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Cranberry Orange Spritzer

Name: Cranberry Orange Spritzer
Prep time: 3 min
Total time: 3 min
Yield: 1 drink
Cuisine: Non-alcoholic
Ingredients: 2 oz unsweetened cranberry juice; 1 oz fresh orange juice; 0.25 oz simple syrup, optional; 3 oz soda water or non-alcoholic sparkling wine; Orange twist and fresh cranberries, to garnish

Tart, bright and barely sweet. Two minutes, and it looks like an occasion.

Cranberry Orange Spritzer — a non-alcoholic drink served in a glass — Photo by Muffet · CC BY 2.0 · via Openverse

Prep: 3 min
Serves: 1
Glass: Wine glass
Difficulty: Easy

Ingredients

2 oz unsweetened cranberry juice
1 oz fresh orange juice
0.25 oz simple syrup, optional
3 oz soda water or non-alcoholic sparkling wine
Orange twist and fresh cranberries, to garnish

Method

1Fill a wine glass with ice.
2Add the cranberry and orange juice and stir.
3Top with soda water or sparkling wine.
4Express an orange twist over the surface and drop it in with a few cranberries.

Notes

Unsweetened cranberry, not cranberry cocktail — you want the tartness to push against the orange.
Frozen cranberries work as ice cubes and stop it diluting.
Non-alcoholic sparkling wine turns this into the easiest party drink on the list.

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