Christmas cocktail: These 25 winter drink recipes will immediately get you in the Christmas spirit

Christmas cocktail for the holidays: These are the best recipes

Christmasis at the door and you wonder which oneCocktailsshould you drink or serve on the holidays? We have lots of cool onesRecipescollected that are ideal for the cold season - some of them are even drunk hot. And they are festive thanksIngredientslike pomegranate, gingerbread syrup or tonka beans anyway!

The 25 best cocktails for Christmas 2024 – all recipes at a glance

Red wine with Christmas roast is out. We'll be drinking wintery cocktails with ours on Christmas 2024

Easy Christmas Cocktail: Kentucky Bubbly

Ingredients:

• Ein Teil Kentucky Straight Bourbon (z.B.Maker’s Mark)
• Apple cider (e.g. fromSomersby)
• Maraschino cherry

Preparation:

Pour a sip of bourbon into a champagne glass, top up with the cider and add a Maraschino cherry for decoration. It's that easy!

Golden Cocktail: Met Martini

Ingredients:

• 3 cl Met (z.B. vonKatlenburger)
• 6 cl Gin
• 1 cl dry vermouth
• Ice cubes

Preparation:

Place ice cubes in a cocktail shaker and add the mead, gin and vermouth, stir and pour into a martini glass without the ice. Serve with a lemon zest!

Fruity-floral: Golden Apricot

Ingredients:

• 40 mlGlenmorangie The Original 12 Years Old
• 20 ml apricot nectar (Van Nahmen)
• 10 ml fresh lime juice
• 10 ml Holunderblüten Syrup (Many)

Preparation:

Put all the ingredients in a tumbler with a few ice cubes. Stir the cocktail 3-5 times. If necessary, add more ice cubes and decorate the glass with an orange zest.

Iconic cocktail: Punch Romaine

Ingredients:

• 1 egg white
• 25 ml white rum
• 20 ml white wine
• 10 ml Zuckersirup
• 10 ml lemon juice
• 20 ml fresh orange juice
• 75 ml Moët & Chandon Brut Impérial

Preparation:

On the night the Titanik sank, the Punch Romaine was served as a standalone sixth course (cool fun fact for the party). To prepare it, add egg whites, rum, wine, syrup, lemon juice and orange juice to a cocktail shaker filled with ice and shake it. PS: Don't feel like making it yourself? In the Moët & Chandon Bar in Berlin you will find the drinks perfectly prepared!

Creamy Christmas cocktail: Rey Andrés

Ingredients:

• 35 mlBrugal 1888
• 30 ml Cocoa Cream
• 10 ml orange liqueur
• 30 ml coconut milk
• Ice cubes
• Cocoa nibs
• Optional: Zimtstange

Preparation:

Add all liquid ingredients to the shaker along with an ice cube. Shake until the outside of the shaker freezes. Then strain (if it's not liquid enough, double strain) and then pour into a glass. Finally, refine with a few cocoa nibs and optionally decorate with a cinnamon stick. Perfect paired with dessert!

Christmas Cocktail: The Slow Down

Ingredients:

• 4 clTHE DUKE Sloe Gin
• 3 cl rauchiger Whisky (z.B. Scotch)
• 1 teaspoon chocolate syrup
• Orange zest

Preparation:

Pour the gin, whiskey and chocolate syrup into a large glass filled with ice and stir for a minute. Strain into a chilled martini glass and garnish with the orange zest. Slow jazz music and a dark, smoky room go well with the Slow Down Drink – enjoy!

Christmas cocktail: Basil Hayden Boulevardier

Ingredients:

• 100 ml Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whisky (z.B: vonBasil Hayden)
• 75 ml Italian bitter liqueur
• 75 ml Sweet Vermouth
• Orange zest

Preparation:

Shake the ingredients thoroughly in a cocktail shaker with ice. Place a large ice cube in a chilled cocktail glass and strain over the shaker. Garnish with an orange zest and enjoy!

Whiskey Christmas: A Winter Wonder Night

Ingredients:

• 50 ml Scottish Single Malt Whisky (z.B.: vonGlenmorangie)
• 25 ml sour cherry juice (e.g.: fromVan Nahmen)
• 15 ml freshly squeezed orange juice
• 15 ml Zimtsirup
• 10 ml fresh lemon juice

Preparation:

Add all ingredients and fresh ice cubes to a tumbler glass and stir. Decorate with an orange slice.

Zitrus-Christmas: Cinnamon & Mandarin Margarita

Ingredients:

• 5 cl white tequila (eg: fromVolcano of my Earth)
• 2 cl Zimtsirup
• 3 cl fresh lime juice
• Juice of a fresh tangerine
• 1 pinch of salt

Preparation:

Shake all ingredients vigorously in a shaker with ice cubes for 30 seconds. Pour the cocktail over the bar strainer into a tumbler glass over fresh ice cubes and decorate with a cinnamon stick and a lime slice.

Christmas Drink: Granatapfel Mule

Ingredients:

• 2 cl Wodka (z.B."Grey Goose")
• 1 pinch of cinnamon
• 5 cl Apfelsaft (z.B."Happy Day Apple")
• 10 cl Granatapfelsaft (z.B. "Happy Day Granatapfel")
• Ginger beer for pouring over
• Pomegranate seeds
• 2 thinly sliced ​​apple slices
• Ice cubes

Preparation:

Pour vodka into an ice-cold glass. Add pomegranate seeds and ice cubes. Sprinkle a small pinch of cinnamon on top. Add the juices and stir everything briefly. Pour in ginger beer and garnish with pomegranate seeds and apple slices. Complete!

Christmas Cocktail: Festive Manhattan

Ingredients:

• 50ml Bourbon (z.B.Angel's Envy Kentucky Straight Bourbon)
• 25ml sweet vermouth
• To taste: cocktail bitters

Preparation:

Add all ingredients to a glass filled with ice cubes and stir well. Then strain into a pre-chilled glass. Garnish with a port wine-pickled cocktail cherry and/or an orange zest. Fancy!

Christmas Aperitif: Winter Garden Spritz

Ingredients:

• 150ml sparkling wine (e.g"Chandon Garden Spritz")
• Ice cubes
• 1 Zimtstange (Cassia)
• 1 dried, caramelized orange slice

Preparation:

Place ice cubes and cinnamon stick in a wine glass. Pour in sparkling wine and garnish with an orange slice.

Drink recipe for Christmas: Hot X-Mas Colada

Ingredients:

• 5cl Rum (z.B."Bacardi Carta Blanca")
• 2 cl coconut milk
• 1 cl Zimtsirup
• 1 cl lime juice
• 8 cl Pineapple juice
• The coconut herd
• 1 pinch of cinnamon

Preparation:

Heat rum, coconut milk, cinnamon syrup, lime juice and pineapple juice (but do not boil!) and serve hot in a glass. Garnish with coconut flakes and grated cinnamon. Yummy!

Cocktail for Christmas: Christmas Spritz

Ingredients:

• 40ml Belsazar Rosé
• 20ml Himbeersirup
• 80ml Sekt
• Raspberries

Preparation:

Pour Belsazar Rosé into a wine glass with ice cubes. Then top up with raspberry syrup and sparkling wine, stir and serve with raspberries. Cheers!

Christmas drink with pepper: Kosho Sour

Ingredients:

• 5 cl Whisky (z.B."The Glenlivet 12 years")
• 3 cl Aronia Direct juice
• 2 cl fresh lime juice
• 1 cl Orgeat Mandelsirup
• 3 stalks of coriander
• 3 kaffir lime leaves
• 5 pepper berries

Preparation:

First, squeeze the pepper berries in a shaker. Then add the remaining ingredients and ice cubes and shake vigorously. Strain the drink twice through a fine sieve into a whiskey tumbler filled with ice cubes. Finally garnish with a kaffir lime leaf. For the benefit!

Christmas cocktail: Gold Fashioned

Ingredients:

• Single Malt Whisky (z.B.Aberfeldy 12 Years old)
• 15 ml honey syrup (mix honey and hot water and stir well)
• 2 dashes of Angostura bitters
• 2 dashes of orange bitters
• Orange zest

Preparation:

Place the honey syrup, whiskey and bitters in a glass, add ice and stir well. Slightly twist the orange zest over the glass so that the essential oils are released and add it to the glass as a garnish. Cheers!

Christmas Cocktail: Rosé-Martini

Ingredients:

• 6 cl Gin
• 1 cl Sparkling wine (from "Born Rosé Brut")
• 1 cl dry vermouth
• 0,5 cl Kirschlikör
• Ice cubes (optional)

Preparation:

Place all ingredients in a typical martini glass and stir briefly with a BL (bar spoon). If you want, you can serve the drink over ice. The dream in pink is ready!

Cocktail mal anders: Hot Buttered Rum

Ingredients for the drink:

• 5 cl Rum (z.B."Botucal Reserva Exclusiva")
• 12 cl hot apple juice
• 1 tbsp powdered sugar
• 1 tbsp homemade spiced butter
• 1 Zimtstange
• 3 apple slices

Ingredients for the spiced butter:

• 200 g unsalted butter
• 200 g vanilla ice cream with real vanilla
• 1 small cinnamon stick
• 1 clove
• 2 allspice seeds
• 1/2 tonka bean

Preparation:

First prepare the spiced butter. To do this, slowly heat the butter in a saucepan until it is liquid. Grind the cloves, allspice seeds, tonka beans and cinnamon stick in a mortar and add to the butter. Add vanilla ice cream and allow to cool, stirring constantly so that the spices do not separate. Let it harden in the fridge overnight and stir everything again before serving. To make the drink, mix powdered sugar, hot apple juice and rum in a preheated beaker. Then add the spiced butter, grate some tonka beans over it and serve with a cinnamon stick and apple slices.

Cocktail for gingerbread lovers: Johnnie & Gingerbread

Ingredients:

• 5 cl Whisky (z.B."Johnnie Walker Gold Label")
• 2 cl gingerbread syrup
• 1 cl lemon juice
• 15 cl apple spritzer
• 1 Zimtstange
• 1 Prise Cardamom
• Ice cubes

Preparation:

Fill a highball glass with ice. Then add whiskey and gingerbread syrup and stir everything well. Fill the glass with apple spritzer. Decorate the drink with a cinnamon stick and cardamom. It's finished, which is perfect for Christmas!

Christmas cocktail: Hibiscus Coconut Dream

Ingredients (for 4 glasses):

• 1L water
• 1 small piece of ginger
• 2 Hibiscus tea bags
• 30 cl coconut milk
• 20 cl Mandelmich
• 1 tablespoon maple syrup
• 8 cl"Mangaroca Beaten with Rum"
• edible rose petals
• Raspberry powder

Preparation:

Bring water and ginger to a boil in a small saucepan. Remove from heat and add the hibiscus tea bags. Let it steep for 10 minutes. Add coconut milk and maple syrup and heat gently again over medium heat. Also heat the almond milk and froth it. Then pour “Mangaroca Batida com Rum” into the glasses and pour in the hibiscus milk. Then add the foamed almond milk to the drink. Garnish with rose petals and raspberry powder.

Einfacher Cocktail: Creamy Crème Brûlée

Ingredients:

• Licor 43 Crème Brûlée (Limited Edition)
• Caramel sauce
• Coarse salt
• Ice cubes
• Scene

Preparation:

It couldn't be easier: Brush the rim of a martini glass with caramel sauce and dip the glass in salt. Pour the Licor 43 into the glass, add ice cubes and optionally top with cream. Cheers!

Classic in the winter version: Gin & Tonic Winter Edition

Ingredients:

• 25 ml Gin (z.B."Tanqueray London Dry Gin")
• 150 ml Tonic Water
• Grapefruitscheibe
• Star anise

Preparation:

Pour gin into a glass and top up with tonic water. Garnish with a grapefruit slice and a star anise. Cheers!

Cocktails for Christmas: “Jack Honey & Ginger”

Ingredients:

• 5 cl Whisky (z. Bsp."Jack Daniel's Tennessee Honey")
• Ginger Beer
• Zimtstange
• Lemon zest

Preparation:

Fill a cup with “Jack Honey”. Heat the ginger beer and then add it to the cup while it is warm (not boiling). Garnish with a cinnamon stick and a lemon zest and serve.

Recipe for those with a sweet tooth: Salted Caramel Hot Chocolate

Ingredients:

• 5 cl"Baileys Salted Caramel"
• 1 TL Cocoa
• 10 cl Milch
• whipped cream (as desired)
• Salted caramel sauce (optional)
• Popcorn
• Marshmallows
• Chocolate pretzels

Preparation:

Gently heat the milk and cocoa powder. Then pour into a glass and add Baileys. Pile the whipped cream on top, drizzle with salted caramel sauce, then top with your choice of toppings – marshmallows, popcorn and/or chocolate pretzels. Voila!

Christmas cocktail with rum: Airmail

Ingredients:

• 5 cl Rum (z.B."Eminente Reserva 7 Years")
• 3 cl "Runny Honey" (klarer Honig)
• 3 cl fresh lime juice
• Champagne (e.g“Moët & Chandon Impérial”)
• Ice cubes
• Lime wedges

Preparation:

For the "Runny Honey" add 1 cl boiling water to 2 cl honey and stir until the honey has completely dissolved. To make the drink, mix together ice cubes, rum, "Runny Honey" and lime juice and strain through a sieve into a wine glass with additional ice cubes. Pour in champagne and decorate with lime wedges if desired. Cheers!