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Impress Your Guests: Four Festive Cocktails to Make at Your Next Christmas Party

in Mixology December 1, 2017
Festive Cocktails | Blood Orange Negroni

There’s no better excuse for a round of festive cocktails than a Christmas do. Here are four of our favourite seasonal, party-ready serves.

Flutes full of bubbly, toasty hot serves, and drinks made with sugar and spice: Christmas is the perfect excuse to give your bartending skills a spin. For your next holiday soirée, impress your guests—and toast the season—with these four festive cocktails.

Blood Orange Negroni

The Negroni’s enduring popularity shows no signs of waning. For your next Christmas do, serve a seasonal twist on the classic, which makes use of vibrant blood orange juice and aromatic rosemary.

30ml Sipsmith London Dry Gin

25ml Campari

20ml Picon

25ml freshly squeezed blood orange juice

Dried blood orange slice and rosemary sprig, to garnish

Fill a mixing glass with ice. Add the first four ingredients and stir well. Strain into a chilled rocks glass, and garnish with a dried blood orange slice and rosemary sprig.

Sloe Royale

Sipsmith Sloe Royale

As decadent as it is simple, a Sloe Royale is the perfect party serve.

If you’re after festive cocktails, it’s hard to do better than the fun and fizzy Sloe Royale. Even better: this deliciously simple drink looks impressive, but takes just seconds to make.

15ml Sipsmith Sloe Gin

100ml Champagne or Prosecco

Lemon twist, to garnish

Add the gin to a chilled flute. Top with Champagne or Prosecco and garnish with a lemon twist. 

Sloe Gin Flip

At your next Christmas party, skip dessert and instead serve a round of indulgent Sloe Gin Flips. This festive cocktail melds berry-rich sloe gin with cream, nutty Amaretto, and a delicate dusting of cinnamon. 

40ml Sipsmith Sloe Gin

20ml Amaretto

25ml sugar syrup

1 egg

15ml cream

Cinnamon, to garnish

Combine the first five ingredients in a shaker and dry shake. Add ice and shake again until emulsified. Double strain into a chilled glass. Garnish with a dusting of cinnamon.

Hot Clementine

Hot Clements

Warm up your guests with a toasty Hot Clementine.

Every Christmas party needs a toasty serve to keep things cosy. Enter the Hot Clementine: citrusy and bright, it’s a perfect dose of winter sunshine.

35ml freshly squeezed clementine juice

50ml Sipsmith London Dry Gin

10ml gomme syrup

2 dashes Angostura bitters

Sage leaf, to garnish

Warm clementine juice gently in a pan until hot but not boiling. Remove from the heat. Add the other ingredients and stir well before serving. Pour into a mug and garnish with a sage leaf.

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