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10 Beautiful Holiday Cocktails

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These beautiful holiday cocktails are perfect for Christmas, Hanukkah or New Year’s Eve! From flamboyant to demure. Minty, creamy, sparkly, spiced and full of color, these cocktails will delight your guests and are best made in batches, because one is never enough!

Help yourself to these 10 gorgeous holiday cocktails!

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My favorite part of Holiday party planning is the signature cocktail. What garnish will I make, how will it pair with the appetizers or desserts? Will it be a cozy, creamy cocktail, or a sparkly, festive one?

The ultimate goal is to hear “Oh, I’ll have another one of those” from my guests, and every single one of these require a batch for multiple rounds. Help yourself to my most stunning (and delicious!) holiday cocktails below!

1. The Sparkling Spiced Hibiscus Christmas Cocktail

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A Sparkling Spiced Hibiscus Winter Cocktail
This sparkling, spiced hibiscus winter cocktail is perhaps the most regal, sophisticated cocktail to serve at your elegant Christmas party.
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A sparkling spiced hibiscus cocktail on a dark table, sprinkled with sugar and cloves, with a tiny flower placed beside it.

2. Spicy Mexican Hot Chocolate with Tequila

3 Hot chocolates, topped with marshmallows and flower garnishes on a table, sprinkled with marshmallows and chocolate chips.
Spicy Mexican Hot Chocolate with Tequila
This spicy Mexican hot chocolate is such an exciting spin on everybody’s favorite snow day treat!
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Hot chocolate, topped with marshmallows and a flower garnish on a table, sprinkled with marshmallows and chocolate chips.

3. A Sparkling Pear & Ginger Cocktail

3 pear and ginger cocktails, garnished with sliced pears on a cocktail pin and a few baby's breath flowers.
A Sparkling Pear & Ginger Cocktail
This sparkling pear & ginger cocktail is such an elegantly refreshing Christmas party signature and a perfect replacement for a Christmas morning mimosa. It’s floral and fruity, delicately ginger spiced and twinkling with festive bubbles.
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4. The Godiva Chocolate Candy Cane Cocktail

3 chocolate cocktails, rimed with crushed candy cane on a black table.
The Godiva Chocolate Candy Cane Cocktail
This Godiva Chocolate Candy Cane cocktail is the very best cocktail for decorating the Christmas tree! It’s minty, chocolatey and so festive with a crushed candy cane rim!
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3 chocolate cocktails, rimed with crushed candy cane on a black table.

5. A RumChata Coconut Snowflake Cocktail

3 white cocktails, rimmed with powdered sugar, on a black table, sprinkled with sugar and with a few snowflake ornaments.
A RumChata Coconut Snowflake Cocktail
This RumChata cocktail is creamy and minty with an island twist! Shaken, not stirred – it’s both frosty and heart warming. Playful and elegant. The tastiest Christmas cocktail from Hawaii to the North Pole.
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A white cocktail, rimmed with powdered sugar, on a black table, sprinkled with sugar and with a few snowflake ornaments.

6. Mulled Wine Christmas Sangria

3 glasses of sangria garnished with fruits, flowers, herbs and star anise, with a few scattered cranberries and blackberries.
Mulled Wine Christmas Sangria
This festively spiced, sparkling, mulled wine sangria is Christmas in a glass! With wintery flavors of citrus, blackberry, pomegranate, apple cider and cinnamon, it’s an inventive twist on a Spanish cocktail party favorite. 
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A glass of sangria garnished with fruits, flowers, herbs and star anise, with a few scattered cranberries and blackberries.

7. The Spiced Black Currant “Silent Night” Cocktail

A sugar-rimmed, black cocktail surrounded by dry baby's breath on a sugar-sprinkled table.
The Spiced Black Currant “Silent Night” Cocktail
This sake, St. Germain and spiced black currant juice cocktail makes a perfect winter punch for your non-traditional Christmas parties and elegantly different winter affairs.
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8. Spicy Mexican Chocolate Liqueur

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Spicy Mexican Chocolate Liqueur
This spicy Mexican chocolate liqueur is exquisitely creamy, dreamy and deliciously dangerous! Add it to coffee or sip it all on its own at your next elegant fiesta!
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A smal cocktail, garnished with a single rose, with roses at its base.

9. White Rosemary Rose Coconut Cocktail

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The White Rosemary Rose Coconut Cocktail
This White Rosemary Rose coconut cocktail tastes like winter white magic! With coconut milk, white rum, honey and rosewater, it’s not too sweet and not too floral. It’s delicate, dreamy and makes such an elegant, rosy cocktail!
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A White Rosemary Rose cocktail in a martini glass, garnished with small roses, with a few roses at its base.

10. The Tangerine Daisy

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The Tangerine Daisy
This medicinal little cocktail is perfect for when you’re craving a hot toddy, but your fever is a little too high.
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