Cocktails for Thanksgiving
This Thanksgiving enhance your dinner menu with cocktails. These specially concocted treats contain ingredients and spices thata re sure to please your party guests and bring out the flavors of the holiday meal. These two drink recipes are for sage mojitos and hot hazelnut cider. They’re simple to make and each contain only a few ingredients.
Read on for great recipes for Thanksgiving cocktails.
Cider
- gallon apple cider
- 2 pears, sliced
- 4 cinnamon sticks
- 1 teaspoon ground ginger
- bottle of Franjelico
Steps
- Place cider, pear, cinnamon sticks and ginger in a large pot. Bring mixture to boil over medium-high heat. Reduce heat to low and simmer for 30 min.
- Using tongs, remove the cinnamon sticks.
- Serve cider on the stove over a low flame so guests can have a hot drink.
- Set a bottle of Franjelico nearby for adults to add to their drinks.
Mojito
- juice of 1 lime
- 2 mint leaves
- 2 sage leaves
- 1 sage sprig (for garnish)
- 1 oz. syrup
- 2 oz. rum
- seltzer
Steps
- For Syrup: combine equal amounts of sugar and water in a small saucepan. Heat until boiling and sugar has dissolved. Cool and transfer into a cruet or bottle.
- Add juice, mint, sage and syrup into a tall glass. Crush mint and sage using a muddler. Fill cocktail glass with crushed ice and add rum.
- Fill remainder of glass with club soda and stir.
- Garnish with a sage sprig.