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Pink Lemontini Champagne Cocktail – light, refreshing, and the perfect New Year’s Eve cocktail recipe! Can we fit one more teeny tiny recipe in before the holidays?? Please?? This Pink Lemontini Champagne Cocktail is worth it!
What’s your favorite sound? Mine varies depending on who I’m talking to.
If I’m being PC, I’ll say my daughters’ laugh. When she laughs hard, it’s one of those infectious belly laughs.
But if I’m being honest, that’s a lie. I do love her laugh, but my favorite sound really is a popping cork. Wine, champagne, I don’t discriminate. That pop gets me every time.
It’s like Pavlov’s dog, really.
So, pretty much, the making of this pink lemontini champagne cocktail recipe got me salivating. And it will for you too!
Making cocktails is super easy, especially when you’re making punch. The great thing about this cocktail recipe is that you can make it for one two or for a crowd.
I call it a Pink Lemonitini Champagne Cocktail because it’s a lemontini I made pink, and I added champagne, because, obvi.
I love lemontinis and the base of this recipe is my favorite martini, turned pink. My favorite lemonitini recipe is made with vodka (regular or citrus), limoncello, sweet and sour, and fresh lemon juice. You can reduce the sweet and sour mix, if you want it less sweet.
The “pink” comes from a dash of grenadine or maraschino cherry juice. I just love that it’s pink, especially for the holidays.
If you’re making this for two, just mix up the cocktail in a shaker over ice, strain into champagne or martini classes, and top off with champagne or prosecco. If you’re making this for a crowd, serve it in a pitcher or a punch bowl and add some ice made out of lemonade to keep it cold but not water it down.
Because the pink lemontini mixture is sweet, you want to stick with a less sweet bubbly drink. Opt for Prosecco, or an Extra Brut champagne, which will be less sweet than dry.
Regardless of how you make it, this really does just taste like juice. Ring in the New Year with a Pink Lemontini Champagne Cocktail…and 2016 will come in with a bang. 🙂
Pink Lemontini Champagne Cocktail
Ingredients
For punch:
- 6 ounces vodka regular or citrus
- 6 ounces limoncello
- 8 ounces sweet and sour reduce for a less sweet drink
- 4 ounces lemon juice from about 4 lemons
- ¼ cup grenadine or maraschino cherry juice
- 1 bottle champagne or prosecco Extra Brut or Brut, you want it less sweet
- Lemon slices and maraschino cherries for garnish
- Optional: frozen lemonade or cherry juice for ice
For 2 servings only:
- 1 ½ ounces vodka
- 1 ½ ounces limoncello
- 2 ounces sweet and sour reduce for a less sweet drink
- 1 ounce lemon juice
- Champagne or prosecco for topping
- Lemon slices and maraschino cherries for garnish
Instructions
- Chill all your ingredients. Add vodka, limoncello, sweet and sour, lemon juice, and grenadine to a punch bowl or pitcher. Stir, then add champagne. Serve each drink with a cherry and lemon wedge.
- To keep the punch cold, add some lemonade ice cubes. (Freeze store bought lemonade in ice cube trays.)
- To make 2 cocktails only: add all ingredients except champagne and garnish to a cocktail shaker with ice. Shake then strain into glasses and top off with champagne and garnish.
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If you love the pink lemontini champagne cocktail recipe, be sure to try these cocktail recipes, too:
Ginger Lemon Martini, from All Day I Dream About Food
Grapefruit Cranberry Martini, from Noble Pig
Samoa Martini, from Wine & Glue
Last Updated on January 9, 2019
do you think you could freeze for frozen slushy? use sprite instead of sweet n sour
Haha! I am definitely 100% behind your true favorite noise! This cocktails sounds fabulous! Since I don’t have a daughter and I rarely feel the need to be PC, I will just go ahead and admit that a popping cork is totally one of my favorite noises!
This looks so good! I could definitely get into trouble with a couple of these. And I love that pink hue!
It has been an interesting week with a screaming child, so I could definitely use a few of these gorgeous drinks!
I think my children’s laughter is my favorite sound too. 🙂 I love the looks of this drink, it’s so lovely! I think I’m going to have to make one of these on New Year’s Eve! 🙂
Oh this sounds SO GOOD! You cannot go wrong with limoncello, champagne, and anything pink!! I’d belly up to the punch bowl and not want to leave 🙂
This is so delicious that I would be very drunk, very fast. But in a very good way, Dorothy!
I’ve never thought about my favorite sound. I like silence a lot, but that’s probably temporary given the volume level in my house. Now I have to really think about it. But a cork popping is up there!
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