Champagne Snowball

Name: Champagne Snowball
Prep time: 3 min
Total time: 3 min
Yield: 1 serving
Cuisine: European
Ingredients: Dry sparkling wine — 60 ml (2 oz); Fino sherry — 30 ml (1 oz); Lime cordial — 15 ml (1/2 oz); Advocaat liqueur — 60 ml (2 oz)

A creamy, sour and bubbly cocktail ∙ Shake ∙ 3 min ∙ 9.4% ABV ∙

The Champagne Snowball is advocaat, fino sherry and lime cordial shaken and strained over dry sparkling wine in a flute, dusted with cacao powder.

Ingredients

Servings

Garnish

Instructions for 1 serving

Pre-chill a glass
Pour into the chilled glass: Dry sparkling wine 60 ml
Shake the remaining 3 ingredients with ice: Fino sherry 30 mlLime cordial 15 mlAdvocaat liqueur 60 ml
Fine strain over sparkling wine in the glass
Express a lime twist over the cocktail and discard
Garnish with a dusting of cacao powder over the cocktail

Tips

Advocaat is thick and eggy, so shake hard for a full 10-12 seconds; a short shake leaves it sitting heavy at the bottom of the flute.

History

The Champagne Snowball is a sparkling-wine reworking of the classic British Snowball, a drink thought to have originated in Britain in the late 1940s or early 1950s and to have peaked in popularity in the 1970s, when it was typically made with advocaat and lemonade. The Champagne Snowball trades that lemonade for dry sparkling wine and adds sherry and lime cordial to the advocaat base as a more refined take on the retro original.