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Gotta Wear Shades
[Photograph: Brian Oh]
This recipe from Josh Berner of Ripple in Washington, DC yields a simple, citrusy variation of the classic Champagne cocktail.
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About This Recipe
| Yield: | makes 1 cocktail |
| Active time: | 10 minutes |
| Total time: | 1 hour 10 minutes |
| Special equipment: | silicone candy molds or mini metal ice cube tray |
| This recipe appears in: | Celebrate with These 5 Sparkling Cocktail Recipes from D.C. Bartenders |
Ingredients
- For the Orange Sugar Cubes:
- 2 cups sugar
- 4 tablespoons orange juice (no pulp)
- For Each Cocktail:
- 1 orange sugar cube
- 1 dash cherry bitters (such as Fee Brothers or Bittercube Cherry Bark Vanilla Bitters)
- Sparkling wine
- Garnish: strands of shaved pear
Procedures
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1
For the orange sugar cubes: Mix the sugar and orange juice in a bowl until evenly distributed. Pour the mix into a metal mini ice cube tray or silicone candy mold and bake in oven at 200°F until hard and dry, about 1 hour. Let cool.
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2
For each cocktail, place one orange sugar cube into flute glass. Add cherry bitters, top with sparkling wine. Garnish with strands of shaved pear.