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Three cranberry margaritas garnished with lime and staged for a Christmas table

Cranberry Margarita


  • Author: Cheryl Alters Jamison
  • Yield: Serves 6

Description

Who says margaritas have to be a summer drink?


Ingredients

Scale
  • 2 tbsp sparkling sugar or granulated sugar
  • 1 lime, sliced in 8 wedges
  • 1½ cups fresh cranberries
  • 1½ cups sweetened cranberry juice
  • ½ cup granulated sugar
  • ¾ cup fresh-squeezed lime juice
  • ¾ cup silver tequila
  • ½ cup Cointreau, Triple Sec, or other orange-flavored liqueur
  • 2 generous cups cracked ice cubes

Instructions

  1. Pour sparkling sugar onto a saucer. Rub the rim of each glass with a lime wedge, rub the rim of each glass, then dunk in the sparkling sugar.
  2. Set aside a dozen of the nicest cranberries for garnish. Puree cranberries, cranberry juice, granulated sugar, lime juice, tequila, Cointreau, and ice in a blender. Pour into the glasses.
  3. Garnish with cranberries and a lime wedge. Serve right away.