While picking up my latest batch of green juice supplies at Sprouts, I noticed blackerries were on a huge sale. I hadn’t tried blackberries yet so wanted to create something with the fruit. But I wasn’t interested in a smoothie so I decided to create my first healthy cocktail, a Blackberry Mojito Cocktail, for my friends during the SXSW conference that is here in town this week.
I don’t drink alcohol but I want to be able to offer healthy drinks to my friends when they come to visit or for a dinner party. I think the key is to create healthy alternatives to the popular sugar-rich cocktails that are served at bars and clubs. I’ve found that using stevia instead of white table sugar has worked perfectly in all of the applications I’ve tried so far.
Since I am not a drinker, I went on a research mission to review blackberry mojito cocktail recipes. I took the first 50 recipes on Google, analyzed the ingredients and created 3 recipes for me to test. The recipe below was the best of the three and I am sure you and your guests will enjoy it. Below the recipe is the alcohol-free option for non-drinkers or for kids. Just make sure you remember which glass is which 
I am not suggesting that you should drink alcoholic drinks all the time – you should be drinking green smoothies all the time! Linda, the nutritionist I worked with, told me in one of our early sessions that a drink once in a while is ok.
This recipe uses a new term for me, “muddle”. This basically means mush up – you can either use a muddle tool or I used a potato masher and it worked fine (ha!). The idea is to make a mush from the blackberries but not puree them like in a blender.
- 6 oz blackberries
- 3-4 mint leaves
- 1 teaspoon fresh lemon juice
- one dropper liquid stevia
- ¼ cup plain vodka or rum
- 1 tablespoon fresh lime juice
- ½ cups seltzer water or club soda (no sugar added)
- 4 ice cubes crushed
- Put the blackberries, mint, lemon juice, lime juice into the glass(es).
- Muddle the mixture
- Add seltzer or club soda and vodka or rum
- Stir cocktail
- Add ice cubes and serve
If you want to make this blackberry mojito alcohol-free, remove the rum or vodka and replace with an additional 1/4 cup seltzer water. Also, a fun way to serve the cocktail (either version) is to freeze some of the blackberries and serve them on top of the drink in place of 2 ice cubes – the frozen fruit will keep the drink cold and makes for a nice presentation.
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Oh my goodness these look amazing!! I will have to remember these this summer!
Thanks Sarah! I agree that this is a perfect summer drink – it is already feeling a bit like summer here in Austin.
Lucky! I live in New York…. and I would just like to say… It’s snowing today!!!!
That looks delicious! I’ve never used Stevia before, but I might have to give it a try. I bet agave would be a good sweetener here, too.
Hi Lauren – stevia is awesome! It has definitely helped with my weight loss. Agave would work too but some of the people I follow say stevia is better and say agave is something they prefer to stay away from.
Hi Allen,
This recipe looks awesome! We’d love to feature it on Giuliana Rancic’s FabFitFun.com. Please email me if you’re interested in being featured.
Thank you!
Tasha Ball
Editorial Coordinator at FabFitFun.com
This looks very tasty especially for the Spring and Summer.