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Black Margarita

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I love a good on-theme cocktail and this dark and delicious black margarita is sure to be a hit at this year’s Halloween party! With only one week left, I’m finally getting full swing into spooky season and I’m bummed I didn’t give myself more of a head start. Basically how I feel about every holiday because I’m such a bad planner. But here we go! I have been trying to perfect my margarita recipe and this one is just amazing! I hate sweet drinks and I love when I find places that make margaritas without any sweetener. Sadly not many places do but this recipe is the perfect purely tequila, orange liqueur, and lime recipe that I can always count on.

You’ll want a good quality tequila (I usually use a blanco), some Cointreau (you can use triple sec or any orange liqueur but I think Cointreau is worth the extra money for the taste), and fresh squeezed lime juice. This might be odd but I found just squeezing the limes by hand gives me a sweeter taste rather than using a juicer where I feel like mine got more of a pithy bitterness to it. But that could just be me! If you’re a sweet drink lover though you can always add a bit of agave to sweeten it up a bit.

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Black Margarita Ingredients:

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Black Margarita
Course: Drinks
Ingredients
  • 1.75 oz tequila
  • 1 oz cointreau
  • 1 oz fresh squeezed lime juice
  • pinch of activated charcoal powder
  • ice
  • black salt or sugar
  • lime (as garnish)
Instructions

  1. Combine all ingredients in shaker or mason jar with lid and shake well with ice.

  2. Rub rim of glass with a lime.

  3. Dip rim in plate of black sugar or salt.

  4. Add ice to glass.

  5. Strain shaken mixture into glass.

  6. Garnish with lime.

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