4 Summer Margarita Recipes with Cointreau

To celebrate Christmas, Cointreau has created a chic bottle pourer using their signature toucan to compliment your bottle of Cointreau just in time for the festive season. The Christmas gift pack comes in a tropical box and includes a bottle of Cointreau as well as the brass pourer – ideal for the Margarita lover in your life.

Tasting notes: Cointreau is an aromatic feat and owes this impact to a complex blend of orange peel essences. Zesty, fresh, floral and sweet with an instant freshness, lingering on the palate, it is a harmonious blend of nuanced notes yet remains intensely orange. 

In cocktails, Cointreau serves as a flavour amplifier, helping reveal the other ingredients while bringing balance, depth, and freshness to the mix.

Here are some of our favourite summer cocktail recipes. You’ll soon know how to create the perfect Cointreau Margarita for the summer holiday season as well a couple of fun variations.

Original Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 30mL Cointreau
• 60mL Tequila
• 30mL Fresh lime juice

Method:

1. Combine all ingredients in a cocktail shaker.
2. Add ice and shake until well-chilled.
3. Strain into a chilled Old Fashioned glass.
4. Garnish with a lime slice and salt rim.

Holiday Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 30mL Cointreau
• 60mL Blanco Tequila
• 30mL Fresh lime juice
• 6 drops Aromatic Bitters
• Top with Rosemary Sprig

Method:

1. Combine all ingredients in a shaker and add ice. 
2. Shake and strain into a cinnamon sugar-rimmed coupe glass.
3. Garnish with rosemary sprig.

Summer Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 30mL Cointreau
• 50mL Tequila
• 20mL Lime
• 4 Fresh Strawberries
• 1 bar spoon Sugar Syrup

Method:

1. Rim the glass with some fleur de sel. 
2. Combine Cointreau, Tequila, lime and strawberries in a shaker with ice.
3. Muddle it, shake it, strain it and serve it.
4. Tip: Garnish with mint sprig on the top of your glass to bring some freshness

Spicy Margarita Recipe

Ingredients:

• 30mL Cointreau
• 50mL Blanco Tequila
• 20mL Fresh Lime Juice
• 2 slices Jalapeño
• 2 slices Fresh Cilantro

Method: 

1. Combine all ingredients in a cocktail shaker.
2. Add ice and shake well until well-chilled.
3. Strain into a chilled Old Fashioned glass.
4. Garnish with a jalapeño pepper

About Cointreau

Cointreau is a premium triple sec orange-flavoured liqueur. Discover our range of spirits and our cocktail recipes made with Cointreau triple sec. Cointreau website.