Cherry Spritzes

Make the most of summer cherries with these Cherry Spritz Cocktails! Made with real cherries and cherry liqueur, it's a berry-lover's dream!

Course Cocktails, Drinks

Keyword brown sugar, champagne, cherries

Prep Time 5

Servings

Calories 180kcal

In a cocktail shaker, add the cherries.
Using a muddler or a wooden spoon, smash the cherries until you have a rough purée.
Then, add in the cherry liqueur and ice to the cocktail shaker and shake vigorously, for at least 45-60 seconds, or until the cocktail shaker is painfully cold to the touch!
For the cherry sugar rim, pulverize the freeze-dried cherries in a food processor or blender until they become a course powder. On a flat plate, sprinkle your sugar and freeze-dried cherry powder into even layers. Use the 1/2 lemon to wet the rim of your glasses. Then, invert the glass and press into the sugar mixture.
Add ice to fill your glasses almost to the top. Using a strainer, pour the cherry liqueur mixture from the cocktail shaker evenly into both glasses. If it's getting hard to pour the liquid out, use a mesh strainer to get the rest.
Top off each glass with champagne, or a bubbly of your choice (such as prosecco or cava).
Enjoy!

I highly recommend using a cocktail jigger to measure the ingredients. However, if you don’t have one, note that 2 oz equals about 1/4 cup of liquid.

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