Cranberry Ginger Fizz Cocktail

By frozenmoments

This cocktail is not just pretty. While I do love the festive look that can take us from the day after Halloween all the way to the end of the year, it’s the combination of ingredients that make it spectacular. Cranberry, citrus, ginger ale and, or course, gin all meld together to offer a crisp, not too sweet and altogether refreshing cocktail.

Ingredients

• 3/4 cup sugar
• 3/4 cup water
• 1 cup fresh cranberries
• 1 lemon, cut into wedges
• 1/2 orange, cut into slices
• 1 1/2 cups dry gin – Bombay Sapphire, Beefeater or Tangueray suggested
• 1 cup chilled Ginger Ale
• 4 mint springs

Details

Servings 4
Preparation time 11mins
Cooking time 17mins
Adapted from creative-culinary.com

Preparation

Step 1

Bring sugar and water to a boil in a medium saucepan, stir until sugar is dissolved. Remove from heat; pour off all but one cup of syrup, reserving any extra for another use.

Heat the syrup to a boil and then reduce heat to medium. Add the cranberries and simmer for 2-3 minutes until they just begin to burst. Remove from heat and let cool in syrup.

Place 2 tablespoons drained cranberries and 6 tablespoons cranberry syrup in a large pitcher; add the lemon wedges and orange slices.

Using a muddler or wooden spoon, vigorously mash the fruit.

Stir in gin and let steep for at least 5 minutes. Strain into a medium pitcher.

Fill 4 glasses with crushed ice and 1/4 cup ginger ale.

Fill a cocktail shaker with ice and then pour half the cranberry mixture into the shaker and shake vigorously for 10 seconds, strain liquid into two glasses. Repeat.

Mound additional ice on top of each glass and garnish with 3 candied cranberries and a mint sprig.