3 Holiday Cocktail Recipes to Make Hosting a Christmas Party Fun and Easy
It’s officially December which, for many people, means it’s HOLIDAY-GO-TIME. The parties are seemingly endless and the traffic to get there is even worst. Keeping an up to date calendar has never been my strong suit, but this year has been intentionally different. In years past, it seemed to be a Holiday party free-for-all, as I accepted invites as soon as I left one party for the next. Which, in turn, left me fried by the time Christmas Day rolled around. This year, I’ve adopted the electronic calendar method and have logged every event in the calendar, keeping myself at no more than 3 nights out a week.
Even with the holiday fatigue, it’s hard not to catch the celebration bug and want to party with friends! So here are some fun Christmas cocktail party ideas I can’t wait to try with a group of close friends at my place.
Author: Stacey Martin
Recipe type: Beverage
Serves: 1
Ingredients
¼ tsp of lime juice
½ tsp honey
3 mint leaves
1 ounce vodka
Ginger Beer (non-alcoholic)
5 cranberries (3 for garnish)
1 sprig of rosemary for garnish
white sugar for garnish
8 oz glass
Instructions
Place mint leaves, 2 cranberries, honey and lime in a dish and use a muddler to mash and set aside.
Squeeze lime juice into a small dish and sugar into another, big enough for the rim of the glass, and dip the rim of the glass in the lime then in the sugar to rim the glass.
Place the mash mixture in bottom of the glass, add ¾ the glass of crushed ice and vodka over the ice, add ginger beer to just below the rimmer fo the 8oz glass.
Garnish with a sprig of rosemary and 3 cranberries.
Notes
Replace vodka with sprite for a non-alcoholic version.
1 serving:
1/2 cup cranberry juice
1/2 cup white peach cranberry juice
1 ounce triple sec
1/2 ounce vodka
Shake with ice, pour into rimmed glass.
Garnish with fresh cranberries
For a crowd, easily serves 16 guests:
1 -64 ounce bottle cranberry juice (Ocean Spray)
1 -64 ounce bottle white cranberry-peach juice (Ocean Spray)
16 ounces triple sec
8 ounces vodka
Chill well for at least 3 hours before guests arrive.
Ingredients (makes one drink)
2 oz. vanilla vodka
2 oz. Godiva white chocolate liqueur
1 oz. white creme de cacao
1 oz. half and half
Lemon wedge
Sanding sugar
Directions
Cut a half-inch slit into the lemon wedge and rub it around the rim of the glass. Pour sanding sugar into a shallow dish then dip the rim in the sugar to coat evenly. Gently shake off excess sugar. Add the vodka, chocolate liqueur, creme de cacao, and half and half into a shaker filled with ice. Shake well and strain mixture into glass.
