Golden Popping Grape
The Golden Popping Grape combines sweet grapes, bubbly champagne, a splash of citrus, and playful popping candy for a fun, refreshing, and celebratory drink.
Ingredients
Cocktail Ingredients
- 6-8 Green Grapes
- ½ oz St. Germain Elderflower Liqueur (1 tbsp)
- ½ oz Fresh Lemon Juice ( 1 tbsp)
- 1 bottle Champagne
Sugar Popping Candy Coating for Grapes (Garnish)
- 24 Green Grapes Use as many grapes as you'd like for garnishing
- ¼ cup Sugar
- 2 tablespoon Water
- 1 package Popping Candy (I used fruit punch flavor)
- 1 pinch Edible Gold Dust
- Sugar additional for coating
Instructions
Sugar Popping Candy Coating for Grapes
- Start by prepping the candy coating for the grapes ahead of time so the grapes can harden before you need them for the cocktail.
- Add the sugar and the water to a small saucepan over medium heat until dissolved and fully combined.
- Take the sugar mixture off of the heat and let it cool for a couple minutes
- Add 2-3 grapes in the mixture at a time to coat the grapes and leave to dry on a baking rack. Finish with all of your grapes.
- Once the grapes have been sitting for 5-10 minutes they will become slightly sticky to the touch. Add some sugar, popping candy, and gold dust to a shallow dish. Mix it together, this will be the exterior coating to the grapes.
- Take one grape from the baking rack at a time and roll it in the dry mixture of the sugar, gold dust, and popping candy. Coat it well and then place back on the baking rack. Let the sugar dusted fruit dry completely, an additional 30/40 minutes before using as a garnish.
- Repeat this step with all of your grapes you are using as a garnish.
Golde Popping Grape
- Add some of your fresh uncoated green grapes, fresh lemon juice, and the elderflower liqueur to a cocktail shaker.
- Using a muddle tool or the back of a wooden spoon crush and muddle the grapes together with the lemon and elderflower liqueur. Once muddled, add some ice to your shake and shake well to blend all the ingredients together while chilling at the same time.
- Using the strainer on the cap, pour the muddled grape mixture into your champagne glass.
- Top the grape citrus elderflower mixture with Champagne or Prosecco.
- Slice one of your sugar-coated grapes to sit it on the rim of the glass or use a cocktail pick to load up some of the sugar-coated grapes to lay across each drink.
- Be sure to eat 12 lucky grapes (coated or uncoated) at midnight with your delicious golden popping grape cocktail. Centanni!
Notes
-This drink can easily be made without Champagne for a refreshing mocktail toast! Swap the champagne for sparkling grape juice and use an elderflower syrup that is alcohol-free.
-Don't have Champagne, but have Prosecco? That will work just as good!
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