Mistletoe Margarita
Festive Mistletoe Margarita with tequila, cranberry, and lime, garnished with cranberries and rosemary — holiday sipping made easy!
Servings: 1 cocktail
Calories: 223kcal
Ingredients
- Sea salt (to rim the glass)
- Ice
- 2 ounces Tequila
- ½ ounce Cointreau or Gran Marnier
- 1 ounce Fresh lime juice
- 3 ounces Cranberry juice
- Simple syrup (optional, to taste)
Garnish
- Lime wheels
- Cranberries (fresh or frozen)
- Sprig of fresh rosemary
Instructions
- First, rub a wedge of lime around the rim of a cocktail glass then dip the glass into sea salt turning it so that the salt sticks to the rim.Sea salt (to rim the glass)
- Fill a cocktail shaker with Ice. Add 2 ounces Tequila, 1/2 ounce Cointreau or Gran Marnier, 1 ounce Fresh lime juice, and 3 ounces Cranberry juice.
- Shake vigorously until the outside of the shaker feels very cold.
- Fill the salt-rimmed cocktail glass with ice and pour over the shaken cocktail. Stir in simple syrup to taste if needed.
- Garish with Lime wheels, a few Cranberries (fresh or frozen) and a Sprig of fresh rosemary.
Notes
- This recipe can be easily scaled up to pitcher size for a gathering. Christmas just got merrier, cheers!
- Salting the rim is not for everyone; you can skip this step or use sugar instead.
- Cranberries make an excellent festive garnish for this cocktail. Frozen ones work really well as they act as extra “ice,” but fresh ones will work just fine too.
- If you would like to make this into a blended cocktail, add all the ingredients with plenty of ice to a blender rather than a cocktail shaker, and blend until slushy.
