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BuzzFeed
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25 Fruit Juice Cocktails You'll Actually Like Drinking
July 31, 2015 - Go look in the juice aisle. Here's the recipe. ... The "apple" part comes from sour apple schnapps. Here's the recipe. ... See how that glass is tipping? That's how you'll feel after a few of these. Here's the recipe. ... One v. good reason to keep cognac in your liquor cabinet. Get the recipe at Epicurious. ... Blue Curaçao is a frozen drink lover's best or worst friend, depending on how you look at it.
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BBC Good Food
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Fruity cocktail recipes | Good Food
April 24, 2025 - Like a grown-up slushy, it’s so smooth and scoopable, you could serve it with a spoon ... A classic cocktail recipe for those who like a touch of citrus sweetness. Blend vodka with orange liqueur, cranberry juice and lime, then serve in chilled ...
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The Pioneer Woman
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27 Easy Fruit Cocktails and Best Fruity Cocktail Drinks
April 17, 2025 - ... Looking for a sophisticated summer drink? This timeless classic is light, crisp, and refreshing with its combination of vodka, orange liqueur, cranberry juice, and lime juice. It's so pretty, too!
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Delish
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Easy Fruit Cocktails - Best Fruity Cocktail Recipes
August 2, 2022 - It’s basically the love child of a Cape Codder (fancy for vodka-cran) and a Salty Dog (a descendant of the Greyhound cocktail). Get the Seabreeze Drink recipe. ... You can follow this step-by-step to cut your pineapple to yield juicy pieces of fruit, but what happens to all that trimmed waste?
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Reddit
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r/cocktails on Reddit: How to best incorporate fruit flavors when designing a cocktail (juicing vs infusion vs simple)
March 26, 2024 -

I'm fairly new to designing cocktails and I'm unsure how to think about building flavors in a drink. Lets say for example I want to make a margarita that makes use of apricot. I see three possible pathways to making this happen:

  1. Probably the most straightforward way would be to juice an apricot and substitute a portion of the lime juice for apricot juice.

  2. Infuse the tequila itself with apricot and then make an otherwise normal margarita

  3. Use the apricot to make an apricot simple syrup and then use that instead of normal simple

Just in terms of labor/speed juicing is the obvious easiest choice but putting that aside, are there any guidelines/general customary reasoning for choosing one of these over the others? Does it differ based on what else is in the drink?

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My general suggestion is replacing the syrup with a flavored syrup. Replacing the juice is going to throw off the sour sweet ratio a lot and you’ll have to hone it all in. Infusing the liquor could work but depending on what you’re doing it could make a liquor you very rarely use. Infusing the simple you can make a relatively small amount of simple so it’s not a large waste if you don’t get through it all and you can replace some or all of the sweetness and the balance will be a lot closer than replacing the juice. But of course it’s very situation dependent. You could also use a liqueur. Or if the fruit you’re adding is tart you might be fine to add juice. I often add passion fruit puree to drinks in place of some of the existing tart element.
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i would say apricot liqueur is easiest, or making a syrup of apricot juice and sugar, but more interestingly, theres a simple easy home-friendly technique that is so rarely talked about on here and may be perfect for your problem. its called the "juice shake" and it is by far one of Dave Arnolds lowest-tech techniques. he finds that when you incorporate a fruit juice to a already balanced drink like a margarita, it doesnt work well because most fruit juice is not sweet enough to be used in place of a sweetener or sour enough to take the place of lime/lemon. so you end up adding a bunch of extra dilution in the form of weak juice and you have yourself a flabby drink that is also too big. so the solution is juicing fresh juice, and then measuring it out into ice molds and freezing it. when frozen, you pop out your measure of frozen juice and shake your margarita with the frozen juice instead of ice. you have to shake it a bit longer until it melts but you end up with a super chilled drink. it may be tough to figure out how much juice to add to each drink and how much sugar to cut from the original but this would be a great solution to your issue.
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Del Monte®
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Fruit Cocktail in 100% Juice | Del Monte®
Del Monte® Chunky Mixed Fruit in 100% Juice makes it easy to enjoy high quality fruit in minutes. Canned mixed fruit is packed with sweet peaches, juicy pears, plump grapes, succulent pineapples and scrumptious cherries for a ready to eat fruit ...
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EatingWell
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6 Refreshing Cocktail Recipes with Fresh Fruit
February 27, 2021 - She says, "I like to serve these Pomegranate Gimlets with Fig & Cheese Toasts, which is simply toasted bread, spread with fig preserves and goat cheese; they take no time to make and they're sweet and savory with the cocktail. But even something simple like salted cashews is good in a pinch." ... Jamie Vespa, M.S., R.D. With its deep-red color, freshly squeezed blood orange juice adds a beautiful hue to this festive cocktail.
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Toast POS
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The Best Fruity Drinks To Order At A Bar
Now, let's dive deeper into the ingredients and cocktail recipes that make these 10 fruity cocktails so irresistible: 1. Piña Colada: White rum, coconut cream, and pineapple juice. The creamy, tropical flavors of this cocktail evoke a sense of vacation and indulgence.
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The Spruce Eats
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9 Fantastic Fresh Fruit Cocktails for Summer
August 5, 2021 - From new twists on the most popular drinks to fun and refreshing fruit punches, these recipes showcase watermelon, berries, peaches, and more to show off the best produce of the season. ... Strawberry lemonade is a favorite drink for summer. It's cool, refreshing, and filled with delicious fruit flavors. For a fun take on it that is for adults only, mix up the strawberry vodka lemonade. This recipe is incredibly easy. All you need is a great vodka, some sliced strawberries, and fresh-squeezed lemonade. It's fun, fruity, and the ultimate in refreshing summer cocktails.
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Allen's
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Unique and refreshing fruit juice cocktails | Allen's
August 12, 2024 - Want it all? Allen’s fruit juice cocktails contain less sugar than others—all without compromising on refreshing fruity flavours. Let’s start a party in your mouth!
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Yummly
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10 Best Mixed Fruit Juice Cocktail Recipes
Explore new recipe inspiration, tips, and tools to make your kitchen adventures even smarter and tastier.
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Ballantine's
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11 Fruity Whisky Drinks - Cocktail Recipes - Ballantine's
February 28, 2023 - Mix it with cherry syrup, lime juice and top with fresh cherries for a fresh and fruity cocktail worthy of any gathering. Nothing says party quite like a pitcher of something delicious.
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Food.com
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Fresh Fruit Cocktail Recipe - Food.com
[Made & reviewed in Went to the Market recipe tag] ... Fresh and good!! I used Allen's apple juice, freshly squeezed lemon juice, orange zest, oranges cut into sections with no pith, whole red grapes, sliced banana, plus the cinnamon sticks.
Time   30:00
Calories   109
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Liquor.com
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7 Amazing Fresh Juice Cocktails. With Recipes.
November 3, 2020 - Gin gets a helping hand from multiple citrus fruits—lemon, orange and grapefruit—plus two liquors (Aperol and St-Germain) and, finally, a topper of sparkling rosé. Those fresh juices keep the punch perfectly quaffable and resetting for ...
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Simply Lebanese
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Lebanese Fruit Cocktail with Ashta - Simply Lebanese
January 23, 2021 - The best fruit cocktail you will ever eat, this Lebanese Fruit Cocktail with Ashta is unlike any other. It is loaded with fresh fruits, strawberry juice, a homemade rose-water Ashta (clotted cream), and drizzled with honey and a sprinkle of nuts.
Time   30:00
Calories   604
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Lunds & Byerlys
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Fruit Cocktail - Lunds & Byerlys
Del Monte is serving up their garden's best: Cherry Mixed Fruit in 100% Juice. Sun-Sweetened Goodness: Succulent peaches, juicy pears and luscious cherries are grown in the best soils and blended together in this delicious fruit medley. Delicious To Go: With breakfast, on-the-go or as a lunchbox ...
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Grey Goose
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Popular Fruity Vodka Cocktail and Drink Recipes | GREY GOOSE
From berries to citrus, fruit flavour is always in season. Explore our fruity vodka drink recipes and create a naturally tasteful cocktail bursting with flavour.
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Town & Country Magazine
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19 Best Fruity Cocktails We Love - Fun Fruity Alcoholic Drink Recipes
October 21, 2021 - Carefully pour wine over a spoon into the cocktail to create a red wine "float." ... .5 oz lime .5 oz simple syrup 1.5 oz Organic Avenue apple juice .5 oz Lairds Apple brandy 1.5 oz Tanqueray gin