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    Refreshing Blackberry Margarita Recipe 

    Published: Mar 7, 2023 · Updated: Feb 23, 2023 by Katy McAvoy

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    Traditional margarita meets fresh berry flavor with this blackberry margarita. Served on the rocks with a salted rim, this cocktail recipe is refreshing and delicious. 

    Glasses of blackberry margaritas.
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    • Ingredients 
    • How to Make a Blackberry Margarita
    • Recipe Tips 
    • Make Your Own Blackberry Syrup
    • FAQs and Substitutions 
    • Try These Margarita Recipes 
    • More Delicious Recipes You’ll Love 
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    • Fresh and East Blackberry Margarita Recipe 

    The best blackberry margarita recipe is one that’s simple and easy. This refreshing margarita recipe only has four ingredients - besides the garnish - making it a quick cocktail to shake up and enjoy. 

    Fresh ingredients make the best margaritas! For these easy blackberry margaritas, we’re combining the flavors of juicy blackberries and fresh limes with blanco tequila for a delicious addition to your next Taco Tuesday, your annual Cinco de Mayo Celebration, or to celebrate National Margarita Day (February 22 in the U.S.). 

    Delicious homemade margaritas are perfect for happy hour on an outdoor patio or backyard BBQ. Made with your favorite good tequila, a fresh blackberry margarita is sure to become your new favorite cocktail. 

    Ingredients 

    Ingredients for Blackberry Margaritas
    • Tequila
    • Blackberry syrup
    • Limes 
    • Orange liqueur or triple sec
    • Coarse salt (garnish) 
    • Fresh blackberries (garnish) 

    How to Make a Blackberry Margarita

    Pour 1-2 tablespoons of salt into a shallow dish. 

    Run a slice of lime along the rim of a rocks glass. 

    Dip the rim of the glass into the salt. 

    A hand dipping the rim of a glass into coarse salt.

    Fill the glass with ice cubes and set aside. 

    Place tequila, blackberry syrup, lime juice, and orange liqueur into a cocktail shaker filled with ice cubes. 

    Blackberry syrup being poured into a cocktail shaker.

    Shake well. 

    Strain into your salt-rimmed glass. 

    Blackberry margarita being poured into a glass.

    Garnish with a lime wedge or fresh blackberries. 

    A hand placing a fresh blackberry garnish on a margarita.

    Sip and enjoy! 

    Recipe Tips 

    • Garnish this margarita any way you want! Try a lime wheel and/or a cocktail pick full of fresh blackberries. Accidentally squeezed all your limes into your marg? Use a slice of orange for garnish. 
    • Want more fresh fruit in your cocktail? Muddle 2-3 fresh blackberries in your cocktail shaker with a muddler or wooden spoon before adding the drink ingredients and ice. Double strain your margarita through a fine mesh strainer to remove any blackberry seeds and fresh fruit pieces before you sip. 
    • Choose coarse salt for the rim of your drink. Don’t love salt? Trade it out for white sugar sprinkles or raw sugar. 
    Blackberry margaritas.

    Make Your Own Blackberry Syrup

    Homemade blackberry simple syrup is super easy to make with only three ingredients. Get the recipe and my syrup making tips over on my Blackberry Simple Syrup page. 

    A glass jar of blackberry syrup.

    FAQs and Substitutions 

    What kind of tequila should I use? 

    Use your favorite blanco tequila or silver tequila for this recipe. Skip the gold tequila or aged tequilas. The taste of them will overwhelm the blackberry flavor. I like Jose Cuervo Silver tequila for my margaritas. It’s tasty, well priced, and easy to find in my area. 

    Looking for a margarita with a lower alcohol content? 

    To replace some of the alcohol in this blackberry margarita, use fresh orange juice in place of the orange liqueur and add 0.25 oz more simple syrup to the recipe. 

    Where can I find blackberry syrup?

    Making your own blackberry simple syrup is easy, but if you don’t want to DIY the syrup, look for blackberry syrup in the coffee syrup section of your local grocery store. 

    Do I have to use fresh lime juice? 

    Yes. There are very few ingredients in this cocktail, so fresh juice is important. You should need approximately 1 lime per cocktail. The taste difference is worth the effort to squeeze the fresh fruit. 

    How do I make these into frozen blackberry margaritas? 

    Add ⅓ cup of ice per drink to a blender, along with the cocktail ingredients. Blend until smooth and enjoy! Blended fruit margaritas often have a sugar rim instead of a salted rim, but that’s up to you. 

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    Traditional margarita meets fresh berry flavor with this blackberry margarita. Served on the rocks with a salted rim, this cocktail recipe is refreshing and delicious.

    • Author: Katy McAvoy
    • Prep Time: 5 min
    • Cook Time: 0 min
    • Total Time: 5 min
    • Yield: 1 cocktail 1x
    • Category: Cocktails
    • Method: Cocktail Shaker
    • Cuisine: American

    Ingredients

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    • 2 oz tequila
    • 1 oz blackberry syrup
    • 1 oz fresh lime juice
    • 0.5 oz orange liqueur or triple sec
    • Coarse salt (garnish)
    • Fresh blackberries (garnish)

    Instructions

    Pour 1-2 tablespoons of salt into a shallow dish.

    Run a slice of lime along the rim of a rocks glass.

    Dip the rim of the glass into the salt.

    Fill the glass with ice cubes and set aside.

    Place tequila, blackberry syrup, lime juice, and orange liqueur into a cocktail shaker filled with ice cubes.

    Shake well.

    Strain into your prepared glass.

    Garnish with a slice of lime or fresh berries. Sip and enjoy!

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    Katy is the author, photographer, home cook, mixologist, and Michigander behind MittenGirl.com. Since 2017, she's been crafting easy-to-make cocktails and delicious meals, along with sharing her love of all things Michigan (a.k.a. The Mitten)!

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