23 Winter Cocktails — Easy Drink Recipes 2021

Shake 2 oz. Citrus Forward Gin, 1 oz. lime juice, and 2 dashes cranberry bitters with ice. Pour into a mule mug. Top with4 oz. ginger beer. Garnish with a cranberry skewer and mint leaves

Recipe from Citrus Forward Gin

Prepare the JOI milk per package instructions, making it extra creamy. In a blender, combine 2 ounces vodka, 2 ounces coffee liqueur, 3 tablespoons pumpkin puree, 3 tablespoons JOI cashew, almond, or oat creamer, 1½ teaspoons pumpkin pie spice, 1 cup pre-prepared cashew milk, almond milk, creamer or oat milk, 1 to 2 Tablespoons maple syrup (optional), or substitute honey, date syrup, agave or sweetener of choice, whipped cream, to top (optional). Blend until creamy, at least 30 seconds. Fill 2 glasses with ice. Pour ½ cup of the JOI milk into each glass, then pour over half of the pumpkin liqueur in each glass.

Recipe from JOI plant base

Dry shake 1 oz. cognac, ¾ oz. Mozart Dark Chocolate, ¾ oz. lemon, ½ oz. clove syrup, and ¾ oz egg white. Then shake with ice. Pour mixture into a large rocks glass, then pour ⅓ oz. port on top. Garnish with a clove pierced in a dehydrated orange.

Recipe from The Cocktail Lovers

Combine 2.5 oz Vanderpump Red Sangria, 2 fresh raspberries, 2 fresh blackberries, 5 oz simple syrup, 3 mint leaves, .5 oz lemon juice and muddle. Add ice and shake to chill and further combine flavors. Double strain over crushed ice into a double rocks glass. Garnish with mint and fresh berries.

Recipe from Vanderpump Sangria

In a saucepan heat up 2 ½ cups of milk made with JOI Plant Base (Cashew or Almond) over low heat. Once warmed through, steep 2 to 3 chai tea bags in the pan for 4 to 5 minutes. Whisk the sweetener of your choice into the milky tea. Brew 4 oz espresso shots. Into each of 2 martini glasses, pour half of the chai tea in, then add 2 shots of espresso to each, then and 1 oz vodka to each glass. Stir and garnish with the star anise and cinnamon stick.

Recipe from JOI plant base

Combine 1 oz. Abasolo whisky, ½ oz. Montelobos Espadin mexcal, ½ oz. Pasote Anejo tequila, ¼ oz. agave syrup, 2 dashes Bitter Queens tobacco bitters, and 2 dashes Bitercube Corazón bitters in a mixing glass. Add ice. Stir. Strain over ice, a large cube is preferred but not necessary. Express lemon peel over the top and drop in the glass.

Recipe from Saeed House, @CocktailsByHawk

Add 2 oz. Monkey 47 Gin, ¾ oz. fresh lemon juice, ¾ oz. cranberry syrup, and ice to a shaker and shake for 5 to 7 seconds. Strain over fresh ice and top with a dry-style hard pear cider. Garnish with slices of pear, a lemon wheel, or a citrus twist.

Recipe from Monkey 47 Gin

Mix together 2½ oz. Monkey 47 Gin, ¼ oz. autumn spice syrup (loose-leaf chai tea and sugar), and a dash of angostura bitters, and pour over ice in a rocks glass. Garnish with an orange twist.

Recipe from Monkey 47 Gin

Combine 1½ oz. Blade and Bow Bourbon, ½ oz. Barking Irons Applejack, ¾ oz. cinnamon syrup, and a splash of apple cider with ice and shake. Pour into a rocks glass with fresh ice and garnish with a lemon wheel and cinnamon stick.

Recipe from PHD Terrace

In a tin with ice, add 1½ oz. Ketel One Vodka, 1 oz. almond milk, ½ oz. Lo-Fi Gentian Amaro, ½ oz. lemon juice, ½ oz. cinnamon syrup, and 5 dashes cardamom bitters. Shake and pour into a rocks glass with fresh ice. Garnish with three chocolate-covered raspberries on a skewer.

Recipe from Phil Testa, beverage manager at The Rickey

Combine 1½ oz. Cointreau, 1 oz. The Botanist Gin, 1 oz. cranberry juice, and ½ oz. fresh lime juice into a cocktail shaker, then shake and strain into a coupe glass. Garnish with a marigold.

Recipe from Cointreau

In a large saucepan, combine one bottle of Rosé All Day with 1 star anise, 1 stem ginger, 5 allspice berries, 2 tablespoons honey, 1 cinnamon stick, and ¼ of a grapefruit. Bring to a simmer over medium heat, strain into a jug, and serve in heatproof glasses.

Recipe from Rosé All Day

Combine 1½ oz. Casamigos Blanco Tequila, ¾ oz. white chocolate liqueur, ¼ oz. crème de menthe, 1 oz. crème, and ½ oz. fresh lime juice into a shaker. Add ice, shake, and strain into a champagne glass. Top off with whipped cream, crushed peppermint candy, and a rosemary sprig.

Recipe from Casamigos Tequila

Pour 2 oz. Wild Roots Pear Vodka and 1 oz. St. Germain into a champagne flute. Top with a splash of champagne and a slice of pear.

Recipe from Wild Roots

To infuse the liquor, add a scoop of dried butterfly pea flowers to vodka and let sit for one hour. Then combine ¾ oz. Cointreau, 2 oz. infused vodka, ¾ oz. fresh lime juice, and ¼ oz. cranberry juice. Shake in a shaker, then strain into a coupe or martini glass. Garnish with an orange peel.

Recipe from Cointreau

Combine 1½ oz. Sour Mash Straight Bourbon Whiskey and fresh-squeezed Granny Smith apple juice in a collins glass.

Recipe from Peppi’s Cellar

In a balloon glass, pour together 2 oz. Monkey 47 Gin, ¼ oz. fresh lemon juice, and Fever-Tree Indian tonic water. Garnish with black peppercorns, rosemary sprigs, and a twist of grapefruit.

Recipe from Monkey 47 Gin