Debby K’S Blue Margarita

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This Debby K’s Blue Margarita is salty-sweet and fun. I love the salt and sugar on the rim. The fun comes with an added umbrella and blueberry garnish. A vacation in a glass.

There is a backstory to this cocktail. I was the “snack lady” at our VBS this year and one of my friends whom the cocktail is named after teased me about a cocktail pairing for one of the snacks I made. The snack was a blue jello sea creature snack with a whipped cream wave. I am known to post cocktails on my Facebook and that is where the teasing comes from. Naturally, I welcome a good challenge, so this is what I came up with.

I still feel like I’m new to the cocktail world although it’s been about 18 months since I mixed my first CoVid beverage. So, I am still learning about cocktail ingredients. Since I haven’t used blue curacao until this cocktail, I needed to do my research. Blue Curacao is a liquor flavored with the dried peel from bitter orange laraha, which is a citrus fruit grown in the Dutch island of Curacao. The flavor is bittersweet orange. It’s naturally colorless so it’s given an artificial color.

This is the perfect cocktail for a party or happy hour, especially by the pool. Make a pitcher or just 1 serving but beware when your guests see this you will be sorry you didn’t make a pitcher. Instead of the standard margarita glass serve Debby K’s Blue Margarita in a martini glass.

Debby K’s Blue Margarita

Delicious twist on a classic margarita using Blue Curacao to give it that beautiful blue color. Perfect for a beach party.

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Prep Time 5 minutes mins

Course Drinks

Servings 1 Drink

Ingredients

  

• 1 oz tequila
• 1 oz Blue Curacao
• 1 tsp fresh lime juice
• salt
• sugar
• several fresh blueberries-garnish
• lime wedge
• ice

Instructions

 

• Add tequila, Blue Curacao, and lime juice with ice to your favorite cocktail shaker and shake for about 30 seconds.
• Mix a little sugar and salt together on a small plate-set aside.
• Use your lime wedge to run around the edge of your martini glass. Then dip the glass into your sugar/salt mixture to coat the rim of your glass.
• Add ice to your martini glass. Strain your margarita cocktail into your martini glass.
• Garnish with an umbrella or your favorite pick and fresh blueberries.

Keyword beach party, blue curacao, blue margarita, margarita