Vanilla Cranberry Mimosa

This vanilla cranberry mimosa recipe is perfect for winter brunches, Christmas, and holiday and New Year’s Eve parties! This cocktail recipe only requires 3 ingredients and is very easy to make.

Do your plans for the holidays include any parties? Because I have found the perfect winter party cocktail!

I think every year I host some kind of holiday gathering. Whether it’s for book club or my family, I love any excuse to have guests over. Thankfully, the holidays give you many reasons to invite over your friends and family.

I also love making fun cocktails specifically for my gatherings. Sure, I could just open up some wine and leave it at that but I think it’s so much more fun to create a signature cocktail.

This year one of my signature cocktails is this fun and festive vanilla cranberry mimosa, made with sparkling wine.

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Vanilla Cranberry Mimosa

This super fun and easy cocktail consists of one of my all-time favorite flavor combinations – vanilla and cranberry. I often will order a cranberry and vanilla vodka when I am out on the town with my friends and that was the inspiration for this drink.

To prepare this easy winter drink, I like to use a cocktail shaker to chill the vanilla vodka and cranberry juice. If you don’t have one, no worries – just refrigerate all of your ingredients beforehand.

This cranberry mimosa is perfect if you’re looking for holiday drinks with vodka. Cranberry cocktails are fun year-round but they are especially great for Christmas.

Also, if you have a bottle of vanilla vodka laying around this is going to be your new go-to vanilla vodka cocktail.

Can this cocktail be made into a punch recipe?

Vanilla cranberry mimosas can easily be made into a holiday punch. All you have to do is multiply the cranberry juice and vanilla vodka by 6 and use an entire bottle of sparkling wine. From there, double or triple as necessary!

What sparkling wine should I use?

You can use champagne, prosecco, or cava in this drink. This guide to finding great sparkling wines that aren’t champagne is fantastic. I often use cava for sparkling wine cocktails because it is a little cheaper and just as delicious as champagne.

What Tools Do I Need?

You don’t need fancy tools for this recipe – just a cocktail shaker and some glasses. And if you don’t have a cocktail shaker, don’t fret.

A spoon works well too. (Stirred, not shaken!)

What type of glass should a mimosa be served in?

Speaking of glasses, you may be wondering what you should serve a vanilla cranberry mimosa in.

Champagne flutes are the go-to glass for mimosas. If you’re serving this cocktail at a party, you may want to consider getting plastic stemless flutes. There are a lot of really pretty options out there.

Another option is a wine glass. Again, I would recommend a plastic stemless glass for a party.

And if you’re in a pinch and you really want a cranberry mimosa, any old glass will do. Don’t forget – it’s your party.

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Looking for more fun and easy cocktails? Try my orange red wine spritzer

This apple cinnamon cranberry mimosa can easily be made into a fauxmosa!

or my recipe for winter sangria!