Mixed Drink Monday: sherbet mimosa

Sherbet Mimosas

When one of my sisters got married a few years ago we had all intentions of having mimosas while we were getting ready before the ceremony.  I brought champagne (that had been sitting in our cupboard for a number of years) and a fellow sister-bridesmaid brought orange juice.  Then, as tends to happen, the morning was a little crazier than we planned.  I remember my little sister feeding me a sandwich while I gave a bottle to my 2 month old nephew while pretty much every other person in the house ran around loading things up and getting ready.  We never got the mimosas made although I hauled around a bottle of champagne most of the day, just in case.

A few weeks later we were going on our family camping trip.  Once again we aimed to make mimosas.  I don't remember all what happened that time but they ended up being made with Sunny D and mango wine from our favorite local winery.  Not quite a real mimosa but I remember them being good.

I saw this pin though and thought it would be something easy to try.

I bought the sherbet months ago (before surgery) and we had another free bottle of champagne in the cupboard (the original bottle was finally consumed at a New Years Eve party, a good 5+ years after we got it.  The kinda of champagne we have isn't the kind that gets better with age.).  I don't know how these compare to real mimosa because I don't think I've ever had one.  BUT this was pretty good.

Ingredients:
Orange Sherbet
Champagne

Directions:
Put some orange sherbet in a glass.  Fill the rest of the way with champagne.  Enjoy.

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My thoughts:
These were super easy to make.  Super easy.  The consistency was similar to the vanilla ice cream/sprite floats we used to make when I was little.  Obviously the ratio of champagne to sherbet will vary but I thought it was a good balance.  And you get ice cream with your drink.  That's like having your cake and eating it too.

Source: Pinterest told me the pin I have leads to a bad website so I didn't click.  But there are many versions of this on the web.