Make a batch: The perfect holiday cocktail is easy to assemble in crowd-pleasing quantities, attractive and goes down smooth. This poinsettia cocktail from Valerie Peterson’s entertainingly irreverent “Peterson’s Holiday Helper” is the perfect fit.
POINSETTIA COCKTAIL
3/4cup cranberry juice
3ounces simple syrup (see note)
6ounces orange liqueur, such as Cointreau
1750-milliliter bottle Champagne, chilled
18fresh cranberries
In a cocktail shaker with ice, combine the cranberry juice, simple syrup and orange liqueur. Shake well (until the shaker is covered with condensation). Strain the mixture, dividing it between 6 Champagne flutes.
Add the Champagne, dividing it between the glasses. Garnish each drink with 3 cranberries skewered on a cocktail pick.
Note: To make simple syrup, simmer 1 1/2 cups sugar and 1 cup of water until the sugar is dissolved, then cool.
Makes 6 servings.
From Valerie Peterson’s “Peterson’s Holiday Helper”
Associated Press
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