Blood Orange Whiskey Cocktail

5 from 1 vote

This drink is the perfect blend of tart and sweet with a whiskey kick, and is the most amazing cocktail for fall!

Prep Time5

Total Time5

Course: Drink

Cuisine: American

Keyword: fall cocktail

Servings: servings

Calories: 218kcal

To a cocktail shaker, add some ice, then the blood orange juice, whiskey, simple syrup, lemon juice, and lime juice.
Cover and shake well, for about 15 - 20 seconds.

Add additional ice to two glasses, then strain the cocktails from the cocktail shaker, dividing the contents evenly between the two glasses.
Garnish as desired and serve cold.

This recipe makes 2 (6 oz each) cocktails, but is easily scaled up to make a larger amount.
Instead of shaking the cocktail, you can stir it with ice and a long cocktail spoon before pouring it into the glasses.

This recipe is very easy to scale up; just figure out how many drinks you’ll want, divide it by 2 (the number of servings this makes), and multiply the ingredient amounts by that number.
So for example, let's say you wanted 8 drinks. 8 divided by 2 is 4, so you'd need to multiply all ingredient amounts by 4 - 16 oz blood orange juice, 12 oz whiskey, 8 oz simple syrup, 8 oz lemon juice, and 4 oz lime juice.
For a party, you may not want to use the cocktail shaker for each drink (since that takes some time). So you can add the the drink ingredients to a large pitcher. Stir well, cover, and refrigerate for several hours (until well chilled). Then stir, pour into glasses, add garnishes and serve.
Or if you’d still like to use the cocktail shaker (it does make a great presentation!), still combine everything in the pitcher and chill it, but pour some from the pitcher into an ice-filled cocktail shaker and shake up the individual drinks (just make sure you give the contents of the pitcher a good stir before pouring it into the cocktail shaker).