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Cosmopolitan cocktail (Toby Cecchini's recipe)
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Cosmopolitan cocktail (Toby Cecchini's recipe)
Serve in a Martini glass
| 1 1⁄2 oz | Ketel One Citroen Vodka |
| 3⁄4 oz | Cointreau triple sec liqueur |
| 3⁄4 oz | Lime juice (freshly squeezed) |
| 3⁄4 oz | Cranberry juice (sweetened) |
How to make:
- Select and pre-chill a Martini glass.
- Prepare garnish of lemon zest twist.
- SHAKE all ingredients with ice.
- FINE STRAIN into chilled glass.
- EXPRESS lemon zest twist over the cocktail and use as garnish.
Review:
This 2:1:1:1 original Cosmopolitan is on the tart side of balanced with the citrus-flavoured vodka shining over the other ingredients. Indeed, Toby describes his Cosmo as being "kind of a brutal sour, it's very very tart."
Variant:
Cosmopolitan (Difford's recipe)
Cosmopolitan (Dale DeGroff's recipe)
Cosmopolitan (1934 recipe)
History:
The original Cosmopolitan cocktail recipe as created in 1988 by Toby Cecchini at The Odeon in New York City. Toby's recipe used the then newly launched Absolut Citron and Cointreau triple sec.
Cosmopolitan cocktail history and development
Nutrition:
One serving of Cosmopolitan cocktail (Toby Cecchini's recipe) contains 163 calories
Alcohol content:
- 1.4 standard drinks
- 17.65% alc./vol. (17.65° proof)
- 19.9 grams of pure alcohol
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