Champagne Cocktail 6 ounces chilled champagne 1 cube sugar Angostura bitters Soak sugar cube with Angostura bitters. Place the cube in the bottom of a champagne flute. Fill with champagne. Garnish with a lemon twist.

Champagne Cocktail
Champagne has always been seen as a special drink for special times, and when done up as a cocktail, it just seems to take on additional celebratory qualities. It is hard to say exactly how long this cocktail has existed. It first appears in Jerry Thomas's How To Mix Drinks, which is the oldest known book of cocktail recipes, and is perhaps the only cocktail recipe in that publication which you would find by name in a modern book.

Being made with a base ingredient (Champagne), a sweetener (sugar), and a dash or two of bitters, the recipe for the Champagne Cocktail truly illustrates the basics that were once considered requisite for any drink in the "Cocktail" category.

The Champagne Cocktail is perhaps one of the easiest cocktails to make, with virtually no hassle or even additional equipment or tools. Start off by taking a single sugar cube, and while holding it over the opening of a bottle of Angostura bitters, invert the bottle so that some bitters soaks directly into the sugar. Drop the cube into the bottom of a champagne flute, and then fill the glass with champagne. For a garnish, you can add a dainty spiral of lemon twist.