Festive Cocktail Recipes Perfect for Holiday Entertaining
Festive drinks to celebrate the season
Perfect Manhattan
Ingredients:
2 parts A Overholt® Rye Whiskey
½ part sweet vermouth
½ part dry vermouth
Dash of bitters
Garnish:
Lemon twist
Add all liquors to a shaker with ice and shake until well chilled. Strain into a cocktail glass over ice.
Garnish with lemon twist.
Rye Old-Fashioned
Ingredients:
2 ounces Jim Beam® Rye Whiskey
1 ounce dry vermouth
¼ ounce lemon juice, freshly squeezed
1–2 dashes grenadine
1 dash orange bitters
Add whiskey, vermouth, lemon juice, grenadine and orange bitters to a shaker with ice and shake until well chilled.
Strain into a chilled rocks glass.
Naughty But Nice
Ingredients:
4 parts Maker’s Mark® Bourbon
2 parts orange juice
2 parts ginger syrup
4 parts cranberry juice
4 parts club soda
Garnish:
Orange slices and fresh cranberries
Fill cocktail shaker with ice, add Maker’s Mark® Bourbon, juices and syrup. Shake well.
Divide evenly between two glasses and add extra ice if needed.
Top with club soda.
Garnish with an orange wedge and fresh cranberries.
Ginger Syrup: ¼ pound ginger, peeled and thinly sliced (about ¾ cup), 1 cup sugar, and 1 cup water
White Cranberry Margarita
Ingredients:
¾ part Hornitos Plata® Tequila
1¼ part white cranberry juice
1 part freshly squeezed lime juice
½ part orange liqueur
1 tablespoon agave nectar
Garnish:
Equal parts fine sugar and salt, for rimming the glasses. Extra lime wedges, for garnish. Fresh or frozen cranberries, for garnish.
Add cranberry juice, lime juice, orange liqueur and tequila to a shaker with ice.
Shake vigorously for 20–30 seconds.
Rim glass with sugar and salt.
Fill the glasses with ice, and strain mix into the glass. Garnish with lime wedges and cranberries.
Spiced Cranberry Old-Fashioned
Ingredients:
2 parts Knob Creek® Bourbon (or Rye)
¼ part cinnamon syrup
3–4fresh cranberries
1 orange wedge
2 dashes angostura bitters
2dashes cranberry bitters
Garnish:
Orange peel, cranberries
Combine syrup, cranberries and orange in glass and gently muddle. Add Knob Creek, bitters and ice. Stir until chilled.
Strain into a rocks glass over fresh ice or a large cube.
Garnish with an orange peel and skewered cranberries.
Bourbon Honey French 75
Ingredients:
1 part Basil Hayden® Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey
1 part fresh orange juice
¾ part honey syrup (or simple syrup)
½ part fresh lemon juice
4 dashes orange bitters
1 part fresh orange juice
Champagne or prosecco
Garnish:
Orange twist
Combine all ingredients except for sparkling wine in a cocktail shaker with ice.
Shake and strain into a champagne glass. Top with sparkling wine and garnish with an orange twist.
Honey Syrup: In a saucepan, mix honey and water. Heat about 2 minutes over medium-high heat, stirring constantly until honey is dissolved. Remove from heat, and set aside 1 hour to cool. Refrigerate until ready for use. Makes about ½ cup.
Espresso Martini
Ingredients:
2 ounces Tito’s® Handmade Vodka
1 ounce coffee liqueur
1 ounce espresso
½ ounce simple syrup
½ ounce creamer, optional
3 espresso beans, garnish
Garnish:
Espresso beans
Add all ingredients to a shaker with ice. Shake. Strain into a martini glass. Garnish with espresso beans.
St. Elder Classic
Ingredients:
1 ounce St. Elder® Natural Elderflower Liqueur
Prosecco
Garnish:
Lemon twist
Pour St. Elder in champagne glass and top with your favorite Prosecco. Float lemon twist to garnish.
Fireside Fashioned
Ingredients:
1.5 ounces Flag Hill® Maple Bourbon Whiskey
¼ounce toasted marshmallow syrup
3 ounces chocolate bitters
Garnish:
Toasted marshmallow
Combine all ingredients in a mixing glass. Add ice and stir until fully chilled and diluted (about 20 seconds). Strain over one large ice cube and garnish with a toasted marshmallow.
Spicy Orange Mimosa
Ingredients:
1 ounce Casamigas® Jalapeño Tequila
1 ounce fresh blood orange juice
¼ ounce simple syrup
1 jalapeño slice
½ thick rim equal parts salt/sugar chile and lime
Top off with chilled Prosecco
Garnish:
Blood orange peel
Wet ½ rim of glass with orange wedge and dip into salt mixture. Combine all ingredients, except Prosecco
in a shaker. (Muddle jalapeño if using.)
Add ice and shake.
Strain into a rimmed champagne flute.
Top off with chilled prosecco and garnish.
Sparkling Holiday Punch
Ingredients:
2 Three Olives® Vodka
2 ounces cranberry juice
4 ounces sparkling apple cider
Garnish:
Rosemary sprig, orange slice, and 3 fresh cranberries.
Add all ingredients to a glass with ice. Gently stir and garnish with a rosemary sprig, orange slice and three fresh cranberries.
Espresso Old-Fashioned
Ingredients:
2 ounces Bushmills® Original Irish Whiskey
1 ounce coffee liqueur
1 ounce fresh espresso
½ ounce cinnamon syrup
2 dashes walnut bitters
Garnish:
Coffee beans
Pour all ingredients into a cocktail shaker full of ice. Shake well. Strain cocktail into a separate glass and allow to settle for 1 minute. Garnish with coffee beans.
