▲The warmest months of the year are just about to start, and if there's one thing we all know is that we ought to stay hydrated. Click through this gallery for inspiration on how to make the best and easiest summer cocktails!

▲Ingredients
- 30 ml light rum
- 1/2 cup fresh strawberries
- 1/2 cup frozen strawberries
- Juice of one lime
- Sliced lime for garnish

▲Add all the ingredients, except the sliced lime, to a blender and blend until smooth. Pour into two glasses and garnish with the lime slices.

▲Ingredients
- One lime, thinly sliced
- One lemon, thinly sliced
- 1/4 cup (50 g) sugar
- 1/4 cup (60 ml) apple brandy (or other brandy)
- 1/2 green apple, cored, skin on, chopped into small pieces
- One ripe peach or nectarine, thinly sliced
- One cup sliced strawberries
- 750 ml white wine, chilled

▲Add the lime, lemon, and sugar to a pitcher and mix with a wooden spoon. Add the brandy and mix again. Add the fruit and the wine and stir to incorporate it all. Add ice and mint (optional).

▲Ingredients
- 115 ml spiced rum
- 115 ml coconut milk
- 1/3 cup fresh pineapple chunks
- A splash pineapple juice
- One cup of ice
- Two maraschino cherries, for garnish

▲Add all the ingredients to a blender and blend until smooth. Pour into two glasses and garnish with a pineapple chunk and a cherry each.

▲Ingredients
- 1/2 medium size watermelon, seeds removed and cut into chunks
- 1/3 cup freshly squeezed lime juice
- 3/4 cup to one cup white rum
- 20-30 fresh mint leaves, muddled

▲Add the watermelon to a blender and blend until smooth. Pour it into a large pitcher and add the lime juice and the mint leaves and stir. Add the rum and stir until evenly mixed. Pour into an ice-filled glass.

▲Ingredients
- 90 ml spiced rum
- One can Coca-Cola
- Juice of one lime
- Two lime wedges, for garnish

▲In a large pitcher, mix all the ingredients and stir. Pour into two ice-filled glasses and garnish with the lime wedges.

▲Ingredients
- Two cups of Prosecco
- One and 1/2 cup chopped strawberries (watermelon works too)
- 1/4 cup lime juice
- 1/2 cup vodka
- Ice
- Mint, for garnish

▲Combine Prosecco, strawberries, lime juice, and vodka in a blender. Fill it about halfway with ice and blend it all until you achieve the slushy consistency. Pour into glasses and garnish with the mint leaves.

▲Ingredients
- Two cups frozen pineapple chunks
- 60 ml fresh lime juice
- 60 ml tequila
- 30 ml triple sec
- One cup ice
- Mint leaves, for garnish

▲Blend all the ingredients in a blender until smooth. Spread lemon juice around the glass rim and then dip in salt. Pour the drink into the glasses and garnish with mint leaves and a chunk of pineapple.

▲Ingredients
- Two table spoons lemon zest
- 1/2 cup sugar
- One lemon, thinly sliced
- One bottle champagne
- Two cups lemonade or pink lemonade

▲In a bowl, mix the lemon zest and sugar. Rim the champagne flutes with lemon and dip them in the sugar mixture. Put a slice of lemon in each flute, fill it halfway with champagne, and top off with lemonade.

▲Ingredients
- 60 ml tequila
- 120 ml orange juice
- 15 ml grenadine
- Orange slices and maraschino cherries, for garnish

▲Pour the orange juice and tequila into an ice-filled glass, then stir. Slowly pour the grenadine around the edge of the glass (use a spoon to help you with this part of the process if you need). Garnish with half a slice of orange and a cherry.

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Ingredients
- 60 ml vodka
- 90 ml freshly squeezed lemonade

- Cucumber slices

- Lemon wedges, for garnish

▲Simply shake the vodka with the lemonade, and toss with the cucumber slices. Pour into an ice-filled glass and garnish with the lemon wedges.

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Ingredients
- 750 ml white wine (or rosé)

- One cup blueberry lemonade juice

- 1/4 cup tequila

- One cup fresh or frozen blueberries

- One lemon, thinly sliced

- One cup cold seltzer

▲Add all the ingredients, except the fruit, to a jug and stir. Add the fruit, top off with the seltzer and serve.

▲Ingredients
- 30 ml Blue Curacao
- 30 ml white rum
- 90 ml pineapple juice
- 30 ml sweetened coconut cream
- Ice

▲Put all the ingredients, including the ice, in a shaker and mix until combined. Pour it all into a glass. Alternatively, you can blend it in a blender and serve.

▲Ingredients
- Five scoops vanilla ice cream
- 90 ml bourbon

▲Blend all the ingredients and serve chilled.

▲Ingredients
- 50 ml Pimm's No 1
- 150 ml champagne
- Fresh mint leaves
- Chopped strawberries
- Sliced orange
- Chopped cucumber
- Ice

▲Fill a glass with ice, then add the mint leaves and the chopped fruit. Pour in the Pimm's, add the champagne and stir.

▲Ingredients
- 90 ml Pisco
- 30 ml simple syrup
- 30 ml key lime juice
- One egg white
- 2-3 dashes Angostura bitters

▲Mix all the ingredients, except the Angostura bitters, in a cocktail shaker. Add ice and shake. Strain into a glass and sprinkle the Angostura bitters on top.

Fifteen easy and delicious summer cocktails

Get ready for summer by making these refreshing recipes!

30/07/19 por StarsInsider

FOOD Cocktails

Summer is just around the corner and what better way to celebrate the warm weather if not with a cold, delicious cocktail?
Stay refreshed and cool all summer long with these easy recipes!