10 Hot Cocktails To Make At Home
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10 Hot Cocktails To Make At Home

When it comes to warming winter drinks, the festive season isn’t just about mulled wine. Here are ten fresh ways to make hot cocktails at home, from hot buttered gin and rum to an alcoholic hot chocolate…

Hot Buttered Gin: 58 Gin

Serves
Makes 1 cocktail
Total Time
10 Minutes
Ingredients
35ml of 58 Gin English Berry
50ml of cloudy apple juice
10ml of Monin gingerbread syrup
10ml of Benedictine
5ml of honey
1 tsp of butter
Gingerbread, to garnish
Method
Step 1

Warm all ingredients in a small saucepan, pour into a teacup and garnish with gingerbread.

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Stars Hollow: Mirabeau Gin

Serves
Makes 4 cocktails
Total Time
10 Minutes
Ingredients
750ml of apple juice
150ml of Mirabeau rosé gin
2 cloves
2 crushed cardamom pods
2 star anise
Juniper berries
Peel of 1 orange
Peel of 1 lemon
Thyme
Method
Step 1

In a pan, simmer all the ingredients together – except the gin – gently for two minutes.

Step 2

Add the Mirabeau and heat until warm.

Step 3

Serve in glass half pint tankards and garnish with slices of apple, cinnamon sticks and a dusting of nutmeg.

Cidre Chaud: St-Germain

Serves
Makes 1 cocktail
Total Time
10 Minutes
Ingredients
20ml of St-Germain
10ml of calvados
20ml of cloudy apple juice
80ml of Sassy Rosé Cider
Star anise, lemon peel and cloves, to garnish
Method
Step 1

Place all in a mulled wine heater and keep at 50ºC. Serve in a cup and garnish with the star anise, lemon peel and cloves.

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Stars Hollow: Mirabeau Gin
Stars Hollow: Mirabeau Gin
Hot Buttered Gin: 58 Gin
Hot Buttered Gin: 58 Gin

Cranes Mulled Cocktail

Serves
Makes 2 cocktails
Total Time
5 Minutes
Ingredients
25ml of cranberry juice
50ml of Cranes Liqueur
50ml of orange juice
50ml of ginger wine
25ml of Cointreau
Method
Step 1

Add all the ingredients to a medium saucepan.

Step 2

Heat over a medium-low temperature for approximately 3-4 minutes or until a desired temperature.

Step 3

Pour into a mug and enjoy.

Step 4

Feeling fancy? Add a cinnamon stick and slice of orange to garnish.

Warm Cornish Punch: Watergate Bay

Serves
Makes 1 punch bowl
Total Time
30 Minutes
Ingredients
2 cups of sugar
4 cups of water
8 black tea bags
4 cinnamon sticks
1 whole clove
2 bottles of dry red wine
750ml of Coyaba Charred Pineapple rum
1 cup of orange juice, strained
2 tbsp of lemon juice
4 clementines or slices of orange
Method
Step 1

Heat the sugar and water to a simmer. Stir until the sugar has dissolved. Remove from the heat.

Step 2

Add tea bags, cinnamon sticks and cloves. Leave to rest for 15 minutes.

Step 3

Take a large saucepan and mix wine, rum, orange and lemon juice. Bring to the boil, reduce to a simmer for 10 minutes.

Step 4

Strain the tea mixture into the wine, squeeze out excess from the tea bags.

Step 5

Pour straight into heatproof cups or a punch bowl and serve.

Mulled Apple: Black Cow Vodka

Serves
Makes 1 cocktail
Total Time
5 Minutes
Ingredients
50ml of Black Cow Christmas Spirit
Cloudy apple juice
Orange zest
Method
Step 1

Pour the Black Cow Christmas Spirit into a glass, and top with warmed up cloudy apple juice.

Step 2

Serve with a twist of orange zest.

Hennessy Hot Chocolate: Homeboy
Hennessy Hot Chocolate: Homeboy
Mulled Apple: Black Cow Vodka
Mulled Apple: Black Cow Vodka
Glogg: Tayēr + Elementary
Glogg: Tayēr + Elementary

Hennessy Hot Chocolate: Homeboy

Serves
Makes 1 cocktail
Total Time
10 Minutes
Ingredients
35ml of Hennessy VS
Hot chocolate
10g of demerara sugar
Oatly cream
Method
Step 1

Add the demerara sugar to an Irish coffee glass, followed by 35ml of Hennessy VS.

Step 2

Add a prepared hot chocolate, then finally, layer on the cream.

Hot Buttered Rum: Swift

Serves
Makes 2 cocktails
Total Time
10 Minutes
Ingredients
30ml of Appleton Estate
25ml of maple syrup
20ml of dry cider
1 dash of Angostura bitters
15g of salted butter
50ml of boiling water
Method
Step 1

Mix all the ingredients together on a very low heat to stop the butter burning or the drink reducing.

Step 2

Serve in a heatproof glass.

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Glogg: Tayēr + Elementary

Serves
Makes 1 litre
Total Time
10 Minutes
Ingredients
750ml of red wine
100ml of aged aquavit
75ml of rich spice syrup
50ml of Amaro Montenegro
Chopped almonds, raisins and sultanas, to garnish
Method
Step 1

Heat all the ingredients to simmer in a pot – do not boil – and serve. Garnish with chopped almonds, raisins and sultanas.

Cheeky Chai Cocktail: Minor Figures

Serves
Makes 1 cocktail
Total Time
10 Minutes
Ingredients
25ml of Minor Figures Chai Concentrate
50ml of Minor Figures Oat Milk
25ml of rum
15ml of vanilla syrup
Method
Step 1

Pour the Minor Figures Chai Concentrate and Minor Figures Oat Milk into a saucepan and bring to a simmer.

Step 2

Remove from heat and add in the rum and vanilla syrup and mix together.

Step 3

Pour the cocktail into a heat resistant glass or preferred mug and finish with a garnish of star anise.

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