Excerpted from Sheila Lukins’ Celebrate!.

Aromatic, sweet, fragrant, bubbly, tangy—this dazzling sparkler is a holiday gift in a glass of champagne. Now that’s festive.

Celebration Cocktail

Ingredients

• 8 cubes Demerara (raw) sugar (such as Sugar-in-the-Raw brand)
• 16 dashes Angostura bitters
• 8 ounces Grand Marnier
• 40 ounces (1¾ bottles) chilled champagne
• 8 twists of orange peel

Instructions

Place a sugar cube in each of eight champagne flutes. Sprinkle each with 2 dashes of bitters and add 1 ounce of Grand Marnier. Just before serving, top with champagne and add a twist.