Alcoholic and non-alcoholic New Year’s cocktails – 10 best recipes

There is very little time left before the New Year holidays. Time to think about the gala menu. Delight your guests, relatives and little fidgets with original cocktails for the new year.

The content of the article:

Quite uncomplicated in preparation, but healthy and beautiful non-alcoholic cocktails:

New Year’s cocktail “Source of happiness”

Cooking time is 10-15 minutes.

Ingredients for 2 servings:

• Blueberries – 1 glass (200g.). Can be applied both fresh and frozen;
• Banana – 1 piece, medium size, about 200 – 250 grams;
• Kefir – 1 glass (200g.), Can be replaced with natural yogurt;
• Kiwi – 1 pc;
• Lime or lemon – for decoration.

Preparation:

• Cut the kiwi, banana into slices so that it is easier to beat in a blender. If frozen blueberries are used, then it is allowed not to defrost them completely, but only partially. Kefir is suitable with any fat content, you can also use fat-free.
• Load all the ingredients into a blender, beat until a homogeneous (homogeneous) mass is obtained. Try the resulting composition. Adjust the cocktail to your liking: if it is very sour – add sugar, on the contrary – add blueberries.
• Pour a tumbler into a glass and decorate with sugar frost. To do this, grease the edge of the glass with lemon or lime juice, then dip in powdered sugar. Cut a slice of lime in a radius and place on the rim of the glass.

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Vitamin New Year cocktail “Orange Paradise”

Cooking time – 30 minutes.

Ingredients for 2 servings:

• Mandarin -8-10 pcs;
• Carrots – 2 pcs;
• Lollipops “barberry” – 6-8 pieces;
• Orange – for decoration;
• Ice cubes.

Preparation:

• Put some ice cubes in a glass;
• Squeeze juice from mandarins using a juicer or the “old-fashioned way” through a sieve or cheesecloth.
• Pour tangerine juice into a glass with ice;
• Make juice from carrots in the same way;
• To make candy syrup: pour 30 ml of hot water over the barberries. Wait until the syrup cools down and pour into the glass with the future cocktail.
• Mix the entire contents of the glass.
• Decorate with a twist of orange peel: roll the orange peel into a spiral.

“Chocolate Dance” – milkshake

Cooking time: 25-30 minutes.

Ingredients for 2 servings:

• Chocolate ice cream – 400 ml;
• Milk – 140 ml;
• Chocolate: grated or melted – 100 gr;
• Peanuts for decoration.

Preparation:

• Mix the listed components with a blender or cocktail mixer;
• Place in tall glasses – tumblers;
• Garnish with sprinkled peanuts.
• If you replace chocolate ice cream with vanilla ice cream, and use cherry syrup as a filling component, and then beat until a fluffy foamy mass and serve with straws, you will get another version of the New Year’s cocktail.

The famous Pina Colada cocktail

Cooking time: 10 minutes

Ingredients for 1 serving:

• Coconut syrup – 20 ml;
• Pineapple juice – 80 ml;
• Ice cubes – 1 glass;
• Cream – 30 ml. with a fat content of 22%;
• Pineapple mug – for decoration.

Preparation:

• Pour a glass of ice into a blender;
• Pour in pineapple juice, add coconut syrup, then add cream;
• Beat until homogeneous;
• Pour into a highball (glass without a stem);
• Decorate with pineapple, cocktail umbrella and straws.

“Orange sun” for the New Year for lovers of vegetable cocktails

Cooking time: 1 hour.

Ingredients for 2 servings:

• Pumpkin – 600 – 700 gr;
• Cinnamon – 0.5 teaspoon
• Lemon – 3 pcs;
• Grapefruit – 1 piece;
• Honey (liquid) to taste.

Preparation:

• Prepare pumpkin: peel, remove seeds. Cut the pulp into pieces, cook in water (you can steam it) for 10-15 minutes until soft. Then drain and cool.
• Prepare lemon and grapefruit juice in a juicer;
• Load pumpkin pieces into a blender and grind them.
• Pour cinnamon, lemon-grapefruit juice, honey (if desired) into the crushed pumpkin and beat again all the ingredients until a homogeneous fluffy mass is formed.
• Put ice cubes on the bottom of low wide glasses, pour over the fruit and vegetable mass.
• Decorate with a slice of grapefruit.

Alcoholic cocktails for adults:

Cocktail “Mandarin Punch” for the New Year for brandy lovers

Cooking time: 20 minutes

Ingredients for 6 servings:

• Mandarins – 4-5 pcs;
• Brandy – 125 gr;
• Sugar – 30 gr;
• champagne

Preparation:

• Squeeze juice from tangerines in a juicer;
• In a shaker mix tangerine juice, brandy and sugar;
• Pour into high-stemmed glasses.
• Add champagne.

New Year’s cocktail “Valencia” with orange aroma

Cooking time: 15 minutes

Ingredients for 1 serving:

• Dry sparkling wine – 80 ml;
• Orange bitter – 1 ml;
• Apricot liqueur – 20 ml;
• Orange juice – 50 ml;
• Orange zest;
• Ice cubes – 5-6 pieces;
• Cocktail cherry – for decoration.

Preparation:

• Prepare glasses – flute (they must be chilled);
• Pour orange juice, apricot liqueur into a shaker. Then add a drop of orange bitter and add ice cubes.
• Mix the contents with a shaker;
• Pour dry sparkling wine into a chilled glass – flute, add the composition from a shaker.
• Decorate the cocktail with orange peel in the shape of a “horse’s neck” – a narrow long ribbon coiled in a spiral and hung on the edge of the glass with a spiral inward.

Original New Year’s cocktail “Long Island”

Cooking time: 10 minutes

Ingredients for 1 serving:

• White tequila – 20 ml;
• Gin – 20 ml;
• Cointreau – 20 ml;
• Vodka – 20 ml;
• Melon midori liqueur – 20 ml;
• White rum – 20 ml;
• Freshly squeezed lemon juice – 20 ml;
• Ice cubes – 1 glass;
• Soda water – if desired.

Preparation:

• Pour the listed components into a shaker, without soda;
• Using a shaker, bring the contents to homogeneity;
• Strain through a strainer into a glass – collins;
• Dilute with soda (sparkling water);
• Decorate with a slice of lime.

Tropical cocktail “Banana Daiquiri” – for the New Year 2014

Cooking time: 10 minutes

Ingredients for 1 serving:

• Lime juice – 20 ml;
• Liqueur Crème De Banana – 25 ml;
• Light rum – 45 ml;
• Sugar or sugar syrup – 5 ml;
• Cream – 10 ml;
• Banana – 0.5 pcs;
• Ice cubes – 4-5 pcs.

Preparation:

• Put ice cubes in a blender, pour rum, liqueur, syrup, lime juice, add cream and banana;
• Carefully combine all the components of the cocktail;
• Pour the resulting contents into a pre-chilled glass – collins;
• Decorate with a slice of banana and a slice of lime.

New Year’s cocktail “Manhattan” for connoisseurs of stronger drinks

Cooking time: 10 minutes

Ingredients for 1 serving:

• White dry vermouth – 30 ml;
• Whiskey – 60 ml;
• Hungarian bitter – Angostura – 2 drops;
• Ice cubes – 1 glass.

Preparation:

• Put ice in a shaker, pour in whiskey, vermouth and bitter;
• Mix content;
• Pour into a wide, low glass;
• You can squeeze out a little lemon juice, then the taste of the cocktail will be softer;
• Decorate with a slice of lemon.

All cocktails are easy to prepare, therefore, the proposed recipes can be implemented at home – it will not be difficult.

Children will be delighted with the non-alcoholic cocktails. And for adults, creative New Year cocktails with alcohol will become a highlight in drinks.

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