The Cranberry Kiss cocktail takes your traditional margarita recipe and adds to it pure cranberry juice and a vanilla note. Pure cranberry juice that’s not diluted with other fruit juices is pretty tart, which is why you need the vanilla simple syrup (or a vanilla liqueur will work, too).
The blend of cranberry and vanilla alone is pretty delicious – add to it the strong hints of lime and orange in this recipe, and you get a wonderful blend of tart, sweet and mellow.
It’s rare for a cranberry cocktail recipe to call for pure cranberry juice. Normally they mean the blends that take away some of that tartness.
In this case, it’s the other mixers that take the edge off the cranberry. What happens if you use regular blended cranberry juice? It’s going to be too sweet.
Cranberry Kiss Drink Recipe
The Cranberry Kiss cocktail takes your traditional margarita recipe and adds to it cranberry juice and a vanilla simple syrup or liqueur.
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 ounces silver tequila
- 1 ounce pure cranberry juice (not a blend)
- 3/4 ounce lime juice
- 1/2 ounce orange liqueur
- 1/2 ounce vanilla simple syrup
Instructions
- Fill a cocktail shaker with ice.
- Pour in all the ingredients.
- Shake until chilled.
- Strain the mixture into a champagne flute.
- Garnish with an orange twist or slice.
Notes
It's extremely rare to use 100% pure cranberry juice in a cocktail, but this one is made for it. Please be sure to use the right juice.