This Cocktail Friday’s cocktail became famous when Carrie Bradshaw started drinking this cocktail in Sex and the City. I watched a lot of episodes from Sex and the City, but it never made me drink a Cosmopolitan, which I regret now, because this cocktail is a goooooooood!!! It’s fresh because of the lime and sweet by the Cranberry. Read further for the recipe.
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Wednesday I started thinking about the Cocktail I wanted to make for Cocktail Friday. I searched a little on the internet and found the Cosmopolitan. The only problem was I never bought a bottle of Vodka, so which one to buy? I live in a little town, with a small liquor shop, so a fancy Vodka would be out of my league. And I didn’t want a tasteless one. So after a search on the internet again, I wrote down some names, went to the liquor store and bought a New Amsterdam Vodka. I still don’t know if this is a good one, but in the Cosmopolitan it tasted fine. But if you have any suggestions for other good Vodka’s I’m all ears. And also for Gin. Maybe I will do something with Gin for the next cocktail, so also looking for some suggestions for good Gins!
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Before Carrie Bradshaw made the Cosmopolitan famous, it was already famous in the seventies when it came from San Francisco to New York. You can find the recipe of a guy named Toby Cecchini here at Diffordsguide. In this cocktail you have a little bit more Vodka, more lime juice and less Cranberry. I like it more with a little bit more Cranberry juice which makes it a more fruity. You can read more about the Cosmopolitan history on Diffordsguide.com.
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The Cosmopolitan is an easy recipe to make. They say a lot of women drink this, but I don’t know why it couldn’t be a man’s drink too. So be a man an try this cocktail with your girl (or man of course) or with your friends. M. liked it anyway, definitely something we are going to drink more.
Edit: This is a post from my old Blog Photos for foodies. I quit with this Blog, but it didn’t feel good to lose all the recipes, that’s why I copied all the posts to Cakes and Pumps and later to Goodlives. This post is written in 2015 by myself.
The Recipe:
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Cocktail Friday: a Cosmopolitan
Equipment
- Cocktail Shaker
Ingredients
- 1 part Triple Sec
- 1 part Vodka
- 1,5 part Cranberry juice
- lime juice of a half lemon
- Icecubes 4-6 pieces
- slices of Lemon or Orange for decoration
Instructions
- Put the icecubes in a shaker.
- Put the Triple Sec, the Vodka, the Cranberry Juice and the lemon juice also into the skaker, shake everything for 30 seconds.
- You drink a Cosmopolitan without the icecubes, these are only to cool your cocktail in de shaker.
- Strain the mix into a glass. You can use a strainer for this.
- Fill the glasses with the Cocktail mix.
- Take a piece of Orange peel as big as your thumb (don’t bend it). Hold it between your finger and thumb and gently warm it for 20 seconds with a match.
- Bend the peel, and rub with the peel over the edge of the glass. It will gives your drink an extra flavour when drinking it.
- After that put a slice of lemon or Orange on the edge of the glass, and your cocktail is ready.
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Greetz Claudia