Get into the festive mood with these refreshing cranberry cocktails. These are especially good if you don’t like your holiday cocktails too sweet.
Cranberry Moscow Mule from Spoonful of Flavor
- 4 ounces ginger beer
- 4 ounces cranberry juice
- 2 ounces dark rum
- 1 lime, cut in half
- crushed ice cubes
- fresh or frozen cranberries
Place 1 cup crushed ice into a glass. Add ginger beer, cranberry juice, rum, and the juice of a squeezed ½ lime in a cocktail shaker filled with ice.
Stir or very gently shake, then pour into the ice-filled glass.
Top with cranberries and garnish with a lime wheel and serve.
Cranberry Marguerita by Isabel Eats
- kosher salt for rimming glass
- ice
- 4.5 ounces cranberry juice
- 1.5 ounces blanco tequila
- 1 ounce triple sec
- 1/2 lime
- fresh cranberries and rosemary sprigs, for garnish
Run a lime wedge around the rim of a glass and dip in salt. Fill the glass with ice.
Fill a cocktail shaker with ice and add cranberry juice, tequila, triple sec and the juice of half a lime. Shake to combine.
Strain the cocktail over the prepared glass and garnish with fresh cranberries and rosemary sprigs.
Holiday Cranberry Mojito from As Easy as Apple Pie
For the simple syrup:
- 8 oz. fresh cranberries
- 1 cup water
- 1 cup granulated sugar
For the Mojito:
- 20 fresh mint leaves
- 3 tablespoons lime juice
- 4 oz. cranberry simple syrup
- 4 oz. white rum
- ice cubes
- 4 oz. sparkling water
- fresh mint leaves, fresh cranberries, lime slices
In a small pot combine the cranberries, water and sugar and bring to a simmer over medium heat.
Reduce the heat to low and cook for about 10 minutes, until the sugar has dissolved and the cranberries burst and soften. Set aside and allow to cool.
Once the mixture has cooled, strain it, pressing on the cranberries to extract as much liquid as possible. Discard the cranberries.
Place 10 mint leaves and 1 ½ tablespoon of lime juice into a glass. Muddle the mint in the juice by pressing the mint leaves with the end of a wooden spoon.
Add in 2 ounces of cranberry simple syrup, 2 ounces of white rum and stir.
Top with ice cubes, and 2 ounces of sparkling water.
Garnish with a few mint leaves, fresh cranberries and a slice of lime.