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Get ready to celebrate with a sparkling Cranberry Champagne Cocktail. With festive champagne or sparkling wine, cranberry juice and a dash of gin for the ultimate fall and winter cocktail. Perfect for any party - done in 1 minute and easy to prep ahead.
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Nothing says "celebrate" like champagne - and nothing says "holidays" like cranberry-anything. Combine and add a dash of foresty gin and you've got the holidays in a glass.
That's this Cranberry Champagne Cocktail: foresty, sparkly & loaded with cranberry taste.
Why you will love this recipe
- It's quick - you can make one in under a minute
- It's easy - just pour and sip
- It tastes like the holidays with cranberries and the foresty taste of gin
- It's so festive with the sparkling wine and beautiful color
- You can prep it well ahead of time - just add frozen cranberries & prosecco when serving
What you need to make it
Ingredient notes & substitutions
- Champagne can be swapped for another type of sparkling wine, like a cava, prosecco or crémant
- Cranberry juice - I prefer one with no or just a little added sugar, for a drier cocktail. Choose a sweeter cranberry juice for a sweeter cocktail.
- Frozen cranberries are both decorative and chilling. They can be swapped for frozen lingonberries, or just use well chilled ingredients instead.
How to make it
- Start by placing a few frozen cranberries in a champagne flute
- Pour in gin
- Pour in cranberry juice
- Top with champagne, and serve immediately!
Tips & tricks
- Chill your drink with frozen cranberries - this way it's not watered like it would be if you added ice
- Prep ahead by mixing gin & cranberry juice in a pitcher or straight in the glasses, and then add frozen cranberries & champagne just before serving
- Make it lower in alcohol by using a non-alcoholic sparkling wine
- Make it non-alcoholic with a non-alcoholic sparkling wine and no gin - add a few whole juniper berries to still get a bit of the foresty gin taste
- Find your favorite version - do you like it best with the sweeter prosecco, or do you prefer a drier champagne or cava? Do you want more or less gin? A sweeter or drier cranberry juice?
- Garnish with a sprig of rosemary for the cutest drink
Can I make a non alcoholic Cranberry Champagne Cocktail?
This cocktail is delicious without the alcohol as well, just make the following substitutions to keep the flavor and loose the alcohol:
- Champagne: use non alcoholic sparkling wine - as dry as you can find - instead
- Gin: non-alcoholic gin (it exists!), or soak crushed juniper berries in a bit of non alcoholic sparkling wine overnight, then drain and use the infused liquid.
Recipe FAQ
Yes, champagne tastes amazing with cranberry juice!
Champagne can be mixed with many types of alcohol.
Hard spirits: the best choices are gin, brandy, cognac and rum
Liqueur: great choices are Aperol, crème de cassis, orange liqueuer, Chambord and elderflower liqueuer
You can also add a bitter, for example Angostura bitter.
Juice goes great with champagne and the combination makes for an indulgent brunch beverage.
Som great juices to mix with champagne are cranberry juice, orange juice, pomegranate juice, peach nectar, mango juice and pineapple juice.
More festive cocktails & mocktails
Looking for more quick & easy festive cocktails and mocktails, like this Cranberry Champagne Cocktail?
- Aperol Spritz
- Christmas Sangria
- Clementine Campari Spritz
- Apple Cider Bourbon Cocktail
- Cranberry Ginger Ale Punch [non-alcoholic]
- "Sober Santa" Non Alcoholic Christmas Punch
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Recipe
Cranberry Champagne Cocktail
Print RateIngredients
- 1 part gin
- 2 parts cranberry juice*
- 2 parts prosecco or other sparkling wine
- frozen cranberries can be omitted
Instructions
- Place a few frozen cranberries in the bottom of a champagne flute. Pour in gin and fill up halfway with cranberry juice. Fill the rest of the way with prosecco, and serve immediately!
Equipment needed for this recipe
Notes
Ingredient notes & substitutions
- Champagne can be swapped for another type of sparkling wine, like a cava, prosecco or crémant
- Cranberry juice - I prefer one with no or just a little added sugar, for a drier cocktail. Choose a sweeter cranberry juice for a sweeter cocktail.
- Frozen cranberries are both decorative and chilling. They can be swapped for frozen lingonberries, or just use well chilled ingredients instead.
- Make it non-alcoholic by using non-alcoholic sparkling wine and infusing with juniper berries
Tips & tricks
- Chill your drink with frozen cranberries - this way it's not watered like it would be if you added ice
- Prep ahead by mixing gin & cranberry juice in a pitcher or straight in the glasses, and then add frozen cranberries & champagne just before serving
- Make it lower in alcohol by using a non-alcoholic sparkling wine
- Make it non-alcoholic with a non-alcoholic sparkling wine and no gin - add a few whole juniper berries to still get a bit of the foresty gin taste
- Find your favorite version - do you like it best with the sweeter prosecco, or do you prefer a drier champagne or cava? Do you want more or less gin? A sweeter or drier cranberry juice?
- Garnish with a sprig of rosemary for the cutest drink
Nutrition
Nutritional information is approximate and automatically calculated, and should only be viewed as an indication.
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