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Yum Alert: Pomegranate Cocktails

Written by Ashley

Yearning for a little health in your drinking schedule? Eating the orange from your Blue Moon may give you a momentary boost of Vitamin C, but these Pomegranate infused cocktails, are easy peasey to whip together with all-natural Stirrings, and will be packed with natural flavors containing less sugar, almost cancelling out the fact that you’re getting trashed before bikini season.

Bottoms up.

Pomegranate and Crown

Ingredients

  • 1.5 oz. Stirrings Pomegranate Liqueur
  • 0.5 oz. Crown Royal XR
  • 1.5 oz. grapefruit juice
  • Garnish: maraschino cherry

Directions: Combine all ingredients in a shaker with ice, shake well and strain into an ice filled rocks glass or serve up in a martini glass. Garnish with a maraschino cherry.

Blood Orange and Pomegranate

Ingredients

  • 1 oz. Stirrings Pomegranate Liqueur
  • 1 oz. Smirnoff Orange Flavored Vodka
  • 2 oz. Stirrings Blood Orange Mixer (32 oz. per bottle)

Directions: Fill a shaker full with ice. Add in all the ingredients.  Shake well. Strain into an ice filled rocks glass.  Garnish with an orange wedge.

Turkish Delight Martini

Ingredients

  • 1.5 oz. Grape Juice Red
  • 0.5 oz. Stirrings Pomegranate Liqueur
  • 1 oz. Smirnoff No. 21 Vodka
  • 0.25 oz. amaretto liqueur
  • 0.25 oz. fresh lemon juice

Directions: Combine all the ingredients in an ice filled shaker, shake thoroughly and strain into a well chilled martini glass. Garnish with a lemon wedge.

About the author

Ashley

a fun-loving, twenty-something living in Brooklyn. She spends most of her time absorbing all the life, tofu and whiskey that NYC has to offer. Her current obsessions? BDG High-waisted leggings, vintage boot shopping in Williamsburg, Katherine Kwei's sling bag and Melanie Marie's two-finger horn ring.

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