Boozy Very Berry Lemonade Pops

(I was sent  a couple cans of the Smirnoff Spiked Sparkling Seltzer Berry Lemonade to try.  I was not paid and ALL opinions are my own)

Have you ever wanted something boozy on a hot day, but didn't want to have a cocktail?

Well you're in luck!

Here is a recipe for Boozy Very Berry Lemonade Pops to help you cool down on a warm summers day.

I was sent a few cans of the Spiked Sparkling Seltzer Berry Lemonade to try out.  Along with the cans I was sent a couple recipes that I could try if I wanted to.

I've always wanted to make boozy popsicles, so the first recipe they sent was a no brainer.

Knowing that I was going to make this recipe, I knew that I needed to quickly order a popsicle mold on Amazon.  

That sent me down a wormhole of reading 50 million reviews on way too many popsicle molds.

I had to step away and then start again.

I found this popsicle mold from Norpro.  The reviews were good and I decided that I would purchase it.

GREAT DECISION!

This mold is so easy to use and to remove your popsicles from.

That was my biggest concern was when it came time to removing my popsicles........would I only remove a stick from a frozen, stuck popsicle?  Would only half of my popsicle come out?  

I found a winner.  So if you are in the market for a popsicle mold, I recommend this mold for sure!

OK, back to the popsicles.

Like I said they were super easy to make.

Measure out the ingredients.

Pour the mixture into the popsicle mold.

Pop in the sticks and let it freeze overnight.

It's that easy.

Seriousely.  It is.

Here's a photo of the key ingredient.  It's comes out clear, but has some flavor.

Here's the deets on the back too.

For me, this popsicle didn't have enough flavor.  I would have added something else to it to give it more of a kick.

Saying that a friend of mine thinks they're DELICIOUS and has already eaten 2 of them.  

So there you go!

Author: The Cocktail Lady

Boozy Very Berry Lemonade Pops

ingredients:

• 12 ounces Smirnoff Spiked Sparkling Seltzer Berry  Lemonade
• 2 ounces triple sec
• 4 ounces lemonade
• handful of raspberries (2 per each popsicle)

instructions:

1. In a large measuring cup, pour Smirnoff Spiked Sparkling Seltzer Berry Lemonade, triple sec and lemonade.
2. Stir ingredients together.
3. Carefully pour into popsicle mold leaving enough space for expansion.
4. Cover and place popsicle stick into mold.
5. Freeze overnight.

Created using The Recipes Generator

I think I will be creating more popsicles in the future.....so stay tuned!!

Pucker Melon Rita

Pucker Melon Rita

4 shots out of 5

What better way to celebrate 
National Watermelon Day then with a 
Pucker Melon Rita??

It's spring break here for the kids.  

We started off well and now everyone is starting to annoy everyone else.  

We do have our good moments though!  Yesterday I took the kids out to Target to get them out of the house and then we went to Arby's for lunch, mmmmm.  

Today we had lunch at Red Robin and thankfully the weather has been pretty nice....minus yesterdays rain.

I gave tonight's cocktail 4 shots out of 5.  


I had just tried my hand at a watermelon margarita with fresh watermelon.....unfortunately my watermelon tasted like rine and.......well......I dumped the attempt.  

I unfortunately do not have any watermelon puree so I grabbed my bottle of watermelon pucker, read the recipe on the back and added to it.  

I must say that I am very VERY happy with the results!  

The initial recipe from the pucker bottle was.....a bit puckerey and sour and absolutely needed my amendment.  

I hope to try a watermelon margarita with watermelon puree one day, but for now I will be absolutely happy drinking this one.   

Here is a photo of the end result:

Here is a photo of the ingredients:

Here is my recipe for a Pucker Melon Rita:

• 2 oz watermelon pucker
• 2 oz sweet & sour mix
• 1 oz silver tequila 
• 1/2 oz triple sec
• 3/4 oz simple syrup

Rim your margarita glass with fine sugar.  In a cocktail shaker, add ice and all of the ingredients above.  Shake and strain your cocktail into your sugar rimmed glass and enjoy!

Here's to being pleasantly surprised!

Cheers!!

The Cocktail Lady

Sour Grapefruit Margarita

Sour Grapefruit Margarita

Tomorrow being National Margarita Day gives us all a great excuse (like we need one) to try a new kind of margarita!  

I wanted to post this yesterday, but unfortunately the stomach bug that our youngest got, passed to her sister and then to me had me out of commission for the past few days.  

I am happy to say that I do feel like I am alive again and ready for a margarita!

A couple years ago for National Margarita Day two of our very good friends came over with their margarita machine and we started trying a couple different flavored margaritas.  One thing led to another......we had a few margaritas.......and other cocktails that I can't remember right now and decided that the BEST thing in the world to do was to create a rap song for our friends upcoming birthday.........accompanied with a music video.  

Oh yea, I said it........a music video.  

It ended up being a pretty good idea, b/c they ended up coming back over the next weekend and my husband recorded the song and he mashed it all together with background music (I don't have technical terms, b/c that's totally his thing) and beats and POOF, we had a soundtrack.

Anyways........onto today's cocktail.  

I wanted to create a margarita with Elderflower liqueur and grapefruit juice.  

I found a couple recipes online, combined them with one of mine and added more stuff to it.  

End result......sour.  

Not as sour as my first attempt (before I started adding stuff to it), but still kind of sour.  It's not bad, I'm totally drinking this margarita as I type, just sour.

What will you be drinking on National Margarita Day?  Any favorite flavors?  Prefer the classic margarita?  I'd love to hear from you!

Tomorrow being the BIG DAY, I present you with 18 different margarita's to choose from!

 1.   Classic Margarita

 2.   Grapefruit Margarita

 3.   Mango Margarita

 4.   Pink Cotton Rita

 5.   Kinky Margarita

 6.   Cranberry Margarita

 7.   Peach Margarita

 8.   Desert Margarita

 9.   Moon-a-rita

10.  Pomegranate Margarita

11.  Pucker Melon Rita

12.  French Margarita

13.  Mango Pomarita
14.  Easter Margarita
15.  Cran Chili Margarita
16.  Peach Habanero Margarita
17.  Pineapple Orange Margarita

Here is a photo of the end result:

Here is a photo of the ingredients:

Here is my recipe for a Sour Grapefruit Margarita:

• 2 ounces silver tequila
• 1 1/2 ounces elderflower liqueur
• 3 ounces grapefruit juice
• 1/2 ounce lime juice
• 1/2 ounce simple syrup
• 1/2 ounce triple sec
• 1/2 cup ice

In a blender, add all of the ingredients above.  Blend until your ice is completely gone.  Pour into a salted or non-salted glass.

I hope you all have a fantastic holiday (yes it's totally a holiday)!  With all of these choices, I know I will!!

Cheers!!

The Cocktail Lady

Tropical Christmas Cosmo

Tropical Christmas Cosmo

Happy Saturday!  

It's the first official weekend of December (some how) and we have yet another busy weekend!  

Today we have soccer playoffs (one game down, one to go), a birthday party and a basketball tournament game.  

Tomorrow (weather permitting) we will put up our Christmas lights (and when I say "we" I really mean my husband will), take the kids to go get our tree and then decorate the inside of the house!  I love love love this time of the year!!

With all of those things about to happen, I figured I should start this weekend off right....with a cocktail.  

I present the Tropical Christmas Cosmo.  

I got a chance to use my Pinnacle Tropical Punch vodka, yum!!  

This cocktail kind of reminds me of Hawaiian Punch, which if you are in the mood for it, is a good thing!!  

I am going to try my hardest to start blogging and giving you all more cocktails then I have been lately.  This year has been jammed packed with lots and lots of amazingly fun things and it is finally slowing down........or not so much with Christmas right around the corner.  

Either way, my calendar seems to be a little bit more open for cocktails!!  Yea!!

Here are a couple photos of the end result:

Here is a photo of the ingredients:

Here is my Tropical Christmas Cosmo:

• 2 ounces Tropical Punch vodka
• 2 ounces cranberry juice
• 3/4 ounce lime juice
• 1/2 ounce triple sec

In a shaker, add ice and all of the ingredients above.  Shake and strain into a martini glass.

I hope you all enjoy your weekend!  I'd love to hear about what your plans are below!

Cheers,

The Cocktail Lady xoxo

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Cran Chili Margarita & Zulka Pure Cane Sugar

Happy Cinco De Mayo!  

I am late on this post......sorry.  

We had to travel away for the weekend for our oldest High School baseball game.  My goal was to post this yesterday, but between driving home (ok, so I was a passenger), insane allergies and too much sun......yea I went to bed super early last night.  

Better late then never!

Today I created a Cran Chili Margarita.  

I was honestly a little scared to mix in the chili powder.  

I know it's not the same thing, but I had a habanero martini once and YIKES....HOT...TOOOO HOT......for me at least.  My folks and husband loved it though....and drank all of mine.  That martini has scared me ever since......therefore I have never tried to add peppers of any kind to my cocktails...and in a wussy way, I thought chili powder would be my first step.

I really like this cocktail. 

The chili powder was a great addition.  

I also mixed it into the sugar rim on my margarita glass, very good call.  

I think I may start experimenting with a pepper in the future......a very very mild pepper to start with.

(This week is teacher appreciation week.  Our school does not celebrate it until the week of the 19-23.  I am selling Teacher Wine Charm sets at my Etsy store and I'd love for you to check it out!  Here is a link to that listing: Teacher Wine Charm Sets  Here is a link to my Etsy store in general JPDesigned.  I can do custom orders for just about anything you have in mind.  Convo me through my store and let's create something together!)

Here is a photo of the end result:

Here is a photo of the ingredients:

I was contacted by Zulka Pure Cane Sugar and they wanted to send me a bag of Zulka Pure Cane Sugar to try out.  I was not paid for my opinion.  All opinions are my honest ones.

She thought it might be something that I could use in an upcoming cocktail.  She was right!  

I tasted the sugar by itself and I have to say I like it.  It is not super sweet/sugary.....you know what you think of when you think "sugar".....that face you make when something is too sweet....well at least that is what I think of when I think of sugar.  

Zulka was not that.  

I think this sugar was a perfect accent to my creation today.  

If I would have gone with a sweeter tasting sugar....I'm not sure if it would have worked as well.

Here is a quote from an email I received from Zulka Pure Cane Sugar, "Zulka Pure Cane Sugar is an unrefined, vegan, Non-GMO Project verified "Morena" style sugar that is minimally processed and comes straight from freshly-harvested sugar cane."

I think I'll try it next time I bake something.  Perfect excuse to make some cookies....or....oh boy....I'd better head to the store!

Here is my recipe for a Cran Chili Margarita:

• 1 1/2 ounces cranberry cocktail juice
• 1 ounce silver tequila
• 1/2 ounce triple sec
• 3/4 ounce lime juice
• 1/16 teaspoon chili powder

Rim a margarita glass with an even mixture of sugar and chili powder.  In a shaker, add ice and all of the ingredients above.  Shake well and dump everything into your rimmed margarita glass.

I hope you are all having a great Cinco De Mayo.  Here's to chili powder, and not being a wuss and using it!

Cheers!!

The Cocktail Lady

Cranberry Margarita

Tomorrow is National Margarita Day!  

February 22nd to be exact.  

Kind of snuck up on me.  I wanted to try a few different flavored margaritas before the actual day to share with you all, but I guess one new will do for now.  

So....Happy National Margarita Day.......tomorrow!!

Have I mentioned that it's Friday yet?  

Well it is!  

Thank goodness......I am glad to get this week out of the way.  

This margarita is one I have not heard of before.  The proportions are good and this margarita does not have an overwhelming tequila flavor (which I am thankful for).  

I found this recipe from Ali over at Gimme Some Oven.  It looked good and I had to try it.

I still do want to try other flavors.......I am thinking of trying to create a banana margarita.  I do love the flavor of bananas in my cocktails...hopefully it will turn out good.  

Do you have any amazing margarita recipes to share?  

I would love to hear about and try them.  I look forward to your recipes!

Here is a photo of the end results:

Here is a photo of the ingredients:

Here is the recipe for a Cranberry Margarita:

• 1 1/2 ounces cranberry cocktail juice
• 3/4 ounce lime juice
• 3/4 ounce silver tequila
• 1/2 ounce triple sec

In a shaker, add all of your ingredients, top off with a handful of ice and gently shake.  You want to mix your ingredients, but not shrink the ice cubes.  Dump everything into a short cocktail glass and enjoy!

Happy Friday to you all, I sure know I'm glad it's Friday!

Cheers!!

The Cocktail Lady