3 Holiday Cocktail Recipes to Help Make the Best of this New Stay at Home Order
It’s officially December which, for many people, means it’s HOLIDAY-GO-TIME. But this year is different. In years past, the parties have been seemingly endless with even worst traffic to get there. Holiday season has been a free for all for me, running around the city to different house parties and Christmas gatherings. If you’re reading from Los Angeles, you just got put on a stay at home order for the next three weeks. And that’s a huge bummer. But with every sucky situation, there’s usually (but not always) a bright side to it. The bright side here? Not running myself ragged by the time it’s actually Christmas Day.
So yes, it sucks, but here we are nonetheless, with a ‘quarantined-induced’ pent up energy to celebrate the holidays and nowhere to go. Even though the parties have screeched to a halt and the next three weeks are going be hunkered down at home, let’s make the best of it. Grab some cozy Christmas pjs, order in some tasty take out (Please order take-out and support our LA restaurants if you have the means. They need us right now!) get a sweet Christmas movie on and choose from one of these fun holiday cocktails to lighten the mood and make the best of a bummer situation.
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.
Thumbnail image credit - halfbakedharvest.com
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.
