Shots

For a quick drink you can pour easily, you can't beat shots. Some are meant to be chugged, but many are delicious enough to sip them like a standard cocktail.

Sunny Mexico drink recipe

The Sunny Mexico cocktail blends a sweet herbal liqueur with tequila for a delicious, complex taste. It’s a refreshing little cocktail with just a couple of ingredients.

The Irish Flag drink is a layered shooter cocktail featuring green creme de menthe, Baileys Irish Cream and Grand Marnier. This combination mimics the colors of the Irish flag – green, white and orange.

Sour Apple Pie

The Sour Apple Pie shooter cocktail is so simple, but so tasty. It blends sour apple and cinnamon schnapps together, and the taste really is reminiscent of apple pie.

Crispy Crunch

The Crispy Crunch shooter cocktail gets its name from a brand of chocolate and peanut bar made by Cadbury. It’s pretty sweet, with Kahlua, Creme de Cacao and Frangelico. But the Metaxa brandy adds surprising floral and spicy notes.

Broken Down Golf Cart

The Broken Down Golf Cart is a shooter cocktail that’s very light on the alcohol. Even with the lime juice cutting the sweetness of the Midori and amaretto, this is still a pretty sweet drink.

Screaming Blue Viking

The Screaming Blue Viking is a strong drink that tastes most strongly like mint, with hints of honey and oak – and orange, if you use too much blue curacao. It’s a chilled shot that’s easy on the palate, which makes it a good choice for serving to guests. Since this recipe just calls for

Purple Hooter Shooter

The Purple Hooter Shooter is a tasty little shooter that blends vodka, Chambord and Rose’s Lime. Lime and raspberry are a terrific combination – sweet and tart. This drink is big enough to be served as a regular cocktail. The taste definitely merits savoring rather than chugging. But however you drink it, it’s great as

Fuzzy Blue Gobbler

The Fuzzy Blue Gobbler cocktail blends Maui Blue, a schnapps with an orange flavor, with Maui Blue and Wild Turkey.

Mind Game

The Mind Game features Ricard, a particularly smooth anise-flavored liqueur. Along with the Ricard, the recipe calls for blue curacao and reduced fat milk. Orange and anise is a surprising combination – spicy, tangy and sweet. The milk takes off any rough edges and makes the whole concoction wonderfully mild. It’s a really unusual and

Shotgun Cocktail

The Shotgun Cocktail is straight alcohol with no mixers, like many other shots before it. This one is simply three types of whiskey in one glass. This drink is a nice choice for when you want a palatable shot of whiskey at a reasonable price, especially if you’re looking to chug it. It’s a simple,