New Year's Eve is traditionally the time when we enjoy champagne and other sparkling wines in abundance! Here are 2 cocktail recipes that you can easily do at home and serve your guests before dinner.

Ingredients (1 cocktail)

40 ml Campari

40 ml sweet red vermouth

40 ml prosecco or other sparkling wine

Ice

Thinly cut slices of orange peel

Method

Add vermouth and Campari to a mixing glass filled with ice. Stir to combine and chill. Strain into Champagne flute. Top with prosecco and stir again. Serve with a thinly cut slice of orange peel

You can also serve it in a low, old-fashioned glass.

Festive Mimosa

This is a variation of the classic cocktail made with champagne or other sparkling wine. Here we use pomegranate, for luck!

Ingredients (For 4 cocktails)

1 cup pomegranate juice

1 bottle champagne

Pomegranate seeds for garnish, if you wish

Brown sugar for garnish, if you wish

Method

If you are going to have brown sugar on the glass rim, first of all, mix in a wide dish some sugar with a bit of pomegranate juice just to get it slightly wet. Place the glasses of the champagne upside down until the sugar is spread over the flute rim.

In champagne flutes, fill with 1/4 cup sweetened pomegranate juice and top off with champagne. Garnish with pomegranate seeds if you wish.