With few ingredients, impress your guests with a selection of spirited offerings that’ll ignite conversation.
The holidays have arrived. Trees are adorned, lights are all strung, cookies are baked, and gifts are wrapped for the young. What about you? Have you taken care of yourself? Have you rested your feet, employed the help of an elf?
Take some of the guesswork out of preparations this season, by planning to serve a handful of easy-to-make cocktails, certain to leave more time for you to enjoy your own gathering.
To unabashedly coin a phrase, “It is the most wonderful time of the year”, and how better to entertain than by presenting your guests with festive drinks filled with good cheer!
A procession of images with great food, friends, family, and extravagant beverages in holiday settings helps us reimagine what this time of year could be like.
Why imagine it, when you too can create your own memories at home? Enjoy the simplicity of mixing cocktails by design yourself. Customize favorites, or experiment on the side.
Fully equipped bars are an entertainer’s dream, but a shaker set and access to freshly crushed ice is all you really require.
Whether chocolate or peppermint, vanilla or citrus, the combinations of elements are really quite limitless.
To help you begin, and to narrow the choices, here are some suggestions of vibrant, eye-catching, and flavorful drinks for the holiday that are easy to prepare, and delightfully fun on the palate.
-The ‘Melting Snow’ is a vodka-based drink that tastes like a rich cup of coffee, flavored with Kahlua and Amaretto.
-Pecan Pie is an Irish cream-like beverage with a hint of cinnamon from the Rumchata, finished by heat from bourbon.
-Jack Frost is a refreshingly effervescent vodka and Blue Curacao drink, made less bitter paired with prosecco.
-The Santa Hat’s grenadine creates the bright red color in this cocktail, which complements the lemon-lime and vodka.