Pretty Cocktail Recipes for the Holidays

The holiday season is here, which means there will be plenty of parties to attend and events to host! And what’s a good party without a signature cocktail?! Concoct one of these yummy and pretty cocktail recipes for the holidays (whether you’re at a party or not!). The flavors will put you in the holiday spirit and make your bar cart look extra festive too :). Cheers!

Gingerberry Sparkler Recipe

Ingredients:

1 bottle prosecco or similar
2 cups cranberry juice
6 oz vodka
12 oz ginger beer
Fresh cranberries (optional)

Directions: Pour champagne, cranberry juice and ginger beer into a large pitcher. Add vodka and stir gently. Serve over ice in champagne coupes or martini glasses. Garnish with fresh cranberries, sip and enjoy!

Fig Punch

Pretty Cocktail Recipes for the Holidays
Recipe and Photo via Macher Studio

Sparkling Pear Mango Moscato 

4 Pretty Cocktail Recipes for the Holidays
Recipe & Photo by Craft & Cocktails
Ingredients:
1 1/2 oz pear brandy
1 oz ginger liqueur
1 oz fresh pear juice
Garnish: full pear slice
Directions: Mix the pear brandy, ginger liqueur, and pear juice in a shaker with ice and shake. Strain into a glass with ice. Top with Mango Tropical Moscato and stir. Garnish with pear.

Blood Orange, Sage & Ginger Margarita

Pretty Cocktail Recipes for the Holidays
Recipe & Photo via What Do You Crave

Fig Old Fashioned

4 Pretty Cocktail Recipes for the Holidays
Photo by Abby Jiu , Recipe inspired by The Kitchn

Ingredients:
1 1/2 ounces bourbon
1 fig
1/2 ounce orange juice
1/4 ounce maple syrup
1 tsp Balsamic Vinegar
Garnish: an orange peel and half a fig.

Directions: Remove the stem of the fig, cut into quarters, and muddle with the maple syrup in a cocktail shaker. Add the bourbon, orange juice, and balsamic vinegar, and fill the shaker with ice. Shake and strain into an glass with ice.

Hot Chocolate – Chata

Pretty Cocktail Recipes for the Holidays
Photo by Sanaz Photography

Tropical Moscato Cranberry Orange Spritz

4 Pretty Cocktail Recipes for the Holidays
Recipe & Photo by Craft & Cocktails

Ingredients:

3 oz Passion Fruit Moscato
1 ½ oz Cointreau or other orange liqueur
1 oz vodka
2 oz cranberry juice
½ oz orange juice
Garnish: cranberries and orange slices

Directions: Mix the orange liqueur, vodka, cranberry juice, and orange juice in a shaker with ice and shake. Then strain into a glass. Top with Passion Fruit Tropical Moscato and stir. Garnish with cranberries and orange slice.

New York Sour Float

Pretty Cocktail Recipes for the Holidays
Photo & Recipe via Truffles on The Rocks

Which one will you make? 

 

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