Easy Orange Cranberry Margarita

I try to make a special cocktail for each season. I definitely have my go-to flavors, like cider drinks in the fall and winter. And cranberry!

A couple years ago I made cranberry jello shots, and I decided to carry on the tradition this year with an orange cranberry margarita!

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The best way to make a flavored margarita mix is to cut the water from my homemade margarita mix recipe and use fruit juice instead.

Orange Cranberry Margarita Mix

1/2 cup sugar
1 cup cranberry juice cocktail
1 cup lime juice (about 10 limes)
juice of three oranges

Squeeze the lime and orange juice into a bowl or measuring cup. Heat the cranberry juice and sugar in a saucepan over medium heat until the sugar has dissolved.

I added some fresh cranberries cut in half, oranges and limes to my mix just to infuse a little more flavor.

Let the mixture cool a bit before adding in the lime juice, mix together, and pour into a bottle. Refrigerate the mix for up to two weeks.

To mix a margarita, just add a shot of silver tequila to a short glass filled with ice. Then top it off with the margarita mix. EASY as pie.

I normally use triple sec too, but since this already has so much orange flavor, I didn’t necessarily think it needed it. Oh- and you get bonus points if you take the time to do a salted rim and fun cranberry and orange garnishes!

By the way, this is one of the most crowd-pleasing drinks I’ve ever made! Everyone loved it and we ran out WAY too fast (next time I’ll make a double recipe of the mix).

It tastes like a tarter, more flavorful version of a traditional margarita.

Cheers to new traditions and seasonal flavors! Love you guys. xx- Elsie

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a festive homemade margarita for the holidays

Ingredients

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• ▢ ½ cup sugar
• ▢ 1 cup cranberry juice cocktail
• ▢ 1 cup lime juice (about 10 limes)
• ▢ juice of three oranges
• ▢ fresh cranberries (for garnish)

Instructions

• Squeeze the lime and orange juice into a bowl or measuring cup. Heat the cranberry juice and sugar in a saucepan over medium heat until the sugar has dissolved.

  I added some fresh cranberries cut in half, oranges and limes to my mix just to infuse a little more flavor.
• Let the mixture cool a bit before adding in the lime juice, mix together, and pour into a bottle. Refrigerate the mix for up to two weeks.
• To mix a margarita, just add a shot of silver tequila to a short glass filled with ice. Then top it off with the margarita mix. 

© Author Elsie Larson

Keywords cranberries, margarita