Cocktail recipe

Cosmopolitan

Bright vodka and cranberry cocktail.

Cosmopolitan cocktail

Ingredients

  • 1.5 oz Vodka
  • 1 oz Triple Sec
  • 1 oz Cranberry Juice
  • 0.5 oz Lime Juice
  • 1 piece Orange Peel

Method

  1. Shake the vodka, triple sec, cranberry juice, and lime juice with ice.
  2. Double strain into a chilled coupe.
  3. Express orange peel over top.

Story

Versions circulated in the 1980s, but the drink most people know was refined by Toby Cecchini at The Odeon in New York in 1988, with Absolut Citron, Cointreau, cranberry and fresh lime. Sex and the City made it a global order a decade later.