Name: Cosmopolitan Cocktail (Difford's recipe)
Prep time: 4 min
Total time: 4 min
Yield: 1
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 30 ml Vodka; 30 ml Triple sec liqueur (40%); 45 ml Cranberry juice (sweetened); 15 ml Lime juice (freshly squeezed); 1 Orange bitters

Serve in a

Coupe glass

Garnish:

Orange zest twist (flamed)

How to make:

SHAKE all ingredients with ice and fine strain into chilled glass.

1 fl oz	Ketel One Vodka
1 fl oz	Triple sec liqueur (40%)
1 1/2 fl oz	Cranberry juice (sweetened)
1/2 fl oz	Lime juice (freshly squeezed)
1 dash	Orange Bitters by Angostura
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Cosmopolitan bundle offer

All the ingredients you need to make delicious Cosmopolitan cocktails at home plus 2 stylish and perfectly sized crystal coupe cocktail glasses to serve them in. Enough vodka, triple sec and cranberry juice to make 22+ Cosmopolitans and enough fruit for your first 12 cocktails. The bundle also includes a collectable recipe card.

	1 × Ketel One Vodka 70cl - makes 23
	1 × Cointreau triple sec liqueur 70cl
	1 × Eager Cranberry Juice 100cl
	6 × fresh limes
	1 × fresh orange
	1 × mini bottle Angostura Orange Bitters 0.3cl - makes 1.5
	2 × Urban Bar Retro Coupes

* Excludes ice and bar tools such as cocktail shaker. These can be added at checkout.

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Review:

The Cosmopolitan was originally made with citrus vodka but this recipe works just as well with unflavoured vodka, and when a good quality cranberry juice is used, we prefer the simplicity of unflavoured vodka in this cocktail.

Gentle

Boozy

Sweet

Dry/sour

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History:

The origins of the Cosmo seem to originate in the gay bars of 1970s San Francisco but this contemporary classic cocktail was perfected and popularised in 1990s New York City. Along the way, a number of bartenders played their part in its success but perhaps TV's Sex and the City was the most influential. Story behind the creation and development of the Cosmopolitan cocktail

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Nutrition:

One serving of Cosmopolitan Cocktail (Difford's recipe) contains 160 calories.

Alcohol content:

1.4 standard drinks
16.15% alc./vol. (32.3° proof)
19.4 grams of pure alcohol

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