Cranberry Sauce Martini

Ingredients

  • 8 oz. cranberry juice (to freeze)
  • ½ cup chopped craisins
  • 4 oz. cranberry juice
  • 2 oz. vodka
  • 1 oz. Grand Marnier
  • 1 oz. maple syrup
  • ½ lemon, juiced and strained
  • 4 oz. soda water
  • ice
  • lemon (for pear)
  • orange peel
  • 2 sprigs of mint
  • A few fresh cranberries
  • 2 pear slices
  • star anise

Instructions

  • Make decorative ice spheres by adding craisins to the bottom of a spherical ice tray. Fill tray ¾ of the way full and freeze until solid
  • Add ice spheres to glass.
  • Add ice (regular, non-spherical) to cocktail shaker.
  • Pour cranberry juice, vodka, Grand Marnier, maple syrup and lemon juice into a cocktail shaker. Shake.
  • Garnish with lemon twist, mint, cranberries, star anise and pear slice.
  • Top with soda water.