Yellow cocktails are one of the most popular color palettes in the world of cocktails. The yellow hue is often associated with happiness and good times, which makes it a great choice for summer drinks.
The color yellow comes from many different sources, including orange juice, lemon juice, and even egg white.
However, some of the best yellow cocktails don't use any of these ingredients at all!
Enjoy this collection of 40 outstanding yellow cocktail recipes!
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- 💛 What turns cocktails yellow?
- 🥂 Which alcohol is yellow in color?
- 🍹 The Foundation of Cocktails
- 🔪 Useful Equipment for your House Bar
- 💛 Yellow Cocktails with Egg Liqueur
- 💛 Yellow cocktails with Vodka
- Yellow Cocktails with Sparkling Wine
- 💛 Yellow Cocktails with Bourbon
- 💛 Yellow Cocktails with Whiskey
- 💛 Yellow Cocktails with Rum
- 💛 Yellow Cocktails with Brandy
- 💛 Yellow Cocktails with Tequila
- 💛 Yellow Cocktails with Gin
- 💛 Yellow Non-alcoholic Cocktails
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- ⛑️ Food Safety
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💛 What turns cocktails yellow?
Fresh ingredients like lime and lemon add a nice tartness to a cocktail, but they also turn the drink a bright shade of yellow-orange. The same is true for other fruit juices like pineapple, mango, and papaya, which can be used to flavor a cocktail and color it as well.
Coconut milk or coconut cream gives your beverage a creamy texture without adding additional calories or fat from cream or milk — plus, it adds some great tropical flavor and lightens up any color.
🥂 Which alcohol is yellow in color?
The most common culprits behind yellow cocktails are rum and brandy. These liquors are technically clear (and therefore should not be turning your drink yellow!).
But rum and brandy often contain caramel coloring agents that make them appear slightly golden or amber-colored when mixed with other clear liquors like vodka or gin. This is especially true if you're using aged rums instead of white rums, which don't contain any additives beyond sugarcane juice — just pure rum!
Liqueurs, such as egg liqueur, for example, already have a yellow color. These are very suitable for preparing yellow-colored drinks, such as the Snowball Cocktail.
🍹 The Foundation of Cocktails
Martinis - Gin as a base
Manhattans & Old Fashioned - whiskey as a base
Daiquiri - rum as a base (it doesn't hurt to have white and brown rum at home)
Side Cars - need cognac
Apple Jacks - apple brandy or Calvados
Cream Liqueurs - are good to have on hand, but don't last as long.
Clear liqueurs like Cassis, Cointreau (orange liqueur), herbal liqueurs and bitter liqueurs, on the other hand, have a long shelf life and are easy to add to the bar.
You can always have soda water at home; as long as it is not open, it does not lose its bubbles.
Fresh fruit juices, on the other hand, should always be bought fresh and kept refrigerated after opening.
Tonic water and bitter lemon can also be stored in small or large bottles and have a long shelf life unopened.
With this list, you have a good foundation for your house bar to shop for the right alcoholic base. Let your bar grow slowly, and get additional drinks little by little.
🔪 Useful Equipment for your House Bar
- All-purpose opener - for opening bottles and cans
- Bar spoon - used to stir the cocktail ingredients in the mixing glass. A couple of long-handled and short-handled plastic spoons serve the same purpose as silver ones.
- Bar strainer - The bar strainer must fit snugly into the shaker. When pouring the cocktails, it holds back ingredients like seeds and ice.
- Cutlery: sharp knives, fruit knives, peelers, silver forks, and a two-pronged kitchen fork
- Cocktail picks - plastic or metal skewers to spear cocktail fruit
- Bucket - medium plastic bucket for waste.
- Lots of Ice - ice is always needed when mixing
- Ice scraper - to make scraped ice
- Ice pick - to crush chunks of ice
- Ice cloth - keeps the ice from slipping away when scraping or crushing it
- Ice tongs
- Electric mixer
- Glasses - you should have at least 6 of each kind. Liquor and shot glasses, swizzle glasses, champagne glasses, highball glasses, tumblers and old-fashioned mug glasses, punch and grog glasses, beer glasses, punch glasses, water glasses, wine glasses
- Cooktop - for heating punch or grog
- Corks and bottle spouts - sealing corks and caps, tipping spouts with tubes (for more accurate pouring), splash spouts (which allow only a few drops to flow out of the bottle), champagne corks with clips
- Corkscrew
- Refrigerator
- Measuring glasses, jiggers - with several scales. Depending on where you are from and in which country you live, you will find jiggers in different sizes. USA: 1 oz / 2 oz, UK: 25 ml / 50 ml, EU: 20 ml / 40 ml.
- Mixing glass - for cocktails that are not shaken. It is essential here to have thick-walled glass.
- Grater - for grating spices, nuts, and lemon peel.
- Whisk - for whipped egg whites and creams
- Cutting boards - to cut fruits
- Bowls - to quickly rinse the accessories
- Cocktail shaker - to prepare shaken cocktails.
- Champagne cooler - made of metal
- Bitters bottle
- Straws - in various designs
- Funnels - in multiple sizes
- Lemon squeezer
- Sugar sprinkler - for powdered sugar, semolina sugar, orange sugar, lemon sugar, or vanilla sugar
💛 Yellow Cocktails with Egg Liqueur
This festive alcoholic cocktail is made with three ingredients only and takes just a few minutes to make! The combination of egg liqueur, bitter lemon, and fresh lemon juice tastes heavenly!
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💛 Yellow cocktails with Vodka
Lemon Drop Martinis are an easy lemonade cocktail made with limoncello, an Italian liqueur, aka nectar of the gods. No squeezing of lemons or making simple syrup required.
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This drink is packed full of seasonal flavors like pear, apple, and cinnamon. It’s the perfect cocktail for Thanksgiving!
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Hard lemonade is a lovely summertime tipple that will refresh and relax! Make it as "hard" as you prefer, so everyone is happy with their cocktail!
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If you're looking for a drink that's the perfect balance of sweet, sour, and spicy, keep reading! This lemon ginger cocktail is a perfect pick-me-up during the holiday season or a cold refresher in the middle of summer.
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A pineapple vodka cocktail with fresh lime juice, and a sugared rim, is like sunshine in a glass! Easy to make with just four ingredients.
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This Peach Moscow Mule is the perfect summer drink. It is light, refreshing, full of homemade peach syrup and finished with fresh peaches. The peach simple syrup takes a bit to cook, but is so worth the wait.
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This limoncello lemon drop martini cocktail is an easy 3 ingredient cocktail! Refreshing and delicious as lemonade - it’s the perfect summer cocktail or spring cocktail.
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The hairy navel cocktail is a bright yellow sweet sipper. This easy to make three ingredient drink is full of peach and fruit flavors.
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A lavender lemon drop vodka martini is a light spring cocktail. This lavender lemonade vodka cocktail is perfect! If you’re looking for spring drink ideas, I definitely recommend making this mixed drink with homemade lavender simple syrup, vodka and triple sec.
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This Black-Eyed Susan Cocktail is the official drink of the Preakness. There’s no need to stop celebrating after the Kentucky Derby – cheers with this bright and citrusy cocktail.
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A tropical delight, our version of Passionfruit Martini only uses one type of alcohol - vodka - so you don't need to open multiple bottles! Tangy, but sweet, this cocktail will transport you to your favourite exotic destination through your tastebuds!
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This Vodka Sour Recipe is a super simple cocktail recipe. It's made with just three ingredients, including fresh lemon juice and homemade simple syrup.
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Yellow Cocktails with Sparkling Wine
Looking for a refreshing Italian cocktail to cool down with? The warm weather is calling for a delicious limoncello spritz recipe! Made with limoncello, prosecco and club soda, it's a simple and refreshing Italian cocktail that is the perfect bubbly drink!
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With just 2 ingredients this pineapple screwdriver mixes up in no time. It is refreshing and delicious.
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With a refreshing combination of fresh lime juice, Limoncello, and sparkling wine, how a Sparkling Limoncello Cooler is the perfect spring and summer cocktail. But it's just great for any other time of the year, too!
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💛 Yellow Cocktails with Bourbon
This recipe for Bourbon Lemonade is perfect if you want to have a nice and light beverage. You can make a batch of this sweet and tangy beverage that is ideal for sipping on a hot summer day with just a few basic ingredients. This is one of the easiest summer drinks you can whip up in seconds.
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The Frangelico Sour is a variation on the classic Amaretto Sour using hazelnut liqueur instead. Make it simple, with just Frangelico and citrus. Or make a more complex cocktail by adding bourbon and egg white.
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This amaretto sour cocktail has the perfect balance of sweet and savory using amaretto, bourbon, and a surprise ingredient.
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💛 Yellow Cocktails with Whiskey
The Vegan Whiskey Sour cocktail takes a traditional whiskey sour and turns it into a crisp, refreshing vegan cocktail using aquafaba instead of egg whites. This vegan-friendly version gives you the same deliciously tart cocktail experience.
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This Sour Lemonade Whiskey is not your average whiskey sour, it’s made with bourbon, lemonade and a special ingredient that will make this your very favourite Whiskey Sour!
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This classic Hot Toddy recipe combines whiskey, fresh lemon juice, honey, and a subtle hint of cinnamon for a cozy hot cocktail that’s perfect for warming up with.
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These easy Peach Bourbon Spritzers are the perfect easy cocktail for late summer and early fall! A quick homemade peach simple syrup, bourbon, and a mint or basil garnish make this peach cocktail a hit. This recipe also makes great mocktails!
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💛 Yellow Cocktails with Rum
This Frozen Piña colada Recipe is perfect if you’re looking for a flavorful and refreshing adult-friendly beverage to enjoy this summer. It combines the flavor of pineapple juice with white rum, fresh pineapple, cream of coconut, and a few other ingredients.
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The painkiller cocktail is a fruity, tropical masterpiece. It’s a mixture of dark rum, pineapple juice, cream of coconut, and orange juice for bright and citrusy notes all throughout.
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Puerto Rican Mojitos are a refreshingly citrusy and effervescent rum drink that’s perfect for hot weather or enjoying a happy hour cocktail at home. This easy Puerto Rican drink will take you to the streets of Old San Juan with just one sip.
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This easy Banana Daiquiri Recipe is extremely delicious, easy to make, and makes a great summertime beach party cocktail.
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This Pineapple Mojito is a refreshing and light summer cocktail recipe. Made with either fresh pineapple, frozen, or canned paired with rum and mint. A great tropical drink.
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💛 Yellow Cocktails with Brandy
Wisconsin Brandy Slush – A frozen, boozy slush mixed with lemon-lime soda and garnished with fresh fruit. This is the classic, tried-and-true Wisconsin recipe! Perfect for parties and entertaining large groups!
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💛 Yellow Cocktails with Tequila
Vibrant pineapple juice is paired with a spicy jalapeño simple syrup, which are shaken together with a high-quality tequila blanco. This cocktail is perfect for any fiesta you plan to serve it at.
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Have you ever tried a Pineapple Margarita? These easy cocktail drinks are so delicious and great for summer events or anytime!
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This Banana Margarita (a.k.a. Bananarita) gives a tropical twist on the classic tequila cocktail we all love. The subtle banana flavor sweetens up the summer drink in an unusually tasty fashion.
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💛 Yellow Cocktails with Gin
Gin and Pineapple Juice Cocktail - a bright and fresh combination of gin and pineapple with coconut rum and fresh lime. A refreshing summer drink!
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This 5 ingredient Pineapple Gin & Ginger Beer Cocktail recipe is the perfect combination of fresh and spicy. With pineapple juice, ginger beer and a splash of gin, this cocktail is the perfect spin on a classic Gin & Tonic or even a Moscow mule.
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The quintessential Bee's Knees cocktail recipe is right here! This bright, fresh sip is perfect throughout spring and summer, and is easy to make in larger batches for parties. Cheers!
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💛 Yellow Non-alcoholic Cocktails
You won't believe how easy it is to make homemade Virgin Piña Coladas! Just 3 ingredients and a blender, these non-alcoholic frozen mocktails are naturally gluten-free, vegan, paleo, and perfect for kids! This naturally sweet and creamy tropical treat is a refreshing combo of pineapple and coconut that's ready to be enjoyed in minutes!
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This Peach Pineapple Mojito Mocktail is a tasty drink perfect for summer! It’s easy to make and a refreshing beverage that doesn’t have too many calories.
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This apple juice mocktail is light and refreshing, with a hint of spice for extra flavor! Easy to make, it comes together in just 20 minutes and is equally perfect for a summer treat or holiday drinks.
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Your frosty tropical cocktail favorite made without the alcohol and right in a blender with just 3 real ingredients! Virgin Banana Daiquiris that are gluten-free, vegan, and sugar-free you and even the kids can enjoy this healthy recipe!
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- Wash hands after touching raw meat
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- Never leave cooking food unattended
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Wow! I love all these amazing drinks! It's so refreshing and delicious and it's reminding of good summer moments!