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    Refreshing Blackberry Margarita Recipe 

    Modified: Mar 21, 2025 · Published: Mar 7, 2023 by Katy McAvoy

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    Refreshing Blackberry Margarita.

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

    Glasses of blackberry margaritas.
    Jump to:
    • What's in a Blackberry Margarita  
    • How to Make a Blackberry Margarita
    • Recipe Tips 
    • Make Your Own Blackberry Syrup
    • How do I make these into frozen blackberry margaritas? 
    • Looking for a margarita with a lower alcohol content? 
    • Try These Fruity Margarita Recipes 
    • Print the Recipe Card 
    • Easy 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. 

    What's in a Blackberry Margarita  

    Ingredients for Blackberry Margaritas
    • Tequila - 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. 
    • Blackberry syrup - Use either fresh or frozen blackberries to easily make your own blackberry simple syrup. But if you don’t want to DIY the syrup, look for blackberry syrup in the coffee syrup section of your local grocery store. 
    • Limes - 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. 
    • Orange liqueur or triple sec - Choose your favorite orange liqueur for this margarita.
    • 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.

    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. 

    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. Or swap out the orange liqueur for my orange simple syrup.

    Try These Fruity Margarita Recipes 

    Looking for more fruity margarita recipes? Try my fresh strawberry margaritas or these delicious pomegranate margaritas. Or make some quick homemade hibiscus syrup for my citrusy hibiscus margaritas.

    Glasses of strawberry margaritas.
    Strawberry Margaritas
    Hibiscus Margarita
    Hibiscus Margaritas

    Print the Recipe Card 

    Blackberry margarita.

    Easy Blackberry Margarita Recipe 

    Katy McAvoy
    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.
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    Prep Time 5 minutes mins
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    Total Time 5 minutes mins
    Servings 1 cocktail

    Equipment

    • Cocktail Shaker
    • Jigger
    • Rocks Glasses
    • Citrus Press

    Ingredients
      

    • 2 oz tequila
    • 1 oz blackberry syrup
    • 1 oz lime juice fresh squeezed
    • 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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    Nutrition

    Serving: 1cocktailCalories: 260kcalCarbohydrates: 28gProtein: 0.1gFat: 0.1gSaturated Fat: 0.02gPolyunsaturated Fat: 0.02gSodium: 18mgPotassium: 55mgFiber: 0.1gSugar: 26gVitamin A: 14IUVitamin C: 9mgCalcium: 8mgIron: 1mg
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    About Katy McAvoy

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

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    Katy McAvoy, mixologist and photographer

    Hi! I’m Katy (she/her). I’m an author, photographer, home cook, mixologist, Michigander, and lover of all things food and drink. I never turn down a good happy hour and believe that everyone deserves a delicious drink. Follow me on Instagram to check out what I’m working on next!

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