Cranberrymargaritaslush Recipes

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• Rim 2 wine glasses with sugar and salt. Fill with ice. Add an orange slice and lime slice to each glass.
• Pour cranberry juice, tequila, triple sec, orange juice, and lime juice into a shaker. Shake well.
• Pour mixture evenly over ice in rimmed glasses. Top with lemon-lime beverage.

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• Combine all ingredients in a blender and blend on high. Serve. If your blender is small or not high-powered, make the margaritas in 2 batches.

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• Combine all ingredients in a blender and blend on high. Serve.
• If your blender is small or not high-powered, make the margaritas in 2 batches.

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• Mix all the ingredients, except for the ice. Pour half of the mixture in the blender and fill the rest of the blender with ice. Blend. Repeat with second half of mixture.

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• Combine all ingredients in a freezer container. Stir every few hours. When ready to serve use a potato masher to break up chunks. Serve slush in margarita glasses.

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• Several days ahead, place the sugar, cranberries, 6 strips of orange zest, and 1 cup of water in a small saucepan. Bring to a boil, lower the heat, and simmer for 5 minutes, until the cranberries start to pop open. Pour the vodka into a large pitcher, add the cranberry mixture, and store covered in the refrigerator for at least 2 days and up to 5 days.
• When ready to serve, strain the vodka mixture, reserving the cranberries and discarding the orange zest. Stir in the cranberry juice cocktail and Triple Sec. Fill a cocktail shaker with ice, add the drink mixture, shake for a full 30 seconds (it's longer than you think!), and strain into martini glasses. Rub the rim of each glass with fresh orange zest, spoon a few cranberries into each glass, and serve ice cold.

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• Combine all ingredients except garnish in blender. Blend on high until smooth and frosty. Serve in a margarita glass. Garnish with dried cranberries and a lime wheel.

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• Make the Whole-Berry Cranberry Simple Syrup: Stir together sugar, cranberries, lime zest and 2 tablespoons water in a small saucepan. Cook over medium-high, stirring constantly, until cranberries just start to burst, about 5 minutes. Remove from heat; let cool completely. Refrigerate, covered, until cold, at least 1 hour and up to 1 week.
• Make the cocktail: In a blender, combine tequila, lime juice, 4 cups ice, and 1 1/2 cups cranberries and syrup from Whole Berry Cranberry Simple Syrup. Blend until smooth. Divide among 4 margarita glasses.

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• Mix all ingredients together in a gallon ice cream pail or other large freezable container.
• Freeze overnight.
• To serve, spoon slush into festive glasses and add additional 7-Up or Sprite.

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• For cranberry jam:
• Bring cranberries, sugar, orange juice, and 1/4 cup water to a boil in a medium saucepan; reduce heat and simmer, stirring occasionally, until thick and jammy, 30-40 minutes. Mix in orange zest; let cool.
• DO AHEAD: Jam can be made 5 days ahead. Cover and chill.
• For assembly:
• Mix salt, sugar, and five-spice powder on a small plate. Rub rims of Old Fashioned glasses with lime wedge; dip in salt mixture and fill glasses with ice.
• For each cocktail, combine 1/2 ounce lime juice, 1 ounce orange juice, 1 1/2 ounces tequila, and 2 tablespoons cranberry jam in a cocktail shaker; fill with ice. Cover and shake until outside is frosty, about 30 seconds. Strain into prepared glass.

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• Rim a cocktail glass with sugar or salt if desired, then fill with ice.
• Combine cranberry juice, margarita mix, tequila, and triple sec in a cocktail shaker. Shake or stir until combined and pour over ice. Add cranberries and garnish with lime wedge.

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• Place half of the ingredients in a blender and fill with ice.
• Blend until smooth. Pour into pitcher.
• Repeat.
• Pour into margarita glasses with salt or sugar around rims.
• Makes 2 pitchers.

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• Roll 2 of the limes on a cutting board to help release the juice. Cut the limes in half and juice them using a citrus press, straining the seeds out if necessary. This should yield approximately 1 ounce of fresh lime juice.
• Add the cubed ice to a tall shaker.
• Add the tequila, lime juice, simple syrup, Ocean Spray 100% Juice Cranberry, and Triple sec and shake vigorously for 30 seconds.
• Place the kosher salt in a small dish. Cut the remaining lime into quarter wedges.
• Using one wedge, run the lime around the edge of 2 rocks glasses. Dip the glasses in the salt to make a salted rim.
• Fill the glasses with fresh ice and strain the contents of the shaker over the fresh ice into the glasses.
• Serve with the remaining lime wedges and enjoy!

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• Combine the tequila, cranberry juice, orange liqueur, and lime juice in a large pitcher. Shake over ice.
• Strain into margarita glasses or low cocktail flutes. Alternately, strain into low tumblers filled with ice.