Looking for stunning and refreshing cocktail recipes? Grab a bottle of cranberry juice! This bright red juice makes some of the best mixed drinks out there. They’re vibrant in color and sweet tart in flavor. There’s everything from the sophisticated bright pink Cosmopolitan cocktail, to the laid-back Sea Breeze, to the no-frills Vodka Cranberry. Here’s a list of our very favorite cranberry cocktail recipes! But first: a few notes on the type of cranberry juice to use!
Cranberry juice vs cranberry juice cocktail
While most traditional versions of a vodka cranberry use sweetened cranberry juice, all of these cranberry cocktail recipes use 100% cranberry juice! What’s the difference:
Cranberry juice is unsweetened. It tastes tart and is labeled as “100% juice”.Cranberry juice cocktail is sweetened, often with added sugars or high-fructose corn syrup. Most traditional versions of cranberry cocktail recipes use this; even if they specify “cranberry juice” in the recipe, it often means cranberry juice cocktail.
These cranberry cocktail recipes use unsweetened juice!
If most cranberry cocktails use the sweetened version of cranberry juice, why use the tart unsweetened juice here?
And now…the best cranberry cocktail recipes!
More great cocktail recipes
Looking for more? Here are a few more of our favorite cocktails: Ingredients: Citron vodka, cranberry juice, Cointreau, and lime Ingredients: Cranberry juice, vodka, and grapefruit juice Ingredients: Vodka and cranberry juice Ingredients: Vodka, cranberry juice, pineapple juice Ingredients: Cranberry juice, vodka, and orange juice Ingredients: Vodka, cranberry, St Germain, lemon, simple syrup Ingredients: Cranberry juice, Cointreau, and champagne
French 75 Cocktail Here’s a classic cocktail made with gin and lemon. It’s sophisticated and perfect for celebrations of all kinds! Gin Fizz Cocktail This gin fix is sweet, tangy, and has a frothy egg white foam topping. St Germain Champagne Cocktail This one mixes elderflower liqueur with champagne, lemon, and gin. A sophisticated bubbly drink perfect for any occasion!
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