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40 Elegant and Easy Prosecco Cocktail Recipes

Fact: A little bit of sparkling prosecco will make any drink a lot more festive. Whip up one of these simple, bubbly cocktail recipes the next time you need to impress your girlfriends. Or your in-laws. Or heck, yourself. Whether you need a crowd-pleasing pomegranate and orange punch for a New Year’s Eve bash or some refreshing prosecco pineapple sorbet floats for a summer brunch, here are 40 prosecco cocktails for every occasion.

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1. Blackberry Prosecco Mojitos

  • Time Commitment: 15 minutes
  • Why I Love It: ready in <30 minutes, crowd-pleaser
  • Serves: 2

Complete with homemade blackberry simple syrup. Prosecco makes this classic cocktail twice as refreshing (but don't worry—the recipe still calls for rum).

2. Prosecco Pineapple Sorbet Floats

  • Time Commitment: 10 minutes
  • Why I Love It: ready in <15 minutes, crowd-pleaser
  • Serves: 6

Bust out the blender to whip up this tropical sipper, which tastes even better when enjoyed poolside. Did we mention the three-ingredient pineapple sorbet is made from scratch?

3. Pomegranate and Orange Punch

  • Time Commitment: 4 hours, 20 minutes
  • Why I Love It: <10 ingredients, crowd-pleaser
  • Serves: 12

Festive ice cubes with pomegranate seeds and mint leaves add an extra wow factor. This one’s got holiday cocktail written all over it. Makes a great pairing with a fancy appetizer!

4. Cranberry-Mint Holiday Punch

  • Time Commitment: 1 hour, 40 minutes
  • Why I Love It: <10 ingredients, make ahead, crowd-pleaser
  • Serves: 15

This large-batch cocktail with festive cranberry, zesty orange juice and plenty of bubbles will keep the coupes full without any fuss. . Now that’s how you bring good cheer.

5. Frozen Aperol Spritz

  • Time Commitment: 10 minutes
  • Why I Love It: ready in <15 minutes, <10 ingredients
  • Serves: 1

It’s one part boozy, two parts refreshing and 100 percent our new favorite summer drink.

6. Grapefruit Prosecco Cocktail

  • Time Commitment: 5 minutes
  • Why I Love It: <10 ingredients, ready in <15 minutes
  • Serves: 4

With only four ingredients, it’s impossible to mess this one up. (Use freshly squeezed grapefruit juice for major bonus points.)

7. Bourbon Apple Cider Fizz Cocktail

  • Time Commitment: 20 minutes
  • Why I Love It: ready in <30 minutes, special occasion-worthy, <10 ingredients
  • Serves: 1

This is the cocktail equivalent of your coziest winter sweater, and all you need is a couple of ingredients (bourbon, apple cider syrup, lemon juice, cranberries and cinnamon sticks) to whip it up.

8. St. Germain Cocktail

  • Time Commitment: 3 minutes
  • Why I Love It: beginner-friendly, ready in <15 minutes, <10 ingredients
  • Serves: 1

St. Germain is an elderflower liqueur. With notes of grapefruit, pear, lemon and jasmine, it’s the ideal complement to a splash of bubbly prosecco.

9. Raspberry Limoncello Prosecco

  • Time Commitment: 5 minutes
  • Why I Love It: ready in <15 minutes, crowd-pleaser
  • Serves: 6

Tart, sweet and bubbly, this cocktail has it all. Oh and it's ready in just 5 minutes.

10. Sparkling Apple Sangria

Time Commitment: 2 hours, 10 minutes
Why We Love It: beginner-friendly, crowd-pleaser
Serves: 6

Think of it like sparkling apple juice…for adults. We'll take two please.

11. Grapefruit Cardamom Gin Fizz

  • Time Commitment: 20 minutes
  • Why I Love It: ready in <20 minutes
  • Serves: 2

Warm cardamon and earthy rosemary make an elegant pair for gin and prosecco, don’t you think?

12. Lemon Raspberry Sorbet Prosecco Floats

  • Time Commitment: 10 minutes
  • Why I Love It: beginner-friendly, ready in <15 minutes
  • Serves: 2

We’ll be eating our ice cream with a side of bubbly booze from now on, please and thank you.

13. Fresh Bellini Cocktail

  • Time Commitment: 45 minutes
  • Why I Love It: beginner-friendly, <10 ingredients
  • Serves: 5

Brunch called, and it’s bored of the same old mimosas. Switch things up with fresh, sweet peach juice.

14. Strawberry Thyme Lillet Spritzers

  • Time Commitment: 5 minutes
  • Why I Love It: ready in <15 minutes, <10 ingredients, beginner-friendly
  • Serves: 2

Pretty as a painting, with soft herbal notes on the finish.

15. Prosecco Margaritas

  • Time Commitment: 10 minutes
  • Why I Love It: special occasion-worthy
  • Serves: 2

Make this crowd-pleasing, big-batch recipe ahead of time for the easiest fiesta ever.

16. Grapefruit Mimosa

  • Time Commitment: 5 minutes
  • Why I Love It: ready in <15 minutes
  • Serves: 6

Tart, crisp and goes oh so well with practically any brunch recipe.

17. Watermelon Mint Punch

  • Time Commitment: 10 minutes
  • Why I Love It: crowd-pleaser, ready in <15 minutes
  • Serves: 14

This party punch is summer in a glass. (And no, you don't need to make the watermelon juice fresh although you have if you want to.)

18. Spiced Blood Orange Champagne Punch

  • Time Commitment: 25 minutes
  • Why I Love It: special occasion-worthy
  • Serves: 5

Serve at breakfast or even before dinner... we won't judge.

19. Blood Orange Mule

  • Time Commitment: 10 minutes
  • Why I Love It: ready in <15 minutes, crowd-pleaser
  • Serves: 8

Ginger beer + fresh blood orange juice + topped with sparkling prosecco = not your average mule.

20. French 75

  • Time Commitment: 5 minutes
  • Why I Love It: make ahead, ready in <15 minutes
  • Serves: 1

Prep everything but the prosecco ahead of time, then top with bubbly when company arrives.

21. Apple Cider Champagne Cocktail

  • Time Commitment: 5 minutes
  • Why I Love It: ready in <15 minutes, <10 ingredients
  • Serves: 2

Bottles of bubbly aren't only for summer. This three-ingredient prosecco cocktail is meant to be sipped on a crisp fall day.

22. Raspberry-Lime Champagne Punch

  • Time Commitment: 25 minutes
  • Why I Love It: crowd-pleaser, ready in <30 minutes
  • Serves: 8

Thanks to the sweet-tart combo of raspberry and lime, you won't notice the vodka in this punch. Consider yourself warned.

23. Fig Honey Thyme Prosecco Smash

  • Time Commitment: 10 minutes
  • Why I Love It: special occasion-worthy, ready in <15 minutes
  • Serves: 4

Elderflower liquor turns this autumnal cocktail up a notch.

24. Pineapple Prosecco Punch

  • Time Commitment: 5 minutes
  • Why I Love It: crowd-pleaser, ready in <15 minutes
  • Serves: 8

Serve with a beach chair and dose of sunshine.

25. Balsamic Peach Spritz

  • Time Commitment: 5 minutes
  • Why I Love It: beginner-friendly, ready in <15 minutes
  • Serves: 1

Balsamic vinegar adds a tart splash to this sweet, bubbly drink.

26. Grilled Pineapple-Strawberry Lemonade Prosecco Sangria

  • Time Commitment: 2 hours, 18 minutes
  • Why I Love It: crowd-pleaser, beginner-friendly
  • Serves: 8

Grilling pineapple brings out the fruit's natural sugars. Serve it with one of these backyard eats.

27. Aperol Spritz

  • Time Commitment: 5 minutes
  • Why I Love It: ready in <15 minutes, <10 ingredients, beginner-friendly
  • Serves: 1

You can't go wrong with a classic.

28. Amaro Spritz

  • Time Commitment: 5 minutes
  • Why I Love It: ready in <15 minutes
  • Serves: 1

Or swap the Aperol for a less sweet, more bitter apéritif—the difference is night and day.

29. Kir Royale

  • Time Commitment: 2 minutes
  • Why I Love It: beginner-friendly, ready in <15 minutes, <10 ingredients
  • Serves: 1

You had us at berry liqueur. (This tipple is traditionally made with Champagne, but prosecco also works just fine—just make sure you choose a dry one.)

30. Apple Cider Prosecco Spritz

  • Time Commitment: 5 minutes
  • Why I Love It: ready in <15 minutes, <10 ingredients
  • Serves: 1

Is that a crackling fire we hear? No, it’s just the fizz of a splash of prosecco.

31. Peach Melba Raspberry Rosé Bellini Cocktail

  • Time Commitment: 10 minutes
  • Why I Love It: crowd-pleaser, ready in <15 minutes
  • Serves: 6

It’s a mouthful in the best way possible. (Bonus: You can easily make it in a big batch.)

32. Holiday Cheermeister Bourbon Punch

  • Time Commitment: 10 minutes
  • Why I Love It: crowd-pleaser, ready in <15 minutes
  • Serves: 8

With a name like “Cheermeister,” how could you not enjoy it?

33. Hugo Spritz

  • Time Commitment: 5 minutes
  • Why I Love It: ready in <15 minutes, <10 ingredients
  • Serves: 1

What is a Hugo Spritz, you ask? It's basically like an Italian vacay to Florence, in a glass. With mint, lime, elderflower liqueur and prosecco, the Hugo lacks bitterness when compared to its Aperol cousin and contains a lower alcohol volume too. 

34. Sparkling Citrus Lillet Prosecco Punch

  • Time Commitment: 10 minutes
  • Why I Love It: crowd-pleaser, special occasion–worthy, <10 ingredients
  • Serves: 4

With fresh citrus juice, Lillet Rosé and prosecco, this not-to-sweet sip is what dreams are made of.

35. Sparkling Mint Pomegranate Champagne Cocktail

  • Time Commitment: 15 minutes
  • Why I Love It: crowd-pleaser, beginner-friendly
  • Serves: 10

While the recipe *technically* calls for Champagne, using prosecco is just fine.

36. Fig Prosecco Cocktail

  • Time Commitment: 10 minutes
  • Why I Love It: <30 minutes, beginner-friendly
  • Serves: 2

While New Year's may come to mind for this, you can enjoy it year-round. Fig liqueur and amaretto are the ingredients that make it sing.

37. Raspberry Prosecco Ice Pops

  • Time Commitment: 3 hours
  • Why I Love It: crowd-pleaser, vegan
  • Serves: 8 to 10

OK, not technically a drink, but these prosecco-infused suckers can totally deliver a buzz.

38. Sparkling Sake Cocktail

  • Time Commitment: 5 minutes
  • Why I Love It: beginner-friendly, ready in <15 minutes, <10 ingredients
  • Serves: 2

Unique and seriously satisfying, this four-ingredient sipper is bound to impress.

39.  Strawberry Champagne Mojito

  • Time Commitment: 45 minutes
  • Why I Love It: <10 ingredients, special occasion-worthy
  • Serves: 2

Yes, Champagne is in the name, but swap for prosecco instead.

40. Holiday Prosecco Cocktails

  • Time Commitment: 14 minutes
  • Why I Love It: crowd-pleaser, ready in <15 minutes
  • Serves: 6

Apple cider, caramel and and prosecco combine to make this highly festive concoction. And while the crushed candy cane rim is optional, it does take this seasonal sipper up a notch.

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