Hello! It’s Summer season Cocktail Friday! Are you able for #3 in our collection? Excellent, me too.

After making this improbable Cherry Lime Smoothie a couple of weeks in the past our group fell in love with ALL THINGS CHERRIES. So, you already know we needed to carry make a cocktail model of that scrumptious, nostalgic cherry limeade taste.

Input: the cherry lime cocktail of your goals. This spiked cherry limeade is equivalent portions candy and tart with a a laugh, bubbly end that can have you ever and your visitors leaping for pleasure. We’re blending it up from the stunning margarita recipes we adore to percentage and bringing you this vodka-punch-style cocktail made with recent substances (no mysterious jungle juice right here). I like this one as a result of there’s no want to mix or pressure anything else, simply combine and serve.

After all, be at liberty to go away out the vodka to make the easiest mocktail! Alternatively you are making it, take into account so as to add a phenomenal sugar rim and a few recent cherries & lime slices on most sensible for without equal deal with. Cheers!

Substances on this cherry lime cocktail

This beautiful spiked cherry limeade is the easiest steadiness of candy and tart the use of tremendous easy substances. Right here’s what you’ll want:

• Tart cherry juice: you’ll want to use a just right high quality cherry juice that’s no longer from pay attention in order that the cocktail has a real cherry taste.
• Sweetener: be at liberty to make use of agave or easy syrup to sweeten the cocktail. See under to learn to make your individual easy syrup!
• Lime: you’ll want each recent lime juice and limeade for that tart punch. I used this emblem on this recipe as it doesn’t have that overly synthetic taste.
• Vodka: we’re including the birthday party and spiking this cherry limeade with vodka!
• Soda water: who doesn’t love a just right bubbly cocktail? A few cans of soda water (aka seltzer water or membership soda) will do the trick.
• To serve: I love to rim the glasses with coarse sugar and upload recent lime slices and cherries. So lovely.

Make your individual easy syrup

A handy guide a rough shortcut for easy syrup: shake equivalent portions granulated sugar and water (1/4 cup every could be sufficient for all 6 cherry lime cocktails) in a small jar for 1-2 mins till the sugar dissolves. That’s it!

Can I make a mocktail?

Completely! Be at liberty to go away the vodka out to make a a laugh home made cherry limeade mocktail.

Jazz up every glass

As a substitute of salt (like in my margarita recipes) I love so as to add a sugar rim to the glasses for this cherry lime cocktail! To take action, you’ll reduce a wedge from a lime and rub the reduce aspect of the lime alongside the rim of the glass. Pour common or coarse sugar onto a small plate and dip the rainy glass rim into the sugar to coat it. Then make your vodka cherry limeade and pour it into the glasses with ice.

I additionally like garnishing with recent lime slices and cherries for a lovely glance.

Scrumptious cherry lime cocktail in 4 easy steps

1. Make the bottom. Get started via stirring in combination the cherry juice, agave, lime juice, and vodka in a big pitcher till the agave dissolves.
2. Upload the fillers. Gently stir in ice, limeade, and 1 of the cans of soda water.
3. Prep your glasses. Should you’d like, upload the sugar rim for your glasses in addition to ice.
4. Garnish & serve. Pour the cocktail into every glass, leaving a little bit room on the most sensible, then most sensible every glass with a dash of extra soda water. Garnish with a recent lime slice and a cherry should you’d like!

Our favourite cocktail-making gear

• The very best cocktail shaker (you gained’t want it for this particular recipe)
• I like the use of this hand juicer for all issues juicing
• Great glasses like those I used on this recipe
• A pitcher for serving a birthday party

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I’m hoping you’re keen on this spiked cherry limeade recipe! If you are making it you’ll want to go away a remark and a score so I understand how you loved it. Experience, xo!

Prep Time 10 mins mins

Overall Time 10 mins mins

ServesServes 6 servings

Completely candy and tart spiked cherry limeade made with 6 easy substances for a beautiful birthday party pitcher! This straightforward cherry lime cocktail comes in combination in simply 10 mins and is superb for serving visitors at your subsequent amassing. Choices to make it right into a scrumptious mocktail incorporated!

Substances

• For the cocktail:
• 1 cup tart cherry juice (no longer from pay attention)
• ¼ cup agave or easy syrup
• ¼ cup freshly squeezed lime juice
• 1 cup vodka
• 3 cups ice cubes
• 1 ½ cups limeade (we used Santa Cruz natural)
• 2 cans (3-4 cups) soda water
• For serving:
• Lime wedge for rimming the glass
• Coarse or common sugar for rimming the glass
• Ice cubes
• Contemporary lime slices
• Contemporary cherries (non-compulsory)

Directions

• Upload cherry juice, agave (or easy syrup), lime juice, and vodka to a big pitcher and stir with a spoon till the agave dissolves.

• Upload in 3 cups of ice, limeade, and 1 can of soda water, stirring gently to combine.

• Get ready your glasses: Upload sugar to a small plate. Use a lime wedge to rainy the rim of the glass, then dip the rim of the glass within the sugar, rolling back and forth till smartly covered. Upload ice cubes into the glasses.

• Pour cherry limeade into glasses, leaving somewhat of room on the most sensible, and most sensible with a dash of soda water. Garnish with a cherry and slice of lime at the rim of the glass. Cheers!

Recipe Notes

To make it a mocktail, simply omit the vodka.

Vitamin

Serving: 1cocktailEnergy: 180kcalCarbohydrates: 22.9gProtein: 0.2gFiber: 0.2gSugar: 19.4g