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Try our recipe using classic cosmopolitan cocktail ingredients below, or check out our cosmo margaria twist. For more vodka cocktails, try our espresso martini, passion fruit martini, French martini and bloody mary.

What is a cosmopolitan cocktail?

This cocktail enjoyed its hey day in the late 1980s and 1990s, as well as the TV show Sex and the City, and has since fallen somewhat out of favour. Which is a shame, as this blush-pink, sweet-tart concoction is certainly worth revisiting.

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Cosmopolitan recipe

  • 50ml vodka
  • 20ml triple sec or Cointreau
  • 15ml lime juice
  • 50ml cranberry juice
  • to garnish orange peel
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Method

  • step 1

    Shake the vodka, triple sec, lime juice and cranberry juice in a cocktail shaker with ice. Strain into a martini glass and garnish with the orange peel.

Authors

Hannah Guinness olive magazine portrait
Hannah GuinnessSub editor and drinks writer
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