Our Favourite 15 Christmas Cocktail Recipes
Our very favourite Christmas themed, Christmas orientated cocktails recipes. From old classics to new age mixes, there's a cocktail here for everyone, for every festive occasion.
Christmas is a time for sharing, a time for caring, and a time for imbibing (in our opinion). There's a whole host of wonderful drinks out there for you to enjoy, from the fireside sips to the decadent desert numbers. In this list we've hand picked and hand curated our very best 15 Christmas Cocktails, that covers nearly all events and occasions throughout this festive period.
Theres a blend of trend and tradition, from the classics to the new age concoctions. You'll recognise some old staples that always come out at this time of the year, but you'll hopefully find something new and intriguing to try, no matter your palette. We've chosen a range of cocktails and ingredients to touch all your mincemeat and cinnamon wants as well as your balanced and opulent whiskeys and rums.
It was hard to pick our favourite 15, but after much discussion and taste testing, find for your pleasure Make Me a Cocktails 2024 top 15 Christmas Cocktails. Thers sure to be something here to delight, impress, intrigue and just down right enjoy. Happy holiday season all.
Theres a blend of trend and tradition, from the classics to the new age concoctions. You'll recognise some old staples that always come out at this time of the year, but you'll hopefully find something new and intriguing to try, no matter your palette. We've chosen a range of cocktails and ingredients to touch all your mincemeat and cinnamon wants as well as your balanced and opulent whiskeys and rums.
It was hard to pick our favourite 15, but after much discussion and taste testing, find for your pleasure Make Me a Cocktails 2024 top 15 Christmas Cocktails. Thers sure to be something here to delight, impress, intrigue and just down right enjoy. Happy holiday season all.
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1. Boulevardier
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- Pour all ingredients into a shaker with ice
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- Shake well and strain into chilled cocktail glass
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- Garnish with an orange wedge and serve
2. Christmas cosmopolitan
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- In a mixing glass with ice add in a couple of slices of fresh ginger, before pouring in the vodka, gin and cranberry juice
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- Next add the juice of half a lime and stir to combine and chill
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- Strain into a chilled cocktail glass
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- Garnish with a lime peel twist and serve
3. Hazelnut Hot Toddy
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- In a medium-sized saucepan, whisk together the Frangelico, bourbon, water, brown sugar, and vanilla
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- Add the cinnamon sticks and cloves
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- Heat on medium for about 5 minutes, until hot and the brown sugar has dissolved, but do not bring to a boil
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- Pour into cups, making 4 small servings or 2 large
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- Garnish with additional cinnamon sticks and fresh herbs if desired
4. Sazerac
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- Take a chilled lowball glass and swirl the absinthe around the sides to coat the glass, and fill with ice
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- In a mixing glass muddle the bitters and sugar, then add the cognac and stir to combine
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- Disgard the ice and excess liquid from the glass and pour in the mixed drink
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- Garnish with a lemon peel and serve
5. Chocolate Orange
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- First rim a cocktail glass with sugar syrup then dab onto some grated dark chocolate
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- Add the vodka, crème de cacao, orange juice and orange syrup to a cocktail shaker with ice and shake well before straining into the rimmed cocktail glass and serving
6. Bitter orange & cardamom martini
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- Heat up the marmalade gently in a saucepan to make it runny
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- Add in the cardamom pods and crush to release their flavour
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- Once warmed for a couple of minutes take off the heat and leave to cool for 20 minutes
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- Once cooled, add the Cointreau and lemon juice to a mixing glass and add in the marmalade cardamom mixture, and stir to combine
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- Take a chilled martini glass and add a dollop of marmalade to the bottom, before pouring in the mixture
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- Serve with a cardamom pod floating on top to garnish
7. Mimosa
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- Add orange juice to the bottom of a champagne flute before topping up with chilled Prosecco
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- Garnish with an orange peel twist and serve
8. Ginger Mojito
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- Muddle the ginger in the base of a cocktail shaker
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- Add the mint leaves and muddle lightly to release the flavour
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- Add ice, then the rum, sugar syrup and lime juice, and shake well
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- Strain into a highball glass over ice
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- Top up with ginger beer, stir briefly, and garnish with a mint sprig before serving
9. Christmas Eve
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- Place all ingredients into a cocktail shaker with a handful of ice and shake hard
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- Strain the drink into a martini glass using a fine strainer
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- Garnish with a twist of lemon zest and serve
10. Winter Waltz
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- Add the whisky, amaro, allspice and bitters to a cocktail shaker with ice
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- Shake firmly until the outside of the shaker becomes frosted, before straining into a chilled martini glass
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- Garnish with a star anise and serve
11. Pumpkin Sour
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- First you need to make the spiced pumpkin syrup
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- In a saucepan, add a cup of brown sugar, a cup of water, half a cup of pumpkin purée, and a teaspoon each of nutmeg, ginger, allspice and cinnamon
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- Over medium heat until slightly thickened
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- Remove from the heat and place a vanilla pod into the syrup and chill overnight
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- Strain through a cheesecloth and store in a covered container, in a fridge, for up to one week
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- Combine the bourbon, lemon juice, egg whites and pumpkin syrup in a cocktail shaker with ice
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- Shake well then strain into a rocks-filled rocks glass
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- Garnish with ground nutmeg, a cherry and Angostura bitters
12. Espresso Martini
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- Pour all ingredients into a cocktail shaker filled with ice
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- Shake vigorously; it should be somewhat frothy
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- Strain into a chilled cocktail glass and serve
13. Mince pie martini
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- First make a mincemeat syrup
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- Heat the sugar with mincemeat and water
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- Bring to the boil before cooling and straining
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- Dampen the edges of a cocktail glass with the mincemeat syrup, before dipping in some mixed spice to rim the glass
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- In a cocktail shaker add the mincemeat syrup with the gin, vermouth and dark rum with ice and shake for 20 seconds
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- Strain into the cocktail glass and serve
14. Hot Toddy
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- Warm a heatproof glass
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- Add the whisky, lemon juice, syrup, cloves and honey
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- Top up with boiling water and garnish with a lemon skewered with cloves and a cinnamon stick
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- Give it a quick stir and serve immediately
15. The TCL Mulled Fizz
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- First make the spiced syrup
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- Split the vanilla pod and grate the half nutmeg, and add them both along with the other spices to 50ml of warm water, stirring occasionally for 3-4 minutes to infuse all the flavours
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- Leave to cool for about 10 minutes or so in the fridge and then strain
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- Next add all the liquid ingredients except the sparkling wine into a cocktail shaker filled with ice
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- Shake for 10-15 seconds or until the outside of the shaker becomes frosted
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- Double strain into a chilled champagne flute then top up with the sparkling wine
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- Garnish with an orange twist and serve
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