Sweet Tart Shot
Childhood candy nostalgia in shot form. Vodka meets raspberry liqueur and sour mix for a perfectly balanced sweet-and-sour punch. Warning: dangerously easy to drink.
- ¾ ozvodka
- ½ ozchambord(raspberry liqueur)
- ½ ozsour mix(or fresh lemon-lime juice)
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The Sweet Tart Shot recreates the flavor of Nestlé's SweeTarts candy, introduced in 1963 by Sunline Inc. (later sold to the Willy Wonka candy brand) as a smaller-format variation of the tangy Pixy Stix powder candy. SweeTarts deliver an intense citric acid sourness followed by sweetness, available in multiple fruit flavors including grape, cherry, watermelon, and blue punch. The shot version uses a combination of sour schnapps, citrus vodka, and fruit liqueur to recreate the candy's signature citric acid punch-before-sweetness sequence in liquid form. The Sweet Tart Shot belongs to the same candy-nostalgia cocktail category as the Sour Patch Shot and Pixy Stix Shot, appealing to millennial drinkers who found the adult translation of childhood candy both fun and surprisingly accurate.
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