If you are looking for some festive cocktail recipes then look no further as we have six for you to make at home.
As we near the close of the year, it is finally time to put on our party hats and dance shoes in time for all the Christmas parties.
The festive season is traditionally a time when people get loose and have a merry time, it can also get a bit stressful.
Cocktails are usually the go-to drink, so it is a good time to get creative and try new recipes.
For your next Christmas and New Year’s party, Jimmy’s Cocktails and Pernod Ricard India have handpicked some festive cocktail recipes that you can make at home.
Christmas Stolen
Ingredients:
45ml cinnamon infused bourbon whiskey
90ml Jimmy’s Whisky sour mix
How to mix it:
Shaken with lots of ice and served over ice
Garnish with an orange peel and a cinnamon stick
Bubbly Bees Knees
Ingredients:
50 ml Monkey 47 Schwarzwald Dry Gin
25 ml Lemon Juice
20 ml Runny Honey
40 ml G. H. Mumm Champagne
How to mix it:
Shake the Monkey 47 gin, lemon juice and runny honey with ice
Strain into a coupe or champagne saucer/ flute
Top with champagne and garnish with lemon zest or a wheel.
Espresso Oak
Ingredients:
30ml Oaken Glow
30ml Espresso
A spoonful (120-150ml) of vanilla ice cream
How to mix:
This cocktail is curated by mixing all ingredients well with some ice cubes (in a cocktail shaker)
Pour out into a whiskey glass and serve with a chocolate stick/roll.
Irish Coffee
Ingredients
35ml Jameson
10ml Demerara and Muscovado sugar syrup
30ml lightly whipped double cream
90ml medium roasted espresso coffee
30ml lightly whipped double cream
1 vanilla pod or cinnamon for garnish
Fresh grated nutmeg
How to mix:
Dissolve 2 parts Demerara sugar and 1-part Muscovado sugar in 3 parts of boiling water for the syrup
Stir sugar syrup into 35ml Jameson in a warmed glass
Whip 30ml chilled double cream lightly until it starts to stiffen
Brew a 45ml shot of coffee into the glass from your espresso machine
Reload and brew in a second 45ml shot
Pour the whipped cream into the coffee over the back of a spoon so it floats on top.
Garnish with a trimmed vanilla pod or a stick of cinnamon and dust with a grating of fresh nutmeg
Absolut Mistletoe
Ingredients:
45ml Absolut vodka
90 Cranberry Juice
10ml Lime Juice
Lemon-Lime soda for top up
1 sprig mint Leaf
1 sprig Red Currant
How to mix:
Fill a rocks glass with ice cubes
Add Absolut Vodka, cranberry juice and lime juice
Top up with lemon-lime soda
Garnish with mint leaf and red currant
Pomegranate Negroni
Ingredients:
40ml Beefeater Dry 30ml Campari
25ml Lillet Blanc
10ml pomegranate juice
2 dashes orange bitters
Garnish: Orange twist
How to mix it:
This cocktail is curated by mixing all ingredients well with some ice (in a cocktail shaker)
Stir until its chilled, strain into class and add ice, and garnish!
Top with soda for a twist on an Americano.
-IANS
