New Year's Cocktails

Pomegranate-Champagne Punch
Via Bon Appetit

Another year is almost over!  How do you plan on ringing in the New Year?  Whether it's a quiet night at home or you are hosting a big bash, we have found some great cocktails to toast with. And don't forget to get some sparkling grape juice for the kids!  Cheers!

Pomegranate-Champagne Punch
Servings: 12

Ingredients:
1/2 cup water
1/2 cup sugar
2 750-ml bottles chilled brut Champagne
1 1/2 cups white rum
1 1/4 cups pomegranate juice
1 large lemon, thinly sliced
Pomegranate seeds
Fresh mint leaves
1 ice block

Preparation:
Bring 1/2 cup water and sugar to boil in small saucepan, stirring until sugar dissolves. Simmer 5 minutes. Cool syrup completely.

Combine Champagne, rum, and pomegranate juice in punch bowl. Add enough syrup to sweeten to taste. Mix in lemon slices, pomegranate seeds, and mint leaves. Add ice block to bowl.

Ginger & Prosecco Cocktail
Via Style Me Pretty

Ginger & Prosecco Cocktail

Ingredients:
Prosecco or Champagne - chilled
Ginger Beer- chilled
white cotton candy
edible gold star sprinkles- available at Michael's or cake supply stores
ground ginger
sanding sugar

Instructions:
In a small dish mix 3 Tbs sanding sugar with 1 tsp ground ginger and set aside.
To rim champagne flutes, dip in ginger beer and then in the ginger-sugar mixture.
Fill champagne flutes 1/3 of the way full with ginger beer and then slowly top with Prosecco.

Garnish with a small puff of cotton candy. Sprinkle with more ground ginger and a pinch of edible gold star sprinkles. Enjoy!


 

Champagne Margaritas
Via the Kitchen is My Playground

Champagne Margaritas

Ingredients
For 2 Margaritas:
4 T. sweetened lime juice
2 oz. white tequila
2 oz. Triple Sec
1 T. fresh squeezed lime juice
6 oz. champagne/sparkling wine

For Sugared Rims & Garnish:
About 1 T. turbinado sugar (sugar in the raw)
About 1 T. granulated sugar
Lime wedges

Instructions:
For sugared rims: Combine turbinado and granulated sugar in a shallow dish. Wet the rim of each glass, all the way around, with a lime wedge. Dip each rim into the sugar to coat. Set aside.

For Margaritas: Fill a cocktail shaker with ice. Add the Rose's Sweetened Lime Juice, tequila, Triple Sec, fresh lime juice, and champagne. Gently shake two or three times.
Strain into the prepared glasses and garnish each with a lime wedge.
Enjoy!


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