2007 Great Pretenders ‘Mocktail’ Mix-Off Recipes

FIRST PLACE

“Dulce De Leche”

   Blend:

   ½ cup caramel ice cream

   2 oz. milk

   1 oz. amaretto syrup

   Dash of nutmeg

   Dash of cinnamon

   Serve in a chilled martini glass, garnished with a sprig of mint and dusted with cinnamon.

SECOND PLACE

“Purple Heart”

   Mix well: 3 parts pineapple juice and 1 part cream of coconut.

   Then, mix together 1 part Pom juice, 2 parts club soda and 1 part of the first mixture.

   Shake well and strain over ice.

   If desired, garnish with fresh pomegranate and a mint leaf.

TIE – THIRD PLACE

“Melon Berry Rush”

   Blend:

   3 oz. Berry Blue Hawaiian Punch

   3 oz. Red Bull energy drink

   Add a splash of Monin watermelon syrup and garnish with watermelon sugar rock candy.

TIE – THIRD PLACE

 “Bosa Nova Driver Style” 

   Blend:

   2 oz. Acai juice

   2 oz. Guarana soda

   1 oz. Cardamon-infused simple syrup

   ¾ oz. passion fruit concentrate

   ¼ muddled lime

   Fill glass chilled with white chocolate and garnish with frozen, sugared blueberries, a floating

   star-shaped white ice cube and a sprig of mint.

“Holiday Peppermintini”  

Blend:

   3 oz. French vanilla half & half

   3 oz. whole milk

   Splash of mint extract

   Serve in a martini glass and garnish with any or all: crushed ribbon candy, piece of ribbon 

   candy, traditional candy cane, strawberry jam.

“The Kiss”

   Blend:

   2 oz. sparkling grape juice

   1 oz. ginger ale

   Dash of cranberry concentrate

   Dash of pomegranate syrup

   Garnish with a carambola (star fruit) soaked in cranberry concentrate.

“Rococo Candy Cane”

   Muddle:

   6 mint leaves

   1 Starlight mint

   1 oz. simple syrup

   Add:

   6 oz. cranberry

   Splash soda

“Midnight Mistletoe”

   Mix:

   1½ oz. whipping cream

   A large mint leaf

   1 heaping scoop of white chocolate cappuccino mix

   Add ice and fill glass with lemon-lime soda

   Top with red sugar and mint leaf

   Add chocolate candy cane.

“A Berry Merry Christmas”

   To make White Chocolate Rim:

   Combine:

   2 cups of white chocolate morsels

   1 T. shortening

   Heat at 450-degrees until melted

   Rim a martini glass with the mixture

   Dust the rim with crushed candy cane Hershey’s chocolate

   To make beverage:

   Blend:

   2 cups eggnog

   1 cup strawberry mix

   Dash of vanilla extract

   Dash sweet and sour

   Pour into white chocolate rimmed-glass that’s been filled with ice and add a sliced strawberry.

Happy New Year from AAA South Dakota!