Name: Snowball
Total time: 2 min
Cuisine: Cocktail
Ingredients: 105 ml Lemonade; 22.5 ml Lime juice; 60 ml Advocaat liqueur

Snowball
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Serve in a Collins glass

Ingredients:
3 ¹⁄₂ oz	Lemonade
³⁄₄ oz	Lime juice (freshly squeezed)
2 oz	Advocaat liqueur

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How to make:

Select and pre-chill a Collins glass.
Prepare garnish of lime zest twist or lime slice wheel.
POUR lemonade and lime juice into ice-filled glass.
Add the advocaat (which will mostly sink though the other ingredients).
Briefly STIR to integrate while retaining the lemonade's carbonation.
Garnish with lime zest twist or lime slice.

Allergens:

Recipe contains the following allergens:

Advocaat liqueur - Eggs

Hazardous Ingredients:

Recipe contains the following hazardous Ingredients:

Advocaat liqueur

Review:

Fresh lime juice and lemonade freshens and invigorates creamy advocaat. Try our more luxurious and better Champagne Snowball.

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Variant:

Champagne Snowball

History:

Thought to have originated in Britain in the late 1940s or early 1950s, reaching its peak of popularity in the 1970s.

Nutrition:

One serving of Snowball contains 178 calories

Alcohol content:

0.6 standard drinks
4.33% alc./vol. (4.33° proof)
8.1 grams of pure alcohol

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Tuna Cubed

17th December 2024 at 08:19

Note to Americans, British lemonade is quite different to what we think of as lemonade. 7-up or Sprite will be the easiest substitutions here.

Leila Abu el Hawa

2nd June 2023 at 15:25

I usually add a dash of a Palo Cortado or Amontillado Sherry to the top of the drink before serving. Turns it into a way more soho drink than it should be. Love it.

Simon Difford

5th June 2023 at 13:11

A tasty upgrade!

Ian Lessels

1st May 2022 at 18:07

I'm wondering if this would be better drunk with a straw because it was a bit like one drink (lemonade) on top of another (Advocaat)

Simon Difford

2nd May 2022 at 05:21

You could drink with a straw but it should be served with contents integrated so enjoyable without a straw. But even better, make a Champagne Snowball instead.

Lorenz Kock

9th April 2022 at 21:11

Hm I never made one but isn't this normally done with brandy?

Simon Difford

10th April 2022 at 05:00

I don't know a version of this recipe with brandy or another cocktail called Snowball with brandy.

Boromyr Roborym

20th January 2022 at 06:24

The very favourite drink in my whole family! So sweet and light, this cocktail is brilliant.

Anonymous

8th January 2022 at 02:59

Never had Advocaat before. Bought a bottle for a summer party so if it was horrible there would be plenty of others around to finish it. Made a snowball first. Wow! Tasted just like the ice cream soda's I used to love as a kid. Brilliant for a hot summer day. [The bottle was gone within half an hour and I bought another the very next day.]

Jeremy Harrold

7th December 2021 at 17:27

Very nice and a lot better than the premixed versions.
Try adding 25 ml of Brandy/Cognac to beef it up a bit.

Angela Knox

9th August 2020 at 22:19

Rose Lemonade? Never! Someone has made an error surely? The traditional recipe calls for lemonade. Fresh lime cuts through the sweetness, but those who love sweet drinks can use a good dash or Roses Lime Cordial

Simon Difford

10th August 2020 at 07:09

I suspect you were seeing Fentiman's Rose Lemonade in this recipe due to this product being miss-linked in our database. Even then it would only show if you have added this particular brand of lemonade to Your Ingredients. To fix this I have added Rose Lemonade as an ingredient in its own right so now you should only see traditional lemonades in this recipe. Many thanks for bringing this error to my attention.

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