Readying for Christmas brings back fond memories of baking sugar cookies on chilly winter days with the oven full blast warming the entire house. Hot chocolate with piles of whipped cream and cinnamon sprinkles was necessary to round out the experience for warming inner glow. Moving into adulthood sometimes hot chocolate was exchanged for hot tea with gingerbread cookies on the side. Even so the experience was less about the exact food and drink and more about the circumstances and who shared the moment. The holidays abound with specific moments that trigger nostalgic memories. With that thought in mind, mixologists have endeavored to capture these wistful moments in time within cocktail recipes for the holiday season. Hot chocolate becomes a truly heated pleasure with the addition of Flor de Caña Rum and slice of Habañero Chili Pepper. Egg Nog goes the extra mile with peppermint tea infused Bombay Sapphire Gin. Gingerbread cookies will never taste the same with Lucid Absinthe taking this little cookie for a delicious liquid spin.
More enchanting drink recipes for the holiday season may be found in the photo recipe slideshow below. Each recipe highlights specific moments surrounding the holidays that will hopefully elicit fond memories of past holidays for you. The Holiday Cheer Recipe Guide includes 125+ martini & cocktail recipes for the Christmas and New Year’s season. The recently updated Drink Recipes & Photos page includes all cocktail recipe slideshows by category.
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