THANKSGIVING MENU SERIES: SPICY CRANBERRY MARGARITA
Tequila lovers, this one is for you. I will warn you that these are a little too easy to drink. ? My father in law, Bill, actually gave us the “Holiday Cranberry Margarita” recipe from last year, I just added in the spicy honey element to change it up. This is everything you want a holiday margarita to be! And the great thing about this recipe, is that it’s VERY easy to batch as well, making it even better. Again, just multiple the recipe X the number of people or margs you want to make. Make it that morning so it’s one less thing you have to do.
Note: If you want to kick the heat up a notch, muddle in some fresh jalapeños – but I personally enjoy the flavor of spicy or hot honey for this. Enjoy!
Ingredients
- 3 oz pure Cranberry Juice
- 2 oz Tequila
- 1 oz Lime Juice, freshly squeezed!
- 1 oz Cointreau or Triple Sec
- .5 oz Spicy or Hot Honey
- More honey-to-rim glass
- Turbinado sugar, or whatever you have
- Cranberries + Sprig of Fresh Rosemary for garnish
Method
- Sugar the rim of the glass with spicy honey and turbinado sugar, and set aside
- Pour all ingredients into a cocktail shaker full of ice. Shake shake shake!
- Pour into a martini or cocktail glass, then garnish with cranberry skewers and rosemary
Ingredients
- 18 ounces 2.25 cups Pure Cranberry Juice (not cranberry cocktail)
- 12 ounces 1.5 cups Tequila
- 6 ounces Cointreau
- 6 ounces fresh lime juice
- 4 ounces Hot Honey Simple Syrup, recipe below
- Hot honey + sugar for rim
- Sugared cranberries for garnish, optional
Method
- Make the hot honey simple syrup by combining 3/4 cup hot honey and 1/2 cup of water in a small pot, bring to a boil, and once the honey is dissolved take off of the heat. Don’t use it until it’s cooled, and this can be made ahead of time!
- In a pitcher, combine cranberry juice, tequila, Cointreau, simple syrup, and lime juice
- If serving immediately, add ice to the pitcher and stir well. If serving later, do not add ice, but rather cover with Sarah and store in the fridge. I like to shake up each cocktail personally, but this isn’t necessary
- Pour into a glass rimmed with hot honey and sugar
- Garnish with sugared cranberries and enjoy!
For a mocktail: replace the tequila & Cointreau with either a NA tequila, sparkling water, or even ginger beer!
Enjoy!
Cortney
Cortney LaCorte
Cortney LaCorte is the creator of CheeseGal, a food and entertaining blog born in her Nashville kitchen that celebrates cheese, charcuterie and joyful gatherings
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