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New Year's: Blood Orange Champagne Cocktail

Source of Recipe


Bon Appétit, December 2007



List of Ingredients



• ¼ cup crème de cassis (black-currant liqueur)
  
• 1½ cups strained fresh blood orange juice (from about 6 oranges)
  
• 1 (750-ml) bottle chilled brut Champagne or dry sparkling wine
  
• 8 blood orange slices (optional)
  






Instructions



1. Spoon 1½ teaspoons crème de cassis into each of 8 Champagne flutes or other glasses. Add 3 tablespoons juice to each glass. Fill each glass with Champagne, then stir gently. Garnish cocktails with slices of blood orange, if desired.
   
   Makes 8 servings.