Name: Snowball · Cocktail recipe
Prep time: 5 min
Yield: 1
Ingredients: 50 ml Advocaat; 100 ml Lemonade; 10 ml lime juice

Drink type Servings

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Snowball

Description

The Snowball is a British festive classic with a very particular charm. Advocaat gives it creamy vanilla-custard richness, lemonade adds fizz and sweetness, and lime cuts through just enough to stop it feeling too heavy.

It became a Christmas favourite in the 1970s, but its appeal is not just nostalgia. It is light, frothy, gently boozy and almost dessert-like without requiring any effort. Serve it cold and it feels like a party drink from another era that still knows how to have fun.