Easy Cocktail Recipes

As unusual mix for a party, ideal to dilute as much as you wish.

The pear and apple flavors give a deep fruitiness to the final cocktail, so you could equally well use a sparkling white wine as the base.

Champagne always gives you a lift and this one, with its added ingredients, is the perfect anytime booster.

As with all juleps, the mint needs crushing or mudding first to help release its flavor into the sugar and water. Simply chopping it won’t produce enough flavors.

If you don’t have any champagne available, then look for a good sparkling white wine, or even a sparkling red, to use in this cocktail.

Do use a dry champagne, or even a good sparkling wine, for cocktails where you add sweet ingredients and especially if you want to sugar the rim of the glass for extra sparkle.

Champagne cocktails tend to be better and better the more you drink.

A romantic era produced some delightful music and this elegant drink brinks that mood bang up to date.

This bright and cheerful cocktail is easy to prepare for lots of guests and you certainly don’t need to wait for Christmas to enjoy it.

For a very special occasion like a golden wedding anniversary, you could float tiny pieces of edible gold leaf on the top of each glass.