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Top Fourth of July cocktails

The Fourth of July celebrations are as much a family affair as Thanksgiving, so why not give your kids a treat and create cocktails that both the children and the adults can enjoy - with the bonus that no-one need be picked up for drunk driving later in the evening!

Try these three easy cocktails, or should I say mocktails, for your next Fourth of July gathering. Of course, if you want to add alcohol to the adult drinks you can. Suggestions for alcoholic additives are also included - but they taste great without!

BLUE MONSOON

Ingredients:

1 carton pineapple and coconut drink/juice
1 bottle lemonade.
1 bottle blue food colouring.

Method:

In a jug drop about a teaspoon of blue food colouring. Now fill one third of the jug with pineapple and coconut drink and then top up with the lemonade.

Alcoholic version suggestions: add a couple of shots of Malibu or Blue Bols.

BLUSHING BELLE

Ingredients:

1 carton pineapple juice
1 carton orange juice
1 bottle bitter lemon
3 tablespoons grenadine syrup

Method:

In a jug add the grenadine syrup. Fill 1/4 of the jug with orange juice, then top up to 1/2 with the pineapple juice. Fill the remainder of the jug with the bitter lemon.

Alcoholic version suggestions: Add a couple of shots of Galliano or Vodka.

HAWAII DREAM

Ingredients:

1 carton apple, mango and lime juice
1 bottle ginger beer.

Method:

Fill 1/3 of the jug with the apple, mango and lime juice, then top up with the ginger beer.

Alcoholic version suggestions: Add a couple of shots of Vodka.

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