Apple Cider Sangria
The season’s finest ingredients shine in thisperfect-for-entertaining cocktail from Lexi’s Clean Kitchen.
Plus, the fresh fruit gives a bright taste and makes the drink feel extra healthy.
Add in wine, apple cider, cinnamon sticks, vodka, honey, and cinnamon.
Lexi’s Clean Kitchen
Stir and serve with ice.
The recipe uses lightened-up ingredients to keep it low-cal and low-sugar.
Fill the glass with ice cubes and top it off with champagne and pomegranate seeds.
Lexi’s Clean Kitchen
Muddle, then add lemon juice and CIROC.
Pack with ice and shake.
Strain in a Collins glass and top with soda water.
Peanut Butter and Peppers
Garnish with a piece of sage.
Bloody Mary
This classic recipe is reliable all year round.
And there’s a reason.
Garnish with lime, cucumber, and celery stalk.
Fill the glass with ice, then pour with gin and top with club soda.
Pumpkin Spice Hot Buttered Rum
Starbucks isn’t the only place doing PS(L) right.
Plus, you get that buttery taste without the calories and fat of a normal buttered rum recipe.
Fire, we’ll come sit by you now.
Divide the brew and the butter into 4 cups.
Cookie and Kate
Add cinnamon stick and serve.
Red Wine Hot Chocolate
Red wine?
One of winter’s favorite drinks gets a heart-healthy upgrade withImma Eat That’s Red Wine Chocolate.
Set The Table
(If you’re still looking for more, check out these11 Heavenly Hot Chocolate Recipes.)
Whisk until chocolate is melted into milk and you have thick, creamy chocolate milk.
Pour in red wine and heat until everything is hot.
Imma Eat That
Put in a shallow dish.
Moisten rim of glass with grapefruit juice and turn glass over in the dish to coat rim with sugar.
Pour grapefruit juice and gin over ice.
Two Tarts
To lighten it up, swap ginger beer for some ginger syrup and club soda.
Fill the glass with ice, sprinkle cinnamon over the ice, and top off with ginger beer.
Stir well and garnish with an apple slice and cinnamon stick.
Sugar and Charm
The Grinch-Tini
Keep this drink on deck for your next holiday cocktail party.
TheGrinch-Tini from The Cookie Rookielooks and tastes like the holiday season feels.
Fill a low ball galss with ice cubes and pour shaker ingredients into glass.
The Cookie Rookie
Sprinkle with ground cinnamon.
Reduce heat to medium-low and let simmer for 15 minutes.
Strain and serve warm.
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Pear and Sage Sparklers
ThisPear and Sage Sparkler from Omelettatastes like your Christmas wreath smells.
Add pears and sage, then simmer until the entire mixture has reduced by half, about 1 hour.
Let cool and pour over sparkling or soda water and add the alcohol.
Omeletta
St. Germain and Champagne
This classic mix may be one of our favorite cocktails.
And it couldn’t be easier to make!Honest Cooking’s versionuses just two ingredients.
Add antioxidant-filled pomegranate seeds for garnish.
Three, two, one, happy New Year!
Float half a strawberry as a garnish.
Holiday Pimm’s Cup
Entertaining during the most wonderful time of year?
The Little Epicurean
Look no further than theHoliday Pimm’s Cup from The Little Epicurean.
It’s festive, but also easy to whip up in large batches.
2 ounces Pimm’s No.
Sweet Life Bake
Pour in Pimm’s No.
Add lemonade and cranberry juice and top with ginger beer.
Add a squeeze of lemon juice and garnish with lemon slices and rosemary sprigs.
With Food and Love
Reduce heat, simmer, and cook until all cranberries burst, stirring often.
Carefully add to blender and puree until smooth, strain and cool.
Fill a glass with ice cubes.
Fit Foodie Finds
Add pisco, 1 ounce cranberry puree, and lime juice to each glass.
Top with ginger ale and garnish with lime wedges and cranberries.
Persimmon Punch
Persimmons' flavor shines during this time of year.
The Kitchn
Trick yourself into eating this tasty and nutritious fruit by pureeing it and adding it to a cocktail.
This spot-on, hard-to-resistPersimmon Punch from With Food and Love.
Cut the persimmons into quarters and coat them in coconut oil and maple syrup.
Kitchen Treaty
Spread them onto a baking sheet and garnish with thyme and salt.
Roast for about 25 minutes, flipping halfway.
Remove from oven and allow persimmons to rest.
In a blender, combine persimmons with water and a pinch of cinnamon.
Shake with lemon juice and favorite spirit and top off with club soda before serving.
That’s why we love thisBoozy, Skinny Hot Chocolate from Fit Foodie Finds.
It gives you all the decadence of a much-needed hot chocolate, but uses unsweetened almond milk and stevia.
Using a whisk or spoon, continuously mix until fully combined.
Bring milk to a simmer and take off heat.
Serve with nonfat cool whip and a sprinkle of cinnamon.
Then top with a floater of orange liquer.
Carrot Mimosa
What if we told you that you could sneak some extra veggies into your cocktail?
Well, with thecarrot mimosa from Kitchen Treaty, you might!
Plus, there are just two ingredients!
Garnish with carrot stems or parsley sprigs to serve.
