No Mother’s Day brunch is complete without a champagne cocktail! This blackberry champagne cocktail is beautiful and brightly colored, with fresh blackberries lending the purple hue. No matter what you serve, this refreshing cocktail will look great next to it.

Blackberry Champagne Cocktail

3/4 oz. blackberry simple syrup (recipe below)
1-1.5 oz. gin (depending on how strong Mom likes her drinks)
Sparkling wine
Fresh blackberries for garnish

Put two blackberries in a champagne flute. Pour in blackberry simple syrup and gin, then carefully top off with sparkling wine.

Blackberry Simple Syrup

1 cup water
1 cup sugar
1 basket of blackberries

Bring all ingredients to a boil. Strain into a container, pressing the blackberries to push juice through the stainer.

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One way to show your Mom she raised you right is to treat her to a homemade brunch!

Here are some wonderful brunch and champagne cocktail recipes to show your Mom that you love her.

Celebrate your Mom with a champagne toast and tasty meal.
Happy Mother’s Day!

Champagne Cocktail Recipes

Blackberry Champagne Cocktail
The Happy Mom
Mimosa
Kir Royale
Orangecello Champagne Cocktail
Blood Orange Bellini
French Revolution
Malibu Sparkler
Mama’s Malibu Martini
Ultimate Indulgence
Mumitini

and for some fun - Hollywood MILFs & the cocktails that love them

Mother’s Day Brunch Recipes

Eggs Benedict
Apple Baked French Toast
Pear and Ricotta Blintzes
Melon Sorbet
Strawberry Honey-Mascarpone Tart

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It’s Fashion Week! And after seeing all the latest trends on the runway, it’s time for the fashion mavens and celebrities to hit the bar.

Basil Hayden’s shared the special recipe concocted for the Cynthia Rowley show this week. So those of us who aren’t hobnobbing with the glitterati in New York City this week can have a taste of the glamor no matter what we’re wearing.

Bourbon and champagne? With strawberry? I’m all over it.

Basil Hayden Wish
1 oz. Basil Hayden bourbon
1/2 oz. DeKuyper Luscious Strawberry Patch
1/2 oz. Fresh Lemon Sour
Champagne
Shake all but champagne and strain into a chilled champagne flute. Top with champagne and serve with a small fresh strawberry on the rim.

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Photo and recipe courtesy of Basil Hayden’s
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Happy Valentine’s Day! We assembled some fun Valentine’s Day links to some of our favorites.

Why? Because we love our readers!

Cheers!

How to Open a Champagne Bottle with a Sword- Drinks After Dark
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Dark Chocolate Raspberry Kisses
Classic Romantic Cocktails - About.com
Chocolate & Whisky - Stotch Chix
Maker’s Mark Bourbon Chocolates

Valentine’s Day Cocktails

A cocktail made with Port? Why not?

The Sweetheart Sparkler from Sandeman’s is a delightful combination of fine port and fine sparking wine (or champagne). Perfect for your Valentine Sweetheart.

Sandeman’s Sweetheart Sparkler

1 part Founders Reserve Porto
3 parts Sparkling wine

Serve in a chilled champagne flute. Add sparkling wine and top with the port.

recipe & photo courtesy Sandeman’s

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Created by owner Giovanni DeNigris at Trattoria Trullo in Chicago, this Valentine’s Day cocktail owes itself to one man’s undying love and passion for a beautiful woman (or at least the Campari).

As the story goes, Davide Campari, the youngest son of Campari’s creator, fell madly in love with one of Italy’s most popular opera singers, Lina Cavalieri, in the early 1900s. Davide met Lina after she had modeled for one of Campari’s groundbreaking advertisements. He fell so deeply in love with the opera singer that he decided to follow her to Nice and then eventually on an international opera tour Having worked for his Father, Davide established export markets for Campari across the globe as he followed his true-heart’s desire from city to city.

Campari Sparkling Passion

2 oz Campari
2 oz Prosecco
1 oz Grapefruit Juice
Splash Passion Fruit Puree
Served in a champagne flute

Shake all ingredients together and strain into an ice cold fluted glass.
Garnish with raspberries, orange and fresh mint on a tooth pick.

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recipe & photo courtesy Campari

This sinful creation from Godvia Liqueur is the perfect accompaniment to our Chocolate covered Strawberries. You’ll make great marks by turning a simple glass of Champagne into a decadent cocktail of rick chocolaty goodness.

Godiva Royale

2 oz. Godiva Original Liqueur
4 oz. Champagne (Moët & Chandon White Star recommended)
2 Chocolate covered Strawberries

Pour 1 ounce of Godiva Original Liqueur in each of two champagne flutes. Fill with champagne. Garnish each with a chocolate-dipped strawberry.

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photo and recipe courtesy: Godiva Liqueur