CHERRY MARGARITA BOTTLE FREE

Cuervo Gold is a good budget tequila to use. But this is an example where you don’t have to. I always say to use the best quality of alcohol that you can afford.Gather the ingredients – tequila, orange liqueur, limes, simple syrup and cherries. Take 4 of the cherries and stick 2 on each martini pick.Īfter measuring out the ingredients, add to the blender container. Wash the cherries and use a cherry pitter to remove the pits. Get your blender, measuring glass, margarita glasses and 2 martini picks. If you want, you can also add lime wedges as garnish to go along with the cherries.Just be sure to shake the glass while it is upside down to make sure the salt doesn’t settle in the glass and make your margarita salty.

CHERRY MARGARITA BOTTLE FREE

I don’t add salt to the rim of my frozen margaritas but if you love salt, feel free to add it.

You can stretch the margarita by adding more ice.

Start there and if you decide you want it sweeter, add more simple syrup ¼ to ½ ounce at a time, tasting as you go.

I prefer my sour mix in a 2:1 ratio, so two parts sour to one part sweet.

(And if there is a Trader Joe’s near you, they sell EXCELLENT frozen black cherries.)

If you are making this cocktail and you can’t find fresh cherries, use frozen.

Whether choosing cherries in a bag or individually, lightly squeeze some of them to make sure they are firm.

Either go for a different bag or dig out the rotten ones. If the bag is leaking juice, chances are there is crushed or rotten fruit inside.

When selecting a bag of fresh cherries to take home, make sure to pick up the bag and look at the cherries on the bottom.

I always say to use the best quality of alcohol that you can afford, but this is an example where you could get by with less.

Instead of using a cocktail shaker for this cocktail, you will be using a blender.This post may contain affiliate links, which means I get a small commission, at no additional cost to you, if you click the link and buy something. In any case, you can make this margarita with frozen cherries, but I say there is nothing better than anticipating cherry season so I can make this fresh cherry margarita! Another reason could be that most of the fruit the restaurant used to make margaritas came in cans, but the only canned cherries I know of are in cherry pie filling, which would have been too sweet. One reason I can imagine for this omission is that cherries have always been expensive, so perhaps this cocktail wouldn’t be profitable. We served a variety of fruit margaritas but the restaurant didn’t offer any made with my favorite fruit: cherry margaritas. A lot of the margarita recipes I publish are variations of the ones I made and served when I worked for the Mexican restaurant.

Cherry margarita bottle