The best time of year! Us Weekly rounded up nine holiday-themed cocktails to celebrate the season.
Scroll through for what to order in December at several New York City hotspots. Don’t live in NYC? Make the recipes at home!
The best time of year! Us Weekly rounded up nine holiday-themed cocktails to celebrate the season.
Scroll through for what to order in December at several New York City hotspots. Don’t live in NYC? Make the recipes at home!
The best time of year! Us Weekly rounded up nine holiday-themed cocktails to celebrate the season. Scroll through for what to order in December at several New York City hotspots. Don’t live in NYC? Make the recipes at home!
The best time of year! Us Weekly rounded up nine holiday-themed cocktails to celebrate the season. Scroll through for what to order in December at several New York City hotspots. Don’t live in NYC? Make the recipes at home!
The Candy Cane Shot is a perfect, sweet treat for the holidays available for the Winter season at The Cauldron. With vodka, whipped cream, coconut milk and vanilla syrup, the shot bound to put a twinkle in your step!
Ingredients
10 oz Vodka (died red)
10 oz whipped cream
7.5 oz coconut milk
7.5 oz canilla syrup (died red)
Instructions
Pour all the ingredients into the shot class carefully following this order: Red Vanilla Syrup, Coconut Milk, Red Vodka, Whipped Cream
Cozy up to this warming cocktail that can be found at NYC Greek hotspots Kyma Flatiron and Elea - crafted with Woodford Reserve Bourbon Whiskey infused with fresh apples, cinnamon and cherry bitters.
Ingredients
Woodford Reserve Whiskey 2oz
1/2 of a fresh apple
Cherry bitters - 3 drops
1 cinnamon stick
1 orange peel
Instructions
1. Soak apple and cinnamon stick in Woodford Reserve overnight. Add remaining ingredients to shaker tin with ice.
2. Shake and double strain into a chilled rocks glass. Garnish with 1 cinnamon stick and orange peel.
This festive hot cocktail from The Late Late’s Tacky Christmas Takeover pop-up is crafted with Hennessy VSOP, Melletti Cioccolato and a house-made hot chocolate.
Ingredients
1.5 oz Hennessy VSOP
.5 oz Melletti Cioccolato (or any chocolate liqueur)
House blend hot chocolate (your favorite hot chocolate blend will do!)
Instructions
1. Add Hennessy VSOP and Melletti Cioccolato to your favorite mug.
2. Fill the remainder with your favorite hot chocolate.
3. Top with whipped cream and crushed peppermint / peppermint stick.
This cozy cocktail from Mr. Purple’s Clicquot Chalet pop-up is crafted with spiced rum and hot apple cider.
Ingredients
1.5 oz Bacardi Oakheart Spiced Rum
Hot apple cider
Instructions
1. Add Bacardi Oakheart spiced rum to a festive mug.
2. Fill the remainder with your hot apple cider.
3. Top with star anise, cinnamon sticks and/or an orange peel.
The Snow Globe, found at the “Pink Holiday Playground” at Magic Hour Rooftop Bar & Lounge in Moxy Times Square, is full of glittery fun. With Grey Goose Cherry Noir Vodka, white cranberry and pineapple juice, this all pink cocktail will help you wish away your winter blues.
Ingredients
3 oz Grey Goose Cherry Noir Vodka
1.5 oz White Cranberry
1.5 oz Pineapple Juice
1 oz St. Germain
1 oz Simple Syrup
Pomegranate Seeds
Pink Edible Glitter
Luster Dust
Instructions
Add all ingredients in a ti with ice and shake. Pour into the vessel with ice and garnish with pomegranate seeds, pink edible glitter and luster dust.
Through January, pay a visit to the NYC location of one of the world’s best bars, Lyaness, residing within PRICELESS at Spring Studios in Tribeca. Award-winning bartender Ryan “Mr. Lyan” Chetiyawardana fashioned a festive tipple for the holiday season, a punch that’s exclusively available to New Yorkers inside the cozy, to-scale replica of the original South Bank, London location.
Ingredients
10 oz Del Maguey Vida Mezcal
8.5 oz VSOP Cognac
8.5 oz Lyaness 'Purple Pineapple'
0.3 oz orange bitters
0.1 oz celery bitters
17 oz cold brewed green tea
1 bottle Champagne
Instructions
Build over block ice in a punch bowl, with wedges of orange studded with clove, lemon wheels and mint sprigs. Stir, then add bottle of Champagne. Ladle into rocks glasses over block ice, and garnish with a piece of cinder toffee.
The Primrose Cider, found at ‘The Winter Rose Garden’ at Dream Downtown’s lobby bar, tastes as amazing as it looks. With Applejack, cinnamon syrup and sparkling rosé, this delicious cocktail with rose filled ice cubes will be your favorite drink this winter.
Ingredients
1 oz Barking Irons Applejack
1 oz cinnamon syrup
.5 oz lemon juice
Top with sparkling rosé
Instructions
Add all ingredients into a tin with ice, besides the sparkling rosé, and shake. Strain into a wine glass and garnish with a rose ice cube.
The Dream Cider, from “Midwinter Night’s Dream” at PHD Terrace, is a perfect cocktail to cuddle up with. Garnished with a cinnamon stick and fresh lemon wheel, this fun and seasonal cocktail can be enjoyed all winter long.
Ingredients
1.5 oz Blade and Bow Bourbon
.5 oz Barking Irons Applejack
.75 oz cinnamon syrup
Apple cider
Lemon wheel
Cinnamon stick
Instructions
Add all ingredients into a tin with ice, shake. Strain into a rocks glass with fresh ice and garnish with a lemon wheel and cinnamon stick.
Found at The Rickey, the Bad Santa is the perfect cocktail to enjoy all winter long. With Ketel One Vodka, home-made pressed almond milk, cinnamon syrup and chocolate covered raspberries, this liquid libation will warm you up while you wait out the cold.
Ingredients
1.5 oz Ketel One Vodka
1 oz House-made almond milk
.5 oz Lo-Fi Gentian Amaro
.5 oz lemon juice
.5 oz cinnamon syrup
5 Dashes Cardamom Bitters
3 Chocolate-covered raspberries
Shaved nutmeg
Instructions
In a tin with ice add all ingredients and shake. Pour into a rock glass with fresh ice and garnish with three chocolate covered raspberries on a skewer and shaved nutmeg.
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