Garnish with a twist of orange and enjoy! Finish the cocktail: Strain the cocktail into a martini glass.If using a glass, stir well with a spoon. Secure the cocktail shaker and shake for about 20 seconds. Mix the ingredients: Add the vodka, triple sec, cranberry juice, lime juice, and ice to a cocktail shaker or large glass.It’s sweet, packs a major citrus punch, and clocks in from 15-40% ABV depending on the type you buy. This liqueur is made with dried peels from both bitter and sweet oranges. If you’re familiar with Curaçao, you’ll recognize the strong orange flavor and aroma of triple sec. Orange twist – Use a potato peeler and slice thin twists with a knife if you don’t have a citrus zester.Cranberry juice – This is what gives this cocktail it’s pretty pink colour.Triple sec – Blue Curaçao will work instead flavor-wise if that’s what you have handy, however it will affect the color.For this instance, I suggest using a high quality vodka as it’ll impact the flavor greatly.
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Keep scrolling down to the recipe card for a list of FULL ingredient amounts and instructions or click the “ Jump the Recipe” button at the top of the page! We all remember watching Carrie Bradshaw on Sex and the City order herself a cosmopolitan often times while out with her girlfriends! As a result, the popularity of the drink skyrocketed into, you could say, the cosmos. While it’s debated where the origin of the drink stems from, we know for sure how it gained its modern-day popularity. What is a cosmopolitan cocktail?Īlso referred to as a “cosmo”, this pink cocktail is an alcohol-forward drink made with vodka. With simple ingredients that are easy to find, you’re mere moments away from having a cosmo in your hand. While at first glance the cosmopolitan cocktail may look like a feat of mixologist expertise, it couldn’t be any easier to make. If you’re looking for a drink you can throw together with no fuss, this is the recipe for you. Hey, we all deserve to spoil ourselves sometimes! Whether I’m having a dinner party with some friends, looking for a celebratory post-work treat, or even just doing the laundry. Sometimes I can’t help but crave a fun and bright cocktail just like this fantastic cosmopolitan. It’s the perfect balance of sweet and tart! Turn your next night in up a notch with this easy drink. It is overly sweet and not as good of a fit for this high-end cocktail.This Cosmopolitan Cocktail recipe is a gorgeous and classy drink made with just 4 ingredients. While that would work for some drinks, we do not suggest it here. As we mentioned, it is what we use in our margaritas.Īnother, more affordable option is Triple Sec. It is at the higher end of both quality and alcohol content, and the taste quality cannot be beat. For our cocktails, we always spring for a bottle of Cointreau. It ranges greatly in quality and alcohol content.
Orange Liqueur is exactly what it sounds like, a liqueur derived from oranges. If you do need to go to a lower shelf to make this cocktail, we would recommend that you go with Tito’s.
It has won more than once in blind taste tests. That being said, there is a rumor that Costco’s Kirkland brand vodka is actually a high-end vodka that has been sold to the whole store for a lower price point. The best quality vodkas for the price are Grey Goose and Belvediere. As mentioned in the recipe card, we suggest using a top-shelf vodka for this Cosmopolitan drink.
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