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Cocktail of the Week | Gingerbread Fizz

It is the Christmas Party season and sadly we have had to forgo our annual party as we are still with Rich’s parents.  Since we started dating we have had a Christmas party every year that just seems to get bigger!  We love having all our friends with us and now our friends are starting to have children, sharing the Christmas joy with them just makes it better!  One thing we always try to do is have a signature festive cocktail to serve and this week’s cocktail of the week went down a storm when we served it up; the Gingerbread Fizz.

Gingerbread is a long standing traditional item for Christmas.  It comes in all forms and one of our favourites is Lebkuchen from Germany.  We also enjoy making our own gingerbread men (and women) a tradition started by Queen Elizabeth I whose courtiers served them to visiting dignitaries.  Every country has their own version of a gingerbread product from cakes to biscuits and they are all served in a multitude of ways.  As the original recipe for gingerbread can be dated back to before 1000AD, it is no surprise that it has spread across the world.  We came across this idea in Nigella Lawson’s book, Nigella Christmas and on a trip to France found a bottle of gingerbread syrup and ‘one or two’ bottles of Crémant du Loire for us to try the cocktail.

To make this week’s cocktail, you will need:

  • One bottle of sparking wine of your choice
  • Gingerbread syrup

To make the cocktail, ensure your sparking wine is chilled.  Take a champagne glass and add a teaspoon of gingerbread syrup (or more if to your taste).  Fill the glass with your sparkling wine and serve.  There you have a very simple, but perfect festive cocktail, gingerbread fizz.

The cocktail is a great drink to have at a Christmas Party as it is so simple to make.  Our friends loved it and we went through the entire bottle of gingerbread syrup and several bottles of sparkling wine.  The laughs and merriment certainly made our party a lot of fun!

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Gingerbread Fizz Cocktail
19th December 2016
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