November Cocktail of the Month: Cranberry Champagne Cocktail

Ingredients

1-ounce cranberry juice (sweetened)

1 wedge lime

Champagne or sparkling wine

Cranberries (frozen)

How-to

In a chilled Champagne flute add cranberry juice and a squeeze of lime. Top off the glass with Champagne. Garnish with 3 or 4 cranberries.

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The zombie...a cocktail

1 oz. apricot brandy

1 oz. light rum

1 oz. dark or Jamaican rum

1 oz. lime juice

2 dashes grenadine

Orange juice

1 oz. Bacardi 151 rum

Mix light and dark rum and brandy in a cocktail shaker, add lime juice and grenadine. Shake well and strain into a highball glass filled with cracked ice. Fill glass with orange juice but leave enough room to float the 151 on top. Garnish with a cherry and orange slice.

Legend is, Hollywood restaurant owner Donn Beach created the drink to help a hung-over customer get through a meeting. Later, the customer complained that he'd been a zombie his whole trip.

This recipe from The Cooking Channel.

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