Cocktails in jam jars!

My boyfriend was back from Glasgow this weekend and so we've been pretty busy going out in Newcastle, eating pizza, watching the Champions League match (errrrgh).. but other than that we decided to make some cocktails as a change from going to a bar or the pub!! We also had a fun idea to make them inside of jam jars instead of glasses, and this is basically what we did:

We used:

• 1 lime
• a punnet of strawberries from Sainsburys
• Gin
• Lemonade
• Sugar
• Mint
• 2 jam jars*
• strawberry jam
• Bacardi rum

(we took a picture before we realised that we didn't need the raspberry and lemon cordial)

For the first ones, which were basically our own creation, we cut up the strawberries into small pieces and mashed them into some ice with mint and some juice from a segment of lime, before shaking them up in a cocktail shaker and adding a couple of teaspoons of jam and some sugar. We genuinely made this up as we went along so I apologise for not having exact measurements.. but once shaken we poured them into the jars and topped them with lemonade and decorated them with mint, lime and a strawberry then mixed it up :)

For the second set, we made strawberry mojitos and used step by step guide online:

http://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Strawberry-Mojito

They were also very very tasty!! However SOMEONE (me) didn't mash the strawberries properly and put a tad too much gin in.. nevertheless a lovely evening overall, despite the football :)

*P.S - for the jam jars, we were going to buy some empty ones from Sainsburys for £3ish, but we decided it would be easier to use jars of jam because I had a couple which were mostly empty. You can buy jars with handles on too which are so cute and I will definitely be buying for the future!!