On New Year's Eve, we advise you not only to drink, but also to feel the holiday spirit. We suggest drinking not champagne, but cocktails with it. We found some proven cool recipes, but we warn you: each of them can get you so drunk that no portions of Tom Yum will save you from a hangover.
Mimosa
Ingredients per serving:
- 90 ml of orange juice
- 90 ml of champagne
- 1 orange
How to make the cocktail:
- Squeeze out a sufficient amount of orange juice, preferably with your hands – this way, more oils from the peel will get into it, which largely determines the drink's taste.
- Pour the juice into a chilled glass, add champagne, and stir.
- Cut off the "leaf" of the orange peel, squeeze it over the glass and throw it into it.
How to Make Cocktails at Home: 4 Simple Recipes
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Martini Royale
Ingredients per serving:
- 75 ml of champagne
- 75 ml of sweet white vermouth
- Lime and its zest
- Mint leaves
- Ice
How to make the cocktail:
- Squeeze the juice of half a lime into a large wine glass, pour in the vermouth.
- Put 5–7 ice cubes in a glass, pour in champagne.
- Stir the cocktail with a bar spoon, toss a slice of lime zest and mint into the glass.
French 75
Ingredients per serving:
- 30 ml of gin
- 7 ml of lemon juice
- 4 ml of sugar syrup
- 150 ml champagne
How to make the cocktail:
- Sugar syrup is sugar dissolved in water. For the first time, it is better to choose a 1:1 ratio, however, it is better to prepare a semi-finished product and pour sugar in cold water in a bottle today. It will definitely dissolve by the end of December.
- Pour gin, syrup, lemon juice into a shaker, add 2-3 ice cubes and stir well.
- Strain into a tall glass, add champagne to it.
Tangerine Punch
Ingredients per serving:
- 700 ml of tangerine juice
- 470 ml of pomegranate juice
- 350 fresh or frozen cranberries
- Bunch of mint
- 150 ml of champagne
- 20 toothpicks
- A lot of ice
How to make the cocktail:
- String three cranberries on toothpicks, alternating with mint leaves, and put them in the freezer for at least an hour.
- Cranberry juice itself is very sour, so what comes out of the remaining berries must be filtered and then mixed with water and possibly sugar. The drink needs to be tasted, but the 1:2 ratio seems universal to us.
- In a large transparent container (at least 5 liters in volume), mix all the juices, fill it with ice and stir gently, then add all the champagne.
- Place a toothpick with berries on each glass and pour a portion of the punch.
