Very Pink Raspberry Cosmopolitan Cocktail
A very pink raspberry cosmopolitan made with homemade raspberry juice and a sparkly pink sugar rim.
Ingredients
For the Raspberry Juice:
- 1 & ½ cups water
For the Cocktail:
- 2 ounces Raspberry juice
- 2 ounces Raspberry Liqueur
- 4 oz good quality vodka Ketel one Grey Goose
- Juice from ½ lime
- 1 ounce simple syrup see notes
- Pink sugar crystals
- Fresh raspberries for garnish
Instructions
To make the raspberry juice:
- Combine 2 cups of frozen raspberries and 1 ½ cups of water and bring to a simmer, mashing the berries against the sides of the pain to release their juices. About 15 minutes. Strain into a cup or bowl scraping the seeds with a spatula along the bottom of the strainer to extract all the juice.Chill before using - about an hour. ( This can be made a day ahead of time).
To make the Cocktails:
- Fill two standard size martini glasses with ice and water to chill.
- In a shaker combine the Raspberry Juice, raspberry liqueur, vodka and lime juice over ice and shake a few times until ice cold.
- Pour out the ice water from the martini glasses and dip the rims of the glasses in simple syrup then into pink sugar crystals. Divide the mixture between the two glasses and garnish with raspberries.
Notes
Bring equal parts water and granulated sugar in a saucepan to a boil and make sure all the sugar is dissolved, let cool. 1 cup water: 1 cup sugar or whatever amount you like. You only need a little bit for this recipe but it is always good to have simple syrup on hand for other recipes.