Blood Orange Lemon Drop 🍊 🍋 🍹

I am realizing I like to create cocktails with fruit! It is such an easy way to add flavor & color, along with some nutritious benefits so why the hell not?! This is also at least my second drink that involves blood orange. But honestly, I love me some citrus in the winter months. I MIGHT be slightly late posting this because citrus might be on it’s way out since we are heading into the warmer months, so run to the grocery store to grab some blood oranges & make this ASAP!!!! It GOOD! Blood oranges have a natural sweetness and and amazing color so it is ideal for a fancy cocktail 🍹 ALSO, I discovered a GAME CHANGER zero sugar liquid sweetener (many might already know about it) but it’s RxSugar AND you can find it at Kroger on the sugar isle next to all of the calorie free sweetners. It tastes the least “fake” of the zero calorie sweetners I have tried so it will get used in a lot of my cocktails moving forward.

So here’s whatcha need:

🍹 Vodka- 2 oz

🍹 Grand Mariner or Cointreau- 1/2 oz

🍹 Blood Orange Juice- 1 oz (this was about the juice of 1 medium sized blood orange when using a hand juicer)

🍹 RxSugar Liquid Sugar- 3/4 oz

🍹 Lemon Juice- 1 oz (this was the juice of about 1 large lemon when using a hand juicer)

DIRECTIONS:

Line a martini glass or low ball glass with a lemon or one of the blood oranges and run the rim in Truvia (this is optional) & set aside. Then fill a cocktail shaker with all of the ingredients & ice and shake vigorously for 20 seconds. Strain contents into your glass. This could be served straight up (what I prefer) or over ice. Enjoy 🥂