3 Sparkling New Year’s Eve cocktails

Forget a New Year’s kiss! Start the first of the first with a bang, pop and sizzle thanks to three New Year’s Eve cocktails that will sparkle as brightly as the midnight fireworks.

Good news, everyone! This year your New Year’s Eve cocktail menu will be the talk of the town. We’ve come up with three easy-to-make — yet irresistible — cocktails that will put a little bang, pop and sizzle into your party. With ingredients like cranberries, honey and thyme, a sleek countenance and a seductive taste, they might just overshadow the Times Square ball drop.

Honey rosemary martini

Serving size 1

Ingredients:

• 30 millilitres vodka
• 15 millilitres Goldwasser
• 2 tablespoons honey
• 3 sprigs of rosemary
• 1/2 cup hot water

Directions:

1. Add the honey and two sprigs of rosemary to the hot water, stir, and allow the mixture to cool.
2. Pour the vodka and Goldwasser into a martini glass.
3. Top with the rosemary and honey mixture.
4. Garnish with a sprig of rosemary.

Cranberry and thyme ginger fizz

Serving size 1

Ingredients:

• A handful of cranberries
• 4 sprigs of thyme
• 2 teaspoons lime juice
• 30 millilitres gin
• 120 millilitres cranberry juice
• 50 millilitres ginger ale
• Ice

Directions:

1. In a Boston shaker, use a muddler to bruise the cranberries, lime juice and thyme.
2. Pour the gin, cranberry juice and ice on top, shake, and pour into a highball glass.
3. Top with ginger ale.

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Lime and elderflower sparkler

Serving size 1

Ingredients:

• 1/2 a lime
• 10 millilitres elderflower syrup
• 100 millilitres Champagne or sparkling wine
• A sprig of thyme for garnish

Directions:

1. Squeeze the lime into a Champagne flute.
2. Pour the elderflower syrup into the flute, and stir to combine the two.
3. Top with Champagne or sparkling wine, and garnish with a sprig of thyme.

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