Cocktail and Mocktail Recipes for New Years Eve!

To help you celebrate the New Year we have created a recipe list of delicious cocktails and mocktails! These drink recipes will create eye catching yet simple to make drinks that your party guests will love!

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Holiday Punch

Ingredients

1 orange, sliced
1 cup cranberries
1/2 cup pomegranate seeds
2 cups cranberry juice
1 cup pomegranate juice
2 cups sprite
White rum, spiced rum, whiskey, or vodka
Ice

Instructions

Combine all the ingredients in a large punch bowl. Leave the alcohol on the side for guests to add themselves to keep the punch in the bowl kid friendly!

Ingredients

90 ml spiced rum
510 ml pomegranate juice
30 ml Cointreau
240 ml spiced ginger beer
250 g frozen mixed berries
90 g fresh raspberries
Springs of thyme

Rum Berry Cocktail

Instructions

Pour all the ingredients except for the berries into a large jug and stir to mix.
Half fill 4-6 glasses with frozen berries, and add a bit of ice if you’d like!
Fill glasses with the cocktail, top with fresh raspberries and a spring of thyme before serving.

Pear & Cranberry Champagne Cocktail

Ingredients

1 1/2 cup cranberries
1/2 medium ripe pear
2 teaspoons orange zest
2 tablespoons water
2 tablespoons maple syrup
1 750ml bottle slightly dry champagne

Instructions

Preheat oven to 400 degrees
Add cranberries, pear, orange zest, water, and maple syrup to a small baking dish and toss to combine.
Bake for 20-22 minutes, until the fruit is bubbly and cranberries have burst. Transfer mixture to a food processor or blender and mix on high until a compote consistency is reached. Add more water to thin the mixture if needed. Add more orange zest if you desire a more citrus flavor or more maple syrup to sweeten.
Strain the mixture (optional step)
Transfer the mixture to the fridge and chill for 30 minutes – 1 hour, until cool to touch.
To serve, add 2 tablespoons of compote into each serving glass, and top with a bit of champagne. Use a spoon to serve together, and top with more champagne.

Ingredients

1 ounce Godiva Chocolate Liqueur
1 ounce Bailey’s Irish Cream
1 ounce half and half
1 ounce Vodka
1/4 cup chocolate chips, melted
Graham Cracker, crushed
Marshmallow, toasted

S’mores Martini

Instructions

Place the melted chocolate and crushed graham crackers into two separate bowls.
Dip the rim of the martini glass into the chocolate followed by graham crackers
Fill a shaker with ice and add chocolate liqueur, Baileys, half and half, and vodka. Shake for 30 seconds and pour into rimmed martini glasses.
Garnish with toasted marshmallow and serve immediately.

Ingredients

14 ounces coconut milk
10 ounces silver tequila
8 ounces Grand Marnier
8 ounces lime juice
8 ounces coconut water
6 ounces simple syrup
Frozen cranberries
Shredded coconut
Fresh rosemary springs

White Coconut Margarita

Instructions

Combine ingredients in a large pitcher and stir until fully combined.
Use a quartered lime to rim each glass with lime juice and dip the top of each glass in shredded coconut.
Fill each glass with ice and top with margarita, serve with frozen cranberries and fresh springs of rosemary before serving.

Frosty Peppermint Cocktail

Ingredients

2 ounce coconut rum
2 ounce blue curacao
1 ounce peppermint schnapps
1 ounce pineapple juice
1 ounce sprite
Ice
Crushed candy canes
Simple Syrup

Instructions

Add simple syrup to a plate and then add crushed candy canes.
Roll the rim of the glass in the simple syrup and then the candy cane.
Fill glasses with ice.
Combine the liquors and pineapple juice into a shaker only with 3-4 pieces of ice. Shake to combine then pour into glasses.
Top with sprite and then serve!

Mocktails

Ingredients

1 tablespoon orange sparkling sugar
1/2 cup crushed ice
1/2 cup orange soda
1/2 cup cream soda
1 tablespoon grenadine
1 maraschino cherry with a stem

Orange Creamsicle Shirley Temple

Instructions

Rim a glass with sugar and fill with ice
Top with orange soda, cream sodas, and grenadine.
Garnish with cherry and orange slices.

Sparkling Pear Punch

Ingredients

2 cups pear juice
Juice 1 lemon
1/2 cup sugar
2 liters ginger ale
Sliced fresh pear

Instructions

Pour pear juice into a large punch bowl. Add lemon juice and stir in sugar
Mix in ginger ale and top with fresh sliced pear

Ingredients

1/4 cup fresh blueberries
1/2 lime, juice only
1 teaspoon sugar
9 oz ginger beer
Crushed ice

Blueberry Moscow Mules

Instructions

Add blueberries to a large glass with lime wedges and sugar, and mush ingredients together well.
Transfer blueberry mixture to a copper mug and add crushed ice
Pour in ginger beer, stir and serve!