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Faith’s Thanksgiving Cosmo Sparkler

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You know me—I love easy, delicious cocktails, and I have a festive seasonal sparkler this time to get your Thanksgiving rolling. Pair together cranberry juice, vodka and champagne, and your guests will be having too much fun to notice you forgot to defrost the turkey. Serve your drinks in chilled martini glasses; simply run your glasses under water, then pop them in the freezer for an hour or two, pulling each one out as you pour from your cocktail pitcher. Then you top off each glass with a splash of champagne, or an affordable dry sparkler, like a Spanish cava.

I’ll give you the ingredients for one drink; increase the amounts to suit the number of guests you’re serving.

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Faith's Thanksgiving Cosmo Sparkler
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martini
Faith's Thanksgiving Cosmo Sparkler
Votes: 12
Rating: 3.33
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Ingredients
  • 1 ounce lemon-flavored vodka
  • 1/2 ounce orange flavored liquer
  • 1 ounce cranberry juice unsweetened
  • 1 capful Rose's Lime Juice or quick squeeze fresh lime juice
  • 2 ounces Champagne or your favorite dry sparkler
  • Fresh cranberries
Servings:
Instructions
  1. Put martini glasses in the freezer for 1–2 hours.
  2. In a pitcher, mix together lots of ice, and all the ingredients except the sparkling wine and fresh cranberries. Stir and stir so that it's fiercely chilled.
  3. Remove chilled martini glass from the freezer and fill it (no ice), leaving room to top off each drink with 2 ounces of champagne or an affordable sparkler of your choosing. Pop a fresh cranberry into every glass.

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  1. Lisa Griggs says

    December 2, 2019 at 6:26 pm

    Great Thanksgiving cocktail! Perfect way to start off the celebration!! Many thanks Faith!!!

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