Raspberry Champagne Spritzer Food

RASPBERRY CHAMPAGNE

Steps:

• In a champagne glass pour chilled champagne. Carefully pour Framboise down the inside of glass. Add 2 or 3 frozen raspberries.

RASPBERRY PROSECCO COCKTAIL

Steps:

• Add the Raspberry Syrup and lemon juice to the bottom of a champagne flute. Fill the glass with prosecco.
• Place the sugar and 2 cups water in a medium saucepan over medium heat. Bring to a simmer, stirring occasionally, until the sugar is dissolved, 3 to 4 minutes. Add the lemon juice and raspberries and simmer, stirring occasionally, until the raspberries have broken down, about 10 minutes. Pour the mixture through a strainer and return to the pot. Simmer over medium heat until the syrup has thickened, about 10 minutes more. Let cool completely, then pour into an airtight container and store in the refrigerator for up 2 weeks.

RASPBERRY CHAMPAGNE SPRITZER

Steps:

• Slice the whole strawberries vertically, just halfway up to the crown. Set aside to use as garnish.
• Just before serving, place a tablespoon of sorbet in the bottom of a champagne flute. Place the mint leaves and some chopped strawberries in the glass and pour in the champagne, being careful not to full it so much that it froths over.
• Garnish each glass (makes 4-6 with a sliced strawberry and serve immediately.
• *I had to enter a size for the bottle of champagne, but I'm not sure how much is in a bottle. Just use a standard size bottle of champagne.

ROSY RASPBERRY SPRITZER

Steps:

• Lightly crush raspberries with sugar and rose water. Divide among 4 glasses. Stir in wine. Top with seltzer.

RASPBERRY & ROSE SPRITZERS

Steps:

• Mix together the rosé wine and pink raspberry lemonade. Add a dash of rosewater, if you like. Put a few raspberries in each glass before topping up with the spritzer mix.

RASPBERRY-LEMON SPRITZER

Steps:

• Place raspberries and sugar in a food processor; cover and process until pureed. Strain, reserving juice and discarding seeds., In a small pitcher, combine the club soda, lemon juice and raspberry juice. Serve in tall glasses over ice. Garnish with lemon slices.

ELDERFLOWER & RASPBERRY SPRITZER

Steps:

• Soak gelatine leaves in cold water. Dissolve the gelatine in a measuring jug in the hot water from the kettle. Add the elderflower cordial and top up with sparkling white wine to make 450ml of liquid in total. Drop a few raspberries into six tall glasses and fill to about a third with the elderflower syrup. Leave to set completely, then add a few more raspberries and some more elderflower syrup. Repeat again until the glasses are nearly full to the top.