Looking for a delicious Super Bowl XLVI cocktail? How about Game Day Margaritas? Tinted with your teams colors, these drinks are perfect for game day!
Game Day Margaritas 
Ingredients
For Simple Syrup
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 cup water
For the Red Cocktail
- 1/4 cup cranberry juice cocktail
- 2 tablespoons (1 oz) silver tequila (clear)
- 2 tablespoons (1 oz) orange-flavored liqueur
- 1 tablespoon simple syrup
- 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
- Ice
- Lemon wedge
- Colored sugar
For the Blue Cocktail
- 1/4 cup cranberry juice cocktail
- 2 tablespoons (1 oz) silver tequila (clear)
- 2 tablespoons (1 oz) blue Curacao
- 1 tablespoon simple syrup
- 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
- Ice
- Lemon wedge
- Colored sugar
- To make simple syrup, mix sugar and water in 1-quart saucepan. Heat to boiling over medium-high heat, stirring until sugar is dissolved. Remove from heat and set aside to cool, about 1 hour. Pour syrup into glass jar, cover jar and refrigerate until needed. Makes 1 1/4 cups (use 1 tablespoon per margarita).
- To prepare cocktail, add cranberry juice, tequila, orange-flavored liqueur, simple syrup and lemon juice to cocktail shaker filled with ice. Cover and shake. Rub rim of martini glass with lemon wedge; dip in sugar. Strain cocktail into glass. Repeat for the blue cocktail, using blue Curacao instead of the orange-flavored liqueur.
