Non-Alcoholic Cocktails

Posted by Naomi Gabay

We focus a LOT on alcoholic cocktails on "Living Today." But why should drinkers have all the fun? Kids, pregnant women, designated drivers and those who choose to not drink should have tasty beverage options too! Today, Natalie Bovis-Nelsen shared some of her favorite non-alcoholic cocktails, or as she calls them, Preggatinis. Enjoy some with your family and friends this Fourth of July weekend!

All recipes all excerpted from "Preggatinis: Mixology for the Mom-To-Be."
Photo credit for all images: Claire Barrett

Watermelon Cooler
Ingredients:
4 ounces freshly juiced watermelon juice
1/2 ounce lemon juice
1 heaping teaspoon powdered sugar
6 leaves mint
2 ounces lemon lime soda
Lemonade ice cubes
Watermelon wedge

Directions:
1. Muddle mint, sugar and lemon juice in the bottom of a tall glass. Fill with lemonade ice cubes, add watermelon juice and top with soda water. Garnish with the watermelon wedge.

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Yankee Doodle Candy Cocktail
Ingredients:
1 package pop rocks
1 1/2 ounces mango juice
1 1/2 ounces pineapple juice
1/2 ounce lime juice
1/4 ounce grenadine
1 ounce Fre  Alcohol-Removed Brut sparkling wine

Directions:
1. Rim the champagne flute with pop rocks. Set aside. Pour juices into an ice-filled cocktail shaker, shake vigorously, then gently strain into the champagne flute. Slowly add the Fre Brut so it doesn’t fizz up over the rim of the glass. Last, slowly pour in the grenadine, allowing it to settle at the bottom of the glass, creating a layered effect.

The Betsy Ross
Ingredients:
3 ounces Fre Chardonnay
1 ounce white cranberry juice
1/2 ounce lemon juice
1/2 ounce blueberry syrup

Garnish:
Watermelon cocktail rimmer or decorative red sugar 2 blueberries with 1 small white marshmallow in-between them on a skewer

Directions:
1. Rub the rim of a martini glass with a lime wedge, holding the glass upside down. Then, dip the whole rim of the glass into the watermelon cocktail rimmer. Set aside.

2. Pour Fre Chardonnay, white cranberry juice and lemon juice into a cocktail shaker. Fill with ice, then shake vigorously. Gently strain the mixture into the rimmed martini glass. Drizzle the blueberry syrup into the drink, allowing it to settle at the bottom of the glass. Lay blue-and-white fruit & marshmallow skewer across the red-rimmed martini glass.