12 Days of Christmas Cocktail Recipes
It’s that time of year again—a time for Christmas Cocktails. Twelve days of Christmas cocktails, to be exact.
When your mixology mettle is tested, your entertaining skills are put through the ringer. To help you get into the spirit of things, we’ve asked the expert bartenders at Canada’s InterContinental Hotels—Toronto Centre, Toronto Yorkville, and Montreal to help us navigate the holiday season with a smart tipple or two.
InterContinental Toronto Centre
Festive Tidings
Ingredients
1 oz Amaro liqueur
1 oz Grey Goose orange vodka
1/2 oz lemon juice
1/2 oz simple syrup
1 slice lemon
1 cinnamon stick
Instructions for the Festive Tidings
- Place all ingredients in cocktail shaker with ice.
- Shake and strain into rocks glass filled with ice.
- Add lemon slice, cinnamon stick and stir.
North Pole Haze
Ingredients
1 oz Hendricks gin
1 oz St Germaine elderflower liqueur
1 1/2 inch cucumber (sliced)
6 mint leaves
1/4 lime juice
Instructions for the North Pole Haze
- Place all ingredients into cocktail shaker and muddle.
- Add ice, shake and strain into frosted rocks glass with crushed ice.
- Garnish with additional mint leaves.
Dasher & Dancer Punch
Ingredients
1 oz Bacardi 8 rum
1/2 oz Banana liqueur0020
1/2 oz Cassis
1/4 oz lemon juice
3 oz orange juice
3 oz sprite
1 slice orange
Instructions for Azure Dasher & Dancer Punch
- Place orange slice into Collins glass filled with ice.
- Add rum, Banana liqueur, Cassis, lemon juice and orange juice into a mixing glass with ice.
- Stir and strain into prepared glass.
- Top up with sprite.
Yulelog Coffee
Ingredients
1/2 oz Kahlua liqueur
1/2 oz Frangelico liqueur
1/2 oz Chocolate liqueur
1/2 oz Smirnoff vanilla vodka
americano or freshly brewed coffee
whipped cream
coffee beans
Instructions for the Yulelog Coffee
- In a warmed coffee mug add all ingredients and top up with Americano or freshly brewed coffee.
- Layer whipped cream on top and garnish with coffee beans.
InterContinental Toronto Yorkville
Elf Juice
Ingredients
1½ Dark rum.
4 Oz apple Juice
1 Oz fresh lime juice
Dash of Angostura bitters.
Garnish with Apple Slice and Thyme
Santa Claus
Ingredients
1 1/2 oz Vanilla flavored vodka
4 oz Cranberry juice
2 oz Sparkling wine
Garnish with Cranberries & Mint leaves
Red Moon
Ingredients
2 ounces red wine
1/2 ounce bourbon
1/2 ounce simple syrup
1 large round ice sphere
Garnish with Gourmet Cherries
Naughty or Spice
Ingredients
1.5 Rum Malibu
2 Dash Bitters
½ oz Lime juice
¼ Cream
½ Triple sec
Garnish with Cinnamon Powder and Stick
InterContinental Montreal
Sour Spirits
Ingredients
1 oz. Limoncello
1 oz. Boulard Calvados
1 oz. Bar mix (Lemon)
Lemonade
Instructions for the Sour Spirits
- Use a highball glass
- Rim the glass with sugar
- Shake all the ingredients
- Fill up the glass with lemonade
- Decorate the glass with a slice of lemon
Holiday Elixir
Ingredients
1 oz. Ungava Gin
1 oz. Bar mix (Lemon)
1 oz. Cranberry juice
¼ oz. of Absinthe
½ oz of Tonic syrup
Rosemary branch
Instructions for the Holiday Elixir
- Use a martini glass
- Put a rosemary branch in the glass
- Pour a little bit of absinthe on the rosemary branch
- Shake all the other ingredients together
- Light up the rosemary branch
- Pour the liquid in the glass to extinguish the flame.
Blue Scrooge
Ingredients
1 oz. vodka
1 oz. Blue Curacao
1/2 oz. lime juice
Lemonade
The Berry Nutcracker
Ingredients
1 oz. Vodka
½ oz. Cherry Brandy
½ oz. Frangelico
1 ½ oz. Cranberry juice
½ oz. Lime juice
Instructions for the Berry Nutcracker
- Use an old fashion glass
- Shake all the ingredients together
- Decorate the glass with a slice of lemon