Not drinking at the mo? We’ve got your taste buds and your social life covered. Party clean with these dirty virgin cocktails that have more flavour than danger...

0% hangover, guaranteed.

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Damn Dirty Martini

 

This deliciously bitter mocktail will curl your ear hairs not blur your vision…

Ingredients

2/3 cup Olive juice

1/3 cup Water

Steps

  1. Mix
  2. Pour
  3. Sip
  4. Not quite the kick you wanted? Try the next few, bru…

 

Ravishing Raspberry Daiquiri

 

Tart but innocent, this refreshing frozen favourite tastes like drunk texting without the facepalm the next morning.

Ingredients

1 cup ice

1 cup frozen raspberries

¼ cup fresh lime juice

¼ cup honey

Secret ingredient – ¼ cup oversteeped black tea*

Steps

  1. Combine ice, raspberries, lime, tea, and honey.
  2. Blend
  3. Drink!

*to make oversteeped tea, use 2 teabags in 1 cup of water, soaked till cool.

 

Bloody Hot Mary*

 

This all-ages combo will blow your mind. Bring on the placebo, yo.  And easy on the tabasco.

Ingredients

240 ml tomato juice

Dash lemon juice

4 (or more) drops tabasco sauce (the red one)

Pinch or two of celery salt

1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce

Freshly ground black pepper

Secret ingredient – 30 ml beef stock*

Steps

  1. Combine ingredients.
  2. Mix them together well.
  3. Garnish with a celery stick.

*SIDENOTE:  this is not a vegetarian cocktail recipe.

 

Melt-In-Your Mouth Margarita

 

Dying for something sans alcohol that tastes like the real thing? Get your citrus-bitter ratio on, baby.

Ingredients

60 ml lime juice

15 ml lemon juice

22 ml grapefruit juice

15 ml apricot nectar

½ teaspoon chilli powder

¾ cup ice

Secret ingredient: 2 drops almond extract

Steps

  1. Combine ingredients
  2. Add ice
  3. Blend/shake hard
  4. Rim the glass with salt and chilli powder
  5. Serve

 

And there you have it folks! Bottoms Up!

 

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