Cranberry Ginger Martini Recipes

Steps:

• Muddle ginger and cranberries in a shaker. Add ice, vodka, juices, and simple syrup. Shake well. Strain into a martini glass, and add a splash of sprite. Garnish with a lemon twist.

Steps:

• Several days ahead, place the sugar, cranberries, 6 strips of orange zest, and 1 cup of water in a small saucepan. Bring to a boil, lower the heat, and simmer for 5 minutes, until the cranberries start to pop open. Pour the vodka into a large pitcher, add the cranberry mixture, and store covered in the refrigerator for at least 2 days and up to 5 days.
• When ready to serve, strain the vodka mixture, reserving the cranberries and discarding the orange zest. Stir in the cranberry juice cocktail and Triple Sec. Fill a cocktail shaker with ice, add the drink mixture, shake for a full 30 seconds (it's longer than you think!), and strain into martini glasses. Rub the rim of each glass with fresh orange zest, spoon a few cranberries into each glass, and serve ice cold.

Steps:

• For the ginger syrup: Place all syrup ingredients in a saucepan and simmer until sugar dissolves and the ginger is infused in the syrup, about 20 minutes. Strain and allow to cool fully before use.
• For the drink: Crush the frozen cranberries in a large glass pitcher. Add the lime juice and their juiced wedges to the pitcher. Pour in the vodka, cranberry juice, and ginger syrup. Put ice in low-ball glasses and fill glasses about 2/3 full. Top off with club soda and garnish with a shaving of fresh ginger.

Steps:

• Put the ice in a shaker.
• Add the vodka, cranberry juice, and lime juice.
• Shake.
• Place the powdered ginger in a chilled martini glass.*.
• Add the vodka-cranberry mixture and top with the tonic.
• Place 1 cranberry, some candied ginger, and another cranberry on a toothpick or cocktail skewer.
• Place in the martini glass.
• *Use a light hand when sprinkling the powdered ginger into the glass, or it will overpower the drink.

Steps:

• Rub the rims of 2 martini glasses with a lime wedge, and then dip each rim into a saucer of red sanding sugar, rotating gently to evenly coat. Chill in freezer at least 10 minutes. In a cocktail shaker filled with ice, shake vodka, cranberry juice, and vermouth until chilled, about 20 seconds. Strain into chilled glasses, and garnish with skewered fresh cranberries.