State Has Non-Alcoholic Drink Recipes to Keep New Year's Eve Safe

Want to toast in the New Year without risking a DUI in the process?

The California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control has some recipes that are likely to please while helping keep flashing lights out of your rearview mirror.

With drinks like Fuzzy Noel, Tommy O'Collins and Bald Bishop, officials at the department think grownups will have a great time whipping up these non-alcoholic mixes.

Fuzzy Noel

Ingredients

• ? cup peach sorbet?
• 1/3 cup orange juice
• 1 cup sparking water?
• 3/8 teaspoon almond extract
• Crushed ice

Directions

1. Blend sorbet, juice and extract until smooth.
2. Stir in sparkling water.
3. Pour over crushed ice and serve.

Virgin Bloody Mary

Ingredients

• 1 can tomato juice?
• 1 ounce lime juice
• 3 ounces club soda?
• 3 dashes of Worcestershire sauce
• 2 pinches cumin powder?
• 1 shake of celery salt
• 1 teaspoon horseradish

Directions

1. Mix all ingredients except club soda into a large pitcher.
2. Salt the rim of a highball glass.
3. Add club soda to glass, then add the Bloody Mary Mix (from step 1).
4. Garnish with celery stalk and top with lemon pepper. (Recipe courtesy?of Piatti?s, Sacramento)

Freshing Raspberry Daiquiri

Ingredients

• 2 ounces Sweet & Sour mix
• 2 ounces Sierra Mist Soda
• 4 ounces of raspberry puree
• Whipped cream

Directions

1. Place ingredients in blender and add ice.
2. Mix until desired thickness.
3. Pour into a tall glass and top with whipped cream.

Tommy O?Collins

Ingredients

• ? cup club soda ?
• 1 and a half tablespoons lime juice
• 1 teaspoon rum extract?
• 1 to 2 packets sweetener
• 1 to 2 ice cubes

Directions

1. Combine ingredients in blender.
2. Blend on high for 10 seconds until light and frothy.
3. Pour over ice into tall glass.
4. Makes one 8 ounce serving.

Sweet and Sassy Mary

Ingredients

• 1 cup vegetable cocktail juice?
• 1 to 2 packets sweetener
• 1 dash celery salt??
• 1 dash Worcestershire sauce
• 2 drops Tabasco??
• 1 lime wedge
• 1 cucumber spear for garnish

Directions

1. Combine all ingredients, except lime and cucumber, in an old-fashioned glass and stir well.
2. Squeeze lime wedge over mixture and add wedge to drink.
3. Stir and garnish to serve.

Bald Bishop

Ingredients

• 1 ounce chilled orange juice
• 1 and one half ounces lemon juice
• 1 teaspoon sugar??
• De-alcoholized burgundy or other non-alcoholic wine

Directions

1. Fill tall glass halfway with ice.
2. Add orange juice, lemon juice and sugar.
3. 3. Top off with burgundy.?

To see the rest of the recipes, click here.

Hey Seal Beach, Rossmoor and Los Al peeps: Do you have a favorite non-alcoholic drink? Share the recipe by commenting below.

Source: http://ranchosantamargarita.patch.com/articles/state-has-non-alcoholic-drink-recipes-to-keep-new-year-s-safe

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