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Top 10 Christmas Cocktail Recipes

Ten festive Christmas cocktail recipes for those who aren't fans of mulled wine...

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by Chloe Smith

These Christmas cocktail recipes are sure to impress your friends and family (or maybe just yourself)…

Christmas Cocktail Recipes 2019

The Coco-Mallow

Coco Lopez
Coconut Milk
Vanilla
Evaporated Milk
Bacardi
Cinnamon
Blowtorched Marshmallow

This cocktail from the festive drinks menu at Il Pampero restaurant is one of the best we’ve tried – gooey and devilishly sweet. Head there to try it for yourself.

Spiced Apple Tea

50ml Bombay Sapphire
15ml Martini Bianco
20ml fresh lemon juice
3 thin slices of apple
1 cinnamon stick; 3 clove; 3 cardamom pods (broken); 1/4 vanilla bean
1 black tea bag
15ml honey
150ml water
50ml unfiltered/cloudy apple juice

Add water, honey and apple to a pot and heat. Add spices and tea bag when hot and allow to simmer for 5 minutes. Remove tea bag and add apple juice, then strain. Add Bombay Sapphire, Martini Bianco and fresh lemon juice and stir before serving. Serve in a large teacup, with orange zest, spent apple slices and nutmeg sprinkle as garnish. A wonderfully warming alternative to mulled wine.

Grey Goose French Coffee

35 ml Grey Goose La Poire
75 ml warm speciality filter coffee
15 ml demerara sugar syrup
Double cream
Garnished with ground nutmeg

Build all the ingredients into a French coffee glass (or similar), and float the double cream on top. Voilà! This French twist on a classic Irish Coffee uses Grey Goose infused with soft pear notes to add a depth of flavour.

Blackthorn English Cocktail

45ml. sloe gin
30ml. dry gin
22.5ml. Martini Rosso Vermouth
3 dashes Angostura Orange Bitters
15ml. chilled water

Shake all ingredients with ice and fine strain into a chilled glass. Garnish with orange zezt twist. This dazzling cocktail is from Town Hall Hotel‘s Christmas collaboration with Dennis Severs’ House.

Chartreuse Chocolat Chaud

Blend of hot milk and dark chocolate
25ml Green Chartreuse
Topped with whipped cream
Garnished with chocolate flakes

This lovely Christmas warmer is available at The Ivy Collection sites throughout London.

Negroni à la Française

45 ml Nouaison gin
45 ml La Quintinye Vermouth Royal Rouge
1 dash Orange Bitters

Gently blend ingredients in a mixing glass and strain into an old-fashioned glass over a large sphere ice cube. Garnish with an orange peel twist.

Ketel One Oranje Espresso

50ml Ketel One Oranje
25ml Mr Black Spirits: Cold Press Coffee Liqueur
25ml Cold-brew coffee concentrate
One dash orange bitters

Shake all ingredients vigorously and strain into a chilled coupe, or over rocks in a large tumbler. Garnish with chocolate flakes and orange zest.

Spicy Gin & Tonic

50ml Ophir Gin
Top up with Double Dutch Spices & Oakwood
Garnish with ginger candy and orange peel

Even die-hard G&T fans will enjoy this festive spiced twist on the nation’s favourite tipple. Adds a little extra warmth, perfect for crisp winter nights.

Seedlip Virgin Cocktail

50ml Seedlip Spice 94
1/4 pear
3x sage leaves
3x drops of droplets non-alc Absinthe

This is the perfect cocktail for the non-drinker who wants something more exciting than an orange juice. Seedlip is the world’s first distilled non-alcoholic spirits brand, and they do not disappoint!

Hot Tanqueray Cider

35ml Tanqueray No 10
15ml fresh lemon juice
15ml syrup
3 dashes bitters
3 dashes hot apple cider

Referencing the original hot toddy, the hot Tanqueray takes a traditional gin and gives it a distinctly seasonal twist. A perfect warming drink to beat the chills.

Winter In Marrakech

50ml Opihr Oriental Spiced Gin
25ml Amaretto
25ml cranberry juice
10ml lime juice
Orange peel to garnish

This cocktail is sure to warm you from the inside out with its hint of oriental spice. Try this at your next festive dinner party and you’ll be sure to impress your guests. Serve in a martini glass with orange peel to give it the wow factor.

A White Christmas

15ml of Mozart white chocolate liqueur
25ml of white chocolate ganache
Veuve Clicquot Yellow Label champagne

Gently mix the white chocolate liqueur and white chocolate ganache. Top with champagne. Decorate with a candy cane (recipe from The Hari Hotel, Belgravia).

Lee Broom Cocktail

50ml Tanqueray n.10
30ml Connaught cordial ( pineapple, timur pepper and kombucha)
5ml freshly squeezed lime juice
5ml Galliano L’Autentico liqueur

Shake all the ingredients with ice and strain into a cocktail glass. Add a spray of green mandarin essence as garnish. (Recipe from the Connaught Bar and Tanqueray No. TEN collaboration, served in a class created my iconic designer Lee Broom)