Virgin Frozen Margarita
A Frozen Margarita Mocktail Jimmy Buffet would be proud of!
Instead of a traditional salted rim, which really only works if your Margarita contains tequila, this recipe uses green sugar, the kind you buy to decorate cookies. It’s a refreshing mocktail guaranteed to help you chill out on a warm summer day, or negate the capsaicin impact of spicy Mexican food.
Virgin Frozen Margarita
Yield: 4
A Frozen Margarita Mocktail Jimmy Buffet would be proud of!
Ingredients
- 6 ounces frozen limeade concentrate, thawed (like, Minute Maid)
- ¼ cup orange juice (like, Simply Orange)
- ¼ cup simple syrup
- juice of 1 fresh lime
- juice of 1 fresh lemon
- 4 cups hard ice
- 2 tsp green sugar sprinkles (like, Betty Crocker)
- 1 lime, cut into wedges for garnish
Instructions
- When squeezing the limes, put a tablespoon or so on a 6" salad plate.
- Place the green sugar sprinkles on a separate 6" salad plate and spread them out.
- Dip the rim of each Margarita glass in the lime juice, and then coat each rim with the green sugar.
- Place the limeade concentrate, orange juice, simple syrup, lemon juice and remaining lime juice in a blender and fill with hard ice.
- Blend on high until all the ice has become slushy.
- Carefully pour the concoction into Margarita glasses, garnish with a fresh lime wedge and serve.
Notes
- The term "hard ice" is an old bartender term from the days when a mixologist would use an ice pick on a large block of ice to pick off large chunks of ice to make a cocktail. Today, the term "hard ice" is to distinguish it from "crushed ice" or "shaved ice."
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