Holiday Cocktails

Cheers to spending the holidays together! From family gatherings, cozy cocktails, ringing in the New Year, and everything in between — our flock has a cocktail for every occasion this holiday season. Celebrate with these recipes by the cocktail experts at Mary Eddy’s!

Family Getaway

“This is a festive, spiced version of a rum old fashioned with tons of funky fruit flavor. It’s a little taste of the tropics that is suitable for the colder months.”

INGREDIENTS

  • 1.5 oz Appleton Estate Rum
  • .25 oz Velvet Falernum
  • .25 oz vanilla liqueur
  • .5 oz chai simple syrup
  • 3 dashes Angostura Bitters
  • Garnish with a cinnamon stick

FOR THE CHAI SYRUP

  1. Steep one chai teabag of your choosing in 8 oz of water for 5 minutes.
  2. Add 8 oz of brown sugar and stir until completely dissolved.

INSTRUCTIONS

  1. Combine all ingredients in a mixing glass.
  2. Stir for 20 seconds.
  3. Strain over ice into a rocks glass.
  4. Garnish with a cinnamon stick.

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Snow Angel

This is a beautiful, creamy, pink version of the classic minty “Grasshopper” cocktail. Lighter in body than a traditional Grasshopper, you can have a few of these without weighing yourself down!

INGREDIENTS

  • 2 oz Pisco
  • 1 oz candy cane syrup
  • 1 oz coconut creamer
  • 1 dash Peychaud’s
  • 6 drops saline
  • Shaved baking chocolate

FOR THE CANDY CANE SYRUP

  1. Add 8 oz of peppermint candy medallions to 8 oz of boiling water.
  2. Stir until dissolved.

INSTRUCTIONS

  1. Combine all ingredients into a shaker tin and shake.
  2. Garnish coupe glass with dark chocolate shavings.
  3. Double-strain into glass.

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Glitz & Glam

What better way to bring in the new year than with a visually stunning cocktail? Topped with butterfly pea, a naturally pH reacting edible flower, this will change colors when mixed with lemon juice.

INGREDIENTS

  • 1 oz gin
  • .25 oz Espirit D’june
  • .25 oz Lychee Liqueur
  • .5 oz lemon juice
  • .5 oz simple syrup
  • Tonic water
  • Butterfly pea flower tea

INSTRUCTIONS

  1. Combine all ingredients (except butterfly pea) in shaker tin and shake.
  2. Strain over ice into a wine glass.
  3. Carefully float the butterfly pea on top.
  4. Dust with edible glitter.

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