20 cocktails that are easy to make at home

All that’s required to make a dirty martini is ice, vermouth, gin or vodka, and olive brine. You can skip the vermouth if you want. Few ingredients and a simple concoction method make a dirty martini super easy to make at home. 

Mojitos are easy and fun to make at home. All you need is mint, lime juice, white rum, and soda water, and you have yourself a mojito. If you want to get really fancy, you can muddle your mint, but you don’t have to.

The world was taken with a negroni sbagliato with prosecco in it for a hot second. When everyone was trying the cocktail, some people discovered that a classic negroni is easy to make at home. You only need vermouth, Campari, gin, and an orange slice. 

Making a cosmopolitan is so easy even Carrie Bradshaw could make one at home. Essentially, all you have to do is put ice, triple sec, vodka, lime juice, and cranberry juice in a shaker and pour through a strainer. Some measuring is required, too, but it’s really simple. 

Like many other cocktails, a gin fizz is essentially an assembly-required cocktail. Put gin, lemon juice, simple syrup, and egg white in a shaker and shake. After about 15 seconds, add some ice and shake again. Strain the cocktail and top with club soda. 

If you love an Aperol spritz in the summer, you’re in luck because they’re painfully easy to make. Pour equal parts Aperol and prosecco into a glass and top with club soda. If you'd like, add an orange slice for garnish. 

Pour tequila into a glass with ice, orange juice, and grenadine. That’s literally all there is to making a tequila sunrise. You can use a shaker if you’d like, but it’s unnecessary. 

A Paloma requires several ingredients — tequila, grapefruit juice, simple syrup, sparkling water, lime juice, and ice — but all you have to do is salt your rim and combine the ingredients in your glass. It can be an expensive drink to make at home, but it’s not hard. 

Pour champagne into a glass, top it off with orange juice, and you’ve got a mimosa. It couldn’t be easier. 

The mimosa’s poor cousin — swap champagne for vodka, and you’ve got a screwdriver. If you want to experiment, use different kinds of juice in place of orange, like cranberry, pineapple, or grapefruit. 

A Bellini is a cocktail with options. You can make it super simple by pouring prosecco over frozen peaches, or you can make it a little more flavorful by adding peach puree and fresh peaches for garnish. It’s the perfect high- or low-maintenance cocktail. 

A French 75 is similar to mimosas and Bellinis, though it requires a little more effort. Shake gin, lemon juice, and simple syrup with ice; strain into a glass; top with champagne; and garnish with a lemon twist. It’s well worth the tiny bit of extra effort.  

An espresso martini is an easy way to keep everyone awake at night. Put ice, vodka, coffee liqueur, espresso, and simple syrup in a shaker and shake. Strain into a glass and garnish with espresso beans if you’re feeling fancy. 

A Bloody Mary can be a lot of work, but it can also be super easy. Pour tomato juice, vodka, lemon juice, Worcestershire, horseradish, and premade Bloody Mary mix into a glass of ice and stir. If you’d like, you can add a celery stalk. Simple as that. 

Similar to Bloody Mary, a Michelada can be super easy if you want it to be. Rim your glass with salt and tajin, then add ice, beer, tomato juice, hot sauce, and lime juice and stir. It’s simple, delicious, and refreshing. 

Daiquiris can be deceiving. They’re not nearly as difficult to make as they might seem. Just add rum, lime juice, simple syrup, and ice to a shaker, then shake and double-strain into a glass. You can add a flavor if you’d like, and you need to pay attention to specific measurements, as is the case with all cocktails, but it’s not tough to make a daiquiri. 

It’s possible you haven’t even heard of a Bee’s Knees cocktail, but trust us that it’s easy. Put gin, lemon juice, honey syrup, and ice in a shaker and shake. Strain into a glass and garnish with a lemon twist if you want. It’s darling and easy to make. 

You’ve heard rumors about the Dark and Stormy cocktail, and the only one we can confirm is true is that it’s easy to make. Add ice, rum, and lime juice to a glass, then add ginger beer and a lime wedge or wheel. Now you’ve got yourself a Dark and Stormy.

To make a Sidecar, all you’ve got to do is add cognac, orange liqueur, lemon juice, and ice to a shaker, shake, and strain. You can add a sugar rim beforehand and garnish with an orange twist to finish, but neither is necessary. 

Put ice, vodka, lime juice, and ginger beer in a glass, and you’ve got an easy Moscow Mule. Add a lime wedge to make it cute, and use a Moscow Mule mug to be festive, but know that you can still enjoy the cocktail at home without those extras.