New Year's Masquerade Party Cocktails

A signature champagne-based cocktail or two is a welcome addition to a well-stocked party bar. A few of our favorites that fit the festive New Year's ambiance include:

Champagne-Based Cocktails:

• "Happy New Year"

•  "Black Velvet"
  

Sparkling Goldschlager-based Cocktails:

• "Golden Comfort"

• "Classic Oatmeal Cookie"
  

New Year's Masquerade Cocktail Stirrers

Add pizzazz to your cocktails and other beverages with your own mini masquerade mask drink stirrers. Here's how:

1. Use a butterfly paper punch to cut out small silver and gold shapes from scrapbook paper.

2. With a thin black pen, draw on the almond-shaped black eye holes for each butterfly cutout, transforming them into mini butterfly-shaped masquerade masks.

3. Secure two back-to-back masks to a drink stirrer using a hot glue gun or gluestick. Affix them off to one side of the stirrer so the stick looks like a masquerade mask handle.