Recipe Overview
Why you’ll love it: A cherry martini with lime and elderflower is fruity, flavorful, and so easy to make! Make a big pitcher for entertaining or make a single glass for a night out on the deck.
How long it takes: 5 minutes
Equipment you’ll need: cocktail shaker (you can also make it without a shaker and serve it over ice)
Servings: 2 (or as many as you like)
First, I have a little (sad) story. As you may know, I use one of our upstairs bedrooms as my photo studio. For this photo shoot, I brought everything upstairs and began to set the scene with backdrop, linens, and glasses. I gave the cocktail shaker a little shake, and it leaded a little. Annoying! I wrapped a towel around it, and decided it’s good enough to pour into the glasses. I took the shaker lid off, grabbed the shaker and, since it’s a little wet on the outside from it leaking, it slipped out of my hand. Cherry juice, Belvedere, and St-Germaine (which is even more expensive than Belvedere!) went flying across my carpet.
I cleaned it up, annoyed at the fact that I wasted a full shaker of very expensive ingredients, and even more annoyed that I have to make it again but I went downstairs to make another batch. I photographed it successfully, brought it back downstairs and SPILLED IT AGAIN. Of course, I took time to document all of this on Instagram, and I had so many people message me and ask how many I had had to drink. While I can see where you would think that I had been drinking, the answer was NONE!
More About This Cherry Martini
If you’ve never tried elderflower liqueur (the most common brand is St-Germaine), you have to give it a try! It has floral and citrus notes which add such a great flavor to cocktails. I love it with drinks that have citrus flavors like this grapefruit and elderflower cocktail, but it’s really a versatile liqueur that’s great in so many different drinks. It’s perfect with the cherry and lime in this cherry martini.
A cherry martini is so easy to make (if you can manage not to spill). You can either shake it with ice in a cocktail shaker and strain it, or pour it right over ice. A cherry martini is beautiful garnished with a cherry or a slice of lime (or both!).
By the way, put those martini glasses to good use! Try blood orange martinis with gin, Cointreau, blood orange juice, and lime. So good!
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Cherry Martini with Elderflower and Lime
Ingredients
- 2 ounces tart cherry juice
- 1 ½ ounces vodka
- 1 ounce elderflower liqueur (such as St-Germain)
- juice of ½ lime
- ice for shaking
- lime slices or fresh black cherries (for optional garnish)
Instructions
- Combine all ingredients in a shaker with ice (see note).2 ounces tart cherry juice, 1 ½ ounces vodka, 1 ounce elderflower liqueur, juice of ½ lime
- Shake well, and pour into glasses, straining out ice. Serve immediately, garnished with a lime slice or fresh black cherry.
Notes
- On the rocks: If desired, this cherry martini may also be served over ice in a highball glass instead of shaking and straining it.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
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WoW! I am a vodka lover
I hope you love the cocktail!
I am not a vodka lover. Any of your readers make this with gin? I’m a big eiderflower fan, but thought I would ask before I go out and buy cherry juice!
I think it would be good with gin! I haven’t tried it…but especially a gin like Hendrick’s that trends more towards citrus and less towards juniper…I think it would be great!
not only do you have kids but i bet you have dog(s) or cat(s)….white carpet?…i made mistake if having 2 white sofas…they looked so good in the high end furniture store…they looked sogood in my living room…no den at the time…i should have known better..2 teenagers and multiple friends one small short hair black dog one large long hair black and white dog…newly divorced and new house what was i thinking…..NOT….any way kids grown& gone so are dogs sadly…recovered sofas….guess what color?….
anyway we have local sources for elderberry hadnt tried this yet…never got mich cherries cause i would come to tenn in june return to marquette in fall and miss the season….the store i go to has mich cherry juice tho.
No pets…and the carpet was here when we moved it. But I did buy two white couches as well. ;) Hope you like the cocktail!
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I remember the instagram story on this. I felt so bad for you. I hope you were able to clean up the juice.
I’ve bought commercial products, but I’ve found the homemade cleaners work the best using some dishwashing soap and vinegar, peroxide as a last resort. There are a lot of recipes on legit sites on the internet which are basically the same. https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/home/cleaning/tips/a17144/stains-wine-red-may07/
Ooooh I need to try that! I didn’t get it completely out yet…