Beverage Recipes

Blackberry Margarita

This cocktail’s purple hue and sweet blackberry flavor will appeal to mixologists who favor a show-stopping drink that goes down easy — in other words, plenty of booze, but not too stiff. 

The heart of the drink is an ingenious blackberry syrup: Blackberries whirled up with simple syrup, who knew? It could be too sweet, so we added a little lime juice to give it brightness and depth, like you would a fruit pie. Those jammy flavors soften the tequila and triple sec, so that the overall impression is a perfectly ripe, slightly tipsy blackberry. It’s a refreshing break from citrus-forward margaritas, love them though we do.

Our tip: This cocktail is stunning and will be perfect for a Cinco de Mayo celebration with the S.O. It’ll also give your Taco Tuesday a Saturday night polish.

Blackberry Margarita
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Beverage

Blackberry Margarita

Serves: 1

Ingredients

2 oz tequila
½ oz triple sec
1 oz blackberry syrup
1 oz lime juice
Lime wedges and remaining blackberries for garnish
Kosher salt for rimming the glass

Blackberry syrup

4 oz simple syrup
4 oz blackberries

Directions

  1. Pour enough salt onto a small plate to rim your margarita glass.
  2. Run a lime wedge along the rim of the margarita glass, and then dip the glass in salt.
  3. Fill a cocktail shaker ⅓ full of ice and add the tequila, triple sec, blackberry syrup, and lime juice. Shake it for 15 seconds, and then strain into the salt-rimmed glass.
  4. Garnish the glass with a lime wedge and blackberries — and enjoy!

Black Berry Syrup:

  1. Combine the blackberries and simple syrup in a blender, and whirl them up until liquified.
  2. Strain and reserve the liquid. Blackberry syrup will keep for one week in the fridge.