Get inspired with Carreta de Oro and shake up what’s hot right now.
From citrus-charged spritzes to smoky, social-ready pours, these trending cocktails bring bold flavor and golden flair to every glass. Whether you're chasing likes or just that perfect sip, it's time to pour what’s popular, with a Carreta de Oro twist.
Gold Rush Margarita (NYE Edition)
Ingredients:
- • 2 oz Carreta de Oro Añejo Tequila
- • 1 oz fresh lime juice
- • ¾ oz honey syrup
- • Optional: gold sugar, for rimming
- • Large clear ice cube
- • Edible gold leaf, gently pressed onto the ice
- • Add the tequila, lime juice, and honey syrup to a shaker with ice.
- • Shake until well chilled.
- • Strain into a rocks glass over a large ice cube.
- • Add the eggnog and stir again until fully incorporated.
- • Carefully apply the edible gold leaf to the ice.
- • Sip and sparkle into the New Year!
Tequila Egg Nog Old Fashioned
Ingredients:
- • 2–3 oz Carreta de Oro Añejo Tequila
- • ¼–½ oz agave nectar (to taste)
- • 2–3 oz eggnog
- • Ice
- • Orange peel, for garnish
- • In a mixing glass, add the bitters and agave nectar.
- • Add ice and stir briefly to chill.
- • Add the eggnog and stir again until fully incorporated.
- • Strain or pour over fresh ice in a rocks glass.
- • Express an orange peel over the drink and garnish.
Mexican Hot Chocolate Old Fashioned
Ingredients:
- • 2 oz Carreta de Oro Añejo Tequila
- • ¼ oz Torani Toasted Marshmallow Syrup
- • ½ oz Maraska Zadar Nocelino Chocolate Liqueur
- • ½ dropper Bitter End Mexican Mole Bitters
- • Dark chocolate syrup, chocolate crunches, and cinnamon, for rimming the glass
- • Toasted marshmallow, for garnish
- • Rim a glass with dark chocolate syrup, chocolate crunches, and cinnamon.
- • Add the tequila, toasted marshmallow syrup, chocolate liqueur, and bitters to a mixing glass with ice.
- • Stir until chilled.
- • Strain into the rimmed glass filled with ice.
- • Garnish with a toasted marshmallow.
Christmas Margarita
Ingredients:
- • 2 oz Carreta de Oro Blanco Tequila
- • 1 oz cranberry juice
- • 1 oz fresh lime juice
- • ¾ oz triple sec (or any orange liqueur)
- • ½ oz simple syrup (optional; adjust to taste)
- • 1 small pinch red edible glitter (adds sparkle and deepens the color)
- • Sugar for the rim (plain or glitter sugar)
- • Cranberries and a rosemary sprig, for garnish
- • Rim your glass with lime and dip into sugar for a pretty snowy look.
- • Add tequila, cranberry juice, lime juice, triple sec, simple syrup, and red edible glitter to a shaker.
- • Add ice and shake well — the glitter will create a gorgeous shimmering red color.
- • Strain into your sugar-rimmed glass over fresh ice.
- • Garnish with cranberries and a rosemary sprig.
Boiled Peanut Margarita
Ingredients:
- • 2 oz Carreta de Oro Reposado Tequila
- • 1 oz lime juice
- • 1 oz boiled peanut brine
- • ½ oz triple sec, such as Cointreau
- • ½ oz simple syrup
- • Lime wheel and boiled peanut, for garnish
- • Add all ingredients to a shaker with ice and shake until well chilled.
- • Strain into a cocktail glass over fresh ice.
- • Garnish with a lime wheel and a boiled peanut.
Wicked Margaritas
Classic Margarita Base Ingredients (for 2 drinks):
- • 4 oz Carreta de Oro Blanco Tequila
- • 2 oz Cointreau or Triple Sec
- • 2 oz fresh lime juice
- • 1 oz simple syrup
- • Add all ingredients to a shaker with ice.
- • Shake well.
- • Divide the mix into two separate glasses or pour pitchers:
- • Add pink edible glitter to a glass and add half of the classic margarita mix
- • Stir well to mix
- • Take the other half of the classic margarita mix.
- • Add ½ oz Midori (lot a glass and add the other half of the classic margarita mix.
- • Stir well to mix
Cranberry Margarita
Ingredients:
- • 2 oz of Carreta de Oro Reposado Tequila
- • 3 oz of cranberry juice cocktail
- • ½ oz of orange liqueur
- • ¾ oz of fresh lime juice
- • Splash of agave syrup
- • Fresh cranberries, for garnish
- • Add tequila, cranberry juice cocktail, orange liqueur, lime juice, and agave syrup to a shaker. Shake well.
- • Rim a chilled glass with a mixture of brown sugar and sea salt.
- • Pour the cocktail into the prepared glass.
- • Garnish with fresh cranberries.
Pear & Sage Margarita
Ingredients(Makes: 6–7 cocktails):
- • 1½ cups Carreta de Oro Reposado Tequila
- • 1¼ - 1½ cups Ocean Spray Mulled Blackberry-Pear juice
- • ½ - ¾ cup fresh lime juice
- • ½ cup Grand Marnier
- • Little less than ½ cup Agave In The Raw
- • 3–4 sage leaves, lightly pressed
- • Fresh sage + pear slices, for garnish
- • Add the tequila, mulled blackberry–pear juice, fresh lime juice, and Grand Marnier to a large container.
- • Lightly press the sage leaves between your fingers to release their aroma, then add them to the mixture.
- • Shake well, pour into glasses, and garnish with a fresh sage leaf and thin pear slices.
Gingerbread Margarita
Ingredients:
- • 2 oz Carreta de Oro Reposado Tequila
- • 1 oz orange liqueur
- • 1 oz fresh lime juice
- • 1 oz gingerbread syrup (store-bought)
- • Crushed gingerbread cookies, for rimming the glass
- • Mini gingerbread cookie, for garnish
- • Rim your glass with gingerbread syrup, then dip it into the crushed gingerbread cookies.
- • Add the tequila, orange liqueur, lime juice, and gingerbread syrup to a shaker with ice.
- • Shake vigorously until well chilled.
- • Strain into your rimmed glass over fresh ice.
- • Garnish with a mini gingerbread cookie.
Hocus Pocus Margarita
Ingredients:
- • 2 oz Carreta De Oro Blanco Tequila
- • 1 oz fresh lime juice
- • 1 oz triple sec
- • ½ oz simple syrup
- • Pinch of edible glitter, teal or iridescent
- • Small piece of dry ice for smoky magic
- • In a shaker, add tequila, lime juice, triple sec, and simple syrup.
- • Add a pinch of edible glitter and shake with ice.
- • If you are unable to secure teal glitter then use blue curaçao for that gorgeous teal tone.
- • Strain into your glass.
- • Carefully drop a small piece of dry ice for a dramatic smoky swirl.
- (Wait until the dry ice fully dissolves before sipping.)
Morticia Addams Margarita
Ingredients:
- • 2 oz Carreta de Oro Reposado Tequila
- • 1 oz triple sec
- • 1 oz fresh lime juice
- • ½ oz agave syrup
- • ½ oz grenadine
- • ¼ tsp activated charcoal powder, food-grade
- • Red sugar for the rim
- • Small red rose, for garnish
- • Rim a coupe or margarita glass with lime juice, then dip in red sugar for a bold crimson edge.
- • In a cocktail shaker, add tequila, triple sec, lime juice, agave syrup, and activated charcoal. Add ice and shake well until chilled and smooth.
- • Strain into the prepared glass over fresh ice, or serve straight up.
- • Place a red rose on the side or on top for Morticia’s signature elegance.
Oaxacan Orchard
Ingredients:
- • 1 oz Carreta De Oro Blanco Tequila
- • 1 oz Arbitrario Espadín Soft Mezcal
- • 2 tbsp apple butter
- • 1 oz lime juice
- • ¾ oz caramel syrup
- • 2 dashes Angostura Bitters
- • Apple slice, for garnish
- • Add your ingredients to a shaker with ice and shake until chilled.
- • Strain into a rocks glass over ice.
- • Garnish with an apple slice.
Fall Aperol Margarita
Ingredients:
- • 1 ½ oz Carreta de Oro Reposado Tequila
- • ¾ oz Aperol
- • ½ oz maple syrup
- • ¾ oz lime juice
- • Cinnamon sugar, for rimming the glass
- • Dried orange wheel and cinnamon stick, for garnish
- • Add tequila, Aperol, maple syrup, and lime juice, to a shaker with ice.
- • Shake well until chilled.
- • Strain into a rocks glass with a cinnamon-sugar rim over fresh ice.
- • Garnish with a dried orange wheel + cinnamon stick.
Tequila Negroni Sour
Ingredients:
- • 1 oz Carreta de Oro Reposado or Añejo Tequila
- • 1 oz sweet vermouth
- • 1 oz Campari
- • 1 oz fresh lemon juice
- • ½ oz agave nectar or simple syrup
- • 1 egg white
- • Ice
- • Dehydrated orange wheel, for garnish
- • Add all ingredients to a shaker without ice.
- • Dry shake vigorously for 10–15 seconds to emulsify the egg white.
- • Add ice and shake again until well chilled.
- • Strain into a chilled coupe or rocks glass.
- • Garnish with a dehydrated orange wheel.
Tequila Expresso Martini
Ingredients:
- • 4 oz Carreta de Oro Reposado Tequila
- • 2 oz espresso
- • 2 oz Tia Maria Coffee Liqueur
- • A pinch of salt
- • Ice
- • Fill a shaker with ice.
- • Add the tequila, espresso, coffee liqueur, and a pinch of salt.
- • Shake well until thoroughly chilled.
- • Strain into a martini glass.
Pineapple Coconut Margarita
Ingredients:
- • 2 oz Carreta de Oro Blanco Tequila
- • 1 oz triple sec
- • 2 oz pineapple juice
- • 1 oz fresh lime juice
- • ½ oz cream of coconut
- • Shredded coconut, for rimming the glass
- • Pineapple wedge & leaves, for garnish
- • Rim your glass with cream of coconut, then dip into shredded coconut.
- • In a shaker, add tequila, triple sec, pineapple juice, lime juice, and cream of coconut.
- • Shake with ice until chilled.
- • Strain into the coconut-rimmed glass filled with ice.
- • Garnish with a pineapple wedge.
Blood Moon Margarita
Ingredients:
- • 2 oz Carreta de Oro Blanco Tequila
- • 1 oz lime juice
- • 1 oz triple sec
- • 1 oz cranberry juice, for that red hue
- • ½ oz agave syrup
- • Ice
- • Black Sugar, for rimming the glass
- • Lime wedge and a few cranberries, for garnish
- • Prepare the Glass: Rim a margarita glass with lime juice and dip it in black sugar to your liking.
- • Mix the Ingredients: In a cocktail shaker, combine tequila, lime juice, triple sec, cranberry juice, agave syrup, and ice.
- • Shake It Up: Shake well until the mixture is chilled.
- • Strain & Serve: Strain the mixture into your prepared glass filled with fresh ice.
- • Garnish with a lime wedge and a few cranberries on top for a festive touch.
Tequila Sunrise
Ingredients:
- • 2 oz Carreta de Oro Blanco Tequila
- • 4 oz orange juice
- • ½–1 oz grenadine (to taste)
- • Ice
- • Fill a highball or Collins glass with ice and set aside.
- • Add the tequila and orange juice to a shaker without ice.
- • Shake briefly to combine.
- • Pour into the prepared glass.
- • Slowly pour the grenadine down the inside of the glass, allowing it to sink and create the “sunrise” effect.
- • Do not stir.
Cafè Mexicana-Iced Irish Coffee
Ingredients:
- • ¼ oz Carreta de Oro Reposado Tequila
- • ¼ oz Coffee liqueur
- • 14½ oz Heavy cream
- • 1½ oz Vanilla simple syrup
- • Nutmeg, for garnish
- • Add tequila and coffee liqueur to a shaker with ice and shake until chilled.
- • Strain into a glass filled with ice.
- • Make a salted vanilla whipped cream: pour heavy cream and vanilla simple syrup into a whipped cream dispenser and charge.
- • Top the cocktail with whipped cream and grate nutmeg over the top.
Tequila Division Bell
Ingredients:
- • 1 oz Carreta de Oro Añejo Tequila
- • ¾ oz Aperol
- • ½ oz maraschino liqueur
- • ¾ oz lime juice
- • Cherry, for garnish
- • Add tequila, Aperol, maraschino liqueur, and lime juice into a shaker with ice.
- • Shake until well chilled.
- • Strain into a chilled coupe or Nick & Nora glass.
- • Garnish with a cherry.
Jalisco Sun
Ingredients:
- • 1 oz Carreta de Oro Blanco Tequila
- • 1 oz sweet vermouth
- • 1 oz Campari
- • Orange peel and sprig of thyme, for garnish
- • Add a large ice cube to a rocks glass. Pour the mixture over the ice and garnish with an orange peel and a sprig of thyme.
Spicy Dragon Margarita
Ingredients:
- • 2 oz Carreta de Oro Reposado Tequila
- • ¾ oz Ancho Reyes Rojo
- • 1 oz lime juice
- • ¾ oz agave nectar
- • 6 cubes frozen dragonfruit (Goya brand recommended)
- • Tajín and chamoy, for rimming the glass
- • Orange slice, for garnish
- • Rim a glass with Tajín and chamoy using a lime wedge.
- • In a shaker, combine tequila, Ancho Reyes Rojo, lime juice, agave nectar, and dragonfruit.
- • Add ice and shake well.
- • Pour into the prepared glass.
- • Garnish with an orange slice.
Electro Lit
Ingredients:
- • 1 ½ oz Carreta de Oro Blanco Tequila
- • ¾ oz passion fruit liqueur
- • 1 oz lime juice
- • 1 oz coconut water
- • ½ oz curry-turmeric cordial
- • 1 dash Angostura bitters
- • Dehydrated coconut flakes, for garnish
- • Add all ingredients to a shaker with ice and shake until well chilled.
- • Strain into a glass over ice.
- • Garnish with dehydrated coconut flakes.
Tangerine Fizz Margarita
Ingredients:
- • 2 oz Carreta de Oro Añjeo Tequila
- • 1 oz freshly squeezed tangerine juice
- • ¾ oz lime juice
- • ½ oz orange liqueur
- • ½ oz agave syrup
- • Orange soda, Jarritos recommended
- • Tajín, for rimming the glass
- • Tangerine wheel, for garnish
- • Rim your glass with Tajín using a lime wedge.
- • In a shaker, combine tequila, tangerine juice, lime juice, orange liqueur, and agave syrup.
- • Add ice and shake well.
- • Strain into a glass filled with fresh ice.
- • Top with orange soda to give it that fizzy lift.
- • Garnish with a tangerine wheel.
Kiwi Margarita
Ingredients:
- • 2 oz Carreta de Oro Blanco Tequila
- • 1 oz triple sec
- • 1 oz fresh lime juice
- • ½ oz agave syrup
- • ½ cup fresh kiwi, peeled and chopped
- • Lime salt, for rimming the glass
- • Kiwi slice, for garnish
- • Rim a margarita glass with lime salt.
- • Add kiwi and lime juice in a shaker and muddle until the kiwi is pulpy.
- • Add tequila, triple sec, agave syrup, and ice.
- • Shake well for 15–20 seconds.
- • Double strain into the prepared glass over fresh ice.
- • Add a kiwi slice for garnish.
Tequila Colada
Ingredients:
- • 2 oz Carreta de Oro Blanco Tequila
- • 1 oz pineapple juice
- • 1 oz coconut cream
- • ¾ oz lime juice
- • Toasted coconut flakes, for rimming the glass
- • Pineapple fronds, for garnish
- • Brush a small amount of agave syrup on the rim of your cocktail glass and rim with toasted coconut flakes then set aside.
- • Add your ingredients to a shaker with ice and shake until well chilled.
- • Strain into your prepped glass over fresh ice and garnish with pineapple fronds.
Tropical Tequila Sunset
Ingredients:
- • ½ oz grenadine
- • 1 oz cream of coconut
- • 2 oz Carreta de Oro Tequila, Blanco recommended
- • ½ oz triple sec
- • 1 oz lime juice
- • ½ oz blue curaçao
- • In a shaker, combine the cream of coconut, tequila, triple sec and lime juice with ice. Shake well.
- • Rim the glass with blue sugar.
- • Pour the grenadine into the bottom of a margarita glass. And fill the glass with crushed ice.
- • Slowly pour the mixture on top of the grenadine layer.
- • Gently float the blue curaçao on top of the white layer.
Old Fashioned
Ingredients:
- • 2 oz Carreta de Oro Añejo Tequila
- • ¾ oz Demerara syrup
- • 3–5 dashes Bennett Exorcism Bitters
- • Orange peel, for zest and garnish
- • Cherry, for garnish
- • Stir until well chilled.
- • Strain into a glass over fresh ice.
- • Express the orange peel over the surface to release the oils.
- • Garnish with the orange peel and a cherry.
Watermelon Margarita Popsicles
Ingredients (8-10 popsicles):
- • 5 cups cubed seedless watermelon, about 1/2 of a large watermelon
- • ½ cup Carreta de Oro Blanco Tequila
- • ¼ cup lime juice, the juice of about 2 limes
- • ¼ cup agave nectar
- • 3 limes
- • 5 large mint leaves
- • 3 ounce cups and popsicle sticks
- • Once you blend all ingredients together, pour the mixture into 3 oz paper cups and place a popsicle stick with a lime on top.
- • Let the popsicles freeze overnight.
Pickle Margarita
Ingredients:
- • 1½ oz Carreta de Oro Reposado Tequila
- • 1 oz Grand Marnier
- • 1½ oz pickle juice
- • ¾ oz freshly squeezed lime juice
- • Agave syrup, to taste
- • Dill pickle, pepper, lime wheel and Tajín for garnish
- • Add tequila, Grand Marnier, pickle juice, lime juice, and agave syrup to a shaker filled with ice.
- • Shake well until chilled.
- • Strain into a glass over fresh ice.
- • Garnish with a dill pickle, pepper, lime wheel and pinch of Tajín.
Basil Strawberry Margaritas (Batch)
Ingredients:
- • 10-12 strawberries
- • 6-8 basil leaves
- • ½ cup of agave, muddle all 3 ingredients together
- • 3 cups of Carreta de Oro Blanco Tequila
- • 2 cups of triple sec
- • 1 cup of lime juice
- • Twisted lime and/or strawberries, for garnish
- • Muddle 10–12 strawberries, 10 basil leaves, and ½ cup agave.
- • Add the mixture to a pitcher, then pour in 3 cups tequila, 2 cups triple sec, and 1 cup lime juice.
- • Stir the ingredients well, then add ice to the pitcher.
Jalapeño Watermelon Margarita
Ingredients:
- • 2 oz Carreta de Oro Blanco Tequila
- • ¾ oz orange liqueur
- • 1 ½ oz watermelon juice
- • ½ oz lime juice
- • ½ oz agave, optional
- • Honey and Tajín, for rimming the glass
- • Jalapeño slices, for garnish
- • Rim your glass with honey and Tajín and then add 2-3 jalapeño slices to your glass!
- • If you don’t like a little spice in your drinks, omit the jalapeños and replace the Tajín rim with sugar or salt!
Margarita
Ingredients:
- • 1½ oz Carreta de Oro Blanco Tequila
- • 1 oz Grand Marnier or Triple Sec
- • ¾ oz freshly squeezed lime juice
- • Agave syrup, to taste
- • Lime wheel, for garnish
- • Shake well until chilled.
- • Strain into a salt-rimmed glass over fresh ice.
- • Garnish with a lime wheel.
Siesta
Ingredients:
- • 2 oz Carreta de Oro Blanco Tequila
- • ½ oz grapefruit juice
- • ¾ oz lime juice
- • ¾ oz simple syrup
- • ¼ oz Campari
- • Lime wheel, for garnish
- • Double strain into a chilled cocktail glass.
- • Garnish with a lime wheel or a citrus twist.
Cadillac Margarita
Ingredients (2 Margaritas):
- • 4 oz Carreta de Oro Añejo Tequila
- • 2 oz of Cointreau
- • 1 oz of Grand Marnier
- • 2 oz of fresh lime juice
- • Honey and sparkling sugar sprinkles, for rimming the glass
- • Lime slices, for garnish
- • Rim the front of the glass with honey and sparkling sugar sprinkles to jazz up the glass.
- • Top the glasses with a round lime slice.
Strawberry-Balsamic Frozen Margarita
Ingredients:
- • 2 ¼ oz Carreta de Oro Blanco Tequila
- • ¾ oz agave nectar
- • 1 ½ oz simple syrup
- • 3 ½ oz fresh lime juice
- • 2 oz strawberry-balsamic purée
- • 4 oz crushed ice
- • Fresh strawberry, for garnish
- • Add the tequila, agave nectar, simple syrup, lime juice, strawberry-balsamic purée, and crushed ice to a blender or cocktail mixer.
- • Blend until smooth and well combined.
- • Pour into a chilled glass and garnish with a fresh strawberry.
Dragonfruit Coconut Margarita
Ingredients:
- • 1 ½ oz Carreta de Oro Añejo Tequila
- • 6 frozen dragonfruit cubes
- • 1 oz fresh lime juice
- • ½ oz orange liqueur
- • ¾ oz pineapple juice
- • ¼ oz agave syrup
- • ½ oz coconut cream
- • Lime wheel or wedge, for garnish
- • Salt and shredded coconut, for the rim
- • Add the frozen dragonfruit cubes to a shaker and muddle thoroughly.
- • Add tequila, lime juice, orange liqueur, pineapple juice, agave syrup, and coconut cream.
- • Fill the shaker with ice and shake well until chilled and fully combined.
- • Strain into a chilled glass rimmed with salt and shredded coconut.
- • Garnish with a lime wheel or wedge.
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