Cranberry Kiss Drink Recipe

The Cranberry Kiss cocktail takes your traditional margarita recipe and adds to it pure cranberry juice and a vanilla note. Pure cranberry juice that’s not diluted with other fruit juices is pretty tart, which is why you need the vanilla simple syrup (or a vanilla liqueur will work, too).

Cranberry Kiss drink in champagne flute with orange slice garnish

The blend of cranberry and vanilla alone is pretty delicious – add to it the strong hints of lime and orange in this recipe, and you get a wonderful blend of tart, sweet and mellow.

It’s rare for a cranberry cocktail recipe to call for pure cranberry juice. Normally they mean the blends that take away some of that tartness.

In this case, it’s the other mixers that take the edge off the cranberry. What happens if you use regular blended cranberry juice? It’s going to be too sweet.

Cranberry Kiss drink in champagne flute with orange slice garnish

Cranberry Kiss Drink Recipe

Yield: 1 drink
Prep Time: 4 minutes
Total Time: 4 minutes

The Cranberry Kiss cocktail takes your traditional margarita recipe and adds to it cranberry juice and a vanilla simple syrup or liqueur.

Ingredients

  • 1 1/2 ounces silver tequila
  • 1 ounce pure cranberry juice (not a blend)
  • 3/4 ounce lime juice
  • 1/2 ounce orange liqueur
  • 1/2 ounce vanilla simple syrup

Instructions

  1. Fill a cocktail shaker with ice.
  2. Pour in all the ingredients.
  3. Shake until chilled.
  4. Strain the mixture into a champagne flute.
  5. Garnish with an orange twist or slice.

Notes

It's extremely rare to use 100% pure cranberry juice in a cocktail, but this one is made for it. Please be sure to use the right juice.

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Last Updated:

November 7, 2023