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Raspberries make the best celebration 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 Raspberry Cocktails

It’s easy to make a craft cocktail when you have a fruit-based drink syrup to add. You can make your 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 Martini made with raspberry shrub syrup — Raspberry Martini made with shrub syrup and bitters

Raspberry Spritzers with no Alcohol:

Raspberry Spritzers made with Raspberry Shrub Syrups — Spritzers made with Raspberry Shrub Syrups

Tip: A spritzer is 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.

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Raspberry Martini

A gin martini with a splash of Pimms #1 cup and another splash of a raspberry drink syrup.

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Prep Time 5

Servings

Calories 286

Author Dorothy Stainbrook

Equipment

Cocktail Shaker
Glassware

Ingredients

¾ ounce raspberry Syrup
1 ½ ounces gin
1 ½ ounces Pimms cup #1 liqueur optional
splash dry vermouth
ice cubes
cucumber or lemon peel for garnishes

Instructions

Fill cocktail shaker halfway with ice and add all ingredients.
3/4 ounce raspberry Syrup, 1 1/2 ounces gin, 1 1/2 ounces Pimms cup #1 liqueur, splash dry vermouth, ice cubes
Strain into martini glass and garnish with cucumber or lemon peel.
Stir everything to combine and chill.
cucumber or lemon peel

Notes

Don’t want alcohol but want a mocktail instead?

Have the raspberry syrup with a spritzer! 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.

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Nutrition

Calories: 286kcalCarbohydrates: 29gProtein: 0.04gFat: 0.1gSaturated Fat: 0.1gPolyunsaturated Fat: 0.04gMonounsaturated Fat: 0.01gSodium: 16mgPotassium: 27mgSugar: 29gCalcium: 3mgIron: 1mg

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