Champagne is the traditional drink to use for a New year’s Eve toast at midnight. But there is an entire night beforehand that is open to interpretation. There are no rules for the best New Year’s Eve cocktails you make; they just need to be delicious.
Sparkling Margarita | The Pioneer Woman
Salted Caramel Iced Coffee Cocktail | Pizzazzerie
Sparkling Cranberry Orange Champagne Punch | Boulder Locavore
Raspberry Champagne Fizz | The Daily Meal
Cinnamon Bourbon Old Fashioned | Half-Baked Harvest
New Year’s Eve Cocktails for a Crowd
The best New Year’s Eve cocktails can be made with champagne, but you don’t have to stick to just champagne. Hosting parties is not always easy, especially if it is a holiday party. We have to ensure there is enough of everything to go around. New Year’s throws a different wrench in the mix, cocktails.
Cocktails are expected during events like these. Use punch bowls, pitchers, and math to make sure you get the right amount of ingredients into every cocktail pitcher or punch bowl. You can also label each pitcher or bowl, so guests know what they’re getting.
French Pear Martini | Freutcake
Confetti Champagne | Delish
French Kiss Cocktail | Lexi’s Clean Kitchen
Cotton Candy Champagne Cocktails | Taste of Home
Silent Night Cocktail | She Keeps a Lovely Home
Smaller Parties
Not all New Year’s Eve parties have a crowd attending, and that’s perfectly fine. Holidays are best spent with the people you care about, and that would include just family and friends. That means you may have a smaller group of people which wouldn’t require pitchers of cocktails or punch bowls filled to the brims.
Instead, you can either select just a few cocktail recipes to have ready or pick more and just have the ingredients ready to make them.
Sparkling Pomegranate Cranberry Sangria | Justine Celina
Green Candy Cane Crush Peppermint Martini | A Magical Mess
Sparkling Gold Champagne Cocktails | Delicious Table
Blood Orange Champagne Sangria | Lemons & Zest
Champagne Sparkler | We’re the Joneses
Cocktails with Champagne
Champagne is best served fresh from an open bottle. That is because we don’t want the fizziness of the drink to fade away. That means you should not make these cocktails ahead of time. You could also prep the cocktails with everything but the champagne if there is champagne in the recipe.
Then, guests can top off their drinks with as much champagne as they want straight from the bottles.
Cinnamon Cranberry Bourbon Spritzers | Cooking and Beer
Strawberry Champagne Jello Shots | Tipsy Bartender
Classic French 75 Cocktail | Pinch and Swirl
Prosecco Kombucha Cocktail | Eating Well
Cranberry Ginger Fizz | Creative Culinary
Enjoy Responsibly
The most crucial ingredient for any of the best New Year’s Eve cocktails is responsibility. We are ending a year and saying hello to the next, but we should do it safely. There are plenty of ways to get home safely if you are going out and plenty of ways to ensure your guests leave safely if hosting.
You can have Uber and Lyft printed signs around the home or take guests’ keys if they drive themselves. Ultimately, we want everyone to have a great time and properly celebrate New Year’s Eve.
Champagne Punch | Cook the Story
Sparkling Apple Sidecar | Shared Appetite
Champagne Margaritas | The Kitchen is My Playground
Pink Lemontini with Champagne | Crazy for Crust
White Cranberry Holiday Sangria | Yes to Yolks
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