Michelle's blog: "Drinks"

3 oz. cranberry juice 2 oz. orange juice 1/8 oz. lime cordial soda water frozen cranberries Optional 1½ oz vodka Directions In a cocktail shaker filled with ice, combine 3 oz cranberry juice, 2 oz orange juice and 1/8 oz lime cordial. Shake sharply and strain into a collins glass filled with ice. Top with soda water and sprinkle with frozen cranberries. For an individual cocktail, add 1½ oz. of vodka.

4 oz. chocolate milk 2 oz. cold coffee whipped cream shaved chocolate Optional 1 oz. Bailey's (for an individual cocktail) Directions Fill a tall glass with ice. Add 4 oz. chocolate milk and 2 oz. cold coffee. Top with whipped cream and garnish with shaved chocolate. For an individual cocktail, add 1 oz. of Bailey's.

2-48 oz. (1.36 L) cans pineapple juice 1-40 oz. (1.14 L) bottle cranberry juice 2-750 mL bottles soda water 1 litre strawberry, raspberry or lime sherbet Optional 1½ oz. Vodka (for an individual cocktail) Directions In a punch bowl, mix juices. Pour in soda water. Top with scoops of sherbet. Makes about 16 1-cup (250 mL) servings. For an individual cocktail, add 1½ oz. of vodka.

Ingredients: * 1 part dry Gin * 3 parts Sprite * 1 dash Cayenne pepper (optional) Mixing instructions: Place one part dry gin in Cocktail Glass. Do NOT bruise the Gin! Carefully add two parts Sprite. Do NOT bruise the Sprite. Optionally, add a dash of cayenne pepper for added flavor. Add 3 tablespoons of dry ice for that mystical, yet strangely psycho effect.

Ingredients: * 3 oz Midori melon liqueur * 2 oz Irish whiskey (Tullamore Dew) * 1 oz Apple schnapps * 4 oz Sweet and sour * Ice cubes * Maraschino cherry Mixing instructions: Mix and shake Irish whiskey, Midori, and Apple Schnapps with ice. Fill whiskey sour glass with ice. Strain mixture over ice in glass. Fill with sweet and sour. Garnish with several free floating Maraschino cherries.

Ingredients: * 1 1/2 oz Black Sambuca * 6 oz Eggnog Mixing instructions: Mix 1-1/2 ounces of Black Sambuca into a glass filled with 6 ounces of Eggnog, Stir.

Ingredients: * Fill with Ice * 3 shots Vodka * 4 shots Sprite * 1 shot blue Maui Mixing instructions: Fill glass with ice. Put in shots of Vodka, Sprite, and finally (blue) Maui to make it the color of an Iceberg. Make sure all the ingredients are icy cold.

Ingredients: * 2 shots White Creme de Menthe * 1 glass Ginger ale, Tonic or Soda Mixing instructions: Put double of Creme de Menthe in a 10-12 oz (300-350ml) glass and fill to top with Ginger Ale, Tonic, or Soda Water.

Ingredients: * 2/5 oz Malibu rum * 2/5 oz Rum (Captain Morgan's) * 2/5 oz Amaretto * 2/5 oz Cranberry juice * 2/5 oz Pineapple juice Mixing instructions: Pour equal parts of all ingredients into a shaker filled with ice. Chill, shake and strain.

Ingredients: * 28 ml Cognac * 14 ml Tia maria * 56 ml Milk Mixing instructions: Pour the ingredients in a shaker with ice cubes, shake, and pour in a cocktail glass.