Christmas Cocktails

Holiday Cocktails! What to make for Holiday Cocktails:

We can make holiday cocktails easy as in 2 ingredients or more complex using more flavors and techniques but either way each …
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The Smith and Kearns  tastes like a boozy chocolate egg cream which makes it perfect for a dessert or late night cocktail.  You can use Kahlua, more coffee taste, or Cream de Cacao, more chocolate taste, your preference, both make for a smooth silky cocktail.
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A fun sweet shot/up cocktail, the Silver Streak is great in batches or as a stand alone cocktail.  With Gin, Licor 43 Liqueur and Advocate, a traditional Dutch alcoholic beverage made from eggs, sugar, and brandy, it can double as a dessert cocktail.  Additionally, it would be great poured over ice cream or a cheese cake!
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Via Food and Wine – CONTRIBUTED BY PHILIP WARD

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Earthy botanical, Santa’s Mule is a cocktail with the combination of the sweet of the Cranberry Vodka and the spicy notes of the Green Chartreuse and Ginger Beer.  This is a different kinda cocktail that could make Santa trade his reindeer in for this mule. Move over Rudolf!
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Santa’s Ice Tea is a great iced tea drink that could also be served warm.  We preferred it chilled but either way its a great cocktail.  The whiskey and the chai tea really complement each other and the cherry liqueur offset the spice notes and sweetened up the tea.  Yum is all we have to say.  Great winter drink!
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For the Rye drinkers in your group a fun and festive approach to a holiday cocktail is the Salty Caramel Sour.  You omit the candy if you want as the caramel syrup does most of the work but that little hint of chocolate is really quite tasty.  Your preference.Salty Caramel Sour
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OMG, this is like drinking your favorite candy bar! Salted Caramel Martini is awesome if you you want something sweet and yummy. Vanilla Vodka, Frangelico and Kahlua along with some salted Caramel Syrup blend to perfection.
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The Rob Roy is a cocktail created in 1894 by a bartender at the Waldorf Hotel in New York City. The drink was named in honor of the premiere of Rob Roy, an operetta by composer Reginald De Koven and lyricist Harry B. Smith loosely based upon Scottish folk hero Robert Roy MacGregor.

Like a Manhattan, the Rob Roy can be made sweet, dry, or perfect. The standard Rob Roy is the sweet version, made with sweet vermouth. A dry Rob Roy is made by substituting dry vermouth for the sweet vermouth, this is not usual. A perfect Rob Roy is made with equal parts sweet and dry vermouth. Overwhelmingly, the Rob Roy is made with sweet Vermouth.

The Rob Roy is usually served in a cocktail glass and granished with a maraschino cherry (for the sweet version). Funniest use of this drink in a move is the 1970’s movie “Turning Pointe” where the heroine goes on stage after being dumped and drinking a half a dozen of these. Drunk ballerinas are always funny. 
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Perfectly delightful way to end an evening.
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