Sparkling Winter Berry Holiday Cocktail (with Alcohol-Free Option)

This Sparkling Winter Berry Holiday Cocktail is the perfect cocktail or mocktail recipe for your holiday parties! It’s deliciously sparkly and bursting with winter flavours, and it’s so easy to make!

I always think of the holidays as a time to slow down in the kitchen – no, I don’t mean that I stop cooking, rather it’s a time where I pull out more of those labour-intensive recipes that take time and effort and special ingredients I don’t tend to buy regularly throughout the year. It’s a time for rich, traditional flavours and special recipes passed down from generation to generation shared among family and friends. Oh, and the baking. We can’t forget about the baking now, can we?? But when it comes to holiday beverages, especially drinks to serve to guests, I’m all about taking the easy way out. Seriously, I’d rather slave away making homemade pies and gravy and then pop an easy warm cider in the Crock Pot or throw together a 3-ingredient punch at the last minute. It’s about priorities, people – am I right??

This Sparkling Winter Berry Holiday Cocktail is the perfect no-fuss beverage for any Thanksgiving, Christmas or New Year’s party. You can throw it together in less than 10 minutes with ingredients you likely already have in the house and it’s simply gorgeous, not to mention the fact that it caters to all your guests – try it with your favourite champagne or sparkling wine if you wish, or serve it with sparkling water or even 7up for an alcohol-free version that everyone can enjoy. 

• 1 liter cranberry juice (about 4 cups)
• 1/2 liter apple juice (about 2 cups)
• 1/3 cup strawberry-flavoured syrup (grenadine bar syrup also works)
• 3/4 to 1 liter sparkling water or champagne (or your favourite sparkling wine, 7up, ginger ale, or any other sparkling beverage works here)
• fresh or frozen cranberries, fresh blueberries, fresh strawberries for garnish
• water and sugar for rimming the glasses (optional)