The white lady cocktail is the perfect balance of sour and sweet. It uses gin, orange liqueur, and lemon juice to create a tasty three ingredient cocktail.
This gin and cointreau cocktail is called the white lady. They are a little dangerous because they are so good and so easy to make. There's something about the sweet tartness of them. The lemon, the orange, the gin. It's such a nice balance. That sweet/sour balance.
The white lady is a simple three ingredient cocktail. The kind that is almost TOO easy to whip up. Other similar cocktails include daiquiris, sidecars, and even margaritas! Those also have that nice citrus sour balance going on (and minimal ingredients!)
Ingredients
- Gin
- Cointreau - you could also substitute Triple Sec or other orange liqueur
- Fresh lemon juice
How to make the gin and cointreau cocktail
Making the cocktail is so easy. Just add the gin, triple sec, and fresh lemon juice to a cocktail shaker.
Add ice, then shake until chilled. Strain into your preferred glass. Garnish with whatever you like, or leave off the garnish altogether!
Garnishes and glasses
You can serve the white lady with different garnishes! We've done it with lemon slices (lemon wheels), orange slices, lemon peel, and orange peel. You can also serve without any garnish.
We've also served in different glasses. You can serve in martini glasses (as pictured), coupe glasses, or even lowball glasses. It's typically served up, which means without ice.
Gin and Cointreau Cocktail
Equipment
- Cocktail Shaker
- Cocktail strainer
Ingredients
- 2 oz gin
- 1 oz Cointreau, Triple sec, or other orange liqueur
- 1 oz lemon juice freshly squeezed
Instructions
- Take out a cocktail shaker. Add the gin, Cointreau, and lemon juice to the cocktail shaker.
- Add ice to the shaker.
- Shake for 20 seconds, or until chilled.
- Strain into a glass of your choice.
- Garnish as desired.
Notes
- We used martini glasses for this recipe, but you can also use coupe glasses or lowball glasses.
- You can garnish with a lemon wheel, orange wheel, lemon peel, or orange peel.
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