Before Dumping Leftover Cranberry Sauce Down The Drain, Try It In A Drink - Tasting Table

"One obvious choice for cranberry sauce leftovers is to drink it as a Cosmopolitan. Simply blend the sauce along with vodka, triple sec, and lime juice until smooth and strain through a sieve for a more pleasing and drinkable consistency. You certainly don't have to limit yourself to a humble vodka-cran drink, though. The biggest benefit to leftover cranberry sauce is that, whether store-bought or scratch made, it possesses a great deal of versatility."

"How you choose to flavor your cranberry sauce will alter the consistency of your leftovers. Keep this in mind when you're figuring out how to turn this sauce into a festive drink. For example, if you want to go with warmer flavors in the form of a hot beverage, add your cranberry sauce to a batch of mulled wine or a slow cooker mulled cider recipe. Add a splash of whiskey or bourbon for a spirited version or omit for a zero-proof drink."

Leftover cranberry sauce can be turned into cocktails, mocktails, syrups, and mulled drinks. Blending the sauce with vodka, triple sec, and lime juice creates a Cosmopolitan-style cocktail that benefits from sieving for a smoother consistency. Cranberry sauce can flavor mulled wine or slow-cooker mulled cider and can be spiked with whiskey or bourbon for a spirited version or left unspiked for a zero-proof drink. The sauce can be infused into simple syrup to sweeten and color beverages or used directly in batched punches. Store-bought or homemade cranberry sauce offers versatile tartness and texture that requires balancing when mixing into drinks.

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