I’ve been addicted to Diet Snapple for a  few years now. I only drink it out of the glass container though. The plastic containers from Costco just don’t do it for me. I’m not sure what that’s about. My current Snapple flavor of choice is Diet Cranberry Raspberry juice. It is sweet and lacks the diet aftertaste that many other diet drinks have. It’s not always available, so when I see it, I buy out the store.

After surrounding myself with fifteen batches of sugar cookie dough last week, my never-ending quest for diet cocktails continues. It occurred to me the other day that Snapple would serve as a great base for a martini.

The key to creating diet cocktails is finding a base that has low or no calories and keeping the ingredients to just a few. Mixed drinks with many different mixers can bring the calories up to a staggering amount. For 1.5 ounces of hard liquor, there is approximately 90-100 calories. This Diet Snappletini is less than 75 calories, and you’ll never guess it was diet. If you decide to shake this one up, and then pour it back into the Snapple container to take to the pool, I promise I won’t tell anyone!

printable recipe

Diet Cranberry Raspberry Snapple-tini

5 ounces Diet Cranberry Raspberry Snapple

1.0 ounce Raspberry Vodka

Pour ingredients in a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake vigorously and pour into a martini glass. Garnish with free raspberries or a slice of lime.

Cheers to a refreshing week! Stay cool everyone!