The holidays are upon us! Haul out the holly and deck your menus with festive holiday cocktail recipes. We've collected some holiday cocktail recipes to get you started.

Rosa Regale Ornamentini
Ingredients:
2 cups Rosa Regale Sparkling Red or Sparkling White
1/2 cup vodka
1/2 tsp edible glitter
Directions:
- Mix together ingredients.
- Divide the cocktail evenly into four servings and slowly fill each ornament.
- Place the filled ornament into an empty glass and garnish with a sprig of rosemary!

Christmas on the Ranch(water)
Ingredients:
2 oz Komos Añejo Cristalino
Top soda water
Directions:
- Overnight, freeze a sprig of rosemary upright in a rocks glass.
- When it's solid, build the drink overtop and garnish with cranberries.

Mash & Mallow Holiday Eggnog
Ingredients:
4 cups whole milk
1 cinnamon stick
1 vanilla bean
4 cloves
6 egg yolks
Half tsp baking soda
250 g sugar
Nutmeg
4 oz Mash & Mallow
1 oz mezcal
2 oz Ancho Chile liqueur
Garnish: 3 tiny marshmallows on a pick
Directions:
- In a saucepan, combine milk, vanilla bean, cinnamon stick and cloves, heat over medium heat until combined.
- Add baking soda and sugar.
- Stir for 10 minutes on low heat then chill until it reaches room temperature.
- In a large bowl, whip the egg yolks until fluffy and add one cup of milk, slowly fold the egg yolk into the milk.
- Whisk until fluffy.
- Add the mix into the rest of the milk slowly. Remove cinnamon and cloves.
- Add Mezcal, Mash & Mallow and Ancho Chile liquor. Refrigerate (lasts 7 days in fridge).
- Serve with a tiny marshmallow on a pick.

Tequila Don Julio Coquito
6-8 servings
Ingredients:
- 3 cups Carnation Evaporated Milk
- 3 cups Coco Lopez Cream of Coconut
- 3 Cinnamon Sticks
- 1 Green Cardamom Pods
- 2 Star Anise
- 3 Cloves
- 1 Tsp Vanilla Extract
Directions:
- Bring all ingredients to a simmer for 5 minutes.
- Remove from heat and let cool.
- Add 20oz DJ reposado and 2.5 oz amontillado sherry.
- Store in the fridge before serving.

Smirnoff Holiday Cosmo
Ingredients:
1.5 oz Smirnoff Red, White & Merry
0.75 oz Lime Juice
0.50 oz Cranberry Syrup
2 dashes Angostura Bitters
2 dashes Orange Bitters
Garnish: Sage Leaf
Directions:
- Shake all ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice.
- Strain into martini glass.
- Garnish and serve.

Velvet Godfather
Ingredients:
1.5 oz The Busker Blend Irish Whiskey
1.5 oz Disaronno Velvet
Optional: 2 spoons of apricot jam
Directions:
- Add all ingredients to a cocktail shaker with ice.
- Strain and strain into a chilled rocks glass with ice.

Spiced Apple Cider Kava Mocktail
Ingredients:
Apple cider
Cinnamon stick
Splash of lemon juice
Dash of maple syrup
TRU KAVA shot
Directions:
- Fill a glass with ice.
- Pour in the apple cider, add a splash of lemon juice, and a dash of maple syrup.
- Stir in a TRU KAVA shot for a relaxing boost.
- Garnish with a cinnamon stick for added warmth.

Tis the Teason
Ingredients:
For 8 servings
12 oz Ketel One Vodka
24 oz Earl Grey Tea
4 oz Fresh Squeezed Orange Juice
2 oz Lemon Juice
Garnish: Lemon wheels and orange peels
8 oz Dark Brown Sugar Syrup
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1 cup of warm or hot water
Directions:
For the dark brown sugar syrup:
- Combine 1 cup brown sugar with 1 cup of warm or hot water.
- Stir until dissolved and store in the fridge for up to 3 weeks.
For the cocktail:
- Heat up and prep the tea first. For every 12 oz of water, use 2 earl grey tea bags. Create the tea and allow the tea bags to over steep for about 10 minutes.
- In a pot, add all of the ingredients (including the nutmeg) and allow it to sit on low for 5 - 10 minutes until hot.
- Serve in a mug and place the lemon wheel and orange peel into the glass for garnish.

White Chocolate Peppermint Martini
Ingredients:
1.5 oz. Kōloa Kaua’i Coconut Rum
0.5 oz. Kōloa Kaua’i Cacao Rum
0.5 oz cream of coconut
1.5 oz. evaporated milk
1 Drop of peppermint essential oil
Garnish: Crushed candy cane
Directions:
- Shake in shaker with ice.
- Strain in a peppermint rimed martini glass.

Rompope Cocktail
Ingredients for Rompope Cocktail:
2 oz Espolon Anejo
1 oz coffee liquor (Kalhua)
1 oz cream or heavy cream
1/2 oz The Perfect Purée Banana Puree, thawed
1/2 oz creme de cacao such as Giffard
2 dashes of Angostura Bitters
1 egg yolk
Directions:
- Add all ingredients into a shaker and shake with ice.
- Strain and serve.
- Garnish with Cinnamon dust.

Sugar Plum Sour
Ingredients:
1.5 oz Empress 1908 Indigo Gin
¾ oz Plum Wine
.5 oz Cinnamon & Clove Syrup
.5 oz Lemon Juice
Garnishes: Plum Slice & Whole Cloves
Directions:
- Shake ingredients on ice and strain into a chilled rocks glass or stemless wine glass over fresh ice.
- Garnish with a plum sliced adorned with whole cloves.
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