| Level: | Easy |
| Total: | 10 min |
| Prep: | 5 min |
| Inactive: | 5 min |
| Yield: | 16 champagne flute-size drinks |
| Level: | Easy |
| Total: | 10 min |
| Prep: | 5 min |
| Inactive: | 5 min |
| Yield: | 16 champagne flute-size drinks |
Ingredients
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- 2 cups pear nectar
- 1 cup pear liqueur (recommended: Poire William)
- 2 star anise
- 4 bottles Prosecco
- 16 cranberries
Instructions
- In a small saucepan over moderate heat, add the nectar, pear liqueur and star anise. Bring up to a boil and turn heat off. Allow to steep for 5 minutes, then discard the star anise. Cool to room temperature and chill until ready to use.
- To serve, drop 1 cranberry to the bottom of each champagne coupe or flute. Add 2 tablespoons of the spiced pear mixture for coupe glasses and 3 tablespoons for the flute glasses. Top with Prosecco and enjoy!
Nutrition Facts
| Serving Size | 1 of 16 servings |
| Calories | 232 |
| Total Fat | 0 g |
| Saturated Fat | 0 g |
| Carbohydrates | 18 g |
| Dietary Fiber | 0 g |
| Sugar | 13 g |
| Protein | 0 g |
| Cholesterol | 0 mg |
| Sodium | 12 mg |
| Serving Size | 1 of 16 servings |
| Calories | 232 |
| Total Fat | 0 g |
| Saturated Fat | 0 g |
| Carbohydrates | 18 g |
| Dietary Fiber | 0 g |
| Sugar | 13 g |
| Protein | 0 g |
| Cholesterol | 0 mg |
| Sodium | 12 mg |
Reviews
This was our toast at Thanksgiving !!! Loved it, I thought the Star Anise would be to strong but it was perfect !! I was lucky enough to find Pear Prosecco and thought that was awesome ! Love the Show !!!
I am weighing my options for this year’s pre-Thanksgiving feast cocktail, and I cannot find anything to compare to this gem. We served this last year to a great and grateful crowd – it is beautiful, festive, bubbly and happily fizzy. I wish I made triple the base puree last year, because our crowd would have kept on sipping. Make this for your Thanksgiving kickoff and you will have an instant hit! Thank you, Claire!
I love anise, so i let it steep for quite awhile longer than the recipe called for, and it was yummy. also added extra pear nectar to offset the liqueur. I couldn’t find the exact liqueur called for, so I bought a different brand (“J”) and it seemed to work just fine. Liqueur was pricey, but I found a decent bubbly at BevMo for $5 a bottle, so that helped, plus, it makes alot of drinks, so cost per drink is actually not too bad.
I made this exactly as in the recipe. Absolutely loved it. The liquor is price, but is just lovely with the pear juice and prosecco. I expect it would be fine without the star anise, but for Thanksgiving it gave the cocktail a spicey autumn flavor which made it perfect for Thanksgiving. I wish I’d doubled the recipe as I could have sipped it all night.
Fixed this for our early Thanksgiving; I LOVED it and give it 5 stars, but the anise-adverse people in the family did not. Would be just fine without the anise, but the prosecco and Poire William pear brandy, which is not inexpensive, are an absolute must for the flavors those impart. Would like to try with a liqueur sometime just to see how it changes the flavor; generally liqueurs are quite sweet and might be too much w/the nectar.