Liven Up Your Lemonade

Next Thursday, August 20th, is National Lemonade Day! To celebrate, Hard Rock Cafe has some great recipes to jazz up the summer classic:

Strawberry Basil Lemonade

Ingredients:

2              Strawberries

2              Lemon wedges

4              Basil leaves

½ oz.      Agave nectar

6 oz.       Lemonade

Directions: Combine Strawberries, basil leaves and agave nectar and muddle. Squeeze lemon wedges into glass. Add lemonade and shake with ice. Garnish with basil sprig and strawberry.

Back Porch Tea – BACARDI Superior Rum, Bombay Sapphire Gin, St. Germain Elderflower Liqueur, iced tea, made-from-scratch lemonade, muddled basil and mint with a hint of Monin Cucumber

Raspberry Mint Lemonade

Ingredients:

3              Fresh raspberries

3              Fresh blueberries

4              Mint leaves

1 oz.       Simple syrup

1 oz.       Raspberry vodka  

½ oz.      Gin

½ oz.      Elderflower liqueur

1 oz.       Lemon juice

Splash   Lemon-Lime soda

1              Lemon wedge

1              Mint sprig

Directions: Muddle fruit with mint and simple syrup. Add liquor and lemon juice.  Shake and strain over fresh ice. Top with lemon-lime and garnish with lemon wedge and mint sprig