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Christmas cocktails

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Annabella92 · 09/12/2024 13:58

Aibu to shamelessly ask you what your favourite festive cocktails are?! Or any cocktail for that matter!

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Annabella92 · 09/12/2024 17:27

Great inspiration, 🙏 thank you!!

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Annabella92 · 09/12/2024 17:26

AdaColeman · 09/12/2024 14:36

Kir Royale is very festive, though it's hard to beat a classic champagne cocktail with angostura bitters on a sugar lump, brandy and champagne. 🥂 🍾 🥂

This is what we usually have, but we're going to try and vary things a bit this year, but then - if it ain't broke?

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iceskatingmama · 09/12/2024 14:37

Yes very!!!

AdaColeman · 09/12/2024 14:36

Kir Royale is very festive, though it's hard to beat a classic champagne cocktail with angostura bitters on a sugar lump, brandy and champagne. 🥂 🍾 🥂

Mipil · 09/12/2024 14:34

Not my favourite but I have discovered a newfound love of snowballs after we made some for a retro Christmas party 😂 I suspect they are very much a marmite cocktail!

AnnPerkins · 09/12/2024 14:29

Or this is a lighter version of the Negroni.

Also easy to make up a large batch in advance for a party.

Negroni Sbagliato

The classic Negroni is made with Campari, red vermouth and gin. This one, more of a Negroni spritz, using prosecco in place of the gin, is said to have been created by happy accident at the Bar Basso in Milan in the ’60s. The story may well be apocryph...

https://www.nigella.com/recipes/negroni-sbagliato

AnnPerkins · 09/12/2024 14:25

Poinsettia not too intensely alcoholic, although I'd never turn down a Negroni, and it looks really pretty in the glass.

Poinsettia

This is probably the most serviceable, all-round cocktail-party drink: eminently refreshing; satisfyingly quaffable. It started off as a Christmas cocktail, a juicily seasonal Buck’s Fizz (a drink I normally find too acidically challenging at best and...

https://www.nigella.com/recipes/poinsettia

Auburngal · 09/12/2024 14:19

Caress - Cointreau and Baileys, Decorated with grated chocolate.

KellyJonesLeatherTrousers · 09/12/2024 14:10

Mince pie martini!
www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/mince-pie-martini

IDontLikePinaColadas · 09/12/2024 14:04

I love a negroni, so this is a festive favourite.

www.goodhousekeeping.com/uk/christmas/christmas-recipes/a34667204/winter-spiced-negroni/

Strangerthanfictions · 09/12/2024 14:00

I made French 75s at the weekend, regular and festive, it was actually very easy, we made a cranberry syrup, took no effort or time and they were delicious. I also love a bramble and a tom Collins and a Bailey's espresso Martini

SomethingBlues · 09/12/2024 13:59

Not festive but I love a Tom Collins

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