For a pie, toss the zest with fruit or whisk it into the wet ingredients. For a cake, add in about 1 teaspoon minced zest when creaming together the butter and sugar. Lime juice – use only freshly squeezed lime juice, don’t use the bottled stuff! Don’t use sweetened lime juice (like Rose’s), which is essentially sugar with a tart artificial lime flavor.The flavored sparkling water trick is probably the most obvious way to use up citrus peels, but there are other ways I've found myself using them now that I always have a stash on hand.įirst, baking a cake? A pie? A muffin? There are few dessert recipes that wouldn't benefit from very finely diced citrus zest, even if you won't need the coordinating citrus juice. It is so delicious and you can use it to make many drinks such as Sidecar Cocktail or Apple Cider Sangria. Orange liqueur is a great liqueur to have in your pantry. It has 40% of alcohol and a great balance of flavors while Triple Sec can be around 15-30% and tastes more harsh. Brands of triple sec include Cointreau, Grand Marnier, or Triple Sec (yes, it’s a name of the brand and a type of liqueur). Triple sec is an orange-flavored liqueur that originated in France. It has a great balance of bitter and sweet flavors. Orange Liquor – My favorite orange liqueur is Cointreau and this is what I recommend for this recipe. Check out all my cocktail recipes with cranberry juice to see how you can use up the leftovers. What to do with leftover cranberry juice? You can make Malibu bay breeze or Sea breeze cocktail. Unsweetened 100% cranberry juice would be too tart for this recipe.
Cranberry juice sweetened with other fruit juices can also be used. You don’t have to use expensive vodka for this recipe – its flavor is a little bit muted by cranberry juice.Ĭranberry juice – you need to use sweetened cranberry juice also called cranberry juice cocktail. Which vodka is best for cocktails? Can I be patriotic and say – use Polish vodka? Wyborowa, Chopin vodka, Żubrówka, and Belvedere vodka are great choices! If there is no Polish vodka available at your grocery store – other great choices are Smirnoff, Absolut vodka, or Grey Goose. So if you can’t find it, don’t worry – regular vodka and just a couple of drops of lemon juice will work just fine. I must admit, it was not easy for me to find a lemon vodka – I have found it in the fourth grocery store that I visited. I actually made two cocktails, one with regular vodka and one with lemon vodka, and tasted them side by side and I can tell you – the difference in flavor is not very noticeable! Sure, the lemon vodka has a subtle citrus flavor to it but it’s just not that noticeable. You can also use regular vodka, add a couple of drops of lemon juice and your cocktail will taste the same. If you can’t easily find this kind of vodka – don’t worry. Here’s what you need to make a Cosmopolitan cocktail:Ĭitron vodka: (lemon zest-infused vodka) This vodka is not sweet, it just has a slight lemon flavor. The Cosmopolitan cocktail is now considered an official IBA (International Bartenders Association) cocktail. The pink-hued cocktail was a favorite of the characters on the show.
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No matter the origins, the drink became famous in the 1990s thanks to the tv show “Sex and the City”. From there the drink spread to the rest of lower Manhattan. The internationally recognized version is said to have been created at The Odeon restaurant in Manhattan by Toby Cecchini in 1988. John Caine gets credit for bringing the drink west and popularizing it in San Francisco. Starting with a recipe for the Harpoon cocktail (vodka, cranberry juice, and lime juice), from a 1960s Ocean Spray ad, Cook added orange liqueur and citrus vodka.
She was trying to develop a cocktail using the newly-released Absolut Citron vodka. It is said that it could be first mixed by Cheryl Cook in Miami, Florida. The classic Cosmopolitan cocktail (aka “Cosmo”) is a simple and delicious drink that quickly became one of the most popular cocktails of all time.
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