THE CLASSIC COCKTAIL WITH A LITTLE TWIST.
MISTLETOE MARTINI
- 3-4 ice cubes
- 3 oz. Cranberry tea, chilled
- 2 oz. vodka
- 2 oz. orange juice
- 3 teaspoon sugar
- 3/4 oz. lemon juice
Place ice cubes in Martini shaker and add all ingredients. Close the shaker and shake. Strain into two martini glasses. Garnish and enjoy.
Holiday Hint:
If you're making several teatinis, brew a pot of Tetley Cranberry tea beforehand. Then you'll have enough tea handy to mix more cocktails.
Add a festive flaire with these garnish ideas:
·Fresh or frozen cranberries
·Thin wheels of lemon or lime
·Fresh mint leaves
·Cinnamon sticks
·Mini candy canes
GREEN TEA MARTINI
- Ice
- 1 ounce green tea, chilled
- 2 ounces citron vodka
- 1 teaspoon Cointreau
- 1 teaspoon simple syrup
- Orange twist
Fill a shaker with ice. Add green tea, vodka, Cointreau and simple syrup. Shake well and strain into a cocktail glass. Garnish with an orange twist.
GIN & TEA
A new twist on the Gin & Tonic.
- 1 ½ oz. Gin
- 1/2 oz. lemon juice
- 1 oz. Simple Syrup
- 3 oz. Orange pekoe tea
- Tonic water
Build all the ingredients over ice in a highball glass and top with tonic. Garnish with a lemon wedge.
TEA-FOR-TWO-MARTINI
- 1 ½ oz. Spiced Rum
- 3 oz. black tea
- 1 oz. Simple syrup
- 1 ½ cranberry juice
- 1 tsp. grenadine
Place tea in martini shaker along with rum and mixers, shake well and strain into two-chilled martini glasses. Garnish with a cherry.
RED TEA
- 1 oz. Chambord or your favorite Raspberry Liqueur
- 1 oz. Vodka
- 3 oz. tea
- 1 oz. simple syrup
Pour all ingredients into a shakee and shake well. Pour into a martini glass and garnish with raspberries.
In all its forms, alcoholic and non-alcoholic, classic and complicated, sweet and spicy -- there's nothing that makes a martini look better than a unique garnish. So don't settle for the standard lemon twist. Think mint sprigs, cinnamon sticks, apple slices, blood orange wheels, red currants.
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