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Cranberry Margarita

Last updated December 13, 2021. Originally posted December 13, 2021 By Jyothi Rajesh 35 Comments

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Say cheer’s with this brilliant bright red colored Cranberry margarita, a perfect Christmas and New year drink. The vibrant bright red color is so stunning to look at it. The drink has a perfect balance of sweet, tart and totally refreshing. This holiday drink is made with fresh homemade cranberry juice, orange liqueur, tequila and lime juice – a combination that is fit for any party.

cranberry margaritas in 3 serving glasses

Refreshing cranberry margarita

Easy to make, made from scratch and is bursting with full of flavors. The color of the drink is so stunning to look, you won’t be able to resist it.

A perfect drink to kick start holiday mood or any celebrations. For Thanksgiving gatherings to Christmas holidays, for New year’s eve party to girls margarita night party, for valentine’s day celebration drink to relaxing weekend drink, this margarita is perfect for any occasion.

What you’ll need

To make fresh cranberry juice –

  • 2 cups fresh cranberries
  • ¼ cup water
  • â…“ cup sugar

To make cranberry margarita-

  • 2 cup fresh cranberry juice
  • 4 tablespoon lime juice
  • ¾ cup tequila
  • ½ cup fresh orange juice
  • ½ cup orange-flavored liqueur Cointreau or Triple Sec
  • Ice cubes

Garnish –

  • Fresh cranberries
  • Lime wedges
  • Sugared cranberries
  • Rosemary sprig
  • Ice cubes
  • Margarita salt or Sugar
cranberry margaritas in 3 serving glasses

Made from scratch

There are two ways – one exacting the juice from fresh berries and second making a cranberry syrup to make margarita

Using fresh homemade juice gives you the best tasting margaritas. Feel free to use store bought packaged juice from carton if you want to speed things up.

Into a juicer, throw in fresh cranberries and juice it. Making your own cranberry juice from scratch won’t take much time. Balancing the tartness of the cranberries is done with sugar or any sweetener.

Puree fresh cranberries and squeeze the heck out of them through a strainer. Then add sugar accordingly to balance out the tartness of fresh cranberries.

Alternatively ….

Into a sauce pan add cranberries, sugar and water. Bring it to boil. After 8 to 10 minutes cranberries will turn soft. Mash it a little and turn off flame.

Allow the cranberry juice to cool a little. Then strain off using fine mesh sieve and squeeze out as much juice as you can.

Let cranberry juice cool down completely before using it in margarita.

If you can’t make your own cranberry juice, use the store-bought-cranberry juice. Recommend you to use brand that is 100% juice). It’s easy to make, convenient and tastes GOOD too!

How to make cranberry margaritas

  1. To fresh cranberry juice (or store bought juice) squeeze in lime juice.
  2. Into the cocktail shaker add ice cubes, cranberry juice with lime, fresh orange juice, orange flavored liqueur, silver tequila, Shake well until all ingredients blends well.
  3. In a small wide bowl, mix margarita salt and caster sugar (not powdered sugar, sugar with fine crystals).
  4. Take a lime wedge and run it around the rim of the glass in which you want to serve cranberry margarita. Dip rim of the glass in salt sugar mix and make sure it coats evenly around the rim.
  5. Drop a few ice cubes into the serving glasses.
  6. Pour cranberry cocktail into the serving glasses.
  7. Garnish with few fresh cranberries, a lime wedge and serve and sugared cranberries over rosemary sprig.
cranberry margaritas in 3 serving glasses

How to serve cranberry margaritas

The traditional way to serve any margarita is to have a coarse salt around the rim of margarita glasses. We don’t want to skip any traditions here, so yes we can add our own little twist to the traditions.

Margarita salt and caster sugar together makes it great as well. If you don’t have margarita salt, use regular coarse salt.

Serve cranberry margaritas in glass wares.

cranberry margaritas in 3 serving glasses

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cranberry margaritas in 3 serving glasses
5 from 14 votes

Cranberry Margarita

Jyothi Rajesh
📋 Say cheer's with this brilliant bright red colored Cranberry margarita, a perfect Christmas and New year drink. The vibrant bright red color is so stunning to look at it. The drink has a perfect balance of sweet, tart and totally refreshing.
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Prep Time 5 mins
Cook Time 8 mins
Course Drinks, holiday recipes
Cuisine American
Servings 4 cups
Calories 358

Ingredients
  

To make fresh cranberry juice –

  • 2 cups fresh cranberries
  • ¼ cup water
  • â…“ cup sugar

To make cranberry margarita-

  • 2 cup fresh cranberry juice
  • 4 tablespoon lime juice
  • ¾ cup tequila
  • ½ cup fresh orange juice
  • ½ cup orange-flavored liqueur Cointreau or Triple Sec
  • Ice cubes

Garnish –

  • Fresh cranberries
  • Lime wedges
  • Sugared cranberries
  • Rosemary sprig
  • Ice cubes
  • Margarita salt or regular coarse salt and caster sugar to coat the rim of serving glasses

Instructions
 

  • To make cranberry margaritas, first rim the ridge of your serving glass with a lime wedge and dip in margarita salt.
  • Fill the glass with ice cubes.
  • In a cocktail shaker, combine cranberry juice, freshly squeezed orange juice, triple sec, tequila, lime juice with ice cubes. Shake for about 30 seconds.
  • Pour over ice and squeeze in lime slices.
  • Garnish with sugared cranberries, lime wedges.

Notes

Homemade fresh cranberry juice

There are two ways – one exacting the juice from fresh berries and second making a cranberry syrup to make margarita
Using fresh homemade juice gives you the best tasting margaritas. Feel free to use store bought packaged juice from carton if you want to speed things up.
Into a juicer, throw in fresh cranberries and juice it. Making your own cranberry juice from scratch won’t take much time. Balancing the tartness of the cranberries is done with sugar or any sweetener.
Puree fresh cranberries and squeeze the heck out of them through a strainer. Then add sugar accordingly to balance out the tartness of fresh cranberries.
Alternatively ….
Into a sauce pan add cranberries, sugar and water. Bring it to boil. After 8 to 10 minutes cranberries will turn soft. Mash it a little and turn off flame.
Allow the cranberry juice to cool a little. Then strain off using fine mesh sieve and squeeze out as much juice as you can.
Let cranberry juice cool down completely before using it in margarita. 
Taste cranberry juice before adding it to the cocktail. If too sour, add simple syrup to balance out the sour taste. 
Nutritional Info – Please keep in mind that nutritional information provided is only a rough estimate and can vary greatly based on products used.

Nutrition

Calories: 358kcalCarbohydrates: 52gProtein: 1gFat: 1gSaturated Fat: 1gPolyunsaturated Fat: 1gMonounsaturated Fat: 1gSodium: 8mgPotassium: 230mgFiber: 3gSugar: 46gVitamin A: 156IUVitamin C: 38mgCalcium: 21mgIron: 1mg
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  1. Sam | Ahead of Thyme says

    January 07, 2019 at 7:45 am

    This drink looks so festive and perfect for a holiday party! I don’t drink but sharing this when friends who would love it.

    Reply
    • jyothirajesh says

      January 07, 2019 at 8:00 am

      Thank you

      Reply
  2. Claire | The Simple, Sweet Life says

    January 07, 2019 at 7:12 am

    If I’m going to drink, margarita’s are my go-to choice. I bet the cranberry makes it extra fresh with the perfect twist of tartness. Definitely going to have to give this a try!

    Reply
    • jyothirajesh says

      January 07, 2019 at 8:00 am

      Thank you Claire

      Reply
  3. Lorie says

    January 06, 2019 at 6:55 am

    5 stars
    Seeing this post NYE but I’m still excited to partake in this cocktail this weekend!

    Reply
    • jyothirajesh says

      January 07, 2019 at 7:59 am

      Thank you

      Reply
  4. Kiki Johnson says

    January 06, 2019 at 6:07 am

    5 stars
    I am with Gloria on this cocktail being perfect for Valentine’s Day with that gorgeous bright red color! I love me a good Margarita and always go for all the crazy flavors while hubby tends to stick to the classics. Let’s see if I can convince him to share a round of these with me!

    Reply
    • jyothirajesh says

      January 07, 2019 at 7:59 am

      Thank you Kiki. I love classic margarita as well, but variations never fail to excite me as well. So yea

      Reply
  5. Lauren says

    January 06, 2019 at 12:36 am

    I’ve never made my own cranberry juice before! That sounds so interesting, I bet it’s great with the tequila and the fresh orange juice.

    Reply
    • jyothirajesh says

      January 07, 2019 at 7:58 am

      Thank you Lauren

      Reply
  6. Jessica says

    January 05, 2019 at 11:13 pm

    5 stars
    Margarita is one of my favorite drink but I usually drink it only in summer. This is a perfect variation with a more winter flavor (and great festive look!), I can’t wait to try it!

    Reply
    • jyothirajesh says

      January 07, 2019 at 7:57 am

      Thank you Jessica

      Reply
  7. Tammy says

    January 05, 2019 at 1:48 am

    5 stars
    I love that you made fresh cranberry juice…you’ve gone all out with this! Beautiful cocktail for the season!

    Reply
    • jyothirajesh says

      January 05, 2019 at 12:06 pm

      Thank you Tammy. Yes I has fresh cranberries and decided to do my own juice.

      Reply
  8. georgie says

    January 04, 2019 at 10:08 pm

    5 stars
    I made a similar recipe over Christmas and loved it! The colors are so beautiful and it was so, so festive!!! This looks so yummy, I can never turn down a margarita!

    Reply
    • jyothirajesh says

      January 04, 2019 at 10:25 pm

      thank you Georgie

      Reply
  9. Kelly Anthony says

    January 04, 2019 at 5:26 pm

    5 stars
    The color on these is gorgeous! It’s like Cosmo meets Margarita — so fun!

    Reply
    • jyothirajesh says

      January 04, 2019 at 5:36 pm

      Thank you Kelly. Glad you like it

      Reply
  10. Charity says

    January 04, 2019 at 11:54 am

    5 stars
    That’s quite a New Years Eve menu! Traditionally my family has always made steamed shrimp, but we’ll have to add these cranberry margaritas next year!

    Reply
    • jyothirajesh says

      January 04, 2019 at 5:36 pm

      Thank you

      Reply
  11. Gloria says

    January 02, 2019 at 2:47 am

    5 stars
    This is so pretty. I would love this for brunch on the winter weekends. In fact, the colour is also perfect for Valentine’s Day too. I always have cranberries in the freezer. I love to use them all year long.

    Reply
    • jyothirajesh says

      January 02, 2019 at 8:28 am

      Thank you Gloria

      Reply
  12. Karly says

    January 02, 2019 at 1:07 am

    This cocktail is gorgeous! I love any kind of margarita!

    Reply
    • jyothirajesh says

      January 02, 2019 at 8:27 am

      Me too, love margarita

      Reply
  13. Veena Azmanov says

    January 01, 2019 at 7:46 pm

    5 stars
    Oh we had cranberry margarita for New Year celebration yesterday and it was so refreshing. I love cranberries and this sounds so delicious. Think I will be having a few of these this year.

    Reply
    • jyothirajesh says

      January 01, 2019 at 8:26 pm

      Thank you Veena

      Reply
  14. Marisa Franca says

    January 01, 2019 at 5:26 pm

    5 stars
    The drink is beautiful! Just looking at it makes me think of festivities and people gathering around and sipping on a delicious cocktail. I can’t believe you made your own cranberry juice. I bet it tastes so much better. I’m going to make sure I have these ingredients so I can duplicate your recipe.

    Reply
    • jyothirajesh says

      January 01, 2019 at 8:26 pm

      Thank you Marisa

      Reply
  15. Jeannette (Jay Joy) says

    January 01, 2019 at 10:49 am

    5 stars
    This does seem like a perfect drink for the holidays. Although your kids didn’t dig the mocktails, I think they would have been a hit with my tween and her friends.

    Reply
    • jyothirajesh says

      January 01, 2019 at 12:00 pm

      I absolutely love watermelon drinks. Thank you

      Reply
  16. Noel Lizotte says

    January 01, 2019 at 6:33 am

    5 stars
    I love how fancy these look, but yet they’re so simple to make! Talk about really dressing up the holiday table – I don’t care if these are only on the table long enough for people to claim for the toast… they’re beautiful!

    and LOL @ kids only drinking Coke!

    Reply
    • jyothirajesh says

      January 01, 2019 at 11:59 am

      Kids do enjoy just coke nothing else. Thank you

      Reply
  17. Cheese Curd In Paradise says

    January 01, 2019 at 3:28 am

    5 stars
    I love that you made your own cranberry juice! These sounds absolutely delicious!

    Reply
    • jyothirajesh says

      January 01, 2019 at 11:58 am

      Thank you,

      Reply

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