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4. Slice halfway into a fresh pineapple slice and display it on the rim of the glass. Add a pineapple leaf into the top of the drink, if you’ve got it, then add a straw and serve.

• MAKES 1 DRINK.

APPLEBEE’S PERFECT MARGARITA

You’ll need a cocktail shaker for this one. And if you want to serve it up the same way as in the restaurant you also need a small martini glass. This recipe involves making sweet & sour mix from scratch with fresh lemons and limes following the recipe on page 231. You’ll also need some simple syrup to sweeten the drink. That’s a basic common recipe requiring two parts sugar to one part boiling water.You’ll have some leftover ingredients for an additional serving if you like. And once you taste this, you’ll like.

1 cup ice

1¼ ounces Cuervo 1800 Añejo

tequila

¾ ounce Cointreau liqueur

¾ ounce Grand Marnier liqueur

1 ounce fresh lime juice

1 ounce simple syrup (from

page 226)

6 ounces (¾ cup) sweet & sour

mix (from page 231)

GARNISH

margarita salt

lime wedge

olive

1. Put ice in a shaker, followed by the tequila, Cointreau, Grand Marnier, and 1 ounce of fresh lime juice. Add 1 ounce of simple syrup and 6 ounces (¾ cup) of sweet & sour mix to the shaker. Shake well.

2. Salt the rim of a martini glass if you’d like. Spear a lime wedge and olive with a toothpick and drop it in the glass. Pour the drink into the glass through a strainer, and serve the cocktail with the rest of the drink in the shaker on the side.

• SERVES 1.

APPLEBEE’S SUMMER SQUEEZE

For this drink, make the lemonade from scratch to re-create that familiar Applebee’s barstool experience. Okay, so maybe it’s just familiar to me, and I probably shouldn’t go around announcing it. This recipe makes two drinks.

LEMONADE

4 ounces (½ cup) fresh lemon

juice (from 2 to 3 lemons)

¼ cup granulated sugar

2 cups water

3 ounces Bacardi Limon rum

6 lemon wedges

1. Prepare lemonade by combining the fresh lemon juice, sugar, and water in a small pitcher. Stir until sugar dissolves.

2. Make drinks by filling each of two 16-ounce glasses with ice. Add 1½ ounces of Bacardi Limon to each glass and fill to the top with lemonade. Squeeze two lemon wedges into each glass, and then drop the wedges into the drink. Put a slice in each of the remaining two lemon wedges and add one to the rim of each glass. Serve ’em up with straws and a smile.

• MAKES 2 DRINKS.

BAHAMA BREEZE BAHAMA MAMA

Be sure to use freshly squeezed orange juice if you want this to be a true cocktail replica. Bahama Breeze bartenders not only squeeze fresh orange juice for these famous drinks, but they also operate a sugar cane juice extractor to produce sweet nectar for other tasty libations and non-alcoholic sips.

½ ounce Malibu rum

½ ounce Myers’s dark rum

½ ounce Bacardi light rum

½ ounce banana liqueur

2 ounces (¼ cup) pineapple juice

2 ounces (¼ cup) freshly

squeezed orange juice (about

½ of a large orange)

splash Sprite

GARNISH

pineapple slice

1. Fill a 14-ounce glass with ice.

2. Pour all ingredients, except Sprite, into a shaker. Shake well and pour over ice.

3. Add a splash of Sprite on top. Garnish with a pineapple slice on the rim of the glass, add a straw, and serve.

• MAKES 1 DRINK.

BAHAMA BREEZE CARIBBEAN MAGIC

Prepare to clone another Bahama Breeze favorite. Use fresh orange juice to properly re-create the magic.

1 ounce vodka

½ ounce amaretto liqueur

½ ounce Southern Comfort

1½ ounces sweet & sour mix

(from page 231)

1½ ounces pineapple juice

2 ounces (¼ cup) freshly

squeezed orange juice

splash cranberry juice

GARNISH

pineapple slice

1. Fill a 14-ounce glass with ice.

2. Combine all ingredients, except cranberry juice, in a shaker and shake well. Pour over ice.

3. Add a splash of cranberry juice, garnish with a pineapple slice, and serve with a straw.

• MAKES 1 DRINK.

BAHAMA BREEZE MALIMBO BREEZE

A tropical wind of flavors blows over your tongue and soothes like a cool island