Ring In The New Year With Celebratory Cocktail Recipes

As the clock strikes midnight, remember to toast to a happy and healthy New Year with your drink of choice.

For those who are looking to responsibly enjoy an adult beverage, celebrity caterer Andrea Correale, of Elegant Affairs Catering in Glen Cove, has mixed up four unique cocktails perfect for a New Year's celebration, or any type of party.

Below are the recipes for:

• Winter Blue
• Limoncello Rum Collins
• Midnight Kiss
• Sparkling Blood Orange Cocktail

Here are the recipes, courtesy of Correale:

Winter Blue

Ingredients:

• 1 ounce vodka
• 1 ounce blue curacao
• 4 oz. Lemonade

Instructions:

1. Fill a glass with ice and pour in your vodka and curacao.
2. Top the rest of the way with lemonade.
3. Garnish with a wedge of lemon.

Limoncello Rum Collins

Ingredients:

• 1.5 oz. Oronoco Rum
• 3 lime wedges
• 3 oz. Fresh lime juice
• 1 Dash of Simple Syrup
• 1 Dash of Limoncello

Instructions:

1. Combine 2 fresh cut lime wedges, lime juice, Oronoco, Limoncello and simple syrup with crushed ice.
2. Shake vigorously and strain into a Collins glass over fresh carved ice cubes.
3. Garnish with a lime wedge and a stick of sugar cane.

Midnight Kiss

Ingredients:

• 1 ½ oz. peppermint vodka
• ½ oz. vanilla vodka
• 4 oz. champagne
• 1 tsp cup crushed peppermint candies
• 1 jar gold sprinkles for garnish

Instructions:

1. Rim champagne flute with peppermint vodka, dip into gold sprinkles.
2. Pour ½ oz. vanilla vodka 1 oz. peppermint vodka into flute.
3. Add with 1 tsp crushed peppermint candies.
4. Top off with 4 oz. of your favorite champagne.

Sparkling Blood Orange Cocktail

Ingredients:

• ¼ cup crème de cassis
• 1 ½ cups strained fresh blood orange juice
• 1 750-ml bottle chilled sparking white wine
• 8 blood orange slices

Instructions:

1. Start with 1 ½ teaspoons crème de cassis.
2. Add 3 tbsp. blood orange juice to each glass.
3. Fill each glass with sparkling white wine, then stir gently.
4. Garnish cocktails with slices of blood orange.

About Correale:

Correale has been catering elaborate events for more than 20 years. She has catered events for celebrities, including L.A. Reid, Mariah Carey, Russel Simmons, Kevin Spacey, Billy Joel, Jimmy Fallon and Liam Neeson.

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