Summer's Best Trends: Fruity Cocktails

July 26, 2005 — -- Jane Buckingham is letting "GMA" viewers in on the summer's best trends, including her picks for the summer's coolest cocktails. If you're throwing a backyard barbecue, or an evening cocktail party, stir up one of these recipes for your guests.

Pomegranate Mojito
Courtesy of Icon Restaurant at the W Hotel -- The Court

In a cocktail shaker, combine all ingredients except the mint, and shake well. Mull the mint in the bottom of a cocktail glass. Strain the pomegranate mixture into the glass with the mulled mint, stir well and serve.

Dolce's Grapefruit Martini
Courtesy of Dolce Enoteca e Ristorante, Los Angeles, Calif.

Shake gin and grapefruit juice (in a martini shaker) and pour in a cold martini glass. Garnish with a cucumber slice.

(*Vodka can be used for those who don't like gin, in which case you would garnish it with a slice of grapefruit.)