Holiday Drinks-2016
It seems going through my Holiday Drink Posts, that I've done
over the years. I haven't done a Christmas one of group holiday drinks for you all! I had a look back and it would seem that I've done one for Thanksgiving, Halloween but for Christmas I did many single or double holiday posts. I thought for this year and all its Madness that is happening around the world...I would do a post with many different kinds of Holiday Drinks for you all!
If you have a look on my blog you can find a few good ones, like that of the 'Candy Cane Cocktail' and Christmas in Glass'. So here are some that I thought you all would like to try...🎅
Pomegranate and Rosemary Gin Fizz-
Ingredients:🎅
2oz. Nolet's Gin
1oz. Pomegranate Juice
5oz.Lemon Juice
Club Soda
Rosemary Sprigs &
Pomegranate
Arils for Garnish.
Directions:
Shake & Strain into Glass.
Garnish Rosemary & Pomegranate.
Bailey's Cinnamon
Toast Punch-
Ingredients:
2oz. Baileys Pumpkin
Spice1/2oz.Cinnamon Syrup
Hot Apple Cider, to Top
Orange Wedge and
Cloves, for Garnish
Directions:🎅❄❄
Combine Baileys Pumpkin
Spice and Cinnamon
Syrup into a cocktail shaker.
Shake well. Strain contents
into a coffee mug and top with
hot apple cider. Garnish
with orange wedge and cloves.
Holiday Cup-❄❄❄⛄
Ingredients:
2-parts Absolut Elyx(Johan Linderberg
New Luxury Vodka)
0.5.part Blackberry Liqueur
1 part Lemon Juice
6 Crushed Blackberries
6-Raspberries
Champagne, to top off with
Directions:🎅
Combine first 5 ingredients together in
a cocktail shaker over ice. Shake hard
until ice cold. Strain into a copper cup over
crushed ice and top with champagne, Garnish with
a blackberry and orange twist.
Something May Catch Fire-
Ingredients:
2oz. Tamarind Infused Espolon Blanco Tequila
3/4 oz. Cherau Aloe Vera Liqueur
3/4 oz. Yellow Chartreuse
1oz. lemon Juice
3/4oz. Pineapple Juice
Directions:⛄⛄❄
Shake-strain-serve over crushed ice. Garnish
with lime wheels, cassia sticks and rosemary.
Burn rosemary and cassia with a butane torch.
Tinsel Bellini-🎅❄❄❄
2oz.Hpnotiq Liqueur
1oz.Limoncello exact
1oz.Champagne
Splash of Lime Juice
Direction:
Rim the champagne flute with a light coat of sugar.
Pour chilled Hpnotiq Liqueur, Limoncello exact and
Champagne into the champagne flute.
Add a splash of lime juice.
Cranberry Aperol Spritzer-
Ingredients:⛄
2oz.Aperol
2oz.Cranberry Juice
4oz.Sparkling Ice Essence of Tangerine
Orange Peels for Garnish.
Directions:
Fill glass with ice, combine Aperol and cranberry
juice and pour into glass. Then top with Sparling Ice
Essence of Tangerine, Stirring gently, Garnish with
an orange peel.
The Pama Kiss-🎅🎅🎅
Ingredients:
11/2 oz.Pama Pomegranate Liqueur
3/4oz.Sour Apple Vodka
1/2oz.Cranberry Juice
Directions:
Mix ingredients in martini shaker. Shake well. Serve
on the rocks. Garnish with sugar-dusted raspberries
Mocha Nog Punch-🎅⛄⛄
Ingredients:
10 parts Kahlua Mocha
5 parts Absolut Vanilla
20 parts Eggnog
Directions:
Combine ingredients and serve in a punch
bowl with a floating ice block.
Hint:Freeze ice with coffee beans for decoration. Add mint and
Cinnamon stick too.
Light and Stormy-
Ingredients:❄❄⛄⛄⛄
.5oz. Lime Juice
.5oz. St. George Raspberry Brandy
2oz of White Rum
Q Ginger Beer
Ice❄❄
Direction:
Fill a 12oz. glass 3/4 full of cracked ice. add ingredients,
shake and garnish with a lime wedge. Stir to chill and serve
with a stirrer.
Pomegranate and Thyme Spritz-🎅
Ingredients:
Thyme Syrup
Ice, for serving
12oz. Pomegranate Juice
12oz. Truly Spiked and Sparkling
Sicilian Blood Orange.
Directions:
In a small sauce pan set over medium heat-
combine the can sugar, water and thyme.
Stir until the sugar has dissolved, bring to a simmer
and then immediately turn off the heat. Cover and allow to
cool and steep about 15mins.🎅
Then fill up four glasses with ice. Add an ounce 2TBS of
syrup to each glass. Top with about 3oz. of pomegranate
juice and then top with Truly Spiked and sparkling Sicilian
Blood Orange. Give it a light mix and then garnish with thyme
sprigs.
Broad Street-
Ingredients:
2oz. Knappogue Castle 16 year🎅
2oz. Birch Coffee Cold Brew
.75oz. Demerara Syrup
1 dash Bittermen's Mole Bitters
Benedictine Whipped Cream
Ice Cubes
Grated Nutmeg for Garnish❄❄
Directions:
Shake all but the whipped cream with one ice cube
and strain into glass over fresh ice. Top with the whipped
cream and nutmeg.
Holiday Cosmo-
Ingredients:
2parts Abolut Elyx
1part Triple Sec
1.5 parts Mulled Spiced Cranberry Juice
o.5 parts Freshly Squeezed Lemon Juice
Directions:
Combine ingredients together in a cocktail shaker over ice.
Shake hard until ice cold. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass.
Garnish with a string of red currants dusted with powdered
sugar. *mulled spiced cranberry juice-There are many recipes
for creating a 'mulled' juice or wine. Based on using a
1-liter carton of cranberry juice we suggest a combination of
1 sliced lemon and 1sliced orange plus the zest form 2 additional
fruits combined with fresh grated ginger, cloves, nutmeg, allspice and cinnamon-all to your taste.🎅
Combine all ingredients in a large saucepan and simmer for
around 45mins. Be careful not to boil. Strain and chill well
before use. Store in the refrigerator and the juice will last for
around a 1week. For best results prepare mulled spiced
cranberry juice at least 24 hrs in advance.
Mexican Manzana-
Ingredients:
2parts Sauza® 90® Tequila
1 part Apple Cider🎅❄❄
1part Maple Syrup
1/4tsp. Apple Cider vinegar,
to cut sweetness.
Dash of Orange Bitters
Directions:
Combine all ingredients over ice except apple cider
in mixing glass and shake vigorously. Strain over
ice into prepared mug. Top with apple cider and
serve with swizzle stick.
Chambord and Champagne-
Ingredients:
2 1/2 oz. Chambord
Champagne🎅💕
Raspberries for Garnish
Directions:
Add Chambord to bottom of flute glass and
top with champagne. Drop in a raspberry
for Garnish.
Pama Pine-🎅
Ingredients:
4oz. Van Gogh Pineapple Vodka
4oz. PAMA Pomegranate Liqueur
Splash of Lime Juice
Directions:
Combine all, shake and serve Enjoy.
Very Merry Bourbon Alexander-🎅💕
Ingredients:
1oz. Bourbon
1oz. Cream de Cocoa
1oz. Half and Half
One Egg White
Dash of simple Syrup
Dash of Salt
Garnish Nutmeg, Cranberries,
and a Sprig of Rosemary.
Directions:
Combine all ingredients into a shaker with ice
and shake vigorously. Strain into a coupe glass.
Garnish with nutmeg, cranberries and rosemary too.
Tequila Hot Toddy-🎅💖💕
Ingredients:
1/3 part Jim Beam Honey
1/4 part Honey
1/4 part Orange Juice
2 parts Hot water
Cloves
1 Cinnamon Stick
1 Orange Peel
Directions:
Boil Water add all your other ingredients into a mug.
top with boing water and stir. Garish with Cloves cinnamon
stick and orange peel.
Slowpoke Rodriguez-🎅❄❄
Ingredients:
2 Strwberries
10-12 Mint Leaves
1.5 oz. Talero Silver Tequila
1oz. Fresh lime Juice
.75oz. Monin Hibiscus syrup
1.5 oz. Club soda (add after shake)
Ice, crushed
Garnish; Skewed strawberry Fan,
2-lime Wheels, Mint Sprig
Directions:
Add strawberries, 6 mint leaves and Hibiscus syrup
into mixing tin. Lighting muddle to press the juice out of
the berries and release fragrance from the mint.
add the ice and shake vigorously. Now add 1.5 oz club
soda into mixing tin and strain over crushed ice with
6 mint leaves on the bottom of the glass.
Velvet Oubliette⛄
Ingredients:
Cream Cheese Foam
4 Egg Yolks
40 ml. Sugar Syrup
100 ml. single cream
4 heaped spoons Cream Cheese
Foam Canister
2 Cream Bulbs
Directions:
Add all ingredients to a food processor and whizz until
all ingredients are incorporated. Add the liquid to a creamer
syphon and shake vigorously then charge with cream bulbs.
Refrigerate for 30mins before use.
Or add all ingredients except cream to a two-part shaker with
cubed ice and hard shake until chilled and diluted. Double strain
into a chilled speakeasy coupette, cap with cream cheese foam.
Garnish with crushed freeze dried raspberries Serve.
Apple Pie Moscow Mule🎅
Ingredients:
4oz. Apple Cider
4oz. Apple Pie Vodka or Caramel Vodka
1 bottle Ginger Beer or Hard Apple Cider Beer
Directions:
Fill 2 copper mugs with ice. In a cocktail shaker combine
all but the beer. Shake it up. Fill the mugs half way. Finish
with the beer until full. Garnish with cinnamon sticks and
apple slices.
Smoked Anise🎅💕
Ingredients:
1/8 oz. Laphroaig 10 year old
1/2 oz. Marie Brizard Anisette
2 oz. Sobieski Vodka
Star Anise for Garnish
Directions:
In a mixing glass combine all ingredients and fill
with ice. Stir well for 15 seconds and julep strain up into a
chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with a flowing star anise.
over the years. I haven't done a Christmas one of group holiday drinks for you all! I had a look back and it would seem that I've done one for Thanksgiving, Halloween but for Christmas I did many single or double holiday posts. I thought for this year and all its Madness that is happening around the world...I would do a post with many different kinds of Holiday Drinks for you all!
If you have a look on my blog you can find a few good ones, like that of the 'Candy Cane Cocktail' and Christmas in Glass'. So here are some that I thought you all would like to try...🎅
Ingredients:🎅
2oz. Nolet's Gin
1oz. Pomegranate Juice
5oz.Lemon Juice
Club Soda
Rosemary Sprigs &
Pomegranate
Arils for Garnish.
Directions:
Shake & Strain into Glass.
Garnish Rosemary & Pomegranate.
Toast Punch-
Ingredients:
2oz. Baileys Pumpkin
Spice1/2oz.Cinnamon Syrup
Hot Apple Cider, to Top
Orange Wedge and
Cloves, for Garnish
Directions:🎅❄❄
Combine Baileys Pumpkin
Spice and Cinnamon
Syrup into a cocktail shaker.
Shake well. Strain contents
into a coffee mug and top with
hot apple cider. Garnish
with orange wedge and cloves.
Ingredients:
2-parts Absolut Elyx(Johan Linderberg
New Luxury Vodka)
0.5.part Blackberry Liqueur
1 part Lemon Juice
6 Crushed Blackberries
6-Raspberries
Champagne, to top off with
Directions:🎅
Combine first 5 ingredients together in
a cocktail shaker over ice. Shake hard
until ice cold. Strain into a copper cup over
crushed ice and top with champagne, Garnish with
a blackberry and orange twist.
Ingredients:
2oz. Tamarind Infused Espolon Blanco Tequila
3/4 oz. Cherau Aloe Vera Liqueur
3/4 oz. Yellow Chartreuse
1oz. lemon Juice
3/4oz. Pineapple Juice
Directions:⛄⛄❄
Shake-strain-serve over crushed ice. Garnish
with lime wheels, cassia sticks and rosemary.
Burn rosemary and cassia with a butane torch.
2oz.Hpnotiq Liqueur
1oz.Limoncello exact
1oz.Champagne
Splash of Lime Juice
Direction:
Rim the champagne flute with a light coat of sugar.
Pour chilled Hpnotiq Liqueur, Limoncello exact and
Champagne into the champagne flute.
Add a splash of lime juice.
Ingredients:⛄
2oz.Aperol
2oz.Cranberry Juice
4oz.Sparkling Ice Essence of Tangerine
Orange Peels for Garnish.
Directions:
Fill glass with ice, combine Aperol and cranberry
juice and pour into glass. Then top with Sparling Ice
Essence of Tangerine, Stirring gently, Garnish with
an orange peel.
Ingredients:
11/2 oz.Pama Pomegranate Liqueur
3/4oz.Sour Apple Vodka
1/2oz.Cranberry Juice
Directions:
Mix ingredients in martini shaker. Shake well. Serve
on the rocks. Garnish with sugar-dusted raspberries
Ingredients:
10 parts Kahlua Mocha
5 parts Absolut Vanilla
20 parts Eggnog
Directions:
Combine ingredients and serve in a punch
bowl with a floating ice block.
Hint:Freeze ice with coffee beans for decoration. Add mint and
Cinnamon stick too.
Ingredients:❄❄⛄⛄⛄
.5oz. Lime Juice
.5oz. St. George Raspberry Brandy
2oz of White Rum
Q Ginger Beer
Ice❄❄
Direction:
Fill a 12oz. glass 3/4 full of cracked ice. add ingredients,
shake and garnish with a lime wedge. Stir to chill and serve
with a stirrer.
Ingredients:
Thyme Syrup
Ice, for serving
12oz. Pomegranate Juice
12oz. Truly Spiked and Sparkling
Sicilian Blood Orange.
Directions:
In a small sauce pan set over medium heat-
combine the can sugar, water and thyme.
Stir until the sugar has dissolved, bring to a simmer
and then immediately turn off the heat. Cover and allow to
cool and steep about 15mins.🎅
Then fill up four glasses with ice. Add an ounce 2TBS of
syrup to each glass. Top with about 3oz. of pomegranate
juice and then top with Truly Spiked and sparkling Sicilian
Blood Orange. Give it a light mix and then garnish with thyme
sprigs.
Ingredients:
2oz. Knappogue Castle 16 year🎅
2oz. Birch Coffee Cold Brew
.75oz. Demerara Syrup
1 dash Bittermen's Mole Bitters
Benedictine Whipped Cream
Ice Cubes
Grated Nutmeg for Garnish❄❄
Directions:
Shake all but the whipped cream with one ice cube
and strain into glass over fresh ice. Top with the whipped
cream and nutmeg.
Ingredients:
2parts Abolut Elyx
1part Triple Sec
1.5 parts Mulled Spiced Cranberry Juice
o.5 parts Freshly Squeezed Lemon Juice
Directions:
Combine ingredients together in a cocktail shaker over ice.
Shake hard until ice cold. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass.
Garnish with a string of red currants dusted with powdered
sugar. *mulled spiced cranberry juice-There are many recipes
for creating a 'mulled' juice or wine. Based on using a
1-liter carton of cranberry juice we suggest a combination of
1 sliced lemon and 1sliced orange plus the zest form 2 additional
fruits combined with fresh grated ginger, cloves, nutmeg, allspice and cinnamon-all to your taste.🎅
Combine all ingredients in a large saucepan and simmer for
around 45mins. Be careful not to boil. Strain and chill well
before use. Store in the refrigerator and the juice will last for
around a 1week. For best results prepare mulled spiced
cranberry juice at least 24 hrs in advance.
Ingredients:
2parts Sauza® 90® Tequila
1 part Apple Cider🎅❄❄
1part Maple Syrup
1/4tsp. Apple Cider vinegar,
to cut sweetness.
Dash of Orange Bitters
Directions:
Combine all ingredients over ice except apple cider
in mixing glass and shake vigorously. Strain over
ice into prepared mug. Top with apple cider and
serve with swizzle stick.
Ingredients:
2 1/2 oz. Chambord
Champagne🎅💕
Raspberries for Garnish
Directions:
Add Chambord to bottom of flute glass and
top with champagne. Drop in a raspberry
for Garnish.
Ingredients:
4oz. Van Gogh Pineapple Vodka
4oz. PAMA Pomegranate Liqueur
Splash of Lime Juice
Directions:
Combine all, shake and serve Enjoy.
Ingredients:
1oz. Bourbon
1oz. Cream de Cocoa
1oz. Half and Half
One Egg White
Dash of simple Syrup
Dash of Salt
Garnish Nutmeg, Cranberries,
and a Sprig of Rosemary.
Directions:
Combine all ingredients into a shaker with ice
and shake vigorously. Strain into a coupe glass.
Garnish with nutmeg, cranberries and rosemary too.
Ingredients:
1/3 part Jim Beam Honey
1/4 part Honey
1/4 part Orange Juice
2 parts Hot water
Cloves
1 Cinnamon Stick
1 Orange Peel
Directions:
Boil Water add all your other ingredients into a mug.
top with boing water and stir. Garish with Cloves cinnamon
stick and orange peel.
Ingredients:
2 Strwberries
10-12 Mint Leaves
1.5 oz. Talero Silver Tequila
1oz. Fresh lime Juice
.75oz. Monin Hibiscus syrup
1.5 oz. Club soda (add after shake)
Ice, crushed
Garnish; Skewed strawberry Fan,
2-lime Wheels, Mint Sprig
Directions:
Add strawberries, 6 mint leaves and Hibiscus syrup
into mixing tin. Lighting muddle to press the juice out of
the berries and release fragrance from the mint.
add the ice and shake vigorously. Now add 1.5 oz club
soda into mixing tin and strain over crushed ice with
6 mint leaves on the bottom of the glass.
Ingredients:
Cream Cheese Foam
4 Egg Yolks
40 ml. Sugar Syrup
100 ml. single cream
4 heaped spoons Cream Cheese
Foam Canister
2 Cream Bulbs
Directions:
Add all ingredients to a food processor and whizz until
all ingredients are incorporated. Add the liquid to a creamer
syphon and shake vigorously then charge with cream bulbs.
Refrigerate for 30mins before use.
Or add all ingredients except cream to a two-part shaker with
cubed ice and hard shake until chilled and diluted. Double strain
into a chilled speakeasy coupette, cap with cream cheese foam.
Garnish with crushed freeze dried raspberries Serve.
Ingredients:
4oz. Apple Cider
4oz. Apple Pie Vodka or Caramel Vodka
1 bottle Ginger Beer or Hard Apple Cider Beer
Directions:
Fill 2 copper mugs with ice. In a cocktail shaker combine
all but the beer. Shake it up. Fill the mugs half way. Finish
with the beer until full. Garnish with cinnamon sticks and
apple slices.
Ingredients:
1/8 oz. Laphroaig 10 year old
1/2 oz. Marie Brizard Anisette
2 oz. Sobieski Vodka
Star Anise for Garnish
Directions:
In a mixing glass combine all ingredients and fill
with ice. Stir well for 15 seconds and julep strain up into a
chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with a flowing star anise.
Merry Christmas
and
Happy Holidays I hope that you
all have a wonderful Season of Love
Peace and Family.
Much love forever
Your Friend
Wendy
