The cosmopolitan is a bright, easy-to-make cocktail with a bouquet of lime, orange, lemon, and cranberry. Neon pink, the “cosmo” revivifies, refreshes, and rightfully earns its place beside the margarita and sidecar on your table.

For a good decade, the Cosmopolitan may have been the most popular cocktail in America, and bartenders couldn’t work a shift without making dozens of them for thirsty patrons. Naturally, its ubiquity spurred countless riffs, from the White Cosmo (St-Germain in place of Cointreau) to versions featuring gin. While the drink isn’t as popular today as it was in its heyday, the classic recipe is still very much alive.

Here's what you'll need for this cosmopolitan cocktail:

Vodka: Use high quality vodka for the most drinkable results.
Lime Juice: Fresh lime juice is best. Don't throw that peel away! You can use it as a garnish.
Triple Sec: Triple sec adds sweet, citrusy flavor and tones down the taste of the vodka.
Cranberry Juice: You can use bottled or fresh cranberry juice. If the finished cocktail is too strong, you can add more juice to taste.

Ingredients

    2 ounces Absolut Citron (citrus vodka)
    3/4 ounces cranberry juice
    3/4 ounces Cointreau
    3/4 ounces fresh lime juice
    1/4 ounce simple syrup

Method
1. Fill a cocktail glass with ice to chill
2. Pour the Grey Goose L'Orange vodka, Cointreau, cranberry juice and the juice of half a lime into a cocktail shaker
3. Fill the shaker with ice and shake vigorously for about 20 seconds
4. Empty your glass of the ice and strain in the cocktail
5. Cut a piece of orange peel about the size of your thumb. Be careful not to bend it at this stage
6. Hold the piece of orange peel between finger and thumb over the glass, and use a match to gently warm it for about 20 seconds
7. Then bend the peel so it releases oil onto the lighted match, igniting a flame which will settle on the surface of the drink & drop peel into glass

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