Cocktails are an integral part of our celebrations. No party is complete without a glass of these mixed drinks. Made with various flavourful ingredients such as spirits, mixers, juices, herbs and garnishes, cocktails can amp up your mood at any time of the day. The best part about these drinks is they can be improvised with one’s taste and preference.
If you are also planning to make delicious, flavourful, and homely cocktails, here are five jam cocktail recipes that are perfect to begin your mixology journey with jam:
Cider Bourbon Jam Cocktail
Ingredients
- 3 ounces apple cider
- 1 1/2 ounces bourbon
- 1 teaspoon jam
- 2 ounces ginger beer
- freshly grated nutmeg
- dried apples, sliced apples for serving
Method
- Add the cider, bourbon and jam to a shaker and shake well with ice cubes until chilled.
- Then pour the drink into a cocktail glass.
- Top off the drink with ginger beer and nutmeg. Garnish with apple slice. Enjoy!
Spiced Peach Fizz
Ingredients
- 4 ounces bourbon
- 1 ounces lemon juice
- 6 tbsp peach jam
- 10 mint leaves
- 2 slices lemon thin slices
- 6 ounces ginger beer chilled
- Peach slices and mint for garnish
Method
- Combine bourbon and lemon juice in a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake well until chilled and keep aside.
- Divide the peach jam, mint leaves, lemon and simple syrup into two cocktail glasses and muddle gently to mix the ingredients.
- Fill the cocktail glasses with ice and pour the bourbon mixture. Stir well.
- Top with ginger beer, garnish with a peach slice and mint leaves. Enjoy.
Jam Toast Cocktail
Ingredients
- 6 ounces champagne
- Different flavours of jam
Method
- Add one tablespoon of jam to the bottom of a champagne flute.
- Top with champagne and enjoy.
Whiskey Jam Cocktail
Ingredients
- 1.5 oz. whiskey
- 1.5 oz. orange juice
- A spoonful of raspberry preserves
- Club soda
Method
- Fill a cocktail shaker with fresh ice. Add the whiskey, orange juice and raspberry preserves.
- Shake well until chilled.
- Add an ice ball to the cocktail glass and strain the cocktail over it. Top with club soda and enjoy.
Passion Fruit Jalapeño Margarita
Ingredients
- 2 tbsp strawberry jam
- 160 ml tequila
- 80 ml Cointreau
- 1 lime juice
To serve
- 1 lime (cut into wedges)
- 1 tsp sea salt
- 4 strawberries to garnish
- ice
Method
- Add the jam, lime juice, tequila and triple sec in a wide-mouthed jar. Put the lid on and shake well to combine.
- Then put the jar in the freezer to chill. Run the lime around the rim of your glasses and spread the salt on a saucer. Now dip the rim of the glasses on it.
- Pour the cocktails into the glasses and garnish with strawberries and serve.