Christmas Cocktails
Kindle Warmth With Guests While Heating Up Sales
 In most of the United States, the skies are ripe for snow
flurries coming in, sweaters are out, fireplaces are ablaze, and soon
it will be time to put up the cornucopia and break out the
Christmas cheer — and the cocktails. So, for all profit purposes,
cheers! Here’s to another cozy yuletide season with friends, loved ones
and a spirits-lifting list of special libations.
Adding seasonally special cocktails to your holiday ambiance not only
showcases your staff’s attentiveness, but as the days grow colder,
these clever creations have the ability to heat up additional sales
with guests who are willing to stray from their regular beverage. Have
fun with these recipes, extend the welcome — and proper menu marketing
— and reap the rewards. Despite the adage, it’s not always better to
give than to receive.
Sugar Plum
1/3 spiced rum
1/3 Graf’s Fränkische Pflaume
1/3 Creme de Noyeaux
Shake over ice, and strain
into a chilled, sugar-rimmed cocktail glass.
Christminti
1/3 Stoli Vanil
1/3 white creme de cacao
1/3 green creme de menthe
Shake over ice, and strain into a chilled cocktail glass.
The above recipes are courtesy of Kathy Hamlin, cocktails.about.com
Hot Toddie
1 teaspoon sugar,
Boiling water
1.25 ounces brandy, bourbon or choice of liquor
In a mug, add one teaspoon of sugar and your liquor choice. Fill with hot water and garnish with an orange or lemon twist.
Hot Buttered Rum
1 lemon twist
1 stick of cinnamon
1 clove,
Boiling cider
2 ounces rum
Pat of Butter
In a mug or pewter tankard,
add spices and rum. Fill with cider, and float butter on top.
Cranberry Spice
1/8 fresh orange
1.5 ounces cranberry spice vodka infusion
1/2 ounce Cointreau
3/4 ounce fresh lemon juice
1/2 ounce simple syrup
1 fresh or frozen cranberry
Garnish with a spiced sugar rim. Rim a chilled cocktail
glass with spiced sugar and
set aside. Squeeze orange wedge into cocktail shaker
and drop in. Fill with ice.
Add infused vodka, Cointreau, juice and simple syrup.
Cap mixer glass, and shake
vigorously. Strain into
chilled cocktail glass.
Garnish and serve.
Cranberry Spice Infusion
1 bottle (750-milliliter) Frïs Vodka
1 cup fresh or frozen cranberries
5 whole cloves
1 whole nutmeg, cracked
1 teaspoon whole
coriander seed, cracked
1/2 whole vanilla bean
1/2 stick cinnamon, cracked
6 whole allspice berries, cracked
Place cranberries and
spices in an infusion jar
and top with vodka.
Let infuse for two to
three days, then strain
and place infused
Frïs Vodka in an
attractive container.
Cocktail created by
Ryan Thomas Magarian,
master mixologist,
Kathy Casey Food
Studios, Seattle
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