Added: 10/06/2005 |
Frozen Cocktail Recipes ? If the Mercury is Rising!Whether slushy, creamy or almost a dessert, these frothy concoctions are always in demand. Their distinctive feature from shaken cocktails with ice is that frozen cocktails are prepared by using the electric blender to achieve the correct consistency. For this purpose frozen cocktail recipes suggest using crushed or shaved ice.
If your imagination lets you down and you want something really sophisticated, just consult the Internet beforehand and write down the recipes you would like to try . Even on one site devoted to cocktails you will find over 200 frozen cocktail recipes; you can classify the cocktails into any category you wish: by title, rating, votes, by calories, carbs, alcohol and sugar content.
Supermarkets (especially in summer) are crammed with all sorts of fruits; each of them is a potential ingredient for your cocktail. Frozen cocktail recipes often suggest to use fruits, especially in frozen daiquiris and smoothies.
By the way, a wide variety of alcoholic drinks made with finely pulverized ice are often called "frozen daiquiris". Although to purists most of these drinks are not true daiquiris. Such drinks are often commercially made in machines which produce a texture similar to a smoothie, and come in a wide variety of flavors made with various alcohol or liquors.
Daiquiris allow you give way to fantasy and create masterpieces of your own with your favorite fruits. For instance, this very recipe of banana daiquiri allows you to substitute the banana for your favorite fruit, like peach or strawberry, or for a mixture of fruits.
So, here is your Banana Daiquiri. Ingredients: 1.5 oz light rum; 1.5 oz fresh lime juice; 0.75 oz triple sec; ripe banana; lime wedges. Fill the blender with ice and add the rum, triple sec, lime juice and banana. Mix until smooth. Garnish with lime wedges. If you want to be more creative with your fruits, like in a "Banana Strawberry Peach Daiquiri," just add the extra fruit.
Here are some tips how to make a really great drink using all sorts of frozen cocktail recipes the Internet provides.
Frozen drinks should be thin enough to run out of the blender. If you want your drink to come out of the blender smoother, don't place ice in first, when making a frozen drink. It is better to blend if you add the liquor, then the mixer, and finally the ice.
Some frozen cocktail recipes do not provide the information on how much ice should be placed to dilute the cocktail to the right proportions. Specialists insist on equal amounts of ice and liquid ingredients in the blender.
The blender allows for easy mixing when making frozen drinks. Remember that the longer a frozen cocktail is blended, the more pleasing the look will be. Check out the drink's consistency before pouring it into the glass. If the cocktail is too thick and thus undrinkable, add some more mixer to it and reblend for a few moments. If, on the contrary, the cocktail is too thin - blend for another 10 seconds with additional ice.
Present your frozen cocktail in specialty glassware, and it will look really sensational!
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