Don't save this for just New Year's Eve! It's a delicious and beautiful cocktail that's worthy of any celebration!
This recipe is meant for people over 21 years old. Please drink responsibly.
Celebrate the New Year with this refreshing champagne cocktail!Jump to:
❤️ Why you'll love this recipe
Let's start with the unique, dark blue color! It's definitely an eye catching shade of frosty blue!
This champagne cocktail is similar to a French 75 but easily made with vodka instead of gin. No need for a lot of fancy mixing and shaking!
🧾 Ingredients
You’ll need:
- Vodka
- Blue Curacao
- Lemon Juice
- Champagne or Sparkling Moscato
- Maraschino Cherries
- Silver Sugar Crystals
Non-Alcholic Midnight Kiss Cocktail
If you'll have the kids joining you in your New Year's Eve celebration try making this easy, non-alcoholic version of the iconic Midnight Kiss!
Use plastic champagne flutes and rim them with sugar just like in the regular recipe.
- 8 ounces blue cream soda
- 4 ounces Sprite
- Maraschino cherries
- Choose a garnish from the list below
Mix together in a plastic champagne flute and serve very cold. Be sure not to use ginger ale in place of Sprite or your beautiful blue cocktail will be a sickly green.
🥫 Storage
This cocktail is best served right away. It will release the bubbles during storage and will be flat within a short time.
To save time have your garnished ready to go and rim the glasses with sugar up to about 3 hours ahead of time.
💭 Things to know
As always, use the best ingredients you can. Cheap vodka will make this taste like... cheap vodka.
- Serve it very cold.
- Make sure the glasses are ice cold.
- Keep the vodka in the freezer.
- Use champagne for a drier (less sweet) drink and sparkling moscato for a sweeter drink.
- Use a shaker filled with ice to chill the cocktail mixture.
Garnish
I like to serve this sparkling drink in a glass flute – it helps maintain the bubbles, it's traditional for a French 75 type drink, and...
Ok… it just looks pretty. I do it because it looks pretty.
I use a maraschino cherry in the bottom of the glass as a garnish but you could use –
- Strip of lemon peel
- Lemon wheel
- Orange slice
- Sugared grapes
- Sugared rim (silver, blue, gold, or white is best)
New Year’s Eve celebrations call for plenty of sparkles and color. Call it a Midnight Kiss or a Vodka French 75… it doesn’t matter. It’s a beautiful, festive vodka & champagne cocktail no matter what name you give it!
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📞 The last word
Check out the Tiffany Blue Sparkler or Candy Cane Martini, too!
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Midnight Kiss Cocktail
Print Pin Recipe SaveEquipment Needed
- Flutes
Ingredients
- 3 ounces Vodka
- 1 ounces Blue curacao
- 2 teaspoons Lemon juice
- 6 ounces Champagne, or use sparkling moscato for a sweeter drink
- 2 Maraschino cherries
- Sugar for glass rims
- Ice
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Instructions
- Rub the rim of the glasses with a lemon wedge or a layer of white corn syrup.
- Roll in sugar to coat.
- Fill a cocktail shaker with ice.
- Add vodka, blue curacao, and lemon juice.
- Shake until very cold and strain into chilled champagne flutes.
- Fill flutes the rest of the way with champagne.
- Drop in a Maraschino cherry.
Notes
- This drink is best served very cold.
- Make sure the glasses are ice cold.
- Keep the vodka in the freezer.
- Use sparkling moscato for a sweeter drink.
- Use a shaker filled with ice to chill the cocktail mixture.
- Try this with a citrus flavored vodka.
Nutrition Facts
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