The holidays are upon us! Haul out the holly and deck out your menus with festive holiday cocktail recipes. We've collected some holiday cocktail recipes to get you started.
Big Sur Sunset
Ingredients:
2 parts Gray Whale Gin
1 part Lemon juice
0.75 parts Raspberry syrup
0.5 parts Orgeat
1 Egg white
Garnish: Raspberries and mint leaves
Directions:
- Reverse dry shake and double strain into a coupe glass
- Garnish with raspberries and mint leaves
Duke & Dame Peppermint Mocha
Ingredients:
2 oz Duke & Dame
2 oz Espresso
1 oz Peppermint Schnapps
5 oz whole milk (or non-dairy milk)
1/2 oz simple syrup
Unsweetened Cocoa Powder
Directions:
Stir warm milk with cocoa powder until fully blended. Add the rest of the ingredients and stir again. Top off with whipped cream & chocolate sprinkles.
Santa's Mule-Tide
Ingredients:
2 oz Three Spirit Liverner
0.75 oz Becherovka Herbal Liqueur
0.5 oz Cranberry
0.5 oz Lemon
Top with East Imperial Tonic Water
Garnish with Rosemary and a Dirty Sue Olive
Directions:
- Put the Liverner, Becherovka, Cranberry & Lemon in a shaker with ice
- Shake and strain into a glass with ice
- Top with East Imperial Tonic Water
- Garnish with a sprig of Rosemary and a Dirty Sue Olive
Chai Spiced Horchata
Recipe courtesy of Zurvita
Ingredients:
1 scoop of Zurvita's Zeal Horchata
1 cup of rice milk
1 chai tea bag
1 tablespoon of honey (adjust to taste - omit for vegans)
1/4 teaspoon of ground cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon of ground cardamom
1/4 teaspoon of ground ginger
1/4 teaspoon of ground cloves
Ice cubes (optional)
Directions:
- Heat the rice milk: Pour the rice milk into a small saucepan and warm it over low heat. You want it to be warm, but not boiling.
- Steep the chai tea: Once the milk is warm, add the chai tea bag to the saucepan. Let it steep for about 5 minutes to infuse the chai flavor into the milk. Remove the tea bag and discard.
- Mix in Zeal Horchata: In a separate glass or container, add one scoop of Zurvita's Zeal Horchata.
- Combine the ingredients: Slowly pour the warm chai-infused rice milk over the Zeal Horchata. Stir gently to combine.
- Add spices and sweetener: Stir in the ground cinnamon, cardamom, ginger, and cloves. Add honey to sweeten, adjusting to your taste preferences. Stir well to ensure the spices are evenly distributed.
- Chill (optional): If you prefer a cold drink, refrigerate the Chai Spiced Horchata for at least an hour.
- Serve: Pour the Chai Spiced Horchata into a glass filled with ice cubes (if desired). Garnish with a sprinkle of cinnamon on top.
Cranberry Holiday Spritz
Ingredients:
1 part Josh Cellars Pinot Grigio
.5 part lemon Juice
.75 part cranberry spiced simple syrup (simple syrup with cranberries and cinnamon)
Top with ginger beer
Sugar covered cranberries to garnish
Ice
Directions:
- Combine all but the ginger beer in a shaker.
- Shake and strain into a rocks class or a tall glass and top with ginger beer.
- Garnish with the cranberries.
Grinch Cocktail
Ingredients:
1 ½ ounces midori liqueur
1 ounce clear rum
3.5 ounces Bevi Lemon sparkling water (set flavor to high)
3.5 ounces Bevi Key Lime sparkling water (set flavor to high)
1 maraschino cherry, for garnish
Directions:
- Fill a lowball glass with ice.
- Add midori liqueur and rum.
- Top with Bevi Lemon and Bevi Key
- Lime sparkling water, setting the flavor to high.
- Garnish with a maraschino cherry.
Havana Club Crema de Vie Cocktail (Cuban Eggnog)
Ingredients:
1 can (14 oz) sweetened condensed milk
1 can (12 oz) evaporated milk
6 large egg yolks
2 cups sugar
1 cup water
1 tsp. vanilla extract
6 oz. Havana Club Añejo Blanco
Directions:
- Mix the sugar and water together over very low heat in a medium pot, stirring constantly until the sugar dissolves – about 3 minutes. It has to be just low enough so that the sugar doesn’t caramelize, but makes a thick sugary water.
- Place egg yolks and condensed milk in a blender and mix well.
- Slowly add the evaporated milk and mix completely. Add the vanilla extract and mix.
- Pour the mixture into the sugar-water and stir well.
- Stir in the Havana Club Añejo Blanco.
- Optional: Shave the Havana Club Crema de Vie Chocolate Bar on top.
- Makes a carafe for sharing.
Gingerbread Man
Ingredients:
1 ½ oz. Sammy’s Beach Platinum Rum
¼ ounce Sammy’s Beach Bar Red Head Rum
¾ ounce Amaro Averna (Italian bitter digestif)
¼ ounce Monin Gingerbread Syrup
¼ ounce fresh lime juice
Garnish: fresh orange wheel
Directions:
- In a cocktail shaker filled with ice, add the rums, Amaro Averna, gingerbread syrup and lime juice.
- Shake well and strain into Collins, or highball glass filled with ice.
- Garnish with a fresh orange wheel.
- Note: Depending on the size of your glass, you may need to double the recipe.
Bespoken Rye Manhattan
Ingredients:
2 oz Bespoken Rye Whiskey
1 oz Sweet Vermouth
1 to 2 dashes Bitters
Garnish: Maraschino Cherry
Cornucopia
Ingredients:
1 oz Premium Vodka
¼ oz Maraschino Liqueur
¼ oz Passionfruit Syrup
½ oz Pomegranate Juice
2 oz Willie’s Superbrew Juicy Mango Tango or your favorite mango juice
Directions:
- Add all ingredients except Juicy Mango Tango to a shaker with ice. Shake until combined.
- Strain into chilled coupe glass and slowly top with Juicy Mango Tango.
- Express orange zest and garnish with Luxardo cherry skewer.
MINTini
Ingredients:
1 1/4 oz Titos Vodka
1 oz Baileys Vanilla Mint
1/2 oz Kahlua
1/2 oz Bomani Cold Buzz
Directions:
- Shaken and poured into a Martini glass
- Garnish: peppermint rim and a mint leaf
- Served with a can of Bomani Cold Buzz
Blackberry Sage Gin & Tonic
Ingredients:
1 1/2 oz. Hendricks Gin
1/2 oz. The Perfect Purée Blackberry Puree, thawed
1 oz. sage syrup
Splash of fresh lemon juice
Splash of tonic
One blackberry and one sage leaf on a skewer
Directions:
- Build ingredients in a pounder glass.
- Strain into a single rocks glass.
- Garnish with berry-sage skewer.
Holiday Rum Mule cocktail
Ingredients:
1 ½ oz Kōloa Kaua`i Spice Rum
1 oz Kōloa Kaua`i Dark Rum
½ oz lime juice
4 oz ginger beer
Directions:
- In a mule mug, combine the rum and lime juice with ice and stir.
- Top off with ginger beer.
- Garnish with orange slices, rosemary and sugared cranberries.
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