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    Homemade Low Carb Lime Vodka Coolers

    Apr 28, 2017 · 4 Comments

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    Hold the phone! Looking for low carb vodka drinks? After making this homemade vodka drink, I decided it would be my "Summer Cocktail" Homemade Low Carb Lime Vodka Coolers are easy to make and taste delicious, plus you know what the ingredients are!

    Homemade Low Carb Vodka Lime Coolers with half the calories of a traditional cooler plus

    If you are watching your carbs or sugar, make your own cooler vodka cocktails. YOU control the sugar, the calories and the carbs

    Make these Homemade Lime Vodka Coolers as sweet or as light as you want. Think about it, store-bought coolers have 37-48 grams of carbs in them, plus some sort of preservatives, like sodium.  By making them yourself and tinkering you come up with keto vodka drinks. Low carb plus you know exactly what you put into it. You can enjoy with less guilt! And they are a little more sustainable in my opinion.

    These Homemade Low Carb Vodka Lime Coolers are delicious, refreshing and easy to make.

    Tips for the Best Low Carb Vodka Drink

    • The key to this delicious-tasting refreshing low carb vodka cocktail are fresh limes and good vodka. To get the most from your limes, "supreme" your limes. Which means cut the skin off (and the pith) and pop out each lime segment. Check out this video on how to supreme limes. You'll be a professional chef in no time! It's easy!  
    • OR simply use your hand held citrus juice and squeeze the heck out of them that way. Either works.
    • If you don't want pulp in your vodka cocktail, do not muddle the lime segments. Instead just squeeze juice from lime halves.
    How to Supreme a lime

    After the skin and pith are off, simply pop out the segments, yum!! Plop 2 or 3 segments into each glass you will be using and muddle them (with a muddler or wooden spoon), you want them broken down into a pulp.

    Squeeze any excess juice from what is left of your lime/limes, get every drop...even from the skins, and set aside a mason jar full of lime juice...So you can make LOTS of these coolers!

    Vodka Cooler Ingredients

    You are going to be blown away by how few ingredients it takes to make these coolers and HOW QUICK you can make them! Most of the ingredients are probably on hand at your house right now so whip one of these delicious low carb alcohol coolers up and enjoy!  

    • Water
    • Sugar
    • Limes
    • Vodka
    • Seltzer
    • Ice

    How are these vodka coolers low carb you ask?

    • Well, there are 774 calories and 200 carbs in a cup of white sugar.
    • There are zero calories and carbs in a cup of water.
    • When you make your simple syrup, the yield should be 22 TBS...SO each TBS of syrup you add to your cooler has just 36 calories and 9 carbs. The lime, the ice, and the seltzer...zero.
    • Even if you use 2 TBS in your cooler, you are looking at 18 carbs vs the typical store-bought cooler which has 38-48 carbs. Learn more about the nutritional values in vodka. 
    Homemade Simple Syrup

    Not too shabby! So even if you are looking for ways to reduce your carbs or sugar a bit, try these! Check out my Homemade Fresh Lime Soda. You control the carbs and calories.

    I almost always have plain or flavored homemade simple syrup in my fridge. It makes the best lemonade! Plus I add it to a variety of homemade cocktails.

    Homemade low carb vodka drink

    I hope you try out my scrumptious Homemade Low Carb Lime Vodka Coolers and let me know how much you enjoyed them!

    Other Favorite Vodka Cocktail Recipes

    I have a lot of cocktails on the website. You can see a bunch of them by going to this cocktail recipe selection. But below are some of my favorites made with vodka!

    • Watermelon & Lime Vodka Cocktail - If you are big watermelon fan like I am, you need to try this one! 
    • Blood Orange Rosemary Vodka Cocktail - This is a quick drink to make that's packed with flavor!.
    • Chocolate Martini - The creamiest! A dream!!

    Cheers!

    Since I am not a Registered Dietitian or Nutritionist, I use a WordPress plug-in to calculate the nutritional information provided in the recipe card. Recipe originally published April 2017. Updated January, 2023.

    Low Carb Vodka Lime Cooler

    Homemade Low Carb Lime Vodka Coolers

    Colleen Kennedy
    Refreshing easy low carb lime vodka drink recipe with simple ingredients.
    3 from 2 votes
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    Course Cocktail
    Cuisine American
    Servings 8 servings
    Calories 96 kcal

    Ingredients
      

    • 1 cup water
    • 1 cup sugar
    • Limes
    • Vodka
    • Seltzer
    • Ice
    • To assemble 1 drink I use 1 TBS Lime juice plus the pulp 3 oz vodka, 1 ½ TBS -2 TBS of simple syrup. However make it the way you will enjoy it.

    Instructions
     

    • Make your simple syrup by combining 1 cup water with 1 cup sugar. Heat the mixture just until all sugar is melted (no granules remain) and liquid is cloudy-clear, Doing let it boil (you will lose some via evaporation and allow the mixture to contain more sugar).
    • Allow mixture to cool to room temp, then store in fridge is a sealed jar for up to 3 weeks. This should yield between 1 ½ cups and 1 ¾ cups...so 22 TBS worth.
    • When ready to assemble coolers, first you want to supreme the limes. Like I described above. Once you have your limes cut into segments, place 2-3 segments in each glass and muddle them (with a muddler or wooden spoon). Get them all broken down, so you have pulp floating around your cocktail, yum!
    • Fill the glass with as much ice as you like, then vodka, then 1 ½-3 TBS simple syrup (depends on the size glass you use and your preference for sweet).
    • Top with seltzer, garnish with a lime slice and maybe a few thin shards of lime skin in the glass and enjoy!!

    Notes

    Calories calculated by full recipe broken into 8 servings.

    Nutrition

    Serving: 8servingsCalories: 96kcalCarbohydrates: 25gFat: 0.1gSodium: 2mgPotassium: 1mgSugar: 25gCalcium: 1mgIron: 0.01mg
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    1. Brandy | Nutmeg Nanny says

      April 28, 2017 at 7:56 pm

      Anything Low cCarb and I'm on board! Looks and sounds delicious!

      Reply
    2. Kimberly Bixler says

      July 02, 2018 at 6:29 pm

      1 star
      1 cup sugar?? NOT low carb

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      • Colleen says

        July 17, 2018 at 2:04 pm

        Well, my thought was I am only using a little with each cocktail. That syrup lasts me quite a while. If you look at carbs per serving vs what a store-bought coolers carbs per serving are it's much lower, hence low carb.

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    3. cmtwings says

      June 18, 2019 at 12:09 am

      5 stars
      Easy, simple, delicious! Adjust the seltzer (or in my case sparkling water from my soda stream) and enjoy all summer afternoon.

      Reply

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