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Classic Cocktail Recipes

Browse dozens of delicious classic cocktail recipes and twist-on-classic drink ideas. Whether you’re hosting friends or just want to treat yourself, these timeless mixed drinks, (including Mules, margaritas, and sangrias) have you covered. 

Need a suggestion? Consider trying my Stupid Easy Vodka and Coke or punch it up with my Cinnamon Whisky Mule or make an impression with the always-refreshing Lemon Pellegrino Vodka Cocktail.

Just be prepared to field requests for the recipes all night long!

Trim your choices:
  • Aperol Cocktails
  • Bar Basics
  • Gin Cocktails
  • Margaritas
  • Mocktails
  • Moscow Mules
  • Rum Cocktails
  • Sangria
  • St. Germain Cocktails
  • Tequila Cocktails
  • Vodka Cocktails
  • Whiskey and Bourbon Cocktails
  • Wine Cocktails
A glass filled with a white wine spritzer made with St. Germain liqueur and topped with a rosemary sprig.

Refreshingly Simple St Germain Spritzer Recipe

A Cherry Fun Dip cocktail in a glass on a table.

Sweet and Sour Cherry Fun Dip Cocktail Recipe

Refreshing gin cocktail recipe with limeade, cilantro, and sparkling wine.

Gin Cocktail Recipe with Sparkling Wine

raspberry lemonade in a mason jar sitting on top of a floral napkin.

Tangy Muddled Raspberry Lemonade Recipe

Mule mug garnished with mint with a can of pineapple juice in the background on a marble worktop.

Sweet Pineapple Moscow Mule Recipe

Bottle of vodka, bourbon and tequila on a table.

The Liquor You Need to Make Tons of Cocktails But Keep Your Bar Small

A variety of cocktails on a table for a party.

Fun Drink Ideas for Parties

Close up of a pitcher with a lemonade flavored with blueberry.

Refreshing Blueberry Lemonade Recipe

Multiple images showing how to make a kombucha mimosa.

Kombucha Mimosa Recipe

A watermelon vodka gimlet in a martini glass with edible flower garnish next to a bottle of watermelon vodka.

Refreshing Watermelon Gimlet Recipe

A square image of different types of cocktail glassware on a black tray on a table.

The Only Cocktail Glassware You Need For Your Home Bar

A square image of 4 easy gin cocktails.

23 Easy Gin Cocktails to Make at Home

Mason jar holding simple syrup made in the microwave on a counter next to a glass of ice and a cocktail shaker.

Microwave Simple Syrup Recipe

Refreshing gin cocktail with basil.

Refreshing Gin Cocktail with Basil and Lemon Recipe

Homemade Cinnamon Iced Coffee in a mason jar topped with fresh grated nutmeg.

Homemade Cinnamon Iced Coffee Recipe with Orange Zest

A bourbon champagne cocktail for both men and women.

Quick and Easy Bourbon Champagne Cocktail Recipe

Champagne Holiday Cocktails in flutes in a collage .

21 Christmas Champagne Cocktails to Make for the Holidays

A cosmopolitan in a martini glass next to a cocktail shaker and rosemary, lime and cinnamon sticks.

Quick and Easy Christmas Cosmo Recipe

A close up of a bottle and a glass of wine, with Bellini and Pear

Spiced Pear Bellini Recipe for Parties

A bourbon milk punch cocktail for the holidays.

Dairy Free Bourbon Milk Punch

If you love to drink Moscow Mules during the summer, you are going to love this new twist! Use Oak by Aboslut, along with fresh lime and ginger beer to get a new twist on the classic vodka mule!

Oak by Absolut Vodka Mule Recipe

Close up of a Fireball Sour cocktail in a glass with a lemon peel wrapped cinnamon stick and a bottle of Fireball behind it.

Tart and Easy Fireball Sour Recipe | Cinnamon Whisky Sour

Close up of a whipped cream topped White Hot Chocolate with white chocolate chips on a red plaid tablecloth.

Rich and Creamy White Chocolate Hot Chocolate Recipe

Close up of Coke bottles on a counter next to bottles of liquor.

24 Coke Cocktails to Make at Home

A copper moscow mule mug on a table next to a jar of vanilla simple syrup.

Delicious Vanilla Moscow Mule Recipe

Woman adding an orange garnish to a Pine Old Fashioned cocktail on a counter.

Pine Old Fashioned Recipe

Lemonade mule on top of a tropical patterned napkin with a whole lemon to the side.

Lemonade Moscow Mule Recipe

Sugar cubes on a small white plate along with a cocktail and a bottle of club soda behind it.

Sugar Cube Simple Syrup (for one cocktail!)

Short cocktail glass with a Knob Creek Old Fashioned in it.

Knob Creek Old Fashioned Recipe

Glasses filled with iced tea sangria.

Sangria Recipe with Iced Tea

A cocktail glass on a table with Fireball Old Fashioned.

Fireball Old Fashioned Recipe

A pear vodka martini topped with edible flowers for garnish.

Pear Vodka Martini to Share with Friends

Close up of a cocktail with an herb garnish and other garnish ideas around it on a tray.

22 Easy Cocktail Garnish Ideas

Close up of the top of a cocktail with a citrus twist made from an orange peel.

How to Make a Citrus Twist Cocktail Garnish

A few bottles of Haus on a table next to some stacked glasses.

Why You Need to Drink Haus Aperitif (2023)

A copper mug with a Bourbon Mule with a bottle of bourbon in the background.

You’ll Love this Bourbon Mule Recipe

Top down view of homemade cinnamon coffee creamer in a mason jar.

How to Make Homemade Cinnamon Coffee Creamer

Woman touching the stem of a wine glass with a watermelon cocktail.

Watermelon Vodka Cocktail with Aperol Recipe

Overhead shot of a cocktail glass with a blood orange sorbet in a gin cocktail with a rosemary sprig.

Blood Orange Cocktail with Gin and Sorbet Recipe

Cucumber lime basil cocktail with vodka.

Cucumber Cocktail with Basil

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Meet Sharon

This is your go-to place for easy, no-fuss party recipes. After hosting countless get-togethers and teaching myself to make cocktails at home, I'm sharing my secrets for how to mix drinks with ease (no bartender skills or fancy tools needed!). Plus learn my stress-free party shortcuts and favorite crowd-pleasing recipes. Email me! sharon @ cupcakesandcutlery.com

About Sharon

Posts about wine, liquor and/or cocktail recipes are expressly for people 21 years of age and older. Drink responsibly.

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