Steps to Make It. Gather the ingredients. The Spruce Eats/Julia Hartbeck. Fill a highball glass with plenty of ice. Add the vodka, cranberry juice, and schnapps. Stir until chilled and well combined. The Spruce Eats/Julia Hartbeck. Garnish with a lime wedge or wheel. The Spruce Eats/Julia Hartbeck. Cut a notch in a lime wedge and run it around the rum of the glass to wet it. Then roll the rim in the sugar until evenly coated. Shake the drink: Place the mango puree, vodka, Cointreau, lime juice, and simple syrup in a cocktail shaker. Add a handful of ice and shake until cold. Add 2½ oz. vodka or gin, ½ oz. dry vermouth, and ½ oz. pickle brine to a shaker and fill with ice. Shake until chilled, at least 20 seconds. Strain into the chilled martini or cocktail glass Instructions. Add vodka, pomegranate, Grand Marnier, and lime juice to a cocktail shaker. Add ice and shake until well chilled. Pour some sugar (red sugar if you have it) onto a plate. Wet the rims of two martini glasses and place them rim down in the sugar. Swirl to coat. Divide the martini between the two glasses. The alluring flavor of cocktails like the French martini can make it easy to forget that they're actually quite potent. When made with 80-proof vodka, the French martini has an alcohol content right around 19 percent ABV (38 proof). To put that into perspective, the average vodka martini is 56 proof and a vodka cranberry is about 28 proof. Apple Martini. 9. Watermelon Martini. 10. Pomegranate Martini. 11. Key Lime Martini. Fun, flirty, and always delicious, fruity Martini recipes tend to stray quite far from the classic Martini formula, but we like it that way. These are fun-loving rebels that dare to break the mold and bring oodles of fanfare and personality to any lively event How to Make a Blackberry Vodka Martini. Place the blackberries at the bottom of a cocktail shaker and muddle until as much of the juice from the berries has been released as possible. Add the rest of the ingredients along with some fresh ice and shake until nice and cold. Strain into your favorite martini glass and garnish. Poet's Dream (Vodka Version) 2 oz. vodka. 0.75 oz. dry vermouth. 0.25 oz. or less Bénédictine. Add all ingredients to a mixing glass, add ice, and stir for 10 to 15 seconds (if you have small Instructions. Add the cucumber slices to a cocktail shaker and muddle them (gently mash) to release the juice. Add the vodka, vermouth and St Germain and fill the shaker with ice. Shake for 15 seconds until cold. Strain the drink into a martini glass. 1 shot (25ml) of espresso. Ice. Method. Pour the vodka, coffee liqueur and espresso into a cocktail shaker. Fill the martini glass with ice to chill and then fill the cocktail shaker with ice as well. Put the other half of the shaker on top and give it a good tap to lock it in, then shake the living daylights out of it. NqSS9.