Winter Cocktail Recipes
Warm up and wind down with these fun winter cocktail recipes!
Mulled wine
Ingredients:
1 bottle Robert Hall cabernet
1 orange, sliced
8 cloves
2 cinnamon sticks
2 star anise
Sugar, honey, or maple syrup to taste
¼ cup brandy
Instructions:
Combine all ingredients in a large saucepan.
Cook on medium-high until it reaches a simmer. Do not allow to boil.
Reduce heat to low and let simmer for 15 minutes.
Strain if desired.
Serve in a mug, using any leftover cloves, cinnamon sticks, anise, or oranges for garnish.
Brandy Alexander
Ingredients:
1 1/2 ounces cognac
1 ounce dark crème de cacao
1 ounce cream
Grated nutmeg
Instructions:
Add ingredients to shaker with ice. Shake until chilled.
Strain into a chilled cocktail glass or coupe.
Garnish with grated nutmeg.
Winter Manhattan
Ingredients:
2 ounces bourbon or rye
1 ounce sweet vermouth
2 dashes chocolate bitters
1 dash orange bitters
Brandied cherry or maraschino cherry for garnish
Instructions:
Stir bourbon/rye, vermouth, and bitters in a mixing glass with ice until chilled.
Strain into a chilled cocktail glass or coupe.
Garnish with cherry.
Rosemary Gin Fizz
Ingredients:
2 oz gin
½ oz lemon juice
½ oz rosemary simple syrup (see below)
3 oz plain San Pellegrino
1 lemon slice
1 rosemary sprig
Rosemary simple syrup
½ c sugar
½ c water
1 rosemary sprig
Combine sugar and water in a small saucepan.
Bring to a boil.
Stir and cook until sugar dissolves.
Remove pan from heat and add rosemary.
Let steep for 1 hour.
Instructions:
Shake gin, lemon juice, and rosemary simple syrup in cocktail shaker with ice.
Strain into a glass over ice.
Add club soda.
Garnish with lemon and rosemary.
Espresso Nog Martini
Ingredients:
1 cinnamon stick
1 egg
⅓ c cream
⅓ c milk
¼ c espresso
¼ c Patron XO Cafe
¼ c brandy
Grated nutmeg
Ingredients:
Combine all ingredients besides nutmeg in a blender.
Blend until smooth.
Transfer to a shaker with ice. Shake until combined.
Strain into a cocktail glass.
Garnish with nutmeg and cinnamon stick.
Bourbon Hot Chocolate
Ingredients:
2 oz semisweet chocolate chips or melting chocolate wafers
6 oz milk
1 ½ oz Bulleit bourbon
Mini marshmallows
Whipped cream
Instructions:
Heat milk on a stove top until warm. Do not allow to boil.
Place chocolate in a coffee mug.
Pour hot milk into mug and let stand until chocolate melts, about 2 minutes.
Stir until smooth.
Pour in bourbon and stir to combine.
Garnish with mini marshmallows and whipped cream.
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