30 Best Margarita Recipes For Cinco De Mayo

From fruity margarita recipes to frozen, flavored, fun, and fancy margaritas, you’ll be spoiled for choice with this list, all summer year long. A classic margarita is a much loved drink for a reason. It’s one of the most popular cocktails ever. The classic combination of tequila, orange liqueur such as triple sec, and lime is the epitome of a crisp, refreshing drink (enjoyed in the sun and by the beach, under blue skies with a gentle breeze in the air for best results). And there’s possibly no other cocktail that you could riff on with such spectacular and flavorful results as a classic margarita. In that spirit, these fruity and flavored margarita recipes are bound to put new pep in your step with inventive and delicious flavors and spins on this classic drink. This is the ultimate curated list of celebratory cinco de mayo margaritas for you to choose from. Which one will you sip first?

Why you’ll love these easy margarita recipes

These are all so easy to whip up and only take a few minutes. A margarita is a perfectly balanced drink with a flavor profile that includes all the main tasting notes. And it’s just as easy to add flavor. What’s not to love? These are all homemade margarita recipes made from scratch, not using a margarita mix. Store-bought margarita mixes almost always taste artificial or sickly-sweet or just downright awful. And it makes even less because classic margaritas and other flavor variations are just so simple to make with only a few ingredients. There are only so many fruit desserts that you can make with that bounty of fresh fruits in the summer. These refreshing, fruity margarita recipes are the obvious solution!

Classic margarita

By all accounts, the classic margarita is the most frequently ordered cocktail in the world. The sweetness of triple sec, the acidity of fresh lime juice, paired with a good quality tequila. That is a classic margarita in its simplest and truest form.

1. Classic margarita recipe

Flavored margaritas (fruity margarita recipes)

With the bounty of fresh fruits (and the warmth of the sun) in the summer comes the most opportune time to make all the best summer margaritas! From watermelon to mango, rhubarb, strawberry, peach, kiwi fruit and many more, you will love these flavored margaritas made with fresh, juicy fruits.

2. Spicy margarita (with jalapeño)

3. Rhubarb margarita

4. Smoked margarita sour (with smoked tequila)

5. Mint kiwi margarita

6. Blood orange margarita

7. Pineapple margarita

8. Exotic tropical margarita

9. Strawberry margarita

10. Watermelon margarita

11. Hibiscus margarita

12. Blackberry margarita

13. Cucumber margarita

14. Peach margarita

15. Creamy coconut margarita

16. Passion fruit margarita

17. Lemon margarita

18. Tamarind margarita

19. Guava margarita

20. Pomegranate margarita

21. Prickly pear margarita

22. Pink grapefruit margarita

Frozen margaritas (blended margarita recipes)

While we are not going to settle the frozen vs on the rocks margarita debate here, it’s safe to say that sipping a frozen marg is an entirely different experience from drinking one that’s poured over ice. Frozen or blended margaritas are obviously ice cold throughout with tiny ice beads transforming the texture of the cocktail. While this also dilutes your margarita faster, on a particularly stifling summer day, there’s nothing that hits the spot quite like a frozen fruity margarita.