Royal Flush Shot: The Cocktail You Can Share

The Royal Flush Shot and Cocktail is the perfect party drink for a duo or a group of friends. It’s the same recipe in either situation, just different glasses. It has a tasty blend of fruit flavors topped off with the smooth kick of Crown Royal. Let’s see why this hand is always a winner.

What is a Royal Flush Shot and Cocktail?

Why do we call the Royal Flush a shot and a cocktail? That’s because no matter how you prefer to drink it, as a shooter like a Rattlesnake Shot or a sipper like an Amaretto Sour, you use the same ingredients in the same amount.

This drink is made with Crown Royal (hence the ‘Royal” in the name), peach schnapps, Chambord black raspberry liqueur, and cranberry juice. Once the ingredients are combined they are shaken, similarly to martinis like a Cosmo or Key Lime Martini, until the drink is very cold and has some small ice chip in it.

At this point, you either split it between four or five shot glasses or pour the full amount, over fresh ice, into one or two rocks glasses. It has a high enough alcohol content to give it a kick but low enough that you can responsibly enjoy a few of these over the course of a night (of course drink plenty of water and still do not drive after drinking at all).

How to make this drink:

Decide if you want to drink this quickly like a shooter or if you want to sit back and enjoy as a cocktail. After that, jump over to the Vegas Bomb and keep on with the Las Vegas drink theme.

Equipment

• cocktail shaker
• Hawthorne strainer
• jigger
• 4-5 Shot glasses or 1-2 Rocks glasses
• 4″ cocktail pick (cocktail only)

Ingredients

• 2 oz Crown Royal
• 1 oz Peach Schnapps
• 1½ oz Cranberry Juice
• ¼-½ oz Chambord
• 3 maraschino cherries cocktail only

Instructions

Step One

Chill shot glasses/rocks glasses for best results

Step Two

Fill cocktail shaker ¾ full of ice

Step Three

Now, add in your Crown Royal, Peach Schnapps, Cranberry Juice, and Chambord

Step Four

Put the lid back on your shaker and shake for about 30 seconds

Step Five

Take the lid off and rreplace it with a Hawthorne strainer.

Step Six

Remove your shot glasses or rocks glasses from your freezer (add fresh ice to the rocks glasses)

Step Seven

Strain your cocktail into your glasses

*should get between 4 to 5 shots or 1 to 2 cocktails

Step Eight

Garnish rocks glasses with 3 cherries on a 4″ cocktail pick and enjoy!

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