homemade mocktail recipe

it was my brothers birthday a few days ago and I decided to make something a little different for him. Normally I would have made a cake as I enjoy baking but we had already got a cake so I decided to do something different.

After a bit of research, I decided on making mocktails. Today I will share two great recipes that we all enjoyed. The first one is lemonade and the second a negroni mocktail. Feel free to add more sugar until you get the right amount.

sour lemon and lime lemonade

This is a delicious recipe for a refreshing lemon and lime homemade lemonade but be warned that it is a very sour [depending on how much you dilute it] and slightly bitter taste. The amount of lemons and limes can be adjusted if you want.

ingredients

• 11 limes
• 3 lemons
• 500g caster sugar
• sparkling water or other liquid to dilute

1. Chop the limes and lemons skin on and put them in a food processor or blender
2. Add 200ml of water to the food processor or blender and 500g caster sugar
3. while it is in the food processor freeze any fruit slices you want to put on the glasses. This could be lemon/lime/orange or any other fruit
4. pour the mixture from the food processor or blender into a sieve and remove all of the liquid
5. This is your lemonade concentrate then dilute with any liquid of your choice sparkling water/water/fizzy drinks/rum/vodka or any other liquid you would like.

refreshing negroni mocktail

ingredients

• 3/4 of a grapefruit [approx. 250g]
• 1/2 an orange
• 200g caster sugar
• 4 cardamom pods
• pinch coriander seeds

1. Chop the grapefruit into pieces and slice the orange save some orange slices to put on the glasses if you want
2. put them into a saucepan along with the cardamom pods 250ml of water and 200g caster sugar 
3. crush the fruit pieces with the back of a spoon until the mixture has turned into syrup at this stage add the coriander seeds and red food coloring if you want
4. Use a slotted spoon to remove any fruit pieces
5. use a teaspoon to add the syrup to the drink and let it infuse then you can let it cool a bit and add some cooled syrup as well to create the effect shown in the pictures and enhance the taste.
6. mix with liquid of your choice preferably fizzy apple water or partially fissy apple water