Garnish:
Orange zest twist (flamed)
How to make:
SHAKE all ingredients with ice and fine strain into chilled glass.
1 1/2 fl oz | Ketel One Citroen Vodka |
3/4 fl oz | Triple sec liqueur (40% alc./vol.) |
1 fl oz | Cranberry juice (sweetened) |
1/4 fl oz | Lime juice (freshly squeezed) |
Read about cocktail measures and measuring.
Review:
This is the definitive Cosmo recipe from the man most associated with the drink's development and popularity.
Variant:
Cosmopolitan (Difford's recipe)
Cosmopolitan (1934 recipe)
Cosmopolitan (Toby Cecchini's recipe)
History:
In his 2002 The Craft of the Cocktail, Dale DeGroff explains that while he did not invent the Cosmopolitan, "What I did do was popularize a definitive recipe that became widely accepted as the standard." He also gives the above recipe but with just ½oz (15ml) Cointreau, a measure which he increased to ¾oz (22.5ml) for the 2020 Revised Edition of his book. This could be as much due to a reduction of sugar in Cointreau to conform with fashion since Dale created his recipe at Manhattan's Rainbow Rooms in the mid-1990s as his revisiting and polishing an old recipe.
Cosmopolitan
Dale DeGroff, The Craft Of The Cocktail, 2002
1½ ounces citron vodka
½ ounce Cointreau
¼ ounce fresh lime juice
1 ounce cranberry juice
Flamed orange coin for garnish
Shake all the ingredients (except the garnish) with ice. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with the flamed orange zest coin.
COSMOPOLITAN
Dale DeGroff, The New Craft Of The Cocktail, 2020
1½ ounces Absolut Citron vodka
¾ ounce Cointreau
¼ ounce fresh lime juice
1 ounce cranberry juice
Flamed orange coin for garnish
Shake all the ingredients (except the garnish) with ice. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with the flamed orange zest coin.
See Cosmopolitan cocktail history for Dale's role in the development of this contemporary classic.
Nutrition:
One serving of Cosmopolitan Cocktail (Dale DeGroff's recipe) contains 166 calories.
Alcohol content:
- 1.6 standard drinks
- 20.74% alc./vol. (41.48° proof)
- 21.8 grams of pure alcohol
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