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This rainbow sherbet mimosa is almost too pretty to drink—almost! With just five simple ingredients, including rainbow sherbet, bubbly champagne, and fresh citrus slices, this vibrant cocktail is as fun as it is refreshing. Perfect for Mother’s Day, a baby shower, or anytime you want to add a splash of color to your celebration. It’s fruity, fizzy, and guaranteed to make everyone smile. Trust me, it’s a total crowd-pleaser!
You’ll love this sweet and zesty cocktail and definitely going to want to whip up a pitcher for when your friends come over! It’s great for any occasion or season.
Love trying new cocktails? You might enjoy some watermelon palomas, cranberry margaritas, rum runners, or homemade negronis.
Why You’ll Love It
Only 5 ingredients: You only need sherbet, champagne and slices of lemon, orange and lime to make these colorful cocktails.
Quick and easy: You can whip these up in under 5 minutes!
Fruity and delicious: The fruity flavors are so good with the fizzy champagne. You’ll want more than one glass of this tasty cocktail.
Rainbow Sherbet Cocktail Ingredients
A complete list of ingredients and amounts can be found in the recipe card below.
Rainbow sherbet: Similar to ice cream, sherbet is a milk, sugar, water, and fruit juice based frozen dessert. Rainbow sherbet is a mixture of different fruits, each one with a different color.
Champagne: You can use your favorite fizz!
Citrus slices: Each cocktail has a slice each of lemon, lime and orange.
How to Make Cocktails with Champagne and Sherbet
For more detailed instructions with weights and measurements, jump to the printable recipe card.
Start with the sherbet: Add 2 scoops of rainbow sherbet to a champagne flute.
Add the champagne: Pour in some champagne.
Garnish and serve: Add slices of lemon, orange and lime, and serve.
Substitutions and Variations
Rainbow sherbet: If preferred, you can stick to one flavor of sherbet or combine two or more, instead of using rainbow sherbet.
Champagne: Any champagne will work here, but since you’re combining it with fruit and sherbet you probably don’t want to use vintage Dom Perignon! Something simple, even Cava, sparking white wine or Prosecco will work.
Serving Suggestions
For Mother’s Day: Give Mom a treat with a glass of rainbow champagne and perhaps some handmade raspberry truffles too.
For Easter: Enjoy these festive drinks with deviled egg chicks and Easter sugar cookies.
For a baby shower: Pair the drinks with hummingbird cupcakes and strawberry cheesecake cookies.
How to Store Rainbow Mimosas
Store: If you’re making these ahead, don’t add the sherbet or fruit slices until serving. Keep the ingredients separate in the refrigerator (and the sherbet in the freezer) until it’s time to serve them.
Freeze: I wouldn’t recommend freezing the assembled cocktails as the mixture will go murky and the champagne will lose its fizz.
Top Tips
Colored ice cubes: Make colorful ice cubes by freezing fruit juice. Add those in too for extra flair.
Pour slowly: Add the champagne gently – you don’t want it to bubble over!
Make a batch: Serving a crowd? Make a punchbowl of this cocktail so everyone can help themselves.
Freshly made is best: Don’t make these until you’re ready to serve them, so they stay fresh. They only take a couple of minutes to whip up!
Rainbow Sherbet Champagne Mimosa FAQs
Sherbet is a frozen dessert made with milk and sugar. However, unlike ice cream, sherbet also has fruit juice and water in there. Most do have dairy but less than ice cream which is dairy-based. It is typically fruit flavored with lemon, lime, raspberry, pineapple, and orange being popular flavors. Rainbow sorbet is a mixture of fruits. Sorbet is similar but doesn’t include any dairy while sherbet has a little milk, cream or buttermilk so it will create a nice froth in these cocktails.
Make a non-alcoholic mimosa for Mother’s Day or a baby shower or for the kids by switching the champagne for ginger ale or 7Up. Alternatively, make a boozy version by adding a splash of vodka to the original recipe. Oh, and if you’re making both it’s probably a good idea to label which is which!
Traditionally sherbet (or sorbet) is served between courses to cleanse the palate between different foods. It’s thought that it used to be made with chilled wines in Alexander the Great’s era. Marco Polo introduced these ‘water ices’ as they were known to Europe. Ice and salt were used to make the dessert during the 1600s and frozen desserts had arrived in the US by the 1700s. Emanual Goren, who worked at Sealtest Dairies in Philadelphia, created the rainbow flavour in the 1950s. He fitted 3 nozzles on the sherbet dispensing machine instead of one, so three different flavors would come out at the same time. That’s where the ‘rainbow’ part comes into play.
Rainbow Sherbet Mimosa Cocktail Recipe
Rainbow Sherbet Mimosa
Ingredients
- 2 Scoops rainbow sherbet
- 4 Ounces champagne, or cava, prosecco or sparkling white wine
- 1 Slice lemon
- 1 Slice orange
- 1 Slice Lime
Instructions
- Add 2 scoops of sherbet to a champagne flute.
- Pour champagne over the sherbet slowly.
- Garnish with a slice each of lemon, orange and lime and serve immediately.
Notes
Pour slowly: Add the champagne gently – you don’t want it to bubble over!
Make a batch: Serving a crowd? Make a punchbowl of this cocktail so everyone can help themselves.
Freshly made is best: Don’t make these until you’re ready to serve them, so they stay fresh. They only take a couple of minutes to whip up.
Nutrition
If you’re looking for something bright, breezy and refreshing, you’re going to find this citrus rainbow mimosa cocktail perfect. It’s a simple combination of champagne, colorful sherbet and citrus slices that takes just a couple of minutes to prepare. Whether it’s Mother’s Day, a birthday or baby shower, or brunch with the girls, a rainbow sherbet mimosa is always a winning drink.
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Bella Bucchiotti
Bella Bucchiotti is a Canadian-based syndicated food, travel, and lifestyle writer, photographer, and creator at xoxoBella. She founded xoxoBella in 2015, where she shares her love for food, dogs, sustainability, fitness, crafts, outdoor adventures, travel, and philanthropy to encourage others to run the extra mile, try new recipes, visit unfamiliar places, and stand for a cause. Bella creates stress-free and family-friendly recipes for weeknight dinners and festive feasts.
This is my new favorite drink! Love making this 🙂
Oh my! This is so pretty!