Palm Springs Recipe

About the Palm Springs

Palm Springs doesn't have the documented lineage of a Trader Vic original or an IBA-championship winner — it reads as a more recent addition to the tropical-cocktail family, built in the same spirit as classics like the Mai Tai and Bahama Mama but without a single credited inventor or founding decade attached. What it does have is a clear identity: unlike most tiki drinks, which lean on rum by default, this one runs on vodka, letting the pineapple and cranberry juices carry the tropical character instead of the spirit itself. That makes it a genuinely easy entry point into the wider tiki category for someone who doesn't yet own rum, orgeat, or falernum — just vodka and two juices most people already have. Sometimes the best origin story a cocktail has is that it simply works, and enough people kept making it that it stuck.

Method

1. Fill a highball with ice.
2. Measure and pour the fresh lime juice, cranberry juice and vodka into the glass.
3. Top with pineapple juice.
4. Stir for 5 seconds.
5. Garnish with a cherry.