Midnight Kiss Champagne co*cktail Recipe for New Years - Restless Chipotle (2024)

Don't save this for just New Year's Eve! It's a delicious and beautiful co*cktail that's worthy of any celebration!

This recipe is meant for people over 21 years old. Please drink responsibly. Save this recipe by clicking on the ❤️ heart on the right-hand side of the screen or in the recipe card

🗝️ Key takeaways

• This pretty co*cktail has a unique, dark blue color! It's definitely an eye catching shade of frosty blue when served in a champagne flute with a sugar rim!
• It's the perfect drink for a toast at the stroke of midnight at your New Years eve party but just as delicious for celebrating any special occasion. Like finally getting the junk drawer organized.
• Be sure to check below for my non-alcoholic version of this drink recipe, too.

This champagne co*cktail is similar to a French 75 but easily made with vodka instead of gin. No need for a lot of fancy mixing and shaking!

It's served in a sugar-rimmed champagne flute for a beautiful presentation.

🧾 Ingredients

You’ll need:

• Vodka
• Blue Curacao
• Lemon Juice
• Champagne or Sparkling Moscato
• Maraschino Cherries
• Silver Sugar Crystals

Non-Alcholic Midnight Kiss co*cktail

If you'll have the kids joining you in your New Year's Eve celebration try making this easy, non-alcoholic version of the iconic Midnight Kiss!

Use plastic champagne flutes and rim them with sugar just like in the regular recipe.

• 8 ounces blue cream soda
• 4 ounces Sprite
• Maraschino cherries
• Choose a garnish from the list below

Mix together in a plastic champagne flute and serve very cold. Be sure not to use ginger ale in place of Sprite or your beautiful blue co*cktail will be a sickly green.

🥫 Storage

This co*cktail is best served right away. It will release the bubbles during storage and will be flat within a short time.

To save time, have your garnished ready to go and rim the glasses with sugar up to about 3 hours ahead of time.

💭 Things to know

As always, use the best ingredients you can. Cheap vodka will make this taste like... cheap vodka.

• Serve it very cold.
• Make sure the glasses are ice cold.
• Keep the vodka in the freezer.
• Use champagne for a drier (less sweet) drink and sparkling moscato for a sweeter drink.
• Use a shaker filled with ice to chill the co*cktail mixture.

Garnish

I like to serve this sparkling drink in a glass flute – it helps maintain the bubbles, it's traditional for a French 75 type drink, and...

Ok… it just looks pretty. I do it because it looks pretty.

I use a maraschino cherry in the bottom of the glass as a garnish but you could use –

• Strip of lemon peel
• Lemon wheel
• Orange slice
• Sugared grapes
• Sugared rim (silver, blue, gold, or white is best)

New Year’s Eve celebrations call for plenty of sparkles and color.Call it a Midnight Kiss or a Vodka French 75… it doesn’t matter. It’s a beautiful, festive vodka & champagne co*cktail no matter what name you give it!

Here are more festive co*cktails you're sure to love.

• Red Velvet Martini is a gorgeous crimson holiday co*cktail.
• Spiked Mexican Hot Chocolate is a creamy, delicious holiday drink.
• Cranberry Mule is festive and easy to make into a punch or pitcher drink.
• This is one of the best blue alcoholic drinks, if you're going for blue color and vodka!!

🍽️ Serve with...

Add these to your New Year's Eve party!

Cream Cheese Sausage Balls are a classic party food here in the South.

Baked Brie with Apples and Bacon looks fancy but it's so easy.

Crab stuffed mushrooms are inspired by the famous Red Lobster appetizer.

Cranberry Bliss Bars are sweet and festive - perfect for holiday parties.

Nothing goes better with a classic champagne co*cktail than Dark Chocolate Truffles!

📞 The last word

Check out the Tiffany Blue Sparkler or Candy Cane Martini, too!

If you click on the number of servings in the recipe card you can adjust the measurements up or down for the exact number of servings you need.

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📖 Recipe

First published December 23, 2020. Last updated December 27, 2023 for editorial improvements.

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