Christmas Mimosa Recipe

•Posted: Dec 7, 2023

This Christmas Mimosa Recipe is perfect for your holiday cocktail hours and brunches! A beautiful, layered cocktail that tastes as good as it looks!

You can make this mimosa recipe using our Homemade Amaretto recipe! Of course, store bought is fine but homemade is always best!

A Mimosa Recipe For The Holidays

Champagne cocktails are a go to drink for the holidays. That’s because champagne always feels like a party, even if it’s not. This Christmas Mimosa Recipe is no exception to the rule, it looks as good as it tastes.

This mimosa recipe is a delicious brunch cocktail, but it’s also great for serving in the evening at your cocktail party or Christmas party, even works for New Year’s Eve or Valentine’s Day.

How Do You Make A Christmas Mimosa?

Typically a mimosa recipe is made from just champagne and orange juice. There are, of course, lots of variations, but those are the basic ingredients.

Add champagne or prosecco, orange juice and Amaretto to a wide mouthed champagne glass (a coupe style glass).
Slowly pour in the grenadine and it will settle to the bottom of the glass. Serve layered or swirl with a cocktail spoon to combine.

Variations

Mimosas are fun drinks to play around with, you can even set out different flavors for parties and holidays. Try using flavored orange juice like a mango orange juice or a pineapple orange juice.

Instead of Amaretto which has a slightly almond flavor, you can use Cointreau which has an orange flavor. To customize this mimosa recipe for different holidays or parties, you can use different colored syrups like green for St. Patrick’s Day or blue for Hanukkah.

Is It Better To Use Champagne Or Prosecco in A Mimosa?

This is a tough question, because to be honest there isn’t a correct answer here. The answer is that you should use whatever you like to drink.

If you have champagne taste but a beer budget, you might want to find a good bottle of prosecco, especially if you’re making these mimosas for a crowd. There are some great brands of prosecco out there so don’t be afraid to try some.

These days I do tend to prefer champagne to prosecco because I find champagne to be drier than prosecco – and I also prefer the flavor. However, champagne doesn’t have to be crazy expensive either. One of my go-to bottles of champagne for making mimosas is about 20 dollars, so do a little taste testing and find a bottle that you like.

How To Serve These Mimosas

You can serve these Christmas Mimosas as is, beautifully layered, or stirred. We like to serve them layered for the presentation and then let our friends choose.

You will get a burst of sweet flavor from the grenadine syrup at the end or your mimosa if you leave it layered. Stirring the mimosa to combine the syrup into the cocktail will yield a sweet flavor all throughout the drink.

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