Cranberry Holiday Margarita
Recipe by Catherine Pla
Makes 1 cocktail
Cranberry Holiday Margarita
This holiday-perfect cocktail will be a great addition to all of your Christmas toasts.
Sugared cranberries:
2 t lime juice
2 T granulated sugar
For salted rims:
Lime wedges
1 t kosher salt
2 t red and green sparkling sugar
Recipe for 1 cocktail:
2 oz good-quality blanco tequila
2 oz cranberry juice cocktail
1 oz fresh lime juice
1 oz triple sec
Garnish: lime wheel and sugared cranberries
Make sugared cranberries by tossing berries with lime juice. Drain juice and toss berries with sugar. Pour onto a plate to dry.
Sugar/salt the rims of the glasses by placing salt and sugars on a plate. Wet rims of glasses by running a lime wedge around the edge. Roll rims through the salt. Set aside.
Fill a cocktail shaker halfway with ice. Add tequila, cranberry juice, lime juice, and triple sec. Shake vigorously for 20 seconds. Strain into the prepared glass filled with fresh ice. Garnish with lime wheel and sugared cranberries.