Classic Cocktail Combinations
Winter warmers, Festive Favourites and Classic Cocktails but no cocktail page is complete without something bright blue! Let’s get festive.
Frosty Flurry Cocktail
Gorgeous icy blue cocktails with rum, white cranberry and curacao rimmed with sparkling snowflake sugar to bring on the snow for a blue blue Christmas. Get in the holiday spirit with a cocktail that sparkles like snowflakes
Ingredients for a Pitcher
2 cups white rum
2 cups white cranberry juice
1 cup blue curacao
1/2 cup lime juice
granulated sugar for the rims
lime wheels for garnish
Instructions
Stir rum, white cranberry juice, Curacao, and lime juice together in a large pitcher. Add two handfuls of ice cubes and stir until chilled. Pour sugar on a flat plate. Moisten the rim of one glass, then turn upside down and twist in the sugar. Repeat with remaining glasses.
Pour drinks into rimmed glasses and garnish with lime wheels.
Christmas Cider Sangria
Sangria is a year-round favourite because it’s so quick to make and always looks beautiful with fresh fruit. With a few tweaks and a couple of extra ingredients this summer holiday treat has been transformed into a spicy winter warmer. Or you can just call it mulled wine if you like.
Ingredients
4 cups of red wine
2 cups of apple cider
1/2 cup triple sec
1 orange juiced
2 apples sliced and seeds removed
1 orange sliced and seeds removed
1/2 cup pomegranate arils
2 cinnamon sticks
2 star anise
Instructions
Combine wine, cider, triple sec and orange juice in a pan and simmer over low heat. Add apple slices, orange slices, pomegranate, cinnamon and star anise. Don’t bring to boil and serve as a delicious warming treat.
Old Fashioned
You cannot get more classic than a classic Old Fashioned. This humble concoction of four ingredients—whiskey, sugar, bitters, and water—is the cocktail that started it all.
Ingredients
2 tsp sugar syrup or 1 tsp granulated sugar
1-2 dashes Angostura bitters
splash of water
60ml Scotch whisky or bourbon
soda water (optional)
Orange slice
Maraschino cherry (optional)
Method
Put the sugar, bitters and water in a small tumbler. Mix until the sugar dissolves if using granulated. Fill your glass with ice and stir in the whisky. Add a splash of soda water if you like and mix. Serve in a tumbler with plenty of ice. Garnish with orange and cherry.
Buck’s Fizz
The simple and classic combination of orange juice and champagne makes a perfect cocktail for a celebratory brunch or party. If mixing champagne with orange juice is not your thing then you can use any other sparkling wine. Two easy steps. Simple.
Ingredients
100ml orange juice, freshly squeezed
200ml chilled champagne (Or any other fizzy wine)
Method
First, pour 50ml of the orange juice into each glass. Very slowly top up each glass with 100ml champagne. That’s the party started.
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