Infuse your Super Bowl festivities – or your next party or gathering – with delicious, healthy cherries.  These recipes will kick-off your Super Bowl the right way!!  Quick, easy and flavorful—make cherry red your team choice for Super Bowl XLIV.

Twilight Cocktail

Edward and Jacob-lovers alike will enjoy this blood-red cocktail.  Courtesy of Charles Joly, The Drawing Room

Ingredients:
1/2     oz FruitFast Montmorency tart cherry juice concentrate
1.5      oz Maker’s Mark
3/4     oz Grand Marnier
1/2      oz Domain de Canton, ginger liqueur
3/4     oz fresh lemon juice
1/4      oz agave nectar (or simple syrup)

Directions:

Drizzle the blood-red cherry concentrate around the inside of a dry (or chilled) martini glass. Combine remaining ingredients in cocktail shaker.  Shake with ice and strain into the cherry concentrate-lined glass.  Use a vegetable peeler to cut a strip of orange zest- squeeze oil over top of cocktail and place garnish decoratively.

Stir the cherry concentrate in with the shaken cocktail before enjoying.

Yield:  1 serving

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