Sparkling Cosmopolitan

Christmas with Southern Living, 2010

• Ready In: 15 mins
• Serves: 16

Ingredients

• 3  cups cranberry juice
• 1  cup vodka
• 1  cup triple sec
• 1⁄3 cup fresh lime juice
• 2 (750 ml) bottles  sparkling wine (chilled) or 2 (750 ml) bottles  champagne (chilled)
•  sugared cranberries

Directions

1. Stir together the first 4 ingredients in a large pitcher; chill until ready to serve.
2. Pour about 1/3 cup cranberry mixture into each of 16 champagne glasses.
3. Fill each glass with sparkling wine; garnish if desired.
4. *Sugared cranberries-roll fresh cranberries in light corn syrup; remove from syrup with a fork, shaking off excess; dredge in sugar, and let dry on a wire rack; thread several sugared cranberries on a wooden pick, and place in each glass.