Healthier Christmas Cocktails

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Watermelon ‘Mojito’
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INGREDIENTS

Watermelon flesh (2 slices) / 2 Limes / Handful fresh mint / Coconut Water

Place the watermelon in the bottom of your glass. Chop the lime in to slices and add four or five thin slices to your glass, along with a few mint leaves. Take a spoon or something similar and crush these ingredients together to release the flavours. Fill the glass with ice and add fresh coconut water to fill the glass. You can add a little agave syrup to sweeten if needed. Finish off with a sprig of mint to garnish.
Passionfruit ‘Appletini’
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INGREDIENTS

Fresh apple juice / 1tsp Hemp powder / Handful kale / Passionfruit seeds

Fill your glass with apple juice and add this to the blender (a simple method to help measure), throw in the hemp powder and kale and blend. Pour over ice and add the seeds of one and a half passionfruit, garnish with the leftover half.

Cherry Bomb
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INGREDIENTS

1 liter lemon lime soda / 4 ounces grenadine / juice from 1 lime (2 tbsp) 4 maraschino cherries

Combine soda, grenadine & lime juice in mixing glass & stir. Pour over rocks or ice ball in low ball glass garnish with cherries.

Lemon Blueberry Colada
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INGREDIENTS

8 parts lemonade / 2 parts coconut milk / 1 part grenadine / Frozen blueberries

Mix together all ingredients in a glass and serve cold.

Strawberry Cucumber Fizz
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INGREDIENTS

fresh strawberry slices / fresh cucumber slices / 2 fresh limes / fresh mint or basil leaves / sugar sprinkles for garnish / simple syrup / club soda

First, prepare your glass by adding sugar sprinkles to one side of the rim using a little brush of honey or simple syrup. In your glass, combine the juice of two limes, 1 tablespoon simple syrup, and ice. Stir and top off with club soda. Add cucumbers, strawberries, and mint for garnish. Enjoy!