Cranberry Thyme Moscow Mule (Moscow Rudolph)
Get in the holiday spirit with our Moscow Rudolph - a cranberry thyme Moscow mule! Sweet from cranberries and blood orange, and spiced with ginger. Disclaimer: This post may contain affiliate links, which means we will receive a commission if you make a purchase through those links at no extra cost to you.
Equipment
Ingredients
- 1 Lime
- ⅓ Cup Sugar
- 4 Stems Fresh thyme
- 0.75 oz Cranberry simple syrup (link in the blog for our recipe)
- 1 Ginger beer bottle or can
- 1.5 oz Vodka (optional)
- 3 Cranberries for garnish (optional)
Instructions
- Start by setting up your station. Put ⅓ cup of sugar on a plate. Remove the thyme leaves off of two stems and mix them in with the sugar on the plate. This will be your thyme sugar. Set aside
- Cut one lime in half. Take one half and cut into half moons. Slide the half-moon slice of lime around the rim of the cocktail glass to wet it. By wetting the rim with lime juice, the sugar will stick in the next step
- Take the cocktail glass and turn it over. Rotate the glass over and over so that the rim gets coated with thyme sugar. Set aside.
- This part is optional. Take the remaining two thyme stems and remove the leaves. Finely chop them and place them in the cocktail glass. Use the muddler to gently crush the thyme leaves. You can garnish with thyme instead if you prefer to not add them chopped.
- Use the jigger to measure 0.75 oz of cranberry simple syrup. Check out our blood orange cranberry recipe linked above if you want to easily make it from scratch. Take that 0.75 oz and pour it into the middle of your cocktail glass
- Juice the remaining lime half into the 0.75 oz side of the jigger with a handheld juicer. When done, pour that into the glass.
- Add ice and pour the ginger beer can or bottle directly into the cocktail glass
- You can serve as a mocktail but if you want to add alcohol, measure 1.5 oz of vodka with the jigger and pour that into the cocktail as well
- Use a stirrer to mix the contents of the glass. Garnish with cranberries, a lime slice or more thyme. Enjoy!