Raspberry Martini: A Raspberry Shrub Syrup Recipe

Raspberries make the best holiday cocktails,with their festive colors and a sweet-tart flavor that blends well with all kinds of spirits. This recipe is for a raspberry martini, made with homemade raspberry simple syrup. It also works well for a non-alcoholic raspberry spritzer!

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Keys to Great Raspberry Cocktails
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Keys to Raspberry Cocktails

It’s easy to make a craft cocktail when you have a fruit-based drink syrup to add. You can make you own drink syrup or purchase a commercial raspberry syrup. Just know that the commercial syrups are extremely sweet.

Shrub drink syrups are made with a bit of vinegar (they are sometimes called drinking vinegars) and give the drink that tangy bite that some people (like me) love.  

Simple syrups are a bit sweeter (no vinegar), but you can determine how sweet you want the drink by how much syrup you flavor it with.

If you have a bitter palate, add a dash of bitters to the cocktail recipes.

Raspberry Spritzers with no Alcohol:

A spritzer is basically referring to a base of bubbly water, which is then flavored with a fruit, a fruit syrup, or a spice syrup.

The carbonated liquid doesn’t have to be water, it can be ginger ale, tonic water, sparkling wine, etc. It does need to have bubbles however.

The ratios I prefer in spritzers are:

• 1 1/2 ounce Fruit-based drink syrup
• 8 oz. sparkling water (optional: ginger ale or tonic water)
• squeeze of lime

Simply combine the syrup and sparkling water together in a glass filled with ice cubes and stir. Finish with a squeeze of lime.