Spiked Arnold Palmers

  • Level: Easy
  • Yield: 6 drinks
  • Total: 1 hr 45 min (includes freezing and cooling)
  • Active: 30 min
The classic lemonade–iced tea combo was named after golfer Arnold Palmer in the 1960s — it was his go-to drink. Our version has a secret ingredient: vodka!
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Ingredients

8 orange pekoe tea bags

1 cup sugar

1 cup fresh lemon juice (from 6 to 8 lemons), plus lemon slices for garnish

1 1/2 cups vodka

Fresh mint, for garnish

Directions

  1. Put the tea bags in a large heatproof pitcher and pour in 5 cups boiling water. Let steep about 10 minutes. Discard the tea bags.
  2. Pour half of the tea into ice cube trays and freeze until firm, 3 hours. Refrigerate the rest. 
  3. Make a simple syrup: Heat 1 cup water and the sugar in a saucepan over medium heat, stirring, until the sugar dissolves. Let cool.
  4. Stir 1 cup of the simple syrup, the lemon juice, 5 cups cold water and the vodka into the pitcher of chilled tea. Add the tea ice cubes.
  5. Pour the drink into glasses. Garnish with lemon slices and mint.

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opolla

This is an easy and delicious drink recipe. I highly recommend it. My only suggestion is you might want to use simple syrup instead of just sugar.

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