Seduce her by learning how to make cocktails

Are you ready to start the seduction operation? Here is a tip to pleasantly surprise a woman you invite to your home: prepare her a delicious cocktail to create a friendly atmosphere.

Making a cocktail is more sophisticated than offering a beer or a glass of wine, and you can showcase your bartending skills. Plus, cocktail names can spark conversation and help you showcase yourself. Each cocktail has its own story and origin, which you can tell by adding your own personal touch.

Be careful, however, not to absolutely want to make her drink alcohol, your goal should not be to get her drunk… but to amuse her and surprise her!

Whether it’s a first date or you’ve been together for years, get out your prettiest cocktail glasses, light a few candles and let the magic happen!

To create or make cocktails, you need to be well equipped! Mix, cut, chill, squeeze…

Here are the different utensils of the perfect bartender.

Starting with the shaker, an essential accessory for making successful cocktails. We often see it in films and it is associated with the image of the bartender. It allows the perfect emulsion of ingredients of various natures and densities.

Also equip yourself with a citrus press, a zester, straws and an assortment of cocktail glasses.

A good cocktail is drunk in a beautiful glass!

With these, no doubt, your potions will be magical.

You also need an assortment of alcohol: Gin, Vodka, Whiskey, Tequila, etc.

The day before you receive your sweetheart, remember to make ice cubes and prepare a small list of potential cocktails.

Go shopping, you need fresh mint, limes and the other ingredients on your list.

Here is a list of my favorite cocktails to inspire you.

THE CLOVER CLUB

Creamy and sweet, it’s a real dessert. Typically the kind of cocktail you can enjoy at any time of day.

Creation: The Clover Club cocktail is said to have been created around 1911, it is named after a club

Philadelphia men’s party of businessmen. They used to gather at the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel, where a young bartender is said to have invented the cocktail.

4.5 cl of gin

1.5 cl of raspberry liqueur or cream • 2.25 cl of lemon juice

0.75 cl of sugar syrup

1 egg white

Pour all ingredients into a shaker and shake without ice (dry shake) for at least 30 seconds. Then add ice cubes and shake again for about ten seconds. Pour into a chilled martini glass.

THE DAIQUIRI

Like New York, Cuba is one of the international cocktail capitals and the Daiquiri is one of its flagships.

Creation: Named after a Cuban village, the Daiquiri was first mentioned in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1920 novel, This Side of Paradise.

6 cl of white rum (Cuban, obviously)

1.5 cl of cane sugar syrup

The juice of one lime

Pour ingredients into a shaker half-filled with ice. Shake until the shaker is misted before straining into a chilled cocktail glass.

THE MANHATTAN

The most famous New York cocktail owes its particularity to rye whiskey, made in North America from at least 51% rye.

Creation: Tradition has it that this cocktail was invented in the early 1870s by Winston Churchill’s mother at a banquet given at the Manhattan Club in New York.

4 cl of rye whisky

2 cl of red vermouth

1 dash of Angostura bitters

Mix ingredients in a tall glass half filled with ice then strain into a chilled cocktail glass.

THE MOSCOW MULE

A flagship cocktail since 2019, the Moscow Mule is likely to remain in the tops for a few more years… Get your cups ready!

Creation : In the field of mixology, marketing is often at the origin of certain births. Example with the Moscow Mule, invented in 1941 by two Americans who were unable to sell their stocks of vodka and ginger beer.

4 cl of vodka

10 cl of ginger beer

The juice of half a lime

Fill a copper cup with ice cubes, add all the ingredients and stir with a spoon. You can slip in two or three slices of cucumber.

THE OLD CUBAN

In the “modern classics” category, here is a refined cocktail for a change from the Mojito.

Creation : An expert in the art of revisiting the great classics, New York barmaid Audrey Saunders created the Old Cuban in the early 2000s.

4.5 cl of white rum

2 drops of Angostura bitters

4.5 cl of squeezed lemon juice

3 cl of cane sugar syrup

6 mint leaves

2.5 cl of champagne

In a shaker, muddle the mint leaves with the freshly squeezed lemon juice. Add the rum, Angostura and ice. Shake vigorously, then pour the mixture into a cocktail glass. Finally, top off with the champagne and garnish with a mint leaf.

THE PALOMA

As popular – if not more so – than the margarita in Mexico, the Paloma is a summer alternative to gin and tonics and other mojitos.

Creation: Grapefruit sodas were imported to Mexico from the 1960s, so Paloma would logically have been invented at this time.

5 cl of 100% agave white tequila

5 cl of grapefruit juice

2 cl of lime juice

1.5 cl of agave syrup

sparkling water

Pour all ingredients into a shaker filled with ice and shake for about ten seconds. Pour into a collins glass filled with crushed ice and add the sparkling water.

You can also search for other cocktail recipes on the web or in apps.

Little tip: practice beforehand and taste your creations. At the beginning, we often tend to put too much alcohol or too much sugar.

It’s your turn now: music, candles, cocktails, let the magic happen.