Stanley Tucci taught his fans how to make a “Christmas Cosmo” cocktail with the help of John Krasinski and Emily Blunt

• Stanley Tucci has delighted his fans with his mixology tutorials on Instagram throughout 2020.

• The actor is back with another drink recipe – this time for a “Christmas Cosmo,” which includes many of the traditional Cosmopolitan ingredients, plus pomegranate and festive garnishes.

• Tucci's latest tutorial also featured a cameo appearance from his sister-in-law, actress Emily Blunt, and her husband John Krasinski, who were shown eating garnishes that the cocktail connoisseur planned to use in the drink.

• The end product was a cranberry-colored drink with a festive sugar rim.

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Stanley Tucci has once again proven his (unofficial) title as Celebrity Mixology Master of the Year 2020.

This year, the “Julie & Julia” actor and cookbook author has become something of a quarantine hero, showing off his cocktail knowledge on Instagram in the form of beautifully produced home videos, often accompanied by instrumental music.

His cocktail-making skills became known in April after he taught fans his version of a Negroni. Since then, he's also offered his own take on other classic drinks, such as the Old Fashioned and the Margarita.

Shortly before Christmas, Tucci published instructions for a “Christmas Cosmo,” as he called it – a variation of the vodka-cranberry drink.

To begin, Tucci crushed three tablespoons of pomegranate seeds with a wooden tool in a cocktail shaker.

Then he added 25 milliliters (about half a standard shot in the US) of Cointreau or orange liqueur, cranberry juice or pomegranate juice, and 50 milliliters (about one and a half shots in the US) of vodka.

Tucci added a handful of ice to the shaker and mixed the drinks, then gave his cocktail glass a festive edge by lining the top with water and dipping it into a plate of sugar. For garnish, Tucci added a sprig of rosemary, a mint leaf and a raspberry on a toothpick.

Before taking a sip, the actor said he wanted to put the finishing touches to the drink.

“Wait, I have these helpers here who have been working on the sets for a while,” Tucci said to his wife Felicity Blunt, who was behind the camera.

The camera panned to show Emily Blunt (Tucci's sister-in-law and former co-star in The Devil Wears Prada) and her husband John Krasinski, who was jokingly eating the seeds of a pomegranate – which were apparently intended as a final decoration for the drink.

“Garnish?” Krasinski asked Tucci.

“I told him it was supposed to be the garnish,” said Emily Blunt. “Well, it would have looked good in the cocktail.”

At the end, Tucci and his family toasted with their cranberry-colored drinks and the actor and mixology expert urged his fans to “take care of yourselves and enjoy the evening.”

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