It’s almost unimaginable to make it by the winter vacation season with out cranberries. However why would you wish to? The tart but candy taste—and plain versatility—make the sturdy berry a dependable spine to many vacation dishes, desserts and drinks.
With a season as busy as the vacations, discovering methods to maintain stress low is essential for celebration. In an effort to decrease the stakes—with out sacrificing a powerful and scrumptious cocktail menu—strive serving these easy-to-make cranberry-powered vacation cocktails at your subsequent occasion, cocktail hour, or reward alternate. Crafted by Sarah Morrissey, a former Punch Bartender in Residence, these inventive and distinctive vacation cocktails will permit you to put the anticipated eggnog and spiked apple cider apart. Whether or not you could have a bottle of aged white rum you’ve been saving to strive or like to stay to a easy bourbon, including the daring taste of cranberries is an easy strategy to zhuzh up your vacation cocktail menu.
If bourbon is your liquor of alternative, strive Morrissey’s bittersweet Bulldog Cooler, that includes Ocean Spray®’s traditional Cranberry Juice Cocktail.
Serving: 1
2 ounce Ocean Spray® Cranberry Juice Cocktail
1.5 ounces bourbon
2 dashes angostura bitters
1/2 ounce orange juice
1/2 ounce triple sec or Cointreau
Garnish: orange twist, skewered brandied cherries, mint spring
DIRECTIONS
1. Put together a collins glass with ice.
2. Add Ocean Spray®, bourbon, bitters, orange juice and triple sec to a cocktail shaker.
3. Add ice, then shake till chilled.
4. Pressure right into a ready collins glass.
5. Garnish with an orange twist, skewered brandied cherries and a mint spring.
When you’re a fan of a traditional gin fizz, do that vacation twist.
Serving: 1
1/2 ounce Ocean Spray® Cranberry Juice Cocktail
1 oz Ocean Spray® Pink Cranberry Juice Cocktail
1 egg white
1 ounce gin
1 ounce Apple Jack
3/4 ounce lemon juice
Small bar spoon easy syrup
Garnish: Apple slice and Ocean Spray® Recent Cranberry on a skewer
DIRECTIONS
1. Put together a relaxing coupe glass with ice.
2. Add Ocean Spray®, egg white, gin, Apple Jack, lemon juice and easy syrup to a cocktail shaker.
3. Add one piece of ice, then whip shake.
4. Dump ice out of the coupe glass, pour drink into the ready coupe glass.
5. Garnish with the apple and cranberry skewer.
When you love a beachside cocktail, do that tropic-inspired drink to carry a heat really feel to even the snowiest winter spot.
Serving: 1
INGREDIENTS
2 ounce Ocean Spray® CranᐧPineapple™ Cranberry Pineapple Juice Drink
2 ounce white rum
1 ounce lime juice
3/4 ounce easy syrup
Garnish: Pineapple wedge
DIRECTIONS
1. Put together a relaxing coupe glass with ice.
2. Add Ocean Spray®, rum, lime juice and easy syrup to a cocktail shaker.
3. Add ice, then shake till chilled.
4. Dump ice out of the couple glass and pressure drink into the chilled glass.
5. Garnish with a pineapple wedge
Branded Content material Editor: Julia Kramer