Peach Bellini Cocktail

A Peach Bellini Cocktail is the perfect brunch cocktail, made with fresh peaches, peach schnapps, and of course, champagne. You have got to try this easy cocktail recipe! 

Use fresh or frozen peaches to create a refreshing Bellini Recipe and sip on them all summer long.

Why You’ll Love

• Frozen cocktails are ideal for summer sipping.
• These are especially exquisite when peaches are in season.
• If you’re making an Italian meal for company, these frozen peach bellinis are ideal for cocktail hour!

Frequently Asked Questions

Tips for Making a Bellini Drink

• PRO-Tip: Use the ripest, most flavorful fresh peaches for the tastiest results.
• When peaches are out of season, frozen or even canned peaches are a great alternative. They are usually packaged at the peak of ripeness. Rinse the peaches before using them if they’re canned in heavy syrup.
• PRO-Tip: Classically made with Italian Prosecco, Champagne or Cava are other sparkling wine alternatives that will work well as a substitute.
• Add grenadine, a pomegranate syrup, to maximize the look of a Bellini painting sunrise.
• If you don’t have Grenadine, you can add raspberry syrup, pomegranate juice, cranberry juice cocktail, or a scant drop of red food coloring instead.
• Taste your peaches as you may want to add extra simple syrup if they’re not very sweet.

I fell hard with my first sip of a Peach Bellini Cocktail. Sitting in picturesque Piazza San Marco, we toasted to the beauty of Italy with some dear friends from Indianapolis who also happened to be in Venice. It wasn’t just the magical locale that made them taste so amazing, it was the fresh Italian peach puree mixed with bubbly that won me over.

We nabbed the first table we spotted in the busy tourist destination. A tall, “professional” waiter, as he dubbed himself, took our order as a band played in the background setting the mood. A silver tray with chips and olives arrived along with our beverages. I had a feeling this would cost us a pretty penny—and it did. Bill still jokes about it to this day. We could have gotten 4 steak dinners at home for the price of our afternoon cocktails. But what the heck. We were on a once-in-a-lifetime trip with our family. And I still remember those bellinis.

How to Make a Champagne Cocktail

1. Purchase the best quality peaches available. Local fresh peaches in the summer are ideal, but not always available.
2. To make the best frozen bellinis, you may want to slice and freeze your peaches at least a few hours before mixing.
3. Place all the ingredients, including the ice, into your blender. Puree until slushy.
4. Garnish with a peach wedge, pomegranate arils, ripe fresh raspberries, or strawberry slices.
5. Serve immediately.

With New Year’s Eve just days away, the holiday cookies and Christmas menus are pushed aside and replaced with cocktails and appetizers. We rarely go out, let alone stay up past midnight, but instead, park ourselves in front of the TV watching bowl games and old movies. We can still toast the new year before retiring with a glass of champagne or even a homemade peach bellini. I discovered some fresh frozen sliced peaches at the market, so I decided to whip up a frozen version of the classic peach bellini in my blender. Some frozen peaches, ice cubes, peach schnapps, and a few other ingredients were pureed to a sweet slush, then poured into glasses garnished with peach slices or berries. So nice that these champagne cocktails can be made when peach season is months away.

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• Blender (Amazon affiliate links)
• Mikasa Champagne Flutes, Set of 4
• Manual Citrus Juicer

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The Recipe:

Peach Bellini Cocktail Recipe

Prep Time 5 minutes

Total Time 5 minutes

Yield 1 serving

A classic Italian cocktail made with peaches and champagne. Recipe courtesy of Dole.

Ingredients

• 3 ounces Frozen Peach Slices, partially thawed
• ¾ ounces peach schnapps
• 4 ounces (½ cup) champagne or Prosecco
• 1 ounces fresh sour* see link to recipe below
• ½ ounces grenadine syrup
• ½ ounce simple syrup (equal parts sugar and water, cooked till sugar dissolves, then cooled)
• ¾ cup ice cubes

Instructions

1. Combine peaches, schnapps, champagne, fresh sour, grenadine, simple syrup, and ice in a blender container.
2. Cover; blend until smooth.
3. Pour into glass. Garnish with a peach or strawberry slice.

Notes

You can buy sour mix where liquor is sold or use this recipe from Serious Eats.

Nutrition Information:

Yield:

1

Serving Size:

1 glass
Amount Per Serving: Calories: 134Total Fat: 0gSaturated Fat: 0gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 0gCholesterol: 0mgSodium: 6mgCarbohydrates: 29gFiber: 1gSugar: 26gProtein: 1g

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The Tournament of Roses Parade

Many years ago, when I was a junior in college, back when dinosaurs roamed the earth, our football team won the Big 10 championship and was headed to the Rose Bowl. A few of my sorority sisters and I piled into a car and drove a couple of thousand miles to Pasadena to cheer on our team. We blasted Kool and the Gang and Luther Vandross on the 8-track and only took brief stops for gas.

We slept through the parade after staying up into the wee hours of the morning with the New Year’s Eve festivities but made it to the game. Now it’s my youngest’s turn. His college football team played in the Pinstripe Bowl in New York City on the 26th, so he, along with 4 of his friends left on Christmas Day to drive to the east coast. They’re crashing on one of his friends’ homes for SEVEN nights. Yikes. 5 extra 22-year olds hanging out for a week?!! I’d need nerves of steel to survive. I hope they don’t wear out their welcome. But they’ll make wonderful memories.

I doubt those college boys will be sipping on cocktails, beer is more their speed, but here at home, a peach bellini always hits the spot.