Cranberry Orange Holiday Mimosas

Ingredients

• 4 cups orange juice
• 1 bottle prosecco
• 3 cups vanilla vodka chilled (if your remember) or just the whole bottle
• 2 cups amaretto (this is 1/2 the small bottle)
• Frozen Cranberries
• Cranberry Simple Syrup

Steps

Mimosas

1. In a large pitcher combine orange juice, vodka, amaretto and prosecco (you can also keep the prosecco separate and top each drink individually).
2. Pour into glasses with ice and stir in 1 1/2 tbsp simple syrup.
3. Top with frozen cranberries.

Cranberry Simple Syrup from Whole Cranberries

Ingredients

. 1 12 ounce bag cranberries

• 1 cup sugar
• 1 cup water

Steps

1. In a medium sauce pan bring all ingredients to a boil.
2. Reduce heat and cook stirring frequently for 10 minutes.
3. Strain mixture through a fine mesh strainer, pressing on solids to extract liquids.

Cranberry Simple Syrup from Leftover Cranberry Orange Relish

Note 1: This is a great way to kill off the cranberry sauce that is a required Thanksgiving staple but no one actually eats.

Note 2: This makes more of a paste than a syrup but it still works great.

Ingredients

1. 1 to 2 cups of the left over cranberry orange relish from Thanksgiving that no one eats besides you and maybe one other holiday guest.
2. 1/2 cup sugar to taste
3. 1 cup water

Steps

1. Bring all ingredients to a boil and cook for 10 minutes.
2. Let cool completely. This is important; I didn’t and got a nasty burn.
3. Process in a blender until smooth.