If you’re a person who just goes for shots when drinking, or an aspiring wino mom like myself, we have all dabbled in impressing our friends with our bartending skills. However, usually this involves some concoction of a spirit and some terrible mixer–does vodka and kool-aid sound familiar?–so I am here to help. Here are ten totally do-able cocktails to help start off the school year right.
1. Pink Squirrel Cocktail
This cocktail is ice cream and liqueur. For those with a sweet tooth, it’s the perfect way to eat ice cream and get drunk at the same time! Sounds like a win-win, to be honest.
Ingredients: creme de noyeaux, white creme de cacao, vanilla ice cream
2. Porn Star
Channel your inner porn star with this cocktail. You can either make it a long drink or shots if you’re in a rush.
Ingredients: blue curaçao, 7-up (or Sprite–we don’t judge), Sour Puss
3. Sex on the Beach
As we head into the fall, the leaves change and the weather grows colder. Hold on to summer with a refreshing sex on the beach.
Ingredients: vodka, peach liqueur, cranberry juice, orange juice
4. Easy Sangria
Forthose who love sangria, spending 25$ on a pitcher every week at Barney’s isn’t feasible for the broke average student (who gets just one, am I right?). Instead, get a cheap bottle of red wine, some juice, and some fruit, and you’re good to go. Here is a great recipe. If you don’t have a pitcher, don’t worry: you can use a coffee pot instead. Trust me, it works just as well.
5. Swedish Berry Shot
If you are as sick as I am of red Smirnoff vodka shots, you can make pre-ing far more bearable with these far-more-palatable swedish berry shots.
Ingredients: ½ Sour Puss, ½ banana liquour
6. Espresso Martinis
While a little more complicated, this recipe is a student’s dream, mixing coffee and alcohol.
Ingredients: 1 Vodka, 1 Kahlua, 1/2 créme de cacao, 1 espresso shot (or coffee)
7. Classic Caesars
The ultimate Canadian hangover cure. Optional toppings: celery, seafood, pickles, pizza…
Spice up your life with extra hot sauce and earn hipster points if you serve them in mason jars.
Ingredients: 1 vodka, clamato juice, worcestershire sauce, hot sauce
8. Cosmopolitan
You and your girl squad can be like sex and the city–ultimate girl squad–with this drink.
Ingredients: 1 ½ vodka, ¼ lime juice, ¼ triple sec, ¼ cranberry juice
If it’s taco night, it’s margarita night. If it’s burrito night, it’s margarita night. If it’s any night, it’s margarita night.
Ingredients: 1 tequila, ½ triple sec, ½ lime juice
10. Killer Kool-Aid
This isn’t your mom’s kool-aid.
Ingredients: vodka (watermelon flavour if possible), amaretto, cranberry juice
Please drink responsibly!