Shake up the festive spirit with these spectacular Christmas cocktail recipes created to add heaps of warmth, sparkle and seasonal cheer to your celebratory tipples. 

Flaming Old Fashioned

Recipe by: Maldon Salt

Serves: 1

Prep: 5 minutes

Ingredients:

• 2 tsp sugar syrup
• 2 dashes of bitters
• Pinch of Maldon Smoked Sea Salt
• 60ml whisky or bourbon
• Ice cubes
• 1 orange slice
• Soda water (optional)

Garnish: 

• 1 sprig rosemary 
• 1 cinnamon stick

Method:

1. Start by soaking the rosemary and cinnamon stick in some high proof spirit for a few minutes – this will be the flaming part of the cocktail.
2. Take a tumbler and add the sugar, bitters and Maldon Smoked Sea Salt, stirring together. Then fill the glass with ice and add the whiskey or bourbon and stir again. Add a splash of soda water if you like and a slice of orange.
3. Then take the soaked rosemary and cinnamon stick and carefully balance on the rim of the drink. Use a lighter or matches to ignite them – they should flame and smoke. The smell of the smoked rosemary and cinnamon add Christmassy notes to your cocktail.

Clementine Pisco Sour

Recipe by: Maldon Salt

Serves: 1

Prep: 5 minutes

Ingredients:

• 10ml sugar syrup
• 15ml lemon juice
• 50ml pisco
• Pinch of Maldon Original Sea Salt
• 15ml egg white
• 30ml freshly squeezed clementine juice
• Ice cubes
• Wheel of clementine

Garnish:

• A few fresh cranberries or pomegranate seeds 
• 1 sprig of rosemary

Method:

1. Place the sugar syrup in a cocktail shaker along with the lemon juice, pisco, Maldon Sea Salt, egg white and clementine juice. 
2. Add some ice to the cocktail shaker, close firmly and shake well for 30 seconds.
3. Strain this into your martini or nick & nora glass.
4. Garnish with a wheel of clementine, a sprig of rosemary and some pomegranate seeds, if you like.

The Winter Serve

Recipe by: Mermaid Gin

Serves: 1

Ingredients: 

• 50ml Mermaid Winter Gin
• Splash Fever-Tree Refreshingly Light Tonic Water
• Ice

Garnish:

• Dehydrated orange wheel
• Sprig rosemary

Method:

• Add your Mermaid Gin measure to a glass, add ice and add a splash of tonic. Garnish with your orange and rosemary and serve.

Maple White Russian

Recipe by: PureOaty

Serves: 4

Ingredients:

• 100ml vodka 
• 100ml Tia Maria coffee liqueur  
• 50ml maple syrup 
• 120ml Glebe Farm PureOaty Barista oat drink 
• Pinch of salt 
• Ice 

For the maple cinnamon rim: 

• 4 tbsp maple syrup  
• 2 tbsp caster sugar 
• 2 tsp cinnamon  

Method:

1. Pour the maple syrup onto a plate. In a bowl, mix the caster sugar and cinnamon together. Dip the rim of each glass into the maple syrup, then into the cinnamon sugar mixture and set aside.  
2. Next, add the vodka, coffee liqueur, maple syrup, PureOaty Barista oat drink, a pinch of salt and ice to a cocktail shaker. Shake until the outside of the shaker feels icy cold. 
3. Fill the prepared glasses with ice and pour the drink evenly between the four glasses.  

Spiced Pear Sour

Recipe by: Hernö Gin

Serves: 1

Ingredients:

• 50ml Hernö gin
• 20ml lemon juice
• 30ml pear syrup
• 1 egg white

For the pear syrup:

• 4 pears, sliced
• 1 star anise
• 1 cinnamon stick
• 250g granulated sugar

Garnish: 

• Star anise

Method

1. Make the pear syrup by adding all ingredients to a pan with 250ml water. 
2. Simmer for 20 minutes, then leave to cool completely before staining into a bottle or jar. 
3. To make the cocktail, add all ingredients to a cocktail shaker without ice and shake vigorously. 
4. Open the shaker, fill with ice and shake again, then strain into a chilled coupe. 
5. Garnish with one star anise.

TOP TIP: This serve is perfect for batched cocktails by making the pear syrup in advance (keeps refrigerated for 1 week) the gin, lemon and syrup mix keeps for 2-3 days and sub in aquafaba to complete the recipe – see Hernö for the full recipe!

Sugar Cookie Mocktail

Recipe by: PureOaty

Serves: 2 

Ingredients:

• 450ml PureOaty Creamy & Enriched oat drink 
• 2 tbsp dairy free cream 
• 1 tbsp maple syrup 
• ½ tsp almond extract  
• ½ tsp vanilla extract 
• ½ tsp cinnamon 
• Ice 

Garnish:

• 2 tbsp maple syrup 
• 2 tbsp festive sprinkles  
• Crushed biscuits

Method:

1. Dip the rim of the cocktail glass in maple syrup, then into the festive sprinkles and set aside.  
2. Next add PureOaty Creamy & Enriched oat drink, dairy free cream, maple syrup, almond extract, vanilla extract, and cinnamon to a cocktail shaker with ice. Shake until the outside of the shaker is icy cold.  
3. Fill the cocktail glass with some ice, then pour the drink over it. Top with more sprinkles and a few crushed gluten free biscuits.  

Jazzy Mulled Wine

Recipe by: JAZZ™ Apples

Serves: 4 – 6

Ingredients:

• 1 bottle of red wine
• 280ml JAZZ™Apple juice (approx. 4-5 large apples)
• 100ml lemon Juice
• 2 tbsp honey
• 2 cinnamon sticks
• 6-8 Cloves
• 1 star anise 
• Sliced lemons, apples and clementines 

Garnish: 

• Clementine segments 

Method: 

1. Add all the ingredients to a saucepan and warm through on a low heat for 15 minutes – too high or too long and you will lose the alcohol. 
2. Strain into the glass and add a few of the fruit chunks.
3. Garnish with a clementine segment

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