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!
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 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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2. Gluhwein (Mulled Wine)
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. A Sparkling Pear & Ginger Cocktail
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 Red Queen
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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5. The Godiva Chocolate Candy Cane Cocktail
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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6. A RumChata Coconut Snowflake Cocktail
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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7. Blood Orange Champagne Sangria
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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8. Winter Whisky Wassail
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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9. Pomegranate Lime Spritzer
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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10. The Frosted Blackberry Christmas Cocktail
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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11. Cranberry Mimosa
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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12. Mulled Wine Christmas Sangria
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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13. Coquito
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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14. The Spiced Black Currant “Silent Night” Cocktail
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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15. The Christmas Cosmopolitan
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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16. White Rosemary Rose Coconut Cocktail
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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17. Spicy Mexican Chocolate Liqueur
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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18. Chocolate Peppermint Martini
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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19. Gingerbread White Hot Chocolate
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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20. The Constant Comment Hot Toddy
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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