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5 Warming Cocktail Recipes for Winter

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Just picture it—the snow is falling, your favorite comfy throw is at the ready, the movie is queued up, and you’re settling in for a warm and cozy night at home with tasty snacks and delicious cocktails. Dreamy, right?

Read on for five of our favorite cocktails to add major après ski vibes to your cozy nights-in this season.

Bourbon Apple Cider

5 minutes
5 minutes
1 serving

Ingredients

  • • 3 ounces bourbon
  • • 3 ounces apple cider
  • • ½ ounce fresh lemon juice
  • • 2 dashes bitters
  • • Pinch ground nutmeg
  • • Pinch ground cinnamon
  • • Cinnamon stick, to garnish
  • • Apple slice, to garnish

Instructions

  1. Fill a cocktail shaker with ice. Add the bourbon, apple cider, lemon juice, bitters, nutmeg and cinnamon. Shake until the cocktail is well chilled.
  2. Fill a highball glass with plenty of ice. Strain the contents of the shaker into the glass. Garnish with apple slices and a cinnamon stick.

Smoky Old Fashioned

5 minutes
5 minutes
1 serving

Ingredients

  • • 1 ounce smoked honey
  • • 3 dashes bitters
  • • 1 teaspoon water
  • • 2 ounces bourbon
  • • 1 sprig rosemary
  • • 1 orange peel

Instructions

  1. In a rocks glass, stir together the honey, bitters and water until the honey is nearly dissolved. Fill the glass with large ice cubes. Add the bourbon and gently stir to combine.
  2. Use a lighter to torch the sprig of rosemary, then immediately blow it out and drop it in the rocks glass. Twist the orange peel a few times between your fingers to release the aromatic oils, and use it to garnish the drink.

Cranberry Bourbon Fizz

5 minutes
5 minutes
1 serving

Ingredients

  • • 3 ounces bourbon
  • • 2 ounces cranberry juice
  • • ½ ounce simple syrup
  • • Prosecco, to taste
  • • Sugared cranberries, to garnish

Instructions

  1. Fill a mixing glass with ice. Stir together the bourbon, cranberry juice and simple syrup until they are well chilled. Strain the cocktail into a coupe glass and top it with prosecco. Garnish it with sugared cranberries.

Campfire Whiskey

10 minutes
10 minutes
1 serving

Ingredients

  • • 2 ounces scotch
  • • 2 dashes bitters
  • • 1 ounce marshmallow syrup (recipe below)
  • • 1 marshmallow

For the marshmallow syrup

  • • 3 marshmallows
  • • ½ cup sugar
  • • ½ cup water
  • • ¼ teaspoon vanilla

Instructions

  1. Make the marshmallow syrup. Toast the marshmallows over an open flame and set them aside. Combine the sugar and water in a medium saucepan and bring it to a boil, then simmer over low heat for 3–4 minutes until the sugar is dissolved. Add the marshmallows to the saucepan, stirring continuously, until they are completely dissolved. Strain the mixture through a fine mesh strainer. Stir in the vanilla and let it cool. Store the unused marshmallow syrup in an airtight container for up to 1 month.
  2. Toast an extra marshmallow and set it aside to garnish.
  3. Fill a mixing glass with ice. Stir together the scotch, bitters and 1 ounce of marshmallow syrup. Serve the cocktail garnished with the toasted marshmallow.

Blood Orange Negroni

5 minutes
5 minutes
1 serving

Ingredients

  • • 1 ounces whiskey
  • • 1 ounces Campari
  • • 1 ounces rosso vermouth
  • • 1 ounce blood orange juice
  • • 1 sprig thyme
  • • 1 blood orange round

Instructions

  1. Fill a mixing glass with ice. Stir together the whiskey, Campari, rosso vermouth and blood orange juice until they are well chilled. Strain the cocktail into a rocks glass with large ice cubes and garnish it with the blood orange round and thyme.
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