Mimosa

• Blushing Mimosas
• Honeydew Mimosas
• Pomosa

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Blushing Mimosa

Southern Living - 2007

Makes 6 cups serving 8

Ingredients
16.0-oz (2 cups) orange juice (not from concentrate) -- try Simply Orange 100% Orange Juice
8.0-oz (1 cup) chilled pineapple juice
1.0-oz (2 Tbsp) grenadine
1 (750-ml) bottle Champagne or sparkling wine


Preparation
Stir together first 3 ingredients. Pour equal parts orange juice mixture and Champagne into 8 Champagne flutes.

Variation(s):
Use 2 (12-oz) cans ginger ale or lemon-lime soda for the Champagne.

Source: Southern Living (June 2007)

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Honeydew Mimosas

JL Boca Raton
Makes about (6 cups)

Ingredients
1/2 medium honeydew melon, cubed (about 4 cups)
1 cup crushed ice
1 Tbsp sugar
1 (750 ml) bottle chilled sparkling wine

Garnish:
Lime wedges


Notes:  For best results, chill melon overnight. This recipe doubles easily; just be sure to process in blender in 2 batches.


Preparation
Combine first 3 ingredients in a blender. Process until smooth. Pour mixture into a large pitcher; add sparkling wine. Pour into glasses. Garnish, if desired.

Source: Junior League of Boca Raton

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Pomosa

Shape Magazine - 2011

Makes 1 @ 145 calories

Ingredients
4.0-oz (1/2 cup) sparkling wine
1.0-oz (1 Tbsp) Van Gogh Pomegranate Vodka

Garnish:
1 Fresh strawberry


Preparation
Pour chilled Van Gogh Pomegranate Vodka into a flute. Top with sparkling wine and garnish with a strawberry.

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• Plan ahead because most booze candy/cookies become more flavorful after sitting for 2 to 3 days. Some recipes even suggest sitting for 2 weeks before serving.

• Sift confectioners' sugar and cocoa powder. 

• Cookies, even vanilla wafers, come in different sizes so measure before you crumble. Measure 1 cup whole cookies; then, count the number of cookies in it. Why bother? For example, this Bacardi Rum Balls recipe calls for 1.5 cups, "about 50 cookies." Using Nabisco Nilla® Wafers today, I measure 1 cup equals 15 cookies, or 22 to 23 cookies for 1.5 cups. Big difference!

• Don't pulverize the ingredients! For consistency, think panko not flour. (After snapping 1 cup of the the cookies in half or quarters and pulsing on/off 6x in the Krups Speedy Pro, the Nilla® Wafers yield 3/4 cup crumbs.)

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Double Rainbow Cocktail | Alcademics

It's easy to make rainbow ice cubes in advance for this drink by Camper English.

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Double Rainbow Cocktail

Camper English - 2010

Makes 1

Ingredients

1.0-oz (2 Tbsp) vodka

1.0-oz (2 Tbsp) St-Germain elderflower liqueur

About 4.0-oz (1/2 cup) soda water

4 dashes (1 tsp) grapefruit bitters (Fee Brothers brand)

Garnish:

Star-shaped lemon peel

Rainbow ice cubes (food colors red, yellow, green, blue, purple)

Preparation

Several hours in advance: Make rainbow ice cubes; freeze. 

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Just before serving: Use a canapé cutter (view Williams-Sonoma)to form lemon peel into stars. Add rainbow ice cubes (2 of each color for double rainbow) to each Collins glass in this order: red, yellow, green, blue, purple.

Pour over all ingredients; gently stir. Garnish with lemon stars and serve.  

Source: Alcademics

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