Raspberry Champagne Float – 🍾🎉🥂These EASY 3-ingredient floats are the perfect balance of bubbly, fruity, and sweet enough – but not too sweet! A fun and festive drink that’s perfect for everything from summer holidays to New Year’s Eve, for Mother’s Day brunch, or to serve at a bridal shower because everyone ADORES them! Non-alcoholic options also provided.
Easy Raspberry Sherbet Champagne Float
If you’re looking for a fun and festive drink to ring in summer holidays, New Year’s Eve, for perfect Valentine’s Day cocktails, for Mother’s Day brunch, or to serve at a bridal shower, birthday party, anything in between, these raspberry champagne floats are perfect!
Bonus that there are only 3 ingredients in this celebration cocktail recipe!
I am a big fan of any bubbly liquid, and I’m especially partial to champagne – and bonus points if it’s rosé champagne like this recipe has to create a fun cocktail.
As the raspberry sherbet melts into the glass after the champagne is poured over the top, these floats are the perfect balance of bubbly, fruity, and sweet enough but not too sweet. I am not a fan of drinks that read overly sweet and this one isn’t! The raspberry flavors shine nicely.
Ingredients in Raspberry Floats
It doesn’t get any easier than a 3-ingredient recipe for a deliciously refreshing drink!
- Raspberry sherbet – read the FAQs for more options
- Chilled champagne – read below for other options
- Fresh raspberries, for garnishing – a sprig of mint is also nice if you happen to have some
Note: Scroll down to the recipe card section of the post for the ingredients with amounts included and for more complete directions.
What Kind of Champagne or Bubbly is Best for Floats?
You have options here! I am presenting them with some fun trivia about each category you may not know. I consider myself an expert on all bubbly beverages 🍾😁
- Champagne – This is likely the most expensive bubbly beverage of the options I am presenting. You can use either regular champagne or rosé champagne (shown). Both will be dry (not sweet) and they will be from France since only the Champagne region of France can make, bottle, and label products as true champagne. I suggest the cheapest champagne you feel comfortable with since the taste is going to be masked by the sherbet. This is not the time for that $140 bottle of Veuve Clicquot Rosé. Go cheap – can’t believe these words are being uttered by yours truly because I am a champagne aficionado, but this is the one time I say go cheap!
- Prosecco – Italy’s alternative to champagne and it’ll likely be less expensive. Go with either regular prosecco or a rosé prosecco if you can find it. Make sure they’re dry. Prosecco tends to have a much broader range of sweetness than true champagne and since the sherbet is sweet, you don’t want the prosecco to be sweet as well.
- Cava – Spain’s answer to bubbly beverages. I have never seen rosé cava (it probably exists) but you won’t run into it in an American store with any ease. Regular cava is dry as a norm so just buy one that’s cheap-ish. It’ll be on par with prosecco pricewise.
- Sparkling wine or generic ‘bubbly’ – Napa, Sonoma, and so many other region’s form of bubbly beverages. These will range the gamut from super sweet (undrinkable if you ask me) to dry. Some will be not good at all, and others are actually quite good. Most will be fairly inexpensive. If you go this route, I would select a sparkling rosé which will more than likely be dry and well suited to making a float.
- Non-alcoholic – Sprite, 7-Up, sparkling grape juice, non alcoholic sparkling beverages or ciders, and more fall into this category. If you’re making this for kids or for those who don’t drink, pick your fave. Note that most of these options are sweet + sweet sherbet = a very sweet drink. But some adults and most kids will love it this way.
My Recommendation: I personally would make the floats with a budget-friendly rosé champagne OR a rosé prosecco which is inherently going to be budget-friendly in comparison to champagne and since the taste is getting masked by sherbet, go with what works for your budget. Always select dry or brut versions of your liquid of choice so you don’t accidentally create an overly sweet drink.
How To Make Raspberry Champagne Floats
- Scoop the sherbet into champagne flutes.
- Slowly add the pink champagne. Tip – Pour SLOWLY because it will bubble up, a lot potentially!
- Stir as desired, garnish with raspberries, and serve! Cheers!
Recipe FAQs
Yes you most definitely can use whatever flavor of sherbet you’d like although I suggest a fruity flavor such as strawberry, orange, or even lemon. You can try adding a scoops of raspberry sorbet instead of raspberry sherbet, too. And everyone will love a raspberry sorbet champagne float, too.
Ice cream will create a more creamy and richer float, but personally I prefer sherbet since it’s a bit lighter and you don’t have the champagne + cream competing with each other. I suggest either a fruity ice cream or vanilla ice cream. Of course, the father you deviate from my original recipe with substitutions, the less that your float will taste like what I created.
Strawberries, blackberries, or even peach slices are all great. I would try to find matching sherbet flavors based on the fruit you’re going to use if possible.
Refer to the section above where I outline the various bubbly liquid options and give my recommendations. You can decide based on that what’s right for you.
No, and no. Champagne is best when opened, poured, and consumed before it loses its effervescence. Therefore, making in advance isn’t ideal.
The “fun factor” of this drink is everyone having their own glass or flute with sherbet and watching their sherbet melt away into the liquid and that’s not as easily achieved when making these by the pitcher. I promise it takes very little time to plunk a few scoops of sherbet in each flute, top each with bubbly, and voila, no pitcher needed. Meaning, you can double, triple, etc. the recipe but do so in individual glasses and not in a pitcher.
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Add 2 scoops of sherbet to a champagne flute.
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Slowly pour the champagne over the top. Tip – Make sure to pour very SLOWLY because it will likely be very, very bubbly and prone to overflowing if you pour too fast.
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Garnish with berries (and mint if you have it) and serve. Recipe is best freshly made and enjoyed.
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Batch Size -To make more than one float, add sherbet to as many flutes as you want, top with champagne, garnish, and serve. This method works much better than making them in a pitcher.
To make the recipe non-alcoholic, Sprite, 7-Up, sparkling grape juice, non-alcoholic sparkling beverages, etc. may be substituted, noting the resulting float will be much sweeter.
Serving: 1float, Calories: 86kcal, Carbohydrates: 3g, Protein: 0.1g, Fat: 0.04g, Saturated Fat: 0.02g, Monounsaturated Fat: 0.01g, Cholesterol: 0.02mg, Sodium: 13mg, Potassium: 152mg, Fiber: 0.03g, Sugar: 2g, Vitamin A: 1IU, Vitamin C: 0.1mg, Calcium: 16mg, Iron: 1mg
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
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