Lime juice, sugar, rosemary, cranberry, and prosecco come together to make a remarkably easy and wonderfully memorable holiday cocktail, guaranteed to bring smiles!
Hey, friends, so which camp are you in? Are you not quite ready to let go of the holiday festivities yet? Or are you so done with sparkly clutter that you can’t wait to get back to a clean slate for a little while?
I’m split between both. I love the color and cheer of the holiday season, but at the same time, I get overwhelmed really quickly with clutter. I feel like I’m constantly in a struggle to keep our stuff from overwhelming us, and that’s only exacerbated by the holiday season, where the goal seems to be to cram as much stuff, glittery shiny glowing cheerful stuff, into your life as possible.
I’m a fan of starting to celebrate the holidays early but by the time they’re over, I’m done with them. Except for a few little ways of making merry – like these cranberry mimosas!
These might look a little Christmas festive, but they can be used to decorate your bar or table throughout the fall and winter. I serve them all the time at Thanksgiving – because cranberries! And I enjoy serving them up at brunch and dinner after the new year just to provide a little bit of cheer.
This recipe owes a lot of its beauty to this great idea I picked up from this recipe over on Delish – threading a sprig of rosemary through a few cranberries for garnish. But I added an extra couple of sprigs of rosemary to the drink itself and let it permeate, and it adds a nice little bit of extra herby flavor. I also got the idea to rime the champagne flutes with lime and sugar there, which is essential! Cranberry juice can be extremely tart, and needs a little bit of sugar to sweeten things up.
Because of this, I swapped out the champagne in the traditional mimosa for Prosecco. Prosecco is aged using totally different grapes and a very different process from champagne, and has a much sweeter, lighter, frothier nature than champagne – which is a perfect pairing for the cranberry!
So let’s take a look at how to make them!
Sparkling Rosemary Cranberry Mimosas
Ingredients
- 1 tbsp lime juice
- 2 tbsp granulated sugar
- 1/2 cup cranberry juice
- 1 cup Prosecco (ish)
- 6 ea fresh cranberries
- 4 sprigs fresh rosemary
Instructions
- Wet the rims of two champagne flutes with the lime juice. Pour the sugar on a saucer or a shallow bowl and then dip the champagne flutes in the sugar to rime.
- Pour about 1/4 cup cranberry juice into each glass. Top with Prosecco.
- Add a sprig of fresh rosemary to each of the glasses.
- Using a toothpick or skewer, poke holes in the cranberries. Thread a rosemary sprig through three cranberries for each glass.
- Serve and enjoy!
This also works really well with my candied cranberries! You can candy the rosemary using the same technique and it comes out looking beautiful, as if it were just caught in a perfect sugar snowfall!
Cheers, y’all! It might not seem like it if you watch the news, but we have a lot to celebrate!
How are you guys looking forward to celebrating Thanksgiving?
