Drink: Concord Grape and Champagne Cocktails

This recipe includes fertility superfoods such as:

Cinnamon

Health and fertility benefits of Concord Grape and Champagne Cocktails

Cinnamon is one of the best ingredients that someone with insulin sensitivity can eat. Half a teaspoon of cinnamon per day has been shown to be very effective at normalizing blood sugar levels. Cinnamon contains hydroxychalcone, which is thought to enhance the effects of insulin. It has also been suggested that Cinnamon prevents post-meal blood sugar spikes by slowing the gastric emptying rate - meaning that food digests slowly. (Reference: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11506060).

Ingredients

2 large oranges
1/2 cup sugar
1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
3 cups vodka (preferably distilled from grapes, such as Cîroc)
2 cups Concord grapes or seedless red grapes, plus 18 for garnish
1 1/4 cups Concord grape juice
1 750-ml bottle chilled Champagne

Instructions

Preheat oven to 250 °F. Grate peel from oranges onto baking sheet lined with parchment (reserve oranges to moisten rims of glasses). Bake until peel is dry, stirring occasionally, about 1 hour. Mix peel, sugar, and cinnamon in bowl; mash to infuse. Cover mixture.
Combine vodka and 2 cups grapes in pitcher. Using potato masher, crush grapes to coarse pulp. Add grape juice. Chill until cold, at least 8 hours.
Moisten rims of 6 Martini glasses with cut sides of reserved oranges; dip into infused sugar. Thread 3 grapes onto each of 6 long toothpicks; divide among glasses. Strain vodka; add 1/4 cup to each glass. Top off with Champagne.

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