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Eric’s Sparkling Blood Orange Cocktail

Summer cocktails should be refreshing. They should be purrr-ty. They should be easy to drink. Eric is showing me how to make one of our summer go-to cocktails. It checks all the summer cocktail boxes 😉

My STEP-BY-STEP VIDEO below will help guide you through the recipe. Subscribe to my YouTube channel for recipe videos every week!

 

 

 

Makes: 1 cocktail

Prep time: 5 minutes

Cook time: 0 minutes

Total time: 5 minutes

The Ingredients

1-ounce gin or vodka

¼ cup fresh blood orange juice (roughly 3 oranges)

½ Meyer lemon, juiced

½ cup prosecco or champagne

Optional: Dash light agave nectar or honey (I do not add)

Salt or sugar, for the rim

Cayenne, for the rim

Mint or basil, to garnish

Blood orange wedge, to garnish

 

 

 

The Steps

For the rim: Wet the rim of a lowball glass with water. Add salt and a dash of cayenne to a plate, and press wetted rim of glass into salt-cayenne mixture.

For the cocktail: Add ice to glass and to a cocktail shaker. If you don’t have a shaker, you can stir your drink!

Add gin or vodka, blood orange juice, Meyer lemon juice, and agave (optional) to shaker.
Shake cocktail, and then pour into glass. Top off with prosecco.

To garnish: Garnish with fresh herbs and blood orange slice.

You’ll be wanting a few…

 

 

 

The Steps with Video

My STEP-BY-STEP VIDEO below will help guide you through the recipe. Subscribe to my YouTube channel for recipe videos every week!

 

 

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