Our White Cranberry Cosmo Is The Real Holiday Spirit

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Keeping much of the same vein as the classic Cosmo, this festive cocktail gets a boost from white cranberry juice and an aroma of fresh rosemary.

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00:00Hey everyone, Cody and Camille of Muddling Memories here in the Delish Kitchen studios

00:05and we are very excited because it is holiday season right around the corner and what better

00:10way to say holiday than to make a white cranberry cosmo that's going to impress all your friends and

00:16family. We're taking an old school classic and giving it a new school twist. You're going to

00:20feel like Carrie Bradshaw at the end of this. So let us show you exactly how we build this drink.

00:25The first ingredient that we're going to use Cam is going to be vodka. Yes. Which is one of my

00:30favorite spirits and it's one and a half ounces. I'm actually going to pour you some if you don't

00:35mind. Oh I love that. Thank you so much. You're very welcome. I'll be a gentleman for you. There

00:39you go. So we're doing one and a half ounces of vodka and it's going to go directly into our

00:44shaker. This drink's going to be so delicious people are going to want two of them and so

00:47you're going to want to make sure it tastes exactly the same both times. You want consistency

00:50when building the drink. The next ingredient we're going to do is white cranberry juice which

00:55what's inside white cranberry juice? Nobody knows. Nobody knows. But it is delicious. It's

00:59tart. It's sweet. Kind of tastes like white grapes. Yeah. And that is also going to be one

01:03and a half ounces. So if you can pour some in your jigger. Here you are my dear. I will also

01:06thank you. I'll give you this. Very sweet of you. Let's drink. We're going to pour it directly

01:11inside of our shaker. Great. Next ingredient is going to be our sour or citrus. So we're going

01:18to do fresh lime for this one. I'm going to use my hands right here and I'm going to squeeze it

01:21directly inside. So we have vodka. We have our white cranberry. We have our lime and then we

01:27have one last ingredient which is our orange liqueur. And the orange liqueur is just going

01:31to give it this kind of like classic it's a classic ingredient in a regular Cosmo. So we're

01:35going to add it here in our white Cosmo and we're just going to do a little tiny bit a quarter of an

01:39ounce. Take some thank you. Yep. This also just makes it feel really festive and holiday feel.

01:46Yep. So the fun thing about adding ice and this is another bartender tip for you is we

01:51always add our ice at the very end. Why do we do that? Because if you add your ice into your shaker

01:56first as you add your liquid into your shaker it's going to rub on the ice and it's going to

02:01make the ice start to sweat and dilute. Your drink will be ruined before you even have a chance to

02:06take a sip. So we add all of our ingredients into a dry shaker first and then at the very end we

02:11add our ice to make sure we add the correct amount of dilution. So we have our strainer. It's going

02:16to go on top. We have our cap. It's going to go on top. Now we're going to shake. We like to say

02:20shakes are like snowflakes. Everybody has a different one. So we're going to show off our

02:24favorite shakes. You ready? Yeah let's do it. Now how do you know when your drink is ready? You're

02:31going to see this really beautiful frosted tin. I'm going to show you right here. I'm going to

02:35give it a little smiley face on mine. But once your tin is nice and frosted that's when your

02:40drink is ready to be strained out. Yes. Make sure you get every last drop of all the ingredients

02:45directly into your coupe glass. It's time to garnish the drink and I think we're going to

02:48keep it really festive for this one. We're going to take a rosemary sprig which is beautiful and

02:53also can be used for cooking. But this sprig is going to act as our skewer. So we're actually

02:57going to take this and we're going to skewer cranberries onto the skewer. So these cranberries

03:03have already been tossed in a simple syrup which is in equal parts one to one water and sugar.

03:07You're going to drop them in the simple syrup. You're going to let it rest for about an hour or

03:11two until they get nice and tacky and sticky. Yeah. So they're not super hot and you're going

03:15to stick them straight through your rosemary. So I'm going to give you. Yeah and make sure to shave

03:20a little bit of your rosemary down so that you take the ends of the leaves off the rosemary so

03:25that you have enough space to skewer this beautiful cranberry. Also add such a gorgeous pop of color

03:31to this white cocktail. We're actually going to roll them in some sugar so that they look like

03:37they've been snowed on. Snow covered. Yeah icy frosty. So once they're nice and covered now

03:43comes the fun part. We're going to actually add them directly to our drink. Look at this cocktail.

03:48One would think that you went to like an actual like craft cocktail bar and made this and you

03:54can make this right at home. Yeah. Cheers. Cheers. Cheers. Yeah I'm in my Carrie Bradshaw era right

04:00now. This is um this is everything you want. This brings me back to Sex and the City. This is like

04:04the Cosmo but jazzed up for the holidays. Yeah. It's clear but it's got that tartness that sweetness

04:09that you know from a Cosmo and the great thing about this too it can be batched for large groups.

04:14So if you're having friends or family over and you want to have something that's just like easy

04:18to serve make this in a batch and then when they come you can just add it all into a shaker give

04:22it a quick shake and you can make these garnishes ahead of time. Most of our garnishes add this like

04:26really amazing like nose to the cocktail and the rosemary totally does that. Yeah the aromatics

04:32are beautiful and it just looks really pretty as well. Happy holidays. Happy holidays.

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