10 Orange Juice Cocktails to Try

Here's a famous and beautiful orange juice cocktail: the tequila sunrise! It’s beautiful and vibrant, with layered colors of a summer sunset. Even better: it’s so easy to make! All you need is 3 ingredients: and no special techniques or equipment. Of course, use fresh squeezed orange juice for the best effect. The flavor is refreshingly sweet, with just a hint of tequila. Try it with our homemade grenadine!

Ingredients: Orange juice, grenadine, tequila

Of course the most popular orange juice cocktail of them all: the mimosa! How to make a perfect mimosa? We like to use Prosecco instead of champagne for a sweeter, nuanced flavor: but you could use either! Pour the bubbles with a heavy hand, and add a dash of orange liqueur. It’s tart, just sweet enough, and bubbly as all get out. Here’s how to make this beautiful and bright mimosa!

Ingredients: Orange juice, Prosecco or champagne, Cointreau

Looking for a quick and easy orange juice cocktail? Make a Madras! This vibrant pink vodka drink is zingy and refreshing, pairing orange with cranberry juice for tartness and color. It takes no time at all to make: just mix it right in the glass and serve on ice!

Ingredients: Cranberry juice, vodka, and orange juice

Here’s a unique orange juice cocktail: the Garibaldi! This Italian cocktail has so much going for it, it’s hard to know where to start. Orange juice is the perfect sweet balance to bitter Campari. There’s a little textural little flair with a foamy topping. It comes out ultra refreshing with bitter, sweet and tangy notes all intermingling in the perfect sip. Use fresh orange juice for this one: standard or blood orange (pictured).

Here's a refreshing, well balanced orange juice cocktail: the Amaretto Stone Sour! Of course you know the Amaretto Sour, that classic boozy sour cocktail with the retro egg white foam. Well, the stone sour is a sour made with orange juice! It’s light and refreshing, perfect for sipping at brunch or on a lazy afternoon with a book. It’s sweet tart with just right right finish of nutty amaretto.

Another popular orange juice cocktail recipe? The Skinny Margarita! This refreshing marg recipe boasts 40% less calories than a classic! All you need is 4 ingredients and 5 minutes.

Ingredients: Tequila, lime juice, orange juice, simple syrup

Got OJ? Got vodka? Let’s make a Screwdriver! The Screwdriver is one of the easiest cocktails there is, ideal for afternoon drinks or brunch. Cocktail connoisseurs might call it low brow…and let’s be honest: it is. But there are lots of legit two-ingredient drinks! We’ll show you how to make a traditional Screwdriver: then share a few ideas on how to make a more interesting spin on this drink.

It’s fruity and extra boozy: meet the Hurricane! The Hurricane is a classic New Orleans cocktail made with light and dark rum and passion fruit syrup. The passion fruit gives it a tropical nuance, the orange a citrus spin, and a hint of grenadine gives it extra sweetness and a rosy-golden color. It’s a unique rum cocktail that’s festive and fun!

Ingredients: Light rum, dark rum, passion fruit syrup, orange juice, lime juice, grenadine

Here’s a 1970’s orange juice cocktail that deserves a new look: the Alabama Slammer. It’s known as a lowbrow college drink made with trendy low quality liquor. But step up the liquor quality and you’ve got yourself a first-rate highball cocktail! It’s bold, fruity and balanced: great for sipping on the patio, at the lake, or just on a lazy afternoon. Here we’ve given a few little tweaks to the Alabama Slammer to take it up a notch and give it a new and improved vibe.

Ingredients: Orange juice, amaretto, bourbon, sloe gin

Here's a classic orange juice cocktail that uses blood orange juice instead...the Blood and Sand! It’s similar to a Manhattan or Martinez, but with with blood orange juice and cherry liqueur. It’s light and semi-sweet, with a balanced and cherry-forward flavor. This one will please even people who are on the fence about Scotch.

Ingredients: Scotch, cherry liqueur, vermouth, blood orange juice

It’s time for another 1970’s orange juice cocktail: make way for the Harvey Wallbanger! This easy highball cocktail is the Screwdriver‘s more sophisticated cousin. It might sound low-brow, but this drink stars Galliano, an herbal Italian liqueur invented in the 1890’s. It gives this otherwise boring brunch drink a complex, funky herbal finish. One sip and we gave this one a stamp of approval.

Want a simple makeover for your margarita? Try the Italian margarita! This orange juice cocktail is a fusion of the best of Italian and Mexican cuisines. This spin on the classic cocktail swaps out orange liqueur for amaretto, and the almond essence adds a distinctly Italian vibe. Blood orange juice brings in a brilliant color, but you can also use straight orange juice too!