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20 Beautiful Holiday Cocktails

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These beautiful holiday cocktails are elegant, refined, delicious and festively garnished. Absolutely perfect for a lovely Christmas party or cozy winter affair. Creamy, citrusy, sparkly, deep red, blood orange and delightfully spiced, these beautiful holiday signature cocktails will impress any guest!

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One of my favorite party tasks is choosing the signature cocktail, and designing an elegant garnish. Nothing makes eyes twinkle like a beautifully sugared rim or floral flourish on a cocktail pin. It’s also a tradition in my family to decorate the tree with a minty, chocolatey cocktail to put us in the holiday spirit!

Help yourself to these 20 beautiful Holiday Cocktails!

1. A Sparkling Spiced Hibiscus Christmas Cocktail

A sparkling spiced hibiscus cocktail on a dark table, sprinkled with sugar and cloves, with a tiny flower placed beside it.
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. Gluhwein (Mulled Wine)

3 Gluhwein cocktails, garnished with cinnamon, orange and cranberries in a holiday setting.
Easy Gluhwein Recipe (Mulled Wine)
If you are looking for an easy and authentic Gluhwein recipe, you have come to the right place! Gluhwein is also known as mulled wine for Americans or non-Germans, so it is pretty much the same thing or very similar!
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3 Gluhwein cocktails, garnished with cinnamon, orange and cranberries in a holiday setting.

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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A pear and ginger cocktail, garnished with sliced pears on a cocktail pin and a few baby's breath flowers.

4. The Red Queen

2 red cocktails in a dark setting, garnished with cranberries.
The Red Queen
The Red Queen cocktail: beautiful, capricious and a little dangerous… this festive gin-based cocktail was named after the Red Queen in Alice in Wonderland.
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2 red cocktails in a dark setting, garnished with cranberries.

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. Blood Orange Champagne Sangria

A blood orange champagne cocktail, garnished with an orange slice, beside a few stray orange slices on a table.
Blood Orange Champagne Sangria
Get festive with a bubbly Blood Orange Champagne Sangria! A simple and delicious cocktail with fresh blood oranges, orange liqueur, a touch of seltzer and Brut!
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A blood orange champagne cocktail, garnished with an orange slice, beside a few stray orange slices on a table.

8. Winter Whisky Wassail

A cocktail in a mug, garnished with cinnamon, anise, and surrounded by cinnamon sticks and anise on a table.
Winter Whisky Wassail
A classic winter drink, traditionally handed out while touring the neighborhood singing carols, or Wassailing, in a bit of an updated version, with a southern whisky twist!
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A cocktail in a mug, garnished with cinnamon, anise, and surrounded by cinnamon sticks and anise on a table.

9. Pomegranate Lime Spritzer

2 pomegranate lime spritzer cocktails, garnished with pomegranate seeds and lime slices.
Pomegranate Lime Spritzer
This Pomegranate Lime Spritzer cocktail recipe is super refreshing and made with a few simple ingredients. An easy and festive drink that is perfect for the holidays!
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2 pomegranate lime spritzer cocktails, garnished with pomegranate seeds and lime slices.

10. The Frosted Blackberry Christmas Cocktail

1 cocktail on a table surrounded by a few scattered blackberries, and garnished with frosted blackberries and rosemary.
Frosted Blackberry Christmas Cocktail
This frosted blackberry and rosemary sake cocktail is such an elegant, chilly winter treat. Essentially a sake French Gimlet with muddled blackberry and rosemary – it’s herbal, floral and an enchanting purple hue.
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A cocktail surrounded by a few blackberries, garnished with 2 frosted blackberries and a cocktail in the background.

11. Cranberry Mimosa

4 cranberry mimosas, garnished with cranberries and rosemary.
Cranberry Mimosa
With fresh cranberry juice, orange liqueur and champagne, this cranberry mimosa is the perfect drink to start the holidays.
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4 cranberry mimosas, garnished with cranberries and rosemary.

12. 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 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.

13. Coquito

A coquito cocktail, garnished with toasted coconut and a cinnamon stick.
Coquito
Liven up the holiday fun and add in this recipe for coquito! A deliciously rich drink just like eggnog, but with a Puerto Rican touch to it. Three different kinds of milk, cream of coconut, rum, and cinnamon make up this unforgettable holiday recipe.
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A coquito cocktail, garnished with toasted coconut and a cinnamon stick.

14. 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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A haunting black cocktail in a coup glass, rimmed with sugar, with dry flowers at its base.

15. The Christmas Cosmopolitan

A Christmas Cosmopolitan cocktail on marble, garnished with a lime.
The Christmas Cosmopolitan
If you are looking for the perfect cocktail to serve during the festive season, look no further than my Christmas Cosmopolitan. It is a great way to begin a celebration and you can be certain that it is a crowd pleaser. What’s more, you will be delighted by how easy it is to make.
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A Christmas Cosmopolitan cocktail on marble, garnished with a lime.

16. White Rosemary Rose Coconut Cocktail

A cocktail in a martini glass on a black table, garnished with a few small spray roses.
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.

17. Spicy Mexican Chocolate Liqueur

A small glass of Mexican chocolate liqueur sprinkled with cinnamon on a black table with small roses for garnish.
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.

18. Chocolate Peppermint Martini

A creamy, chocolate cocktail beside a glass of candy canes and a cocktail shaker.
Chocolate Peppermint Martini
With chocolate liqueur, Creme de Cacao, half-and-half and peppermint schnapps, this chocolate peppermint martini is the perfect drink to celebrate the holidays.
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A creamy, chocolate cocktail beside a glass of candy canes and a cocktail shaker.

19. Gingerbread White Hot Chocolate

A creamy cocktail in a glass, topped with marshmallows and surrounded by cookies.
Gingerbread White Hot Chocolate
Creamy and delicious, this white hot chocolate isn’t just spiced up with classic gingerbread flavors; Warm bourbon spiked gingerbread hot chocolate will warm your hands and soul this holiday!
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A creamy cocktail in a glass, topped with marshmallows and surrounded by cookies.

20. The Constant Comment Hot Toddy

A mug of hot toddy, garnished with an orange slice, topped with a small lead, with a few dry roses and leaves at its base.
Thanksgiving Hot Toddy
This Thanksgiving hot toddy is made with orange-spiced Constant Comment tea and flavored with just a few cinnamon sticks and cloves.
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A mug of hot toddy, garnished with an orange slice, topped with a small lead, with a few dry roses and leaves at its base.

And for even more inspiration, follow me on INSTAGRAM @shekeepsalovelyhome, on PINTEREST and FACEBOOK! And if you ever make any of my tasty drinks or treats, take a picture and tag me. I want to see!

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