28 Best Cranberry Cocktails You’ve Never Tried
When you think of cranberry cocktails, you can probably name a few you’ve had many times. But this list is all about the ones you’ve never heard of.
All of these drinks feature delicious cranberry juice as an ingredient. Other ingredients could be anything from vodka, rum, gin, orange juice, pineapple juice and even tequila.
What they all have in common is that deliciously tart cranberry flavor.
Best Cranberry Cocktail Recipes
The Desert Shield cocktail is like an upgraded Vodka and Cranberry. It adds cranberry liqueur and changes some of the ratios.
The Berry Fusion Martini blends the tastes of blackcurrant and cranberry with the tropical fruit flavors of Hpnotiq liqueur. This is a sweet fruity cocktail, but it's a little more grown-up than some.
Learn how to make the Cosmopolitan cocktail at home. This old classic features vodka, grapefruit juice, cranberry juice and more. It’s amazingly refreshing and delicious!
The Chambord Royale combines the famous raspberry liqueur with a touches of cranberry and pineapple for flavor, and an ounce of vodka for kick. It's a fruity little drink, but not overly sweet.
Try the classic Woo Woo cocktail recipe! A refreshing mix of vodka, peach schnapps, and cranberry juice perfect for summer parties or casual get-togethers.
The Monopoly Cocktail is a fun, fruity drink recipe that features three ounces of liqueur as its only alcohol. That makes it about a fairly lightweight cocktail. It tastes as smooth as a strawberry soda.
The Purple Turtle cocktail blends the flavors of cranberry and orange with coconut. The coconut adds a mellow note that rounds out the tartness of the fruit juices, giving them a needed touch of sweetness.
The Felicia cocktail combines apple vodka with cranberry juice. The taste is refreshingly dry for a fruity drink, with the nice tart notes of the cranberry coming through strongly.
The Red Frog is a great tasting drink that features raspberry and cranberry flavors with amaretto and whiskey. It's best served chilled. Your taste buds will thank you.
The Vodka Cranberry is a very simple drink to make, but it's so delicious. With tart cranberry and lime, and a dash of sweet orange juice, it's great for an evening out.
The delicious Sea Breeze drink recipe features vodka, cranberry and grapefruit juice. It's a refreshing cocktail with just the right balance of sweet and tart.
When you want a bold, fruity drink, the Cranberry Blast delivers. This cocktail is a perfect blend of tart cranberry, sweet peach, and citrusy notes.
The Malibu Bay Breeze is a drink that keeps it very simple. The flavors of coconut, cranberry and pineapple join forces to create a taste that's a little bit sweet and a little bit tart. What's not to love?
You might expect a the Spiced Watermelon Cooler drink recipe to contain some watermelon puree. Or watermelon schnapps. But it doesn't, and there's a reason for that.
The Skinny Dipper is all about the contrast between mellow and tart flavors, and blending the two to bring out the best in each other. The ratio is important here – three times as much of the tart cranberry juice as the mellow Midori.
The Red Rudolph cocktail is served warm. It tastes like cranberry, orange and sweet cinnamon.
The Sand Dance cocktail is whiskey based and just a little bit sweet and fruity. As with any cocktail calling for whiskey, you want to use something that's tasty, but don't waste your good whiskey on a cocktail. Jack Daniels is more than sufficient for a drink like this.
The Nantucket Cocktail is one of those classy alternatives to a frou frou drink. It's a little bit sweet and fruity, but never in a million years would anyone begin to think of it as a candy drink.
The Banilla Splash tastes like vanilla and banana with orange and cranberry. It's sweet and easy going, and you could even have it with your breakfast.
The Beautiful One is a cranberry juice based cocktail that'll cure you of a Cranberry Vodka obsession. This delicious drink balances the cranberry juice with equal parts Hennessy's cognac and Grand Marnier orange liqueur.
The Dark Lord cocktail is fruity and dark and delicious, and great at parties. Just like your typical dark lord, really.
The Mistletoe Martini blends the flavor of cranberry with a touch of elderflower. It's a delicious vodka Christmas cocktail most everyone will love.
You know what tastes a lot better than you probably think? Hot cranberry juice. The Heated Cape Cod just adds vodka to that concoction, and the result is a tart, sweet, warm drink with a kick.
The delicious, distinctive flavor of cranberry meets the equally scotch whiskey. The first is so sharp, the second so mellow - you wouldn't think it could last. But they fall in love, and then they get cherry brandy to marry them. Turns out it's a match made in heaven.
The Long Beach Iced Tea is like a Long Island Iced Tea, except you swap the cola for cranberry juice. It's a tart, refreshing drink. It's also madly strong, so if you want to make it more of a standard drink, just use an ounce and a half of one of the white liquors and leave the rest out.
This delicious drink is so simple, but so good. It features gin and cranberry juice, and you'll be surprised what a good pair they make.
The Robin's Nest cocktail is a delicious mix of cranberry juice and creme de cacao is one of those things that just had to happen sooner or later, and should've happened much sooner. But better late than never.
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