Cherry Smash

Total Time: 10 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 1 cup pitted fresh cherries (may use frozen cherries but they need to be thawed)
• 1/4 cup fresh mint leaves, plus 4 sprigs for garnish
• 8 teaspoons sugar
• 6 ounces dark rum
• 1/4 cup lime juice
• 3 cups seltzer water (lime or cherry flavors would be great)

Recipe

• 1 divide cherries, mint leaves and sugar among 4 glasses.
• 2 mash everything together with the back of a wooden spoon.
• 3 stir in rum and lime juice.
• 4 fill glasses with ice and top with seltzer.
• 5 garnish with mint sprigs.