What are your plans for New Years Eve? Are you hosting a get-together? Well my good friend Renee Dinsmore (who puts Martha Stewert to shame with her party planning, hosting, and crafting skills) is sharing FIFTEEN easy, last-minute ways to glam up your cocktail.
Yes, you have hit the NYE DIY jackpot! :)
Upcycle Christmas into NYE - Make a tinsel drink pick
Cut
a small section (2-3”) of tinsel. Use
a hot glue gun to wrap and stick on top of a cocktail pick. (Note:
If you don’t have a cocktail pick, grab some wooden skewers in the
charcoal/grilling section of the grocery store). You can custom cut the picks to
the perfect size for your glassware.
Decorate
with leftover curling ribbon or tie a wire bow around the flute stem
Turn
wrapping paper into a flute flag
Take
a 1”x1” section of wrapping paper. Fold
in half of the top of a long toothpick and glue the ends together with a
gluestick.
Leftovers
from the Christmas fruit display? Skewer the fruit, freeze, and pull them out right
before you pour your NYE champagne.
Convert
Christmas letters printed on pretty paper or premium wrapping paper into
NYE-themed paper fortune cookies like these, inspired by Unsophisticook
Add A Splash of Fun
Flavor -
Pour
chilled champagne into a flute, and then top with a ½ oz of liqueur of choice.
It is best if the liqueur is chilled too. Keep it in the freezer or the
iced-filled beverage tub. (Chambord is my favorite raspberry liqueur, Grand
Marnier or Cointreau are great orange liquers, and any amaretto counts as
almond liqueur.)
Aromatic
Bubbly
Place
peeled, shaved ginger root and a sprig of rosemary in a champagne flute. Top
with chilled peach bubbly. Barefoot Peach Fusion is delish and $8.99/bottle.This
beverage was my husband’s favorite, and he is a straight single-malt scotch man.
Decorate Your
Glass (Better Yet…Let Your Guests Do It!)
Use
washable wine glass writers to decorate your flutes. I bought mine at Paper
Source and Crate & Barrel. Sharpie’s water-based gold and silver markers
for windows would work too. I saw those at Michael’s.
Rim
the flute with decorative gold or silver sugar. So sparkly!
Let
your guests make DIY-on-the-fly pipe cleaner drink charms
Concoct A Simple
Champagne Cocktail
Pineapple Upside Down Fizz
1/2
oz vanilla vodka + 1 oz pineapple juice. Top
with bubbly (Andre’s $4.99 Brut is the absolute best for this drink.)
Chocolate
Bliss Champagne
Pour
1/2 oz chilled chocolate vodka and top with cold champagne. Note: dairy-based
vodka makes this an ugly, not-so-great drink.Add
a strawberry or balance a skewered, sugared donut hole over the flute. I
cannot stress this enough. This drink is A-friggin-WESOME!
Fruit
Sorbet Champagne
Place
2-3 Tbsp of the sorbet flavor of your choice in the flute. Top
with champagne; allow the sorbet to melt for optimum flavor.
Champagne
Jell-o Shots
Nostalgia
Alert: This is a modified Jell-o Jiggler Recipe.Boil
1 cup of champagne along with 1 ½ cup of water. Add
peach, raspberry, or strawberry jell-o mix and stir for 3 minutes. SKIP
THE COLD WATER STEP.Pour
the jell-o into a brownie pan (8x8 or 9x9).Chill
in the refrigerator for 3-4 hours. Before
cutting into squares, run some warm water under the pan. Cut
into squares and top with gold or silver sugar sprinkles.
Go tropical
Fill the glass 2/3 full with champagne, and then top with orange-banana-pineapple juice, preferably the V-8 Fruit Fusion or Simply Orange. Garnish with an orange wedge/maraschino cherry flag.
Wow! See I told you this was the NYE gold mine!! And aren't her photos devine? Thanks so much for guest posting Renee!
I think I need to go pour myself a cocktail now :)
Cheers to 2015, my lovelies!!!
xoxo
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