15 Love Island Inspired Cocktail Recipes to make at home
I’VE GOT A TEXT! 15 cocktails inspired by Love Island - One cocktail for every single contestant. The perfect tipples for making an event out of watching Love Island this year.
It's finally back, Love Island 2021 has hit our screens and it's all we’re going to hear about for the next month. So if you’re watching Love Island, talking about love island, or generally sitting around jealous at the fact that you’re not in a 5 star Mallorca villa. Well don’t worry. I’ve got 15 cocktails inspired by Love Island 2021 to virtual take you there.
Like 90% of the British public, Love Island is my guilty pleasure. I just love the drama! I can't help it, no matter how much I cringe and wince at the words that come out of these peoples mouths, I just can’t get enough.
Episode one, I generally end up disliking everyone, but by that half way point, I’m generally invested in these peoples lives. It must be the love island effect.
Embrace the Love… Island
That being said, this year, I’ve decided to embrace my love of love island. No more watching it in secret with the blinds closed, no more holding my self back when I hear people gossiping about last nights episode. This year, I’m letting my love island love flag fly high.
Get the love island feel at home with cocktails
So, I’ve decided to do what I do best, and create cocktails for you to try at home. And not just 1 cocktail, no no no. I’ve got 15 cocktails here. 4 generally inspired by Love Island as a whole and 11 inspired by the entire first cast of Love Island 2021.
Whatever you like to drink, there’s surely a cocktail here for you. Pick you favourite person, drink the coinciding cocktail, make the whole lot of them. Throw a Love Island party (inline with local restrictions) with these cocktails at the heart. Whatever the case may be, here are my 15 cocktails inspired by Love Island 2021.
As a side note - If anyone from ITV wants to fly me out to Mallorca to bartend at the villa and make some love island cocktails, well, I wont say no. Contact button at the top. You know what to do.
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The Love Island 2021 Inspired Cocktail Recipes
#1 “Got a Text-tini” Cocktail Recipe
That’s right, the majority of these ones are going to be bad puns combining cocktails with Love Island phrases. This one - the classic “I’ve got a text!” in the form of a Martini.
Recipe:
Ingredients
50ml Vodka
15ml Raspberry Syrup
25ml Fresh Lime juice
Method
Pour everything into a cocktail shaker and shake with ice.
Strain into a chilled coupe.
Garnish with a mint sprig spiked raspberry and love letter.
#2 “Mai Tai on Paper” Cocktail Recipe
Okay, so this pun is a stretch, but hey! When it works it works. Taking the classic line “my type on paper” which judging by episode 1, we’re going to hear a lot of. With the classic tropical rum cocktail, the Mai Tai.
Recipe:
Ingredients
40ml White rum
20ml Cointreau
15ml Orgeat
40ml Pineapple juice
15ml Fresh Lime juice
Method
Pour everything into a cocktail shaker and shake with ice.
Strain over ice into a rocks glass.
Garnish with a pineapple leaf.
#3 “Love Island Iced Tea” Cocktail Recipe
I promise I will stop with the puns soon. But what can I say? When it works it works. Here we have a long island iced tea, twisted to be more, Love Islandy.
Recipe:
Ingredients
20ml White rum
20ml Gin
20ml Tequila
20ml Vodka
20ml Cointreau
10ml Fresh Lemon juice
10ml Sugar syrup
Top with blue Fanta
Method
Pour everything into a cocktail shaker other than the blue Fanta and shake with ice.
Strain over ice into a tall glass and top with Fanta.
Garnish with a lemon wheel.
#4 “Factor 50” Cocktail Recipe
Lastly before we get to the contestant inspired cocktails, we have the factor 50. A spritz made for summer vibes.
Recipe:
Ingredients
40ml Aperol
15ml Raspberry syrup
50ml Prosecco
Top with soda
Method
Pour everything into a wine glass with cubed ice.
Give a light stir and garnish with raspberries and mint sprigs.
Love Island 2021 contestant inspired cocktail recipes
Now onto the rest of the cocktails, which are each inspired by a member of the love Island 2021 cast. Well, the first members anyway! I’m sure we will have more to come.
Everyone’s wanting to know more about these people, what better way to do so then drink a cocktail inspired by them?
#5 Basil and Strawberry Martini - Aaron Francis cocktail recipe
Aaron Francis Love Island 2021 Inspired Cocktail Recipe
Aaron Francis is a “Luxury events host” so, we need to have a little bit of class with this one. A nod to that lifestyle with a touch of sophistication, And what’s more sophisticated then a classic Martini? He also seems quite chilled, so nothing too complicated. A bit of sophistication paired with some simplicity will do nicely.
Ingredients
50ml London Gin
10ml Dry vermouth
2 Basil Leaves
1 strawberry cut into wheels
Method
Add everything to a mixing glass and stir with cubed ice till preferred dilution.
Strain into a chilled martini glass or coupe and garnish with a strawberry wheel.
#6 White Jeans Colada - Sharon Gaffka Cocktail Recipe
Sharon Gaffka Love Island 2021 inspired cocktail recipe
Sharon Gaffka, a civil servant involved in delivering Brexit. She keeps banging on about wanting a guy who is tall and someone who does not wear white jeans. So for this cocktail, I figured it was only right to use a non British non-brexit friendly cocktail - The pina colada. And serve it tall and white because why the hell not.
Ingredients
50ml white rum
10ml lime juice
15ml Cream of Coconut
50ml Pineapple juice
Method
Shake everything other then the champagne and strain into a tall glass over ice.
Top with the champagne and give a light stir.
Garnish with pineapple leaves.
#7 Lady Liberty - Liberty Poole Cocktail Recipe
Liberty Poole Love Island 2021 inspired cocktail recipe
Liberty poole, a brummy, waitress and marketing student. What to do with this one. Well… She works at Nandos right? Simple, stick some peri-peri sauce in a cocktail and there you have it. The Lady Liberty. Sour and sweet with a big kick.
Ingredients
50ml Dark rum
20ml Fresh lime juice
50ml Pineapple juice
10ml Sugar syrup
5ml peri-peri sauce
Method
Shake everything and strain into a coupe.
Garnish with a dried lime wheel.
#8 Hugo Hammond - Hugo Hammond Cocktail Recipe
Hugo Hammond Love Island 2021 inspired cocktail recipe
Hugo hugo hugo. What a sweet shy boy. For this one, I’ve gone completely off piece. Really stretching this “love island inspired cocktail” here, but hey, I’ve got 15 bloody cocktails to invent! Give me a break.
Anyway, there’s a classic cocktail consisting of gin and elderflower in a spritz called a Hugo. All I’ve done is used that, replaced the gin with vodka and named it the Hugo Hammond. Told you it was a stretch.
Ingredients
25ml Vodka
50ml Prosecco
Method
Pour everything into a wine glass filled with ice
Stir and garnish with mint leaves and sprigs.
#9 Sex on the Island - Shannon Singh Cocktail Recipe
Shannon Singh Love Island 2021 inspired cocktail recipe
Shannon Singh - A former glamour model, only fans star and self described sex-loving party girl. Judging by what we’ve seen so far, One can assume she’s the “free spirit” of the group and most likely will be the first islander to have sex. Which is fair, you go girl, get yo’man. Hence the name, sex on the island. Which as you may of guessed, is a twist on the classic “sex on the beach” cocktail.
Oh, and shes also a proudly Scottish, so the twist had to be a scotch whisky twist.
Ingredients
25ml Peach Liqueur
25ml Orange juice
25ml Cranberry juice
Method
Shake everything and strain into a “body shaped” glass. Basically, this glass and this glass only. Garnish with an orange slice.
#10 Toe Tickler - Jake Cornish Cocktail Recipe
Jake Cornish Love Island 2021 inspired cocktail recipe
Jake Cornish, What do we know about him so far? We know he loves little feet. So for this cocktail, we are calling it the “Toe Tickler” In homage to the foot loving contestant himself.
Ingredients
10ml Campari
15ml Lime juice
10ml Sugar syrup
Top with beer
Method
Shake everything other than the beer.
Strain into a shoe glass (Thats right, you have to drink the toe tickler from inside a shoe like this one).
Top with beer and garnish with edible flowers.
#11 Kazakarmi - Kaz Kamwi Cocktail Recipe
Kaz Kamwi Love Island 2021 inspired cocktail recipe
Another classic Smartblend move - Take the name of someone and turn it into a pun. This time it's a play on kamikaze cocktail which usually consists of vodka, triple sec and lime juice. We simple make it long and give it a love Island spritz.
Ingredients
10ml Vodka
10ml Lime juice
10ml Trip Sec
Top with prosecco
Method
Shake everything other than the prosecco.
Strain into a flute and top with prosecco.
Garnish with edible flowers.
#12 Simple Sour - Brad McClelland Cocktail Recipe
Brad McClelland Love Island 2021 inspired cocktail recipe
Just your average ripped 20-summit year old guy looking to find love. For this, we have a simple sour fit for a simple guy. He says he likes to get away with doing the least amount of work possible so we have a cocktail that takes the least amount of work possible to make.
Ingredients
50ml Bourbon
30ml Lemon juice
10ml Amaretto
1 egg white
Method
Shake everything with ice and dirty pour (meaning to pour out with the ice) into a rocks glass.
No garnish, no fuss.
#13 Bubbly and Floral - Chloe Burrows Cocktail Recipe
Chloe Burrows Love Island 2021 inspired cocktail recipes
Chloe burrows makes her entrance in tonight’s episode, (at the time of me writing this) what we know about her so far is that she describes herself as “bubbly”. So what cocktail do we have? One with bubbles of course! As you can see, I put a lot of work into researching the inspiration for these cocktail creations. Its soft, floral and delicate with a prosecco top.
Ingredients
20ml Creme de violette
15ml Lemon juice
Top with prosecco
Method
Pour everything into a flute or body glass again (I just love these body glasses and they are perfect for these Love Island glam cocktails),
Stir and garnish with edible violas.
#14 Don’t do cocktails mate - Toby Aromolaran Cocktail recipe
Toby Aromolaran Love Island 2021 inspired cocktail recipe
Mad about football and mad about women. What some people would describe as a “lads lad” I get the impression Toby isn’t much of the “cocktail” type of guy, more a pint and a packet if crisp fella. So let’s go with that…
Ingredients
10ml Tequila
10ml Lime juice
50ml Grapefruit soda
150ml Beer
Method
Pour everything into a short beer glass and stir.
Garnish with a packet of ready salted crisp.
#15 Factor Faye - Faye Winter Cocktail Recipe
Fay Winter Love Island 2021 Inspired Cocktail Recipe
Last but certainly not least we have the Faye Winter inspired cocktail. Everything so far as shown Faye as your typical “glamour” girl - Mini dresses, Bum out, Boobs out. Proper selling sunsets type of vibe. So what better then a Cosmopolitan with a bit of glam. Swapping out the vodka for Cremant does just that.
Ingredients
Method
Shake everything apart from the Cremant and pour into a body shaped glass. Yes, for those counting, this is now the third time I’ve used this glass. No, I’m not sponsored by them. Its just the perfect glass. These women are all about glam. The glass is literally a champagne glass shaped like a women’s busty body! It’s not my fault it works perfectly.
Top with Cremant and garnish with edible lipstick sweets.