Celebrate the festive season with a unique spin on holiday cocktail and mocktail recipes!
Check out these recipes from Freddie Sarkis, the chief cocktail officer and co-founder at Liquor Lab, an event space offering interactive cocktail-making classes.
Cheers!
Hot Apple Cider Punch
Yield: 6
Ingredients
4 ½ cups apple cider
2 ¼ cups spiced rum (non-alcoholic sub: chai tea)
2 ¼ cups cranberry juice
Cinnamon sticks
Orange
Method
- Bring apple cider to a boil. Stir together spiced rum, and cranberry juice.
- Garnish with cinamon sticks and orang slices. Serve right away and ladle into glasses
Apple Grove Highball
Yield: 1
Ingredients
1 ½ oz gin (substitute: green tea or a botanical forward non alcoholic alternative such as Seed Lip)
¾ oz lemon juice
¾ oz apple cider syrup
2 dashes aromatic bitters
Ginger beer
Method
- Combine gin, lemon juice, apple cider syrup and aromatic bitters in a cocktail shaker filled with ice and shake until very cold
- Strain mixture into an ice-filled glass and top with the chilled ginger beer. Stir gently.
Woodland Whisper
Yield: 1
Ingredients
1 ½ oz Tequila Reposado (substitute: black tea)
¾ oz lemon juice
¾ oz blackberry sage syrup
1-2 dashes orange bitters
Method
- Combine tequila, lemon juice, blackberry sage syrup and orange bitters in a cocktail shaker filled with ice and shake until very cold
- Strain the mixture into an ice-filled glass.
Pumpkin Spiced Old Fashioned
Yield: 1
Ingredients
1 ½ oz chai infused whiskey
¼ oz vanilla Demerara syrup
2 dashes aromatic bitters
1 dash orange bitters
Orange peel
Method
- Add the chai-infused whiskey, vanilla Demerara syrup, Aromatic Bitters and Orange Bitters into a mixing glass and stir until combined.
- Fill the mixing glass with ice, add the bourbon, and stir until well-chilled.
- Strain into a rocks glass over one large ice cube.
- Express the oil of an orange twist over the glass, then drop into the glass to garnish.
