You want to surprise the friends at the forthcoming party - treat them with specialty Grasshopper cocktail. This original alcoholic drink with smack of sweet mint will help you to relax and to cheerfully spend time.
Main ingredients of Grasshopper cocktail
There are many options of preparation of this cocktail, however its ingredients remain invariable.
This alcoholic drink received the name "Grasshopper" thanks to the green shade which gives it one of basic elements of cocktail – a peppermint-flavored liqueur.
It will be required to you: - a peppermint-flavored liqueur (crème de menthe) – 25-30 ml (1.5 tablespoons); - white liqueur, a coffee-flavored liqueur (cream de cacao) – 25-30 ml (1.5 tablespoons); - cream – 25-30 ml (1.5 tablespoons);
- several ice cubes.
Ways of preparation of Grasshopper cocktail
To 1 sposobpolozhita in advance prepared ice pieces in a shaker. Fill in them with a peppermint-flavored liqueur, then white liqueur and cream. Further shake up all ingredients before foam texturization. In end pour contents in the cooled glass. At will you can decorate Grasshopper cocktail with chocolate. You can just strew drink with chocolate shaving or make of chocolate original registration for cocktail. For this purpose you need to kindle a chocolate tile on a water bath and to pour out the kindled chocolate on a cold plate, drawing in detail a thin stream of a curl. After weight stiffens, carefully transfer it by means of a knife to cocktail. The 2nd method For preparation of this option of Grasshopper cocktail to you is required to use a coffee-flavored liqueur of Cream de Cacao instead of a peppermint-flavored liqueur of Cream de Menthe. For the rest preparation coincides with the first option. Color of this alcoholic drink will get slightly other shade, but on taste it will be same amazing. The 3rd way Cocktail made thus is better known as "The flying grasshopper". For its preparation take 5-6 ice cubes and put them in a shaker. Mix 30 ml of vodka, 30 ml of a peppermint-flavored liqueur and 30 ml of white liqueur. Shake up mix to foam and pour the turned-out drink in a cold glass.
Among many options of preparation of Grasshopper cocktail the most approximate to original American drink are these three ways.
Except three main ways, in many night institutions use also other variations of preparation of this cocktail. For example, there is a Coffee Grasshopper alcoholic drink. That to make it, put 4-6 pieces of ice in a shaker. Pour in 1 part of a peppermint-flavored liqueur, 1 and ½ parts of a coffee-flavored liqueur (cream de cacao) and 1 part of cream there. Further fill a glass half with ice, and from above pour the turned-out drink. Other option of this cocktail is called "A grasshopper with vodka". For preparation of such drink of 4-6 pieces of ice put in a shaker. Add 30 ml of vodka, 30 ml of a peppermint-flavored liqueur, 30 ml of white liqueur (cream de cacao) and shake up before foam texturization. Before giving pour ready cocktail in a cold glass.