Champagne Cocktail

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This classic Champagne Cocktail is a drink to impress, in fact this is the ultimate black tie or romantic dinner drink. Making this simple, and yet decadent cocktail of champagne laced with cognac or brandy is perfect for special occasions – particularly as there is no fiddling around with cocktail shakers or messing around behind a bar. Elegant is a word most often used to describe this cocktail.

Champagne Cocktail Recipe

Ingredients: Makes 1 Drink:

  • 1 white sugar cube
  • 1 dash of Angostura Bitters (two or three drops)
  • 1 measure of Cognac or Brandy (1fld oz. 35ml)
  • chilled Champagne to fill the glass (approx (100ml)

Directions: Into chilled champagne flute carefully drop in one sugar cube which has been saturated with a dash of bitters. Pour over one measure of brandy, and top up with chilled Champagne.

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