Cheers to the holidays! Enjoy my fabulous holiday mocktail recipes! Full of fun and flavor + some secret ingredients!
Remember the Shirley Temple’s that our Mom’s ordered for us when we were children? Now days the craze is “Dirty Shirley’s” – the adult version of a Shirley Temple – with vodka, grenadine, lemon lime soda and maraschino cherry. But, what if you are abstaining from alcohol? I present the “Flirty Shirley” – pomegrante juice, Shirley Temple soda topped with zingy ginger beer. Refreshing!
Grenadine is made with pomegranate juice. The Shirley Temple soda is very sweet so the pomegranate juice helps to tame the sweetness.
If you’d like to make a Dirty Shirley with my Flirty Shirley recipe, just add some vodka!
Flirty Shirley
Ingredients
- 2 ounces chilled pomegranate juice
- 3 ounces chilled Boylan Bottling Co. Shirley Temple soda
- Ginger Beer
- Garnish: Amarena cherry
Instructions
- Place champagne flute in freezer to chill for 15 minutes.
- Place pomegrante juice in chilled flute. Add Shirley Temple soda.
- Top with ginger beer and garnish with Amarena cherry.
Seedless raspberry jam is the SECRET INGREDIENT in my Mock Cosmopolitan recipe.
Mock Cosmopolitan
Equipment
- 1 cocktail shaker
Ingredients
- 2 teaspoons seedless raspberry jam
- 3/4 ounce fresh lime juice
- 3/4 ounce Sprite
- 3/4 ounce fresh orange juice
- 3/4 ounce cranberry juice
- 1/2 ounce simple syrup
- ice
- garnish: orange peel twist or 1/2 blood orange wheel
Instructions
- Place martini glass in freezer to chill.
- Place raspberry jam and lime juice in a cocktail shaker. Stir with long-handled spoon to dissolve raspberry jam.
- Add Sprite, orange juice, cranberry juice and simple syrup.
- Cover shaker and shake vigorously. Strain into chilled martini glass.
Mock Mimosa
Ingredients
- 4 ounces chilled Orangina
- 2 ounces chilled ginger ale
- Garnish: 1/2 blood orange wheel
Instructions
- Place Orangina and ginger ale in a champagne flute. Stir gently with a long-handled spoon. Garnish with 1/2 blood orange wheel.
Clover Club Mocktail
Equipment
- 1 cocktail shaker
Ingredients
- 2 ounces ginger ale, chilled
- 1/2 ounce fresh lemon juice
- 1/2 ounce raspberry syrup: to make raspberry syrup, add one cup sugar and 1/2 cup water in a pan. Stir over medium heat until the sugar has dissolved. Reduce heat to low, add 1 pint raspberries and macerate into a pulp. Fine-strain to remove raspberry seeds.
- 1 egg white
- 3 raspberries for garnish
- raspberry juice for spritzing (recipe follows)
Instructions
- Add the ginger ale, lemon juice, raspberry syrup and egg white into a shaker with ice. Vigorously shake until well-chilled.
- Strain cocktail into a chilled martini glass.
- Garnish with 3 raspberries on a cocktail pick.
- Just before serving, spritz mocktail with raspberry juice.
Notes
Raw Egg Warning: This recipe contains raw egg whites. Dishes containing raw eggs should not be served to those with compromised immune systems, small children, pregnant women and the elderly.
Raspberry Juice to Spritz on Mocktails and Cocktails
Spritzing mocktails and cocktails with raspberry juice adds lots of fresh fruit flavor
Equipment
- 1 Blender
- 1 fine mesh strainer
- 1 small spritzer bottle
Ingredients
- 1 pint fresh raspberries
- 1/2 cup water
Instructions
- Place raspberries in blender container.
- Add water to blender container.
- Blend raspberries and water in blender until raspberries are pureed and the mixture has a liquid consistency.
- Strain raspberries through a fine mesh strainer.
- Pour raspberry juice into mason jar. Cover jar and refrigerate until ready for service.
Lemon Drop Martini Mocktail
Secret ingredient – Lemon Curd! Lemon curd, fine sugar and Belvoir Fruit Farms Elderflower Rose Lemonade are available at Fresh Market.
Equipment
- 1 cocktail shaker
Ingredients
- 1 lemon wedge
- fine sugar
- 1 1/2 tablespoon lemon curd, chilled
- 2 ounces Belvoir Fruit Farms Elderflower Rose Lemonade, chilled
- 1 ounce Sprite, chilled
- Handful ice
- 1 lemon peel twist, for garnish
Instructions
- Rim a martini glass with fine sugar: Place fine sugar on a small plate. Rub the lemon wedge around the rim of the cocktail glass. Dip and roll the rim of the glass in the sugar until the entire rim is coated with sugar. Place martini glass in freezer to chill while you are making your mocktail.
- To make the mocktail: Place lemon juice and lemon curd in a cocktail shaker. Stir to "melt" the curd into the lemon juice.
- Add the elderflower rose lemonade, Sprite and ice.
- Cover shaker and vigorously shake. Strain into chilled martini glass.
- Garnish with lemon peel twist.
Elderflower Rosé Fizz Mocktail
Belvoir Fruit Farms Lemonade is available at Fresh Market.
Ingredients
- 3 ounces Belvoir Fruit Farms Elderflower and Rosé Lemonade
- 3 ounces ginger ale chilled
- Splash pomegranate juice
- Garnish: cocktail cherry with stem
Instructions
- Place lemonade in champagne flute. Top with ginger ale. Add a splash of pomegranate juice. Garnish with a cocktail cherry.
“Mockarita”
Non-alcholic version of a margarita made with pickle juice
Equipment
- 1 cocktail shaker
Ingredients
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon sugar
- 1 ounce fresh lime juice
- 1/2 ounce fresh lemon juice
- 1 teaspoon simple syrup
- 1/8 teaspoon pickle juice
- 3 ounces tonic water
- lime wheel for garnish
Instructions
- Rim margarita glass: Place sugar and salt on a plate and mix with a spoon. Take the rind from the lemon you used to make lime juice and run it around the rim of the glass. Dip and roll the rim of the glass in the sugar/salt mixture to coat the rim of the glass. Place glass in freezer to chill while you are making your mocktail.
- Place lime juice, lemon juice, simple syrup and pickle juice in a cocktail shaker with ice. Cover and shake vigourously.
- Remove the top of the cocktail shaker and add tonic water. Stir with a long-handled spoon.
- Cover the cocktail shaker with strainer portion of shaker and strain into the prepared margarita glass. Garnish with lime wheel.
Pomegranate Fizz Mocktail
Ingredients
- 1 tablespoon pomegranate seeds
- 6 ounces sparkling raspberry lemonade
- splash pomegranate juice
- splash Sprite
- fresh mint sprig for garnish
Instructions
- Place pomegranate seeds in champagne flute. Top with sparkling raspberry lemonade, pomegranate juice and Sprite. Lightly stir. Garnish with a fresh sprig of mint.
