Festive Mocktails!

Pink grapefruit ‘margaritas’

2 tablespoons coloured icing sugar

1 lime

6 teaspoons pomegranate syrup or grenadine

1 ½ cups pink-grapefruit juice

Place icing sugar in a shallow dish or plate. Slice six thin rounds from the middle of lime; set aside. Rub lime wedge around rims of six glasses; dip each rim in sugar to coat. Pour 1 teaspoon pomegranate syrup into bottom of each glass.

Place grapefruit juice and 2 cups ice cubes in a blender. Process on high speed until ice is crushed. Pour frozen mixture into martini glasses, and stir to combine with syrup. Garnish with reserved lime rounds or fresh seasonal berries, and serve immediately.

Fruity Father Christmas punch

250g strawberries halved

60g raspberries

75g blueberries

1 ripe kiwifruit, peeled, finely chopped

2 cups cranberry juice

2 cups of raspberry juice

4 cups chilled lemonade

2 cups chilled pineapple juice

1/4 cup fresh mint leaves

Divide the strawberries, raspberries, blueberries and kiwifruit evenly among 2 ice-cube trays. Cover with cold water and place in the freezer for 4 hours or overnight until set.

Combine the fruit juice, lemonade and pineapple juice in a large serving jug. Add the ice cubes and mint, and stir to combine. Serve immediately.

Bellini Cocktail

1/4 cup peach nectar, chilled

3/4 cup ginger ale, chilled

1/4 cup fresh fruit or berries of your choice

Pour peach nectar evenly between two champagne glasses. Top with ginger ale and fresh fruit berries. Serve immediately and enjoy.

Shirley temple

4 tbsp grenadine syrup

2 cups ginger ale

1 Maraschino cherry

Pop Rocks (optional)

Rim glass with pink Pop Rocks. Add grenadine syrup to ginger ale. Garnish with a maraschino cherry

Sparkling sangria

4 cups black grape juice

1 plum

1 peach

2 clementines or mandarins

6-8 strawberries

2 cups ginger ale

A bunch of mint

Quarter plum and peach, and remove pits. Place fruit in a large pitcher.

Remove peel from clementines, halve, and place in pitcher.

Remove greens from berries, halve, and place in pitcher.

Cover with grape juice. Stir well, and let sit in the fridge for 1-2 hours (or more).

Mix with ginger ale and add mint just before serving.

Snuggles on the beach

1/3 cup cranberry juice

¼ cup grapefruit juice

40 mL peach nectar

2 teaspoons of grenadine

¼ cup of ginger ale

Throw everything in a highball glass with ice. Stir. Garnish with an orange round and some cherries. Drink up! Feel free to increase the quantity to make enough for the entire party or tweak the ingredient amounts to your taste.

Nojito

12 to 14 small mint leaves or 6-8 big ones

30 ml fresh lime juice

2 tablespoons brown sugar

120 ml of sparkling mineral water

Put the mint leaves, lime juice and brown sugar in a tall cocktail glass and muddle the leaves. Fill the glass with ice cubes and add the mineral water. Stir to mix up the sugar. Garnish with another mint sprig.

Mockmosa

2 parts orange juice

3 parts dry sparkling white grape juice

Mint (optional)

Pour the orange juice into a flute glass and then pour the sparkling white grape juice. Optionally, you can garnish with a mint sprig.

Virgin Mary

1 litre tomato juice, chilled

2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce

1 teaspoon Tabasco sauce

2 cups ice cubes

1 lemon, quartered

Salt and pepper

4 celery stalks and Tabasco sauce (optional), to serve

Combine tomato juice, Worcestershire sauce and Tabasco in a jug. Divide ice between 4 glasses. Squeeze 1 lemon quarter into each glass. Place squeezed quarter in each in a high ball glass. Top with juice mixture. Season with salt and pepper. Serve with celery and extra Tabasco (if using)

Recipes sourced from: https://www.nofasd.org.au/alcohol-and-pregnancy/mocktails/