Breakfast Mocktail: Orange and Elderflower Spritzer

updated May 2, 2019

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Do you drink cocktails with your morning meal or weekend brunch? Cocktails are a little much for us at 8am, but sometimes we do like a glass of something special with our coffee and yogurt. Enter the breakfast mocktail.

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We don’t drink a lot of straight juice; it’s quite filling and we prefer to just sip coffee most mornings. But some summer breakfasts call for something more, something fun. So we make mocktails.

A breakfast mocktail is any sort of mixed-up juice, something frilled up for a fizzy wake-up in the sunshine. Here’s a favorite: orange juice mixed with sparkling mineral water and elderflower syrup. (You know how we love elderflower syrup; we’ve been adding it to all our cocktails this spring!)

The water lightens up the thick orange juice so it’s more refreshing and less filling, and the syrup adds a floral sweetness to the tangy orange juice. Squeeze in the juice of a lime wedge and garnish, and you’re set for a fizzy, sweet, refreshing summer morning drink.

Here are the approximate proportions we use:

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