Merry Christmas!

I hope everyone has a very merry Christmas...I will be trying a new cocktail this holiday season! Not sure which one yet, but one of these tasty little numbers will probably be making an appearance. Gosh, they all look so delicious - good thing I have all next week off to try a few new cocktails!

Hot Buttered Spiced Cider (Food Network)

• 1/2 gallon (8 cups) apple cider
• 1/2 cup fresh lemon juice, plus 1 strip zest
• 1/2 cup fresh orange juice, plus 1 strip zest
• 3 cinnamon sticks
• 4 whole cloves
• 1 tablespoon unsalted butter, softened
• Bourbon, rye or whiskey (optional)
• Cinnamon candy sticks, for garnish (optional)

Chai Toddy (Food Network)

• One part chai tea concentrate
• One part whole milk
• 1 star anise
• 1 oz. cognac/brandy
• 1 oz. DeKuyper Buttershots liqueur or butterscotch schnapps
• 1/2 graham cracker, crushed and powdered

Apple-Ginger Sparklers (Martha Stewart)

1/4 cup Ginger Syrup

4 1/2 cups sparkling apple cider or Champagne

6 cinnamon sticks

6 pieces crystallized ginger

  White Cosmopolitan (Martha Stewart)

1 cup white-cranberry juice

4 ounces vodka

2 ounces Cointreau

Pear & Cranberry Bellini (Martha Stewart)

1 cup pear nectar

1 cup craberry juice cocktail

1 bottle Prosecco or other dry sparkling white wine