18 Festive And Fun Drinks For The Holidays

The holidays are here, and what better way to celebrate than with a festive cocktail in hand? There’s nothing like a Pumpkin Spice Martini, a traditional eggnog or drinks mix with champagne to get the party started. Try these tasty and delicious holiday cocktails and drink recipes to help you get into the spirit and spice up your Christmas or Thanksgiving party with your family or friends. Cheers!

Rompope (traditional eggnog) by Los Suenos Marriott Ocean & Golf Resort

Recipe:

1 quart whole milk
1 cup sugar
2 teaspoons vanilla extract (real one)
1 cinnamon stick
12 egg yolks
2 cups light rum or 2 cups brandy

The creamy masterpiece of rich, velvety flavor is believed to have been invented by seventeenth-century nuns in Mexico and can be served cold or warm as the perfect complement to a festive holiday gathering.

Pisco Sour by the Costa Rica Marriott San Jose

Recipe:

1 ½ oz Pisco
1 oz egg White
1 ½ oz Lime Juice
1 ½ oz Sugar Syrup
1 Scoop of ice
Ground cinnamon

The classic Latin American Pisco Sour gets a holiday twist this season in a blend of earthy flavors and not-so-sweet bite complimented with cool, bodied foam and finished with a dusting of ground cinnamon.

Snowing in Miami from mixologist Joel Mesa at Bulla Gastrobar

Recipe:

1.5 oz. Bacardi Neo
2 oz. pineapple juice
1.5 oz. coconut milk
3 barspoons guava preserve
1 whole egg

Add all ingredients to shaker and dry shake for 15 seconds, Add ice and shake for another 15 seconds. Strain into a martini/coupe glass, garnish across with coconut flakes.

El Arbolito – “Lef” La Mar by Gaston Acurio at the Mandarin Oriental Miami

Recipe:

2oz pisco acholado
1oz house made chicha morada
3/4 oz cinnamon syrup
1oz lime juice
2 bar spoons muddle fresh pomegranate seeds

Shake all ingredients together and strain over crushed ice, garnish with a mint top and a pomegranate nest. Sprinkle some powdered sugar on top

Pumpkin Spice Martini by The Living Bar at W South Beach

Recipe:

1.5 Oz Irish Whiskey
0.5 Oz Coffee Liqueur
0.5 Oz Irish Cream Liqueur
0.25 Oz Fresh Pumpkin Spice Syrup
1 Shot Espresso

Foam On Top. Chocolate Shavings and White Chocolate Stick as Garnish. Use a coffee mug (Hot) or a coupe glass (Cold)

Soiree Tropicale from mixologist Joel Mesa at Bulla Gastrobar

Recipe:

.25 oz. Fernet Branca
1 oz. St. Germain
.75 oz. pineapple juice
.75 oz. lulo puree

Shake very well and strain into a champagne flute. Top slowly with champagne, garnish with a single mint leaf.

Apple Cinnamon Mule from mixologist Chad Furuta of Del Frisco’s Grille New York

Recipe:

1.5 oz Jim Beam Apple
0.5 Oz Jim Beam Fire
4 to 6 oz Ginger Beer
1/2 oz Lime Juice

Fill a Moscow mule mug with ice and add the lime juice. Pour in the bourbon and fill with cold ginger beer. Stir and serve.

Butternut Squash & Clementine Bellini by Sushi Samba’s Mixologist, Richard Woods

A fresh and seasonal take on a classic Bellini. Butternut squash and clementine spritzed with Prosecco.

Recipe:

2oz. butternut & clementine juice
2oz. Prosecco
Batch – Butternut & Clementine Juice (1qt/ 35oz)
22.5oz. Butternut Squash Juice
7.5oz. Clementine Juice
4.5oz. Sugar Syrup (1:1)

Method:

1. Peel butternut squash. Chop and pass through vegetable juicer

2. Strain juice through coffee filter and reserve

3. Peel and juice clementine’s

4. Mix together and add sugar syrup

5. Bottle, label and refrigerate

TUACA’s Cocktail recipes

The Hot Apple Pie Cocktail Kit makes the perfect present for the holidays, spice up your parties and create different types of drinks at home.

TUACA Hot Apple Pie

Recipe:

1 ½ oz TUACA
5-6 oz warm apple cider
Whipped cream
Cinnamon stick

Instructions: Pour ingredients into a mug. Garnish with whipped cream and a cinnamon stick.

TUACA Winter-tini

1 1/2 ounces Woodford Reserve
2 ounces Apple Cider
1/2 ounce Tuaca Italian liqueur
1 clove
Dash of cinnamon

Instructions: Shake with ice and strain into martini glass

TUACA Sangria

Recipe:

1 oz TUACA Liqueur
1 ½ oz red wine
½ oz cognac
1 oz club soda
½ oz fresh-squeezed lemon juice
¼ oz agave
½ oz orange juice
orange and lime slices

Mix ingredients in a shaker filled with ice. Pour into a wine glass and garnish with citrus slices. For a group, change ounces to parts and add fruit.

TUACA-Chata Hot Chocolate

Recipe:

1oz Tuaca
1oz RumChata
8oz Hot Cocoa

Rim a coffee mug with chocolate syrup and pour ingredients into mug. Top with whipped cream and chocolate shavings.

TUACA-Chata Pumpkin Pie Martini

Recipe:

2 parts RumChata
1 part Tuaca
1 part pumpkin syrup (or substitute 3 tsp pie filling)
Cinnamon

Pour ingredients into a mug. Garnish with whipped cream and a cinnamon stick.

Partida Mexican Hot Chocolate by Jacques Bezuidenhout

Recipe:

2 oz Partida Añejo
1 packet of your favorite hot chocolate
Cayenne Pepper
Grated Cinnamon
Nutmeg for garnish

In a pot add your favorite chocolate powder mix and full cream milk. Stir and bring to a hot simmer. Add small pinches of Cayenne Pepper and Grated Cinnamon to taste. Add hot chocolate to your favorite mug with the addition of 2 ounces of Partida Añejo and grate a little Nutmeg over the top.

Coconut RumNog

Recipe:

Serves 6

1 c. Diplomatico Reserva Exclusiva
1 c. maple syrup
1 c. heavy cream
1.5 c. coconut milk
1 pinch sea salt
3 eggs, separated
.5 tbsp. vanilla extract
2 tsp. grated nutmeg
2 cinnamon sticks
Nutmeg, cinnamon stick and shredded coconut for garnish

In a large bowl, mix together all ingredients, except egg whites until evenly blended together. Drop in cinnamon sticks, cover and chill eggnog mixture for up to two hours. Right before serving, using an electric mixer, beat egg whites until stiff peaks begin to form and gently fold into chilled eggnog mixture. Pour into glass and garnish with grated nutmeg, coconut shreds and cinnamon stick.

A Venezuelan Holiday

Recipe

1.5 oz Diplomático Reserva Exclusiva
1 cube Brown sugar
1 stick Cinnamon
3 Sweet cloves
1 oz Lemon

In a medium stove-top pot over low heat, add sugar, cinnamon and gently crushed cloves, rum and hot water. Stir gently until sugar and spices are dissolved. Carefully pour in to hot cocktail mug and garnish with a lemon slice.

Chocolate Peppermint Cookie

Recipe