Hello! It’s Summer season Cocktail Friday! Are you prepared for #3 in our sequence? Good, me too.
After making this unbelievable Cherry Lime Smoothie just a few weeks in the past our staff fell in love with ALL THINGS CHERRIES. So, we needed to carry make a cocktail model of that scrumptious, nostalgic cherry limeade taste.
Enter: the cherry lime cocktail of your desires. This spiked cherry limeade is equal elements candy and tart with a enjoyable, bubbly end that can have you ever and your company leaping for pleasure. We’re mixing it up from the stunning margarita recipes we like to share and bringing you this vodka-punch-style cocktail made with recent components (no mysterious jungle juice right here). I really like this one as a result of there’s no must mix or pressure something, simply combine and serve.
After all, be at liberty to depart out the vodka to make the proper mocktail! Nevertheless you make it, bear in mind so as to add a stunning sugar rim and a few recent cherries & lime slices on high for the final word deal with. Cheers!
Components on this cherry lime cocktail
This beautiful spiked cherry limeade is the proper steadiness of candy and tart utilizing tremendous easy components. Right here’s what you’ll want:
- Tart cherry juice: you should definitely use high quality cherry juice that’s not from focus in order that the cocktail has a real cherry taste.
- Sweetener: be at liberty to make use of agave or easy syrup to sweeten the cocktail. See beneath to learn to make your personal easy syrup!
- Lime: you’ll want each recent lime juice and limeade for that tart punch. I used this model on this recipe as a result of it doesn’t have that overly synthetic taste.
- Vodka: we’re including the celebration and spiking this cherry limeade with vodka!
- Soda water: who doesn’t love bubbly cocktail? A few cans of soda water (aka seltzer water or membership soda) will do the trick.
- To serve: I wish to rim the glasses with coarse sugar and add recent lime slices and cherries. So fairly.
Make your personal easy syrup
A fast shortcut for easy syrup: shake equal elements granulated sugar and water (1/4 cup every can be sufficient for all 6 cherry lime cocktails) in a small jar for 1-2 minutes till the sugar dissolves. That’s it!
Can I make a mocktail?
Completely! Be happy to depart the vodka out to make a enjoyable selfmade cherry limeade mocktail.
Jazz up every glass
As a substitute of salt (like in my margarita recipes) I like so as to add a sugar rim to the glasses for this cherry lime cocktail! To take action, you’ll minimize a wedge from a lime and rub the minimize facet of the lime alongside the rim of the glass. Pour common or coarse sugar onto a small plate and dip the moist glass rim into the sugar to coat it. Then make your vodka cherry limeade and pour it into the glasses with ice.
I additionally like garnishing with recent lime slices and cherries for a reasonably look.
Scrumptious cherry lime cocktail in 4 easy steps
- Make the bottom. Begin by stirring collectively the cherry juice, agave, lime juice, and vodka in a big pitcher till the agave dissolves.
- Add the fillers. Gently stir in ice, limeade, and 1 of the cans of soda water.
- Prep your glasses. In the event you’d like, add the sugar rim to your glasses in addition to ice.
- Garnish & serve. Pour the cocktail into every glass, leaving a little bit room on the high, then high every glass with a splash of extra soda water. Garnish with a recent lime slice and a cherry should you’d like!
Our favourite cocktail-making instruments
- The proper cocktail shaker (you received’t want it for this particular recipe)
- I really like utilizing this hand juicer for all issues juicing
- Good glasses like those I used on this recipe
- A pitcher for serving a celebration
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I hope you’re keen on this spiked cherry limeade recipe! In the event you make it you should definitely go away a remark and a score so I understand how you appreciated it. Take pleasure in, xo!
Completely candy and tart spiked cherry limeade made with 6 easy components for an exquisite celebration pitcher! This straightforward cherry lime cocktail comes collectively in simply 10 minutes and is nice for serving company at your subsequent gathering. Choices to make it right into a scrumptious mocktail included!
Components
- For the cocktail:
- 1 cup tart cherry juice (not from focus)
- ¼ cup agave or easy syrup
- ¼ cup freshly squeezed lime juice
- 1 cup vodka
- 3 cups ice cubes
- 1 ½ cups limeade (we used Santa Cruz natural)
- 2 cans (3-4 cups) soda water
- For serving:
- Lime wedge for rimming the glass
- Coarse or common sugar for rimming the glass
- Ice cubes
- Contemporary lime slices
- Contemporary cherries (elective)
Directions
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Add cherry juice, agave (or easy syrup), lime juice, and vodka to a big pitcher and stir with a spoon till the agave dissolves.
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Add in 3 cups of ice, limeade, and 1 can of soda water, stirring gently to combine.
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Put together your glasses: Add sugar to a small plate. Use a lime wedge to moist the rim of the glass, then dip the rim of the glass within the sugar, rolling backward and forward till effectively coated. Add ice cubes into the glasses.
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Pour cherry limeade into glasses, leaving a little bit of room on the high, and high with a splash of soda water. Garnish with a cherry and slice of lime on the rim of the glass. Cheers!
Recipe Notes
To make it a mocktail, simply miss the vodka.
Vitamin
Serving: 1cocktailEnergy: 180kcalCarbohydrates: 22.9gProtein: 0.2gFiber: 0.2gSugar: 19.4g
Recipe by: Monique Volz // Bold Kitchen | Images by: Eat Love Eats
