The Cosmopolitan, a cocktail that has received more than its fair share of notoriety in the last 10 years. I do love me a great cocktail. Maybe it is a fifth item on The List: Dogs, Coffee, Chocolate, Cats and Cocktails. Wait! Let me relist: Dogs, Coffee, Chocolate, Cocktails and Cats. Yeah, I did it. Who’s going to get mad? Oh him?

Yeah, he seems really concerned. Whatever. Did I mention he’s a biter? Yeah, so how do you feel about the order of that list once I revealed that little Louie secret?

Okay, back to the cocktail.

Ingredients

• Vodka (3 parts)
• Cointreau (No Triple Sec! No Gran Marnier!) (1 1/2 parts)
• Cranberry Juice (3 parts)
• 1 Lime

Three capfuls of vodka

Step One: Add three capfuls of good/great vodka to shaker.

1 1/2 capfuls of Cointreau

Step Two: Add 1 and 1/2 capfuls of Cointreau to cocktail shaker.

Please Note: Only Cointreau. Don’t go pulling the Gran Marnier or Triple Sec on me. This is no joke.

This is serious business.

Really serious.

Like super serious.

Did I mention you only use Cointreau in this cocktail?

3 capfuls of cranberry juice

Step Three: Measure and pour 3 capfuls of cranberry juice into shaker.

I really don’t care what brand of cranberry juice you use.

But none of that light stuff.  

1/2 - 1 lime

Step Four: Squeeze the juice of 1/2 to 1 whole lime into the cocktail shaker.

 Step Five: Fill cocktail shaker with ice and put on lid.

Step Six: Shake it! Just Shake It! Cuz it took your mama nine months to make it!

And I would like to add at this point, that I hope you put the lid on the cocktail shaker before you proceeded to shake. Because if you did, I think your mother would be very proud of your accomplishment. And if not, well…

Now sit back and enjoy. I know I will.

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