These Frozen Raspberry Margaritas recipe makes a such delicious cocktail made with raspberries for a bright fruity flavor. A perfectly refreshing drink that takes a classic cocktail and gives it a little spin! It's especially great because with fresh or frozen raspberries it can be enjoyed at any time of the year.
Ingredients
Just a few ingredients and you have a delicious raspberry margarita on your hand! This recipe yields a few margaritas.
- Raspberries: fresh raspberries or frozen raspberries both work. Fresh will yield a thinner consistency drink whereas frozen will be thicker.
- Tequila: blanco tequila (aka white tequila / clear tequila)! Use whatever your favorite brand is. Does not need to be anything fancy because it’s getting mixed (as opposed to straight tequila on the rocks!)
- Lime juice: fresh lime juice always!
- Orange Liqueur: any work - triple sec or cointreau for example
- Ice: to make it into a frozen drink!
Step by step instructions
These simple raspberry blended margarita cocktails are super easy to make, making them a great summer batch cocktail.
1. Add all ingredients to a large high-powered blender and blend until smooth. Pour the blended cocktail into your glass of choice!
Tips and tricks
Frozen raspberry margaritas are easy peasy to make but the below tips and tricks can help you nail it or put your own little spin.
- These cocktails will have raspberry seeds in them, so something to be aware of if you’re adverse to that!
- You can swap almost any other fruit in instead of raspberries such as fresh berries, mango, pineapple, etc!
- Make a salt rim by rubbing a sliced lime on the rim of the glass and dipping the glass upside down it in a shallow bowl of kosher salt before pouring the drink in. Could also be fun to add some lime zest or tajin to the salt mixture! And don't forget to add a fresh lime wedge or lime wheel.
- If it’s not sweet enough for your taste just add a little agave nectar or simple syrup. You could even try maple syrup if you don't have agave or simple syrup on hand, it'll just have a little more flavor (as opposed to agave or simple syrup which are both more neutral)
- To make simple syrup, add equal parts water and granulated sugar to a pot and heat over medium heat until the sugar is dissolved. Allow it to cool before you add it to your drink.
- You can make it a spicy simple syrup by adding a few slices of jalapeño
- If you go the frozen raspberry route you can make these all year long because frozen fruits are frozen at their peak with tons of flavor! Perfect for when fresh raspberries aren’t in their prime season
- I used orange liqueur because it'll yield a more classic margarita flavor, but you could sub in raspberry liqueur to really amp up the raspberry flavor.
- The best margarita glasses are any kind of glasses, don't stress if you don't have one of those fancy stemmed ones, any glass will do
FAQs:
Can I prep these in advance?
Because of their slush-like nature, they will separate if you prep them in advance. So for that reason I’d recommend blending them up only right before you drink / serve them.
Sure! If you know you love another type (eg reposado) feel free to swap that in.
I’m not sure I’d call them healthy, but if you omit the orange liqueur that’ll remove some of the sugar.
I prefer fresh ingredients if you historically really like margarita mix then why not!
Yes! This recipe will make about 3-4 margaritas depending on the size of the cup. So just double/triple the recipe as needed.
Sure! Just leave out the tequila and orange liqueur and sub in water or even something like watermelon juice would be delicious.
The best tequila is your favorite tequila :). But any tequila blanco is great because the tequila itself won't add any major flavor profiles (eg smokiness from a mezcal or something).
Kosher salt is best because of the flavor and coarse-ness. Sea salt will likely be a little too salty. Flavored salt would be delicious!
You can, but it won't technically be a margarita anymore!
Recipe
Frozen Raspberry Margaritas
EQUIPMENT
- Blender
INGREDIENTS
- 2 cups raspberries fresh or frozen
- 8 oz tequila blanco
- 2 oz cointreau
- 4 oz fresh lime juice
- 3 cups ice
INSTRUCTIONS
- Add all ingredients to a large high-powered blender and blend until smooth. Pour the blended cocktail into your glass of choice!
NOTES
- These cocktails will have raspberry seeds in them, so something to be aware of if you’re adverse to that!
- You can swap almost any other fruit in instead of raspberries such as fresh berries, mango, pineapple, etc!
- Make a salt rim by rubbing a sliced lime on the rim of the glass and dipping the glass upside down it in a shallow bowl of kosher salt before pouring the drink in. Could also be fun to add some lime zest or tajin to the salt mixture! And don't forget to add a fresh lime wedge or lime wheel.
- If it’s not sweet enough for your taste just add a little agave nectar or simple syrup. You could even try maple syrup if you don't have agave or simple syrup on hand, it'll just have a little more flavor (as opposed to agave or simple syrup which are both more neutral)
- To make simple syrup, add equal parts water and granulated sugar to a pot and heat over medium heat until the sugar is dissolved. Allow it to cool before you add it to your drink.
- You can make it a spicy simple syrup by adding a few slices of jalapeño
- If you go the frozen raspberry route you can make these all year long because frozen fruits are frozen at their peak with tons of flavor! Perfect for when fresh raspberries aren’t in their prime season
- I used orange liqueur because it'll yield a more classic margarita flavor, but you could sub in raspberry liqueur to really amp up the raspberry flavor.
- The best margarita glasses are any kind of glasses, don't stress if you don't have one of those fancy stemmed ones, any glass will do
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