It’s Thanksgiving! …A time to enjoy family, friends, and food. It’s also a great time for delicious, holiday specialty drinks.
I’m not a great chef, but I have great taste in music, tell a good joke, and I make a mean cocktail… so, I still get a lot of dinner invitations. If you are at all like me, I have a few great drink recipes to boost your dinner party invites, courtesy of our friends at Ciroc.
Some of them are a little intricate (even for a pro like me), so we’ve also added a simplified twist on the recipes.
And as always, AllHipHop.com encourages you to drink responsibly. Enjoy!
CÎROC Peach Cobbler
Ingredients:
.75 oz CÎROC Peach
.75 oz Cream Liquor
.75 oz Almond Milk
Garnish with caramel syrup, brown sugar, & crushed graham cracker mixture
Simplified: Everyone has brown sugar, you can just rim the glass with that and leave out the syrup and graham cracker mixture.
CÎROC Coconut & Pear
Ingredients:
1.5 oz CÎROC Coconut
2.5 oz Pear Nectar
Splash of Fresh Lime Juice
.25oz Basil Infused Simple Syrup
Garnish with Pear Slice
Garnish with Shredded Sweet Coconut
Simplified: If you can’t find basil infused simple syrup, regular simple syrup and muddled basil would work fine (and probably be much cheaper).
Simple “simple syrup” recipe:
1 part sugar to 1 part water. You can add more sugar if you want it sweeter.
CÎROC Cider
Ingredients:
.5oz CÎROC
.5 oz Pressed Apple Cider
4 oz Hard Sparkling Apple Cider
Garnish with Apple Slice
Simplified: Just add any apple cider and any hard cider (for fizz).
CÎROC Red Berry Grateful
Ingredients:
1.5oz CÎROC Red Berry
.5oz Fresh Lemon Juice
.5oz Mint Leaf Infused simple Syrup
4-6 Muddled frozen Cranberries
Garnish with Cranberry & Mint leaf
Garnish with Lemon Wheel
Simplified: If you can’t find mint infused simple syrup, regular simple syrup will be fine (see above), and you can muddle fresh mint, it only takes a few seconds. You can also leave out the garnishes.
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