16-ounce glass.
2. Garnish with an orange wedge on the rim and serve with a straw.
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CHILI’S MARGARITA PRESIDENTE
The Margarita Presidente is Chili’s fancy designer libation made from Sauza Conmemorativo, Cointreau, and Presidente brandy. It’s served up in a salt-rimmed martini glass along with additional serving
s in a shaker on the side. The drink comes highly recommended by the dozens of placards and signs dangling from rafters overhead in Chili’s bar. I do concur.
This clone recipe should fill your glass around three times, and your head with many happy thoughts.
1¼ ounces Sauza
Conmemorativo tequila añejo
½ ounce Cointreau liqueur
½ ounce Presidente brandy
4 ounces (½ cup) sweet & sour
mix (from page 231)
splash Rose’s lime juice
GARNISH