New Year’s Day Maple Mocktail
Non-Alcoholic beverage
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Ingredients
- 1/4 cup frozen cranberries
- 1/2 oz maple syrup, preferably dark syrup for its robust flavour
- 1 oz alcohol-free gin
- 1 oz pink grapefruit juice, freshly squeezed
- 2 oz alcohol-free sparkling beverage
- 1 frozen cranberry, coated in maple sugar, to garnish
Method
- In a shaker, crush the frozen cranberries in the maple syrup.
- Add the alcohol-free gin and grapefruit juice, fill with ice cubes, and shake.
- Strain through a fine sieve into a champagne flute.
- Add the (well-chilled) alcohol-free sparkling beverage.
- Put a frozen cranberry onto a cocktail pick, dip it into maple syrup, and sprinkle with fine maple sugar.
- Balance the cocktail pick on the flute.
– Can’t drink grapefruit juice? Substitute with the same amount of freshly squeezed orange juice.
– You can replace the alcohol-free gin and sparkling beverage with 90 ml (3 oz) of maple kombucha.
– To make this drink with alcohol, see our recipe for the New Year’s Day Maple Cocktail.
The Quebec Maple Syrup Producers are not in any way responsible for the identification or presence of allergens in recipes or for the classification of any recipe as vegetarian or vegan.
