Holiday Beverage Recipes
It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year!
Isn't it amazing how quickly time passes! Each year the holiday season sneaks up on me and I am faced with the decision as to whether or not to host a party or open house for my neighbors and if I do, what shall I serve.
Everyone enjoys a cocktail or fancy drink to be handed to them when they arrive at a party.
Set up a festive display of crudité, cocktail meatballs, cheeses and assorted crackers and you've got yourself a party!
Give a Flip
Nothing perks up a holiday party like a Champagne Flip or a cup of creamy eggnog.
These recipes are from my personal collection of favorite holiday recipes.
Enjoy!
Champagne Flip
Ingredients
- 1 bottle Sauterne wine, chilled
- 2 bottles Champagne, chilled
- 1 quart lemon or orange sherbet
Instructions
- Pour wine and Champagne over ice ring in punch bowl.
- Add sherbet.
- Decorate with slices of lemon, lime, and oranges
Favorite Holiday Punch
- 1 3-ounce package orange-flavored Jell-O
- 1 cup boiling water
- 1 6-ounce can frozen pineapple-orange juice concentrate
- 4 cups apple juice
- 3 cups cold water
- 3 1/2 cups ginger ale, chilled
Instructions
- Dissolve Jell-O in boiling water.
- Stir in fruit juice concentrate, apple juice and cold water.
- Pour over an ice ring in punch bowl.
- Fill with chilled ginger ale.
- Serves 25.
Hot Buttered Cranberry Punch
Ingredients
- 1/4 cup brown sugar
- 1 cup water
- 1 tablespoon pumpkin pie spice
- 2 1-pound cans jellied cranberry sauce
- 3 cups cold water
- 4 cups unsweetened pineapple juice
- Butter
Instructions
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- In a large saucepan, combine brown sugar, water and spice.
- Bring to a boil, remove from heat.
- Add cranberry sauce and beat until smooth.
- Stir in 3 cups cold water.
- Add pineapple juice; return to heat and simmer, uncovered about 5 minutes.
- Ladle punch into mugs, top with butter and serve with a cinnamon stick garnish.
- Serves 12.
Mulled Apple Cider
Ingredients
- 8 cups apple cider
- 1 3-inch cinnamon stick
- 10 whole cloves
- 1 orange, sliced
- 1 2-inch piece of fresh ginger, peeled and sliced
- 4 cups unsweetened pineapple juice
- Butter
Instructions
- In a large saucepan, combine ingredients and simmer for 30 minutes.
- Strain.
- Place in crockpot to keep hot.
- Serves 8.
Old-Fashioned Egg Nog
Ingredients
- 2 eggs, well beaten
- 1 15-oz. can sweetened condensed milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 quart whole milk
- 1/2 cup heavy cream, whipped
- Nutmeg, as garnish
Instructions
- In a large saucepan, combine well-beaten eggs, sweetened condensed milk, vanilla and salt and simmer gently for 10 minutes.
- Remove from heat and gently beat in milk.
- Chill several hours.
- Stir in 3 cups cold water.
- Pour into punch bowl and fold in whipped cream.
- Garnish with nutmeg.
- Serves 12.
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