The French Martini is a sweet and soft raspberry cocktail with a silky foamy top. A sweet blend of vodka, Chambord, and pineapple juice.
Visually stunning and is just as good as it looks. This French Martini Recipe is sweet, smooth and sexy! It is the best raspberry cocktail.
Disclosure: Glassware was gifted from JoyJolt
This French Martini is my new favorite. Smooth, sweet, and silky. How can you not fall in love with this French Martini! With only a few easy to find ingredients, you will be shaking up this cocktail like a pro.
Chambord is a raspberry liqueur used to make raspberry-flavored cocktails just like this French Martini.
French Martini Ingredients
- Grey Goose
- Chambord
- Pineapple Juice
- Raspberry for garnish
How to Make a French Martini
In a cocktail shaker add ice and French Martini ingredients. Shake it vigorously! Shake it really hard, this creates that silky foam layer on top.
Next strain the cocktail into a martini glass. Take your time and allow the foam to pour out. Be patient to get the last bit of foam out of the shaker. Let the cocktail rest for about 30 seconds to allow the foam layer to form.
Gently place a raspberry hallow opening side up on top of the foam. The raspberry will float and stay in place as long as no liquid gets into the top opening of the raspberry. Or garnish with a garnish pick with raspberries and lay across the top of the French Martini.
Recipe Tips
The biggest thing about this French Martini Recipe is the silky foam layer. You will really want to shake the cocktail shaker to achieve a nice thick foam layer. The pineapple juice is the ingredient that creates that layer.
What makes the French Martini French?
The ingredients are what give this sweet martini its name. Grey Goose and Chambord are products of France.
Recipe Variations
As you read above it is the French Ingredients that make this cocktail “French”.
You can use your favorite vodka brand to make this recipe.
How to get that silky foamy top.
Do you want to know how to make a French Martini frothy?
The pineapple juice is what creates the foam when shook vigorously in a cocktail shaker. Once you have added all the cocktail ingredients and ice in a shaker you will shake until your arms hurt or your hands’ freeze. The shaker will get frosty then will start to freeze. It will be too cold to handle. No pain. No gain! Trust me it is worth it!
All that shaking creates an ice-cold cocktail with a thick silky foam top.
Slowly strain the cocktail into a martini glass. The foam will slowly come out. Just be patient. Give the shaker a few deliberate downward shakes over the cocktail to get the remaining foam moving.
Let the cocktail rest for 30 seconds. This allows the foam to form at the top of the glass. Then gently garnish with a raspberry.
Let’s talk about these Stunning Martini Glasses
JoyJolt’s glassware is nothing short of sexy. I already had their Hue Shot Glasses that I use all the time at parties because of their fun colors. I entertain A LOT at home and when I saw the CARRE Collection I had to have them. They are showstoppers. Absolutely stunning. If you entertain in the home you need these glasses.
More Martini Recipes
You can see by my Perfect Cosmopolitan, Blue Lagoon, and Orange Martini that I love Martinis.
Also, try my French Gimlet.
French Martini Recipe
French Martini
Smooth and Silky French Martini
Ingredients
- 1 oz Grey Goose Vodka
- 1 oz Chambord
- 2 oz pineapple juice
- raspberry garnish
Instructions
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In a cocktail shaker add ice and cocktail ingredients.
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Shake vigorously
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Strain into a Martini glass. Take your time to and allow foam to rest on top. Let the cocktail rest for 30 seconds. This allows the foam to form.
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Gently place a raspberry hallow opening side up on top the foam. It will float and stay in place as long as no liquid gets into the opening of the raspberry.
Recipe Notes
Here is where to buy these stunning CARRE Collection Martini Glasses.
Looks wonderful ~~~ but could I ask you where you got
that glass? Thanks!
Yeah you can get them on JoyJolt.com or on Amazon.com. I have a link in the blog post to the glasses.
Delish drink! Great glasses! Just put in an order for them! Can’t wait to try some of the other drink recipes! Thanks!
Thank you Lisa. Merry Christmas!
Just saw your beautiful martini! Ordered the gorgeous glasses! Thanks can’t wait to drink one out of them.
This is my favorite cocktail—I use Citron vodka for an added punch.
I’ve been drinking these for years… You should try it with vanilla vodka.
I’m definitely trying this martini! Looks and sounds delicious. Thank you for the recipe
French Martinis are very tasty and too bad that most bartenders have no clue how to make them lol. Just a note- French martini is a blackberry drink not raspberry. Chambord is a blackberry liquor.
The Chambord bottle says Black Raspberry Liqueur. Black raspberries are not the same as blackberries.
I am very familiar with this cocktail. Just not that amazing foam. Fantastic. One question though. Try as I might I cannot get this drink to look very pink. The pineapple seems to rule the color palette. Any tips, advice on this problem?
During this time of self-quarantine, I needed a recipe for my new found favorite cocktail. Because I like Stoli raspberry, I used that in place of the regular vodka. I also added 1/2 is Triple Sec. It was luscious!
I’ve t r indeed lots of Martini’s I’ll definitely try this one and as for the Martini Glasses I also have them, as well as Shot Glasses, Whiskey Decanters. I absolutely love Joy Jolt Products