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I’ve been looking for a new cocktail to make for the holidays and I think I found it! Food Network’s host Claire Robinson prepares beautiful dishes with a French influence-all with 5 ingredients or less. This is her recipe for clementine cosmos…

Ingredients

3 clementines, plus 1 very thinly sliced, for garnish

1 cup sugar

1 cup water

2/3 cup cranberry juice

1/3 cup lime juice

1 1/2 cups vanilla flavored vodka {recommend: Grey Goose}

Cut the clementines into quarters and squeeze their juice into a saucepan. Add the sugar, water and clementine flesh and bring to a boil over medium heat. Reduce the heat and simmer the mixture for 5 minutes. Pour into a strainer set over a measuring cup, pressing on the solids to remove as much liquid as possible. Discard the solids, cool the liquid to room temperature and pour into a pitcher. Add the cranberry juice, lime juice and vodka and stir well. Refrigerate until ready to serve. Put 6 or 8 martini glasses in the freezer.

To serve, pour the mixture into an ice-filled cocktail shaker and shake until very cold. Pour into the chilled martini glasses and garnish each with a clementine slice. Drink up and enjoy!

{Image from here}