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Watermelon Mint Vodka Splash

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Everyone loves a cocktail that is crisp, refreshing, and oh-so-delicious. Watermelon Mint Vodka Splash is like that friend you’re always happy to see. It brings a great vibe to an occasion!

The best part of sipping this cocktail? It delivers a light, fruity flavor without the overpowering syrupy aftertaste often found in cocktail recipes made with high-sugar mixes. Smirnoff’s Zero Sugar Watermelon & Mint Vodka is infused with natural flavors and is gluten-free.

I grow fresh mint in my raised garden bed during spring and summer, so I always have it on hand for recipes like this one. Why not save money on buying herbs by growing them yourself? Consider ordering mint plant seeds online to add to your herb garden or a container on your deck for a sunny spot. Mint is a hardy plant that will continue to produce new leaves as long as you pinch it back now and then.

watermelon mint vodka cocktail

Watermelon Mint Vodka Splash is your go-to drink when you want to mix a cocktail for an afternoon by the pool or have your toes in the sand by the lake. Oh, and consider the possibilities of blending the watermelon and ice together and then adding the rest of the ingredients. Irresistible!

If you’re ready to mix this cocktail recipe, you may also appreciate my recipe for its cousin cocktail, Cucumber Lime Vodka Splash. It’s the MOST POPULAR recipe on my blog, hands down. Grab a couple of glasses and make each one!

Die-hard watermelon fans searching for bonus recipes also love my recipes for Watermelon Berry Slushie, Watermelon Blueberry Feta Salad with Mint, and Spiked Watermelon Lemon-Lime Cocktail.

Watermelon Mint Vodka Splash

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This watermelon mint vodka cocktail is refreshing – perfect for drinking poolside or by the lake. Make it in less than 10 minutes!
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Prep Time 10 minutes
Total Time 10 minutes

Ingredients
  

  • 1.5 oz. Smirnoff Zero Infusions Watermelon & Mint vodka
  • Ice cubes
  • 1/2 can lime flavored sparkling water
  • Garnish with a watermelon slice and mint sprig

Instructions
 

  • Add ice to glass.
  • Add remaining ingredients.
  • Stir gently.
  • Garnish glass with a watermelon slice and mint sprig.
  • Enjoy!

Notes

You could swap another flavor of sparkling water for a variation on this recipe. I also like the Spindrift Sparkling Water, 4 Flavor Variety Pack. 

Watermelon Mint Vodka Splash

 

Bubbly Strawberry Mint Mojito

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When I polled my Instagram audience if they wanted this recipe after previewing it, the answer was 100% YES. I completely understand why because it is indeed 100% REFRESHING! Bubbly Strawberry Mint Mojito is the summer drink you’ve been craving. You didn’t know it.

Like many gardeners, my mint plant is growing faster than I can use it up. A mojito recipe is a perfect way to use the summer herb, and its herbaceous flavor adds a cooling effect to this cocktail. Not a gardener? The mint sold in your local grocery store’s produce department will suffice — remember to keep it refrigerated until use.

Strawberry Mint Mojito

This recipe is for one cocktail, but you could quickly maximize it to make a pitcher to serve to guests at your brunch or outdoor summer party. Thanks to its fresh ingredients and the bubble’s effervescence, it’s so good.

Have you ever heard of “muddling” herbs? You may have seen a bartender do it when crafting a cocktail. By using a cocktail muddler, or in my case, the end of a wooden spoon, you press and twist the mint in the bottom of a sturdy wine glass. If you would like a visual for how to do it, here’s a helpful instructional link.

I used strawberry-flavored Waterloo Sparkling Water for extra fruit flavor in combination with sliced fresh strawberries. You will also need sugar, lime wedges, and aged silver rum over ice.

Bubbly Strawberry Mint Mojito

I know you’ll adore this Bubbly Strawberry Mint Mojito recipe. Appreciate fruit cocktails? You’ll also like my recipe for Blackberry Mint Fizzy Mojito! Want a similar drink but without the booze? Check out this recipe for Cucumber Mint Raspberry Detox Water.

Bottoms up.

Bubbly Strawberry Mint Mojito

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A refreshingly sweet yet tart cocktail, the mint complements the fresh strawberry very well. You can prepare it to enjoy on a hot summer day or for friends at your next brunch!
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Prep Time 15 minutes
Total Time 15 minutes

Ingredients
  

  • 1 1/2 oz. aged silver rum Cruzan
  • 4-5 mint leaves
  • 1 T. white sugar
  • 3 lime wedges small quarter pieces
  • 1 sliced strawberry
  • 1 can Waterloo Strawberry Sparkling Water
  • crushed ice

Instructions
 

  • Add the mint leaves, sugar, and lime wedges to the glass.
  • Muddle the mint leaves, mint, and sugar together until fragrant and well mashed.
  • Add half a glass of crushed ice.
  • Add sliced strawberries.
  • Add rum.
  • Fill glass until it's full with the sparkling water.
  • Garnish with a strawberry and sprig of mint.

Notes

Use silver rum for this recipe. Substituting dark rum is not an option to achieve the desired recipe flavor.

Bubbly Strawberry Mint Mojito

Cucumber Lime Vodka Splash

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Refreshing. Bubbly. Tasty! This cocktail is perfect for those days when you want a boozy drink and you’re craving something light and refreshing. Cucumber Lime Vodka Splash, made with only three ingredients, is a cocktail you (and your friends!) will love. Grab a glass, and let’s get started!

To make this cocktail a delightful one, you must start with its base: Smirnoff Cucumber Zero Sugar Infusions Cucumber & Lime Vodka. I discovered this flavored vodka when strolling the aisles of my neighborhood liquor store in search of something flavorful but less heavy in sugar than rum.

I added LaCroix Lime Sparkling Water, fresh cucumber, and garnished with fresh lime and mint leaves.

To make my Cucumber Lime Vodka Splash, follow the simple steps in the recipe card below. I promise you’ll appreciate this drink’s flavor profile so much you’ll want to share it with friends at your next get-together. Cheers!

Cucumber Lime Vodka Splash

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Prep Time 10 minutes
Total Time 10 minutes
Servings 1 glass

Ingredients
  

  • 1.5 oz Smirnoff Cucumber Zero Sugar Infusions Cucumber & Lime
  • Juice of a lime wedge
  • Ice cubes
  • 1/2 can LaCroix Sparkling Lime Water
  • Garnish with a cucumber slice and mint garnish

Instructions
 

  • Add ice to glass.
  • Add remaining ingredients.
  • Stir gently.
  • Garnish glass with cucumber and mint.
  • Serve.

Notes

You can also swap another La Croix flavored water instead of the lime version or use Spindrift Sparkling Water Grapefruit. 

If you’ve read this far, you love cucumbers. Check out other flavorful recipes on the blog, including Cucumber Mint Raspberry Detox Water, or try making my Asian Cucumber Salad, the perfect sidekick to Hibachi Steak Lettuce Wraps.

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Fizzy Grapefruit Sparkler

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The citrus flavors of summer fruit are delicious so I couldn’t resist adding this bubbly grapefruit cocktail to my lineup of all-star seasonal cocktails. Loaded with grapefruit and lime flavor, Fizzy Grapefruit Sparkler is incredibly simple to make using ingredients that are easy to locate at your grocery store.

When you need to serve guests a fun drink this summer at your poolside party or before dining al fresca on the deck, consider my Fizzy Grapefruit Sparkler! Packed with citrus punch, it gets its sweetness from a bit of added Stevia and the fizziness and tanginess from the Izze® Grapefruit Beverage. It would be great served alongside warm crostini topped with feta and herbs or figs as an appetizer! Let’s toast to that!

Fizzy Grapefruit Sparkler

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This tangy drink is both sweet and sparkly - perfect for a cooling down from the summer heat!
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Prep Time 10 minutes
Total Time 10 minutes
Servings 1 glass

Ingredients
  

  • 2 oz. Burnett's Orange Vodka
  • 1 squeeze of lime wedge
  • 1 squeeze of a large wedge of grapefruit about 1/4 of a grapefruit minus the seeds
  • 1/2 tsp. Stevia
  • Crushed ice
  • 1 can IZZE® Sparkling Grapefruit Beverage

Instructions
 

  • Pour the first four ingredients in a glass and stir gently with a straw.
  • Add crushed ice to fill glass.
  • Top with IZZE® Sparkling Grapefruit Beverage.
  • Add mint and/or grapefruit slice for garnish.

Blackberry Mint Fizzy Cocktail

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Of all of the seasons to make cocktails, summer is my favorite! A cool drink with the fresh flavors of muddled fruit and mint is refreshing and bright in flavors and colors. My Blackberry Mint Fizzy Cocktail is a drink you can make for one or as a big batch for guests, if you triple the ingredients!

The best part of a serving a muddled cocktail is that it looks as if it required a ton of effort to make, but that’s simply not true. If you don’t own a mortar and pestle, you can use a wooden spoon inside of a tall glass to smash the blackberries for this drink.

I would recommend wearing an apron or coving the mortar with your other hand when muddling the blackberries to prevent stains on your shirt.

Once the blackberries are completely smashed, scoop the fruit goop (that’s a yummy word!) into the cocktail glass. (Instead of muddling the mint leaves, I tore them into super small pieces with my hands releasing their herbal aromatic flavor before dropping them into the glass.) Then add the sugar.

Next, add the juice of one lime wedge.

Summer drinks are made so much better tasting because of citrus from an orange, lime or lemon.

Now, add the vodka – yes, please!

You’re almost done! All you need to do is top off the glass with crushed ice and bubbly club soda to the rim.

:: Wishing I had Sonic ice for this right now ::

No need to transfer this cocktail to another glass to try to shake up the ingredients. Simply add colorful straws and stir the drink gently.

Garnish the glass with a sprig of fresh mint, a lime wedge, more blackberries, and colorful straws before serving! Cheers my dears!

You could easily swap blackberries for strawberries, blueberries, or another fruit of your choice.

Have a muddle cocktail recipe that you think I’d love? Please share the recipe in the comments! Happy Summer Drinking, friends!

Blackberry Mint Fizzy Cocktail

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This bubbly summer cocktail is a balance of tart and sweet and will remind you of a mojito but better!
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Prep Time 15 minutes
Total Time 15 minutes
Servings 1 cocktail

Ingredients
  

  • 4-5 blackberries
  • 4-5 mint leaves
  • 1 tsp sugar.
  • 1/2 cup vodka
  • Crushed ice
  • Lime juice of one lime wedge
  • 1/2 cup club soda
  • 1-2 blackberries and a mint sprig for garnish.

Instructions
 

  • Muddle 4-5 blackberries.
  • Tear 4-5 mint leaves. Add blackberries and mint into a cocktail glass.
  • Add 1 tsp sugar.
  • Add 1/2 cup vodka.
  • Fill cocktail glass halfway with crushed ice.
  • Lime juice squeezed from one small lime wedge.
  • Fill glass nearly full with crushed ice.
  • Fill remaining space in glass with club soda about 1/2 cup.
  • Stir cocktail with straw and top with fresh blackberries and a mint sprig for garnish.

Notes

You could easily substitute vodka for rum or silver tequila. Looking for a non-alcoholic cooler? Take out the booze!

Pomegranate Martini

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Today, I’m celebrating. Time to raise a glass and say “cheers!”

It seems appropriate to honor good news with a freshly made Pomegranate Martini, a simple recipe that is ideal for serving your guests while entertaining. If you set out all of your ingredients in advance, this martini can be made in five minutes!

Grab a martini shaker and the following ingredients to prepare your bartending kitchen station:

  • Pomegranate juice (I used Bai Antioxidant Infusion Ipanema Pomegranate because I didn’t have pure pomegranate juice on hand.)
  • Orange Juice (used pulp-free)
  • Vodka
  • Apple Juice
  • Simple Syrup (heat 1/2 c. water, 1/2 sugar and stir until the sugar dissolves, then cool.)
  • Juice of 1/2 lime
  • 1-3 Lime rind curls for garnish in the bottom of the glass or hang over the rim

How do you celebrate the best moments of your life? With a dinner out on the town? A champagne toast with your favorite peeps? Here’s wishing you a happy upcoming holiday season full of only good news to take you into the new year!

Pomegranate Martini

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This fruity cocktail brings a tart, berry flavor and is a crowd pleaser for any party.
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Prep Time 5 minutes
Total Time 5 minutes
Course cocktail, Drinks
Cuisine American

Ingredients
  

  • 1 1/2 oz pomegranate juice
  • 1 oz. orange juice
  • 1 oz. vodka
  • 3/4 oz. apple juice
  • 1/2 oz. simple syrup
  • Juice of 1/2 lime
  • lime rind curls to garnish
  • ice

Instructions
 

  • Fill a martini shaker with 3/4 full of cubed ice.
  • Add all liquid ingredients.
  • Add lid to martini and shake vigorously for a few minutes.
  • Strain martini shaker into a martini glass.
  • Garnish with lime rind curls.

Notes

You can also use a citrus infused vodka, if you prefer.

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