December 21, 2019, by Maartje

THUD! These are our favorite champagne cocktails

Cocktails, Eat & Drink
December 21, 2019, by Maartje

THUD! These are our favorite champagne cocktails

It's the time of the year again! Time for champagne all around. And although we would rather say that you shouldn't mess with a good champagne, sometimes - for a change - it's nice to play a little with your bubbles. Our favorite (and therefore easy to make) champagne cocktails! Pregnant? Or (for a while) in a 'dry' season? Or just not into alcohol? These bubbles are the best we ever tasted: Vinada

The Classics

The Classics

Champagne Cocktail

ingredients: 1 sugar cube / 2-3 dashes Angostura bitters / brut champagne

Place a sugar cube in a chilled champagne flute, whisk it with 2 or 3 dashes of bitters, fill the glass with brut champagne and squeeze a little of a lemon peel over it

Bellini

Ingredients: 2 parts Prosecco / 1 part fresh white peach puree

Pour Prosecco into a champagne glass. Top with peach puree. Finished.

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Fig Champagne

ingredients: figs / Champagne or prosecco

Cut the figs into wedges and place 2 to 3 wedges in a champagne glass. Top with bubbles!

Mimosa

Ingredients: 2 oz. orange juice / 4 Oz. brut champagne

Fill a champagne flute 1/3 full with freshly squeezed orange juice. Top up with champagne.

Grand royal

ingredients: 3/4 parts Grand Marnier / 4 parts champagne

Add Grand Marnier to a champagne flute and then pour over champagne. Garnish with an orange twist.

With a bite

With a bite

Ernest Hemingway's Death

Ingredients: 1 1/2 oz. absinthe / 4 Oz. brut champagne

Pour absinthe into a champagne flute and add ice-cold brut champagne until it becomes cloudy.

Champagne Punch

ingredients: brut champagne / 1 1/2 oz. brandy / 1 1/2 oz. Cointreau / 1 bottle of soda water / 1 rind of an orange / pineapple slices / orange slices / mint / strawberries

Place all ingredients and a mountain of ice in a glass bowl. Decorate with sliced ​​fresh pineapple, orange and plenty of fresh mint. Crushed fresh strawberries add some extra flavor.

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