Happy cocktail Friday! All the Halloween celebrations are coming up next weekend – are you ready?! I love taking drinks to parties in a big pitcher to serve a crowd, so I figured a dark and spooky sangria might be just right for the occasion. So here ya go, I present to you…Black{Berry} Sangria! Complete with requisite dry ice smoke, because why not?
The blackberry flavor in the sangria isn’t overpowering here, it’s just enough to kiss you with a bit of tanginess and helps cut through the dark, full-bodied red wine to make this a luxurious, yet refreshing drink. I loaded up the pitcher with lots of “black” fruit too, like black grapes, black plums (yummm!), and blackberries (of course).
If you want to achieve the spooky dry ice smoke effect that you see here, I’d recommend sticking a couple of 1/2″ or so square chunks of dry ice into a pitcher or bowl that people serve themselves from. You certainly don’t want someone accidentally drinking a piece of dry ice after they’ve had a few adult beverages (or ever!). I live in Texas and it was really easy to buy dry ice here – I just asked for it at the register of the grocery store when I was checking out. Awesome! No need to make a special trip somewhere. It’s much better to spend my time having fun with the dry ice in a new drink recipe!
Black{Berry} Sangria
Ingredients
- 1 750 ml bottle dark red wine, (I used Rare Red Black Blend, but cab sav would be great too)
- 16 oz sparkling water
- 6 oz Cheribundi Light Cherry Juice
- 4 oz blackberry flavored brandy, (black cherry rum would work too)
- 3 oz grapefruit juice
Fruit
- 2 medium black plums, sliced
- 1 cup blackberries
- 1 cup black grapes
Instructions
- Mix all sangria ingredients in a pitcher, then add fruit and allow to steep overnight in the refrigerator before serving.
Nutrition Information
For my macro trackers out there, I wasn’t able to create a My Fitness Pal barcode for this recipe since I would have had to decide for you whether to put the alcohol calories in as carbs or fats – that’s up to you! The 15 carbs listed here are just for the juices and the sugars in the wine and brandy. For my non-macro trackers, here’s more info on what I’m talking about.
