Christmas Margaritas are a festive holiday cocktail with a sweet and tart cranberry flavor. Garnish them with fresh mint and lime slices and you have an adult beverage that is perfectly dressed for the holidays.
Course Cocktail
Cuisine American
Keyword Christmas, tequila
Prep Time 10 minutesminutes
Cook Time 0 minutesminutes
Servings 2
Ingredients
1cupCranberry juice
1/2cupfresh lime juice
1/2cuptequila
1/4cupTriple Sec
2teaspoonssuper fine sugar
coarse sugar or salt for rims
fresh cranberries
lime slices
mint
Instructions
Add Cranberry juice, lime juice, Tequila, Triple Sec, and superfine sugar to a cocktail shaker and shake.
Rub a lime slice around the rims of 2 glasses. Sprinkle a layer of salt or sugar on a plate and dip the lime coated glass rims in it.
Fill glasses with ice and then fill with margarita mix.
Garnish with cranberries, lime slices and mint.
Notes
Pomegranate juice can be used instead of cranberry juice.