Hot summer days and outdoor parties call for cooling cocktails and beverages that can serve a crowd. Whether fruity, frozen or just over ice, our best cocktails — margaritas, sangria, mojitos and more! — and sweet shakes and smoothies will quench your thirst this summer.
Shake up sweet fruit-filled cocktails, like this two-tone tequila sangria, and remix your favorite summer beverages with a Cooking Channel twist.
Bobby subs in beer for other liquors to make twists on the Bloody Mary and a mimosa — perfect for brunch on a hot summer day.
Too much leftover pie? Freeze a slice and power up your blender: Kelsey remixes hers as a super-sweet shake.
Keep Laura Calder’s simple Lemon Syrup on hand all summer long, and have fresh lemonade whenever you like.
If sweet, fruity cocktails aren’t your thing, these perennial drinks always do the trick.
Serve a crowd with sweet booze-filled bowls that, well, pack a punch.
Grown-Up Hurricane Punch
These spicy drinks will make your body temperature rise — helping you to cool down.
A splash of sparkling wine adds refreshing fizz to these sweet summer spritzers.
Extra Virgin Limoncello
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