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The 11 Best 3-Ingredient Cocktails to Enjoy This Summer

Sip, sip, hooray!

Listen: We’re all about a nice glass of wine or an ice-cold beer, but sometimes don’t you want something with a little more…stuff in it? That’s why we’re taking the opportunity this summer to whip up these 3 ingredient summer cocktails.

3 ingredient summer cocktails raspberry bellini
Recipe Runner

1. Raspberry Sorbet Bellinis

Prosecco + raspberry sorbet + fresh raspberries

3 ingredient summer cocktails margarita
Gimme Some Oven

2. Classic Margarita

Tequila + Cointreau + fresh-squeezed lime juice

3 ingredient summer cocktails cranchampagne
One Sweet Appetite

3. Cranberry Champagne Cocktail

Champagne + cranberry juice + limes


3 ingredient summer cocktails saltydog
Sugar & Cloth

4. Strawberry Grapefruit Salty Dog

Vodka + grapefruit juice + strawberry puree

3 ingredient summer cocktailsbloodorange
Young Austinian

5. Blood Orange Rickey

Gin + sparkling water + blood oranges

3 ingredient summer cocktails aperol
Baker By Nature

6. Aperol Spritz

Prosecco + Aperol + soda water

3 ingredient summer cocktails shirleytemple
Sugar & Soul

7. Champagne Shirley Temples

Champagne + grenadine + maraschino cherries

3 ingredient summer cocktails cuba
PDX FoodLove

8. Cuba Libre

White rum + bitters + Coca-Cola

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3 ingredient summer cocktails negroni
Mark Weinberg/Food 52

9. Negroni

Campari + vermouth + prosecco

3 ingredient summer cocktails cucumber
Tastes Lovely

10. Cucumber-lime Margaritas

Tequila + fresh-squeezed lime juice + cucumber juice

3 ingredient summer cocktails pineapple
Baked By Rachel

11. Pineapple Whiskey Sour

Pineapple juice + lemon juice + whiskey



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From 2015-2020 Lindsay Champion held the role of Food and Wellness Director. She continues to write for PureWow as a Freelance Editor.

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