What's more fun than mixing up a variety of holiday cocktails, apart from drinking them of course! I have chosen my favorite cocktails as featured in Town and Country Magazine!
Fireside
Ingredients
4 oz Grey Goose vodka
1 oz organic maple syrup
1 sprig rosemary
5 oz pink grapefruit juice
1 pinch of salt
Instructions
In the bottom of a rocks glass briefly crush the rosemary leaves into the maple syrup and salt. Fill glass with ice and add the vodka. Top with fresh pink grapefruit juice and salt and stir well. Garnish with an extra sprig of rosemary.
Cure for the Chicago Cold
Ingredients
1 oz Buffalo Trace bourbon
.5 oz Aperol
.5 oz Amaro Montenegro
.5 oz lemon juice
.75 oz simple syrup
3 oz hot tea, to top
Instructions
Combine all ingredients but hot tea in a metal shaker. Submerge the bottom of the shaker in another shaker filled with hot water and stir to combine and warm ingredients. Pour into a mug and top with hot tea. Garnish with a few gratings of cinnamon.
Geese A’ Laying
Ingredients
.5 oz Grey Goose
.5 oz plum jam
2 tsp Cointreau
Juice of a quarter of a lime
Top with prosecco
Instructions
Shake all ingredients (except the prosecco) over ice, strain into champagne flute, and top with prosecco.
Southern Limerick
Ingredients
.25 oz rich demerara syrup
.75 oz amaro (preferably Meletti)
.75 oz 1776 Rye
4 oz brewed coffee
Instructions
In a preheated 7 oz. glass, add the Demerara syrup, amaro, rye, and brewed coffee. Top with whipped cream.
Home for the Holidays
Ingredients
2 oz gin
.75 oz lemon juice
.75 oz cranberry juice
4 dashes Angostura bitters
1 egg white
Cloves
Instructions
Combine all ingredients in a shaker tin, add ice, shake and strain into a coupe, garnish with a single clove.
Thank you to Town and Country Magazine for putting together an amazing list of cocktails, I can't wait to try them!