Fourth of July Cocktail

Ingredients

• 1  big tablespoon cranberry juice 
• 0.3 ounce curacao blue
• 1 slice optional: lemon 
• 1 slice lime 
• 1 slice serrano chiles very thin
• 0.5 ounce simple syrup glaze 
• 1.5 ounces tequila 
• 1 ounce watermelon schnapps 

Equipment

Directions

1. Mix the schnapps and cranberry juice in a shaker; pour into an ice-filled glass.
2. Muddle the jalapeno pepper, lemon and lime slices, tequila, blue curacao and simple syrup (to make a batch, dissolve sugar in equal parts hot water and chill) in the shaker. Slowly strain into the glass over the red layer.
3. Garnish with watermelon, if desired.
4. Photograph by Kate Sears