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5 delicious cocktails to enjoy during the holidays

Still looking for the perfect drinks to serve during the holidays? We got you covered with these tasty recipes.

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Georgia Shake Cocktail Ingredients • 1/2 cup limeade • 1/2 cup orange juice • 1/4 cup pineapple juice • 2 tablespoons grenadine • 2 to 3 shots vodka Method • Combine the limeade, orange juice, pineapple juice, grenadine, vodka and 1/2 cup ice in a large cocktail shaker. • Vigorously shake. • Pour into 2 glasses filled with ice and serve.
Happiness Tonight (main photo) Ingredients: • 25 ml scotch whisky • 25 ml bourbon whiskey • 20 ml Cana Melasso • 20 ml lemon juice • 15 ml brandy • 20 ml egg white • Garnish: Fresh strawberries and blackberries. Method: • Throw everything in a shaker and shake it up for about a minute, until egg whites are frothy. Pour into a glass and garnish with strawberries and blackberries.
Nantucket's Broad Street Ingredients: • 2 oz. Knappogue 16 year • 2 oz Birch cold brew coffee • 3/4 oz demerara syrup • 1 dash Bittermens Mole Bitters flavored whipped cream in "Benedictine" (or plain whipped cream) • Grated nutmeg Method: • Put all the ingredients except the whipped cream into a shaker. Shake up with one ice cube. Strain into a Highball glass with ice. Top with Benedictine whip cream and grated nutmeg.
Nantucket's Broad Street from Greydon House hotel
Aspen's Holiday Thyme Ingredients: • 2 oz. rum • 1 oz. blueberry/thyme/ginger simple syrup • 1/4 oz. lemon juice • 2 dashes orange bitters • 1 egg white Method: • Make simple syrup: Heat 1 cup water, 1 cup sugar, and a sprig of thyme. Stir until sugar dissolves. Remove from heat. Add five blueberries. Cover and let sit for five minutes. Strain and cool. • Add all the ingredients to a shaker and shake it without ice. Add ice and shake again. Double strain into a coupe glass. Garnish with a thyme sprig over the foam layer.
Austin's Clove, Nutmeg, and Cinnamon-Infused Bourbon Old Fashioned Ingredients • 2 oz. infused whiskey (method, below) • Muddled sugar cube and orange peel • Angostura bitters • Luxardo maraschino cherry Steps • For infused whiskey: Put two cinnamon sticks and two whole nutmegs (cracked) into a bottle of good quality bourbon. Let sit for five days. Add 1 teaspoon of cloves and let sit for two more days. Remove spices. • For Old Fashioned: Muddle a sugar cube and an orange peel. Add 2 oz of the infused whiskey and a dash of Angostura bitters. Serve with a big rock of ice and a maraschino cherry.
Whether you’re whipping up a batch of hibiscus margaritas or trying your hand at a Ponche Crema, with these drinks in your cocktail repertoire, there’s no doubt your house will be the most popular stop for carolers.
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